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Amalia Peix
Job title: Full Professor & Senior Researcher
Overview Dr Amalia Peix was born in Havana, Cuba and has specialised in nuclear cardiology since 1991.1 She is currently an MD, Professor and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery in Havana, Cuba. Academic History 1974 – 1980: High Institute of Medical Sciences, Havana, Cuba. Career Overview Dr Peix is a member of the National PhD… View more
Roxana Mehran
Job title: Professor of Medicine, Cardiology and Professor of Population Health Science and Policy
Roxana Mehran is Professor of Medicine, Cardiology and Professor of Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She is also Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research and Clinical Trials at The Zena and Michael A Weiner Cardiovascular Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital where, over the past 5 years, she has led the development of a… View more
Thomas H Marwick
Research Area(s) / Expertise:

Echocardiography & Ultrasound

Cardio-oncology

 Job title: Director and Chief Executive & Head, Imaging Research, Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, AU
ProfTom Marwick is the Director of Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, Australia.Prof Marwick completed his medical and cardiology training in Australia, followed by an Imaging Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic, a PhD at the University of Louvain, Belgium, and a Masters in Public Health at Harvard.Currently serving as the Director of Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Prof Marwick has… View more
Job title: Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging
Prof Sven Plein is a British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging at the University of Leeds, UK, where he leads the Department of Biomedical Imaging Science. Together with his multidisciplinary research group, he has published over 300 original papers, position papers and review articles with a focus on CMR in ischaemic heart disease and heart failure. Prof Plein also practices… View more
Juan Carlos Kaski
Job title: Professor of Cardiovascular Science
Juan Carlos Kaski is Professor of Cardiovascular Science (Emeritus) at the Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute, St Gorge’s, University of London, and Hon. Consultant Cardiologist at St George’s Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, UK. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of several universities worldwide, a past-President of the International Society of Cardiovascular… View more
Author(s): Thomas A Zelniker , Eugene Braunwald Added: 3 years ago
With progressive ageing and the growing incidence of obesity in the population, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) has been rising rapidly and has become a major cause of death and disability worldwide.1 It is well established that atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and renal failure are responsible for a large majority of deaths in patients with T2D.2-4 Over the past decade, the… View more

Heart Failure
Dr Purvi Parwani
Research Area(s) / Expertise:

Imaging & Diagnostics

Prevention & Chronic Conditions

 Job title: Cardiologist & Advanced Cardiovascular Imager
Dr Purvi Parwani is a cardiologist, multimodality imager and Associate Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda University in California. With board certification in Internal Medicine (2012), Nuclear Cardiology (2015), Echocardiography (2017) and Cardiovascular disease (2017), Dr. Parwani is a recognised expert in her field. Her research interests include cardiovascular imaging, structural… View more
Andrew Archbold
Job title: Consultant General and Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Archbold is a consultant general and interventional cardiologist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and Newham University Hospital (Barts Health NHS Trust). Dr Archbold is chair of the British Cardiovascular Society Guidelines and Practice Committee and a member of its Clinical Standards Committee. In addition, he is a member of the London Cardiac and Vascular Strategic Clinical Leadership Group… View more
Jeroen Hendriks
Research Area(s) / Expertise:

Atrial Fibrillation

 Job title: Professor of Cardiovascular Nursing, MSc
Dr Hendriks, RN, MSc, PhD, FESC, FCSANZ, is Professor of Cardiovascular Nursing and holds the inaugural Leo J Mahar Cardiovascular Nursing Chair at the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University and the Department of Cardiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia. His program of research focuses on integrated care management in AF and related cardiovascular… View more
Renu Virmani
Job title: President and Medical Director
Personal History Dr Renu Virmani was born in 1943 in Pakistan. Her father was an industrialist of Delhi and Amritsar, India.2 As the youngest girl in a family of ten children, Dr Virmani was always driven to stand out and excel. Her aunt, who was a neurologist, was instrumental in forging her ambitions to pursue medicine. “I admired her and she showed me that women can do whatever they want… View more