World Heart Congress May 22- 24, 2017 Osaka, Japan

Dr William Coetzee is Professor in Pediatrics, Professor in the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, Professor the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Director of Basic Research in the Department of Pediatrics and the Director of Research in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology at NYU School of Medicine. He has had funding from the American Heart Association (including an Established Investigator Award), the National Institutes of Health and the Masonic District. Dr Coetzee has served on the Editorial Boards of several scientific journals and he participates in peer review of manuscripts and grants. Dr Coetzee’s research focus is in ion channel function, particularly as it relates to rhythm disorders and ischemic heart disease. His current research is focused on KATP channel subcellular trafficking as it relates to protection of the ischemic heart and on genetic variation of ion channel genes in cases of sudden infant death syndrome.

Pediatric Cardiology, Heart Diseases

Dr. Hany Eteiba MD FRCP(Glas.) FRCP(Edin.) FACC FSCAI FIACS Associate, Consultant Cardiologist, Regional and National Medicine-Director, Associate Medical Director, West of Scotland Heart and Lung Centre, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He is the Medical Director - Regional and National Medicine Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, West of Scotland Heart & lung centre, Golden Jubilee National Hospital Glasgow Royal Infirmary Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Glasgow University Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Dr Eteiba is also a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, member of the American College of Cardiology, member of the American Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Elected Council member of RCPSG and Medical Advisor of the International committee of Glasgow Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Interventional Cardiology, Heart disease, Heart failure

Guy H Fontaine has made 17 original contributions in the design and the use of the first cardiac pace makers in the early 60s. He has serendipitously identified ARVD during his contributions to antiarrhythmic surgery in the early 70s. He has developed the technique of Fulguration to replace surgery in the early 80s (technique used during 30 years in Paris). He has been one of the 216 individuals who have made a significant contribution to the study of cardiovascular disease since the 14th century, one of the 500 greatest geniuses of the 21th Century (USA Books), one of the 100 Life Time Achievement (UK Book). He has more than 900 publications including 201 chapters in books.. He is the reviewer of 26 scientific journals both in basic and clinical science. He served as a member of the Editorial Board of Circulation for 5 years, after reviewing articles for this journal during decades. He has given 11 master lectures of 90 minutes each in inland China in 2014. He has recently developed new techniques of hypothermia for brain protection in OHCA and Stroke. This technique has been fortuitously used after resuscitation of his wife at home in June 2011 with absolutely no neurologic deficit despite 6 minutes of no flow. He has also invented a high-tech device which can be considered the ultimate in palliative care by preventing unexpectedly awaking after ordinary sleep. This device was mostly designed for major neurologic disorders.

cardiovascular diseases, Antiarrhythmic Surgery, Stroke, Neurologic disorders

Dayi Hu is the President of the Chinese Society of Cardiology (CSC), President of the China Committee of Cardio-Cerebral-Vascular Diseases of GSC, a past president of the Chinese College of Cardiovascular Physicians (CCCP), Chief of the Intervention Centre at Peking University People’s Hospital, Dean of Clinical Research Institute at Shanghai’s Fudan University and a member of The International Academy of Sciences for Europe and Asia(IASEA). Professor Dayi Hu is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacotheraphy (ISCP), the editor-in-chief of Chinese Journal of Cardiology, an international board member of Journal of Clinical Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, European Heart Journal, Nature Cardiovascular Medicine and also many other national and international medical journals. Professor Hu has been the editor-in-chief or major translator of 50 professional books, three of which have been published in United States.

Cardiology, Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Cardio-Cerebral-Vascular Diseases

He graduated from Osaka university Medical School in 1966 and joined a research group of Lipid Research Laboratory at Osaka University in 1969. He became Professor of the second Department of Internal Medicine of Osaka University in 1991 until 2003 when he moved to Sumitomo Hospital as Director and Emeritus Professor of Osaka University. He has long worked on hyperlipidemia and obesity. He has discovered several novel disease entities such as "Autoimmune hyperchylomicrolemia" and "HyperHDLcholesterolemia caused by CETP deficiency"　He was also interested in body fat distribution with respect to morbidity. He developed the method for fat analysis using CT scan and established the concept named visceral fat syndrome in which cardiovascular risks cluster by visceral fat accumulation. He also investigated biological characteristics of adipose tissue and found that adipose tissue abundantly expressed bioactive substances. (Gene 190:227, 1997, Nature Med 2: 800, 1996) During these works, he discovered "adiponectin" which may be one of key players in the mechanism of obesity-related diseases. He is currently President of International Atherosclerosis Society.

Atherosclerosis, Obesity-related diseases , Cardiovascular Diseases

Dr. Santoso Karo Karo MPH, SpJP (K) FIHA ,FAsCC was born on October 1,1945 at present he is the Chairperson of PERKI Foundation, Consultant Cardiologist, Parliament Health Service, Teaching Staff, Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia. He is the part of many organizations as Member,Indonesian Medical Association, Past President, Indonesian Heart Association (PERKI), Chairperson, Board of Ethics, Indonesian Heart Association (PERKI), Co-founders, Indonesian Society of Hypertension (InaSH), Co-founders,Asia Pacific Society of Hypertension (APSH)

Clinical Cardiology, Cardiovascular Medicine, Hypertension

Haruki Okamura Hyogo College of Medicine Japan

Cardiology, Tumor Immunology and Cell Therapy

Dr Antonia Anna Lukito is Interventional consultant cardiologist at Siloam Karawaci Hospital and currently Head of Cardiovascular Department in Pelita Harapan University, and also an Independent Consultant of MRIN Ethics Committee. Dr Antonia joining several overseas formal courses such as Advanced Cardiology Course at Victoria Heart Center Melbourne in 1996, Cardiovascular CT Training at Cologne Germany in 2005, Carotid Intervention Training at NTUH Taipei 2012, Optical Coherence Tomography(OCT) Training at Finlandia 2012, and Rotablator & IVUS hands-on training at Japan in 2013. She also actively involved in Indonesian Heart Association (PERKI) as vice chairman of Indonesian Heart Consumer Cooperatives (KKJI), chairman of Woman Cardiology working roup, and as scientific & education committee in IHA Banten chapter. Dr Antonia also active in Indonesian Society of Hypertension (InaSH), Indonesian Heart Rhythm Society (InaHRS), and Indonesian Society of Interventional Cardiology (ISIC).

Interventional Cardiology ,Hypertension, Cardiovascular Research

1. Mary Shibuya is an experienced native English medical editor/writer of 32 years living in Japan with a background in chemistry and allergy research at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). For 23 years she was the language editor of the journal Internal Medicine, published by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine. In addition to editing and preparing research articles for publication in international journals, she attended various medical/scientific congresses as Press (interviews, transcription, summarizing). She also enjoys lecturing on scientific medical writing in English to graduate schools and pharmaceutical companies. She strives to encourage ESL doctors/researchers to publish in English.

allergy research,chemistry,scientific medical writing

Bambang Budiono has his expertise in interventional cardiology for 15 years. He has a lot of clinical experience and involved in some international registration and trials. His interest and expertise in interventional cardiology is well known, which make him invited as faculty in a lot of regional and international meetings.

Interventional cardiology, Heart Diagnosis

Dr. Robaayah Zambahari is known for her extensive experience in cardiology, both locally and internationally. Dr Robaayah is CEO and managing director of the National Heart Institute (IJN) in 2009. She pursued medicine at University of Malaya in 1977 and received speciality training at the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia. She was appointed senior consultant cardiologist and head of department at IJN in 1992. She is a member of Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow, the Royal College of Physicians of London, and the American College of Cardiology, Emeritus member of the Asia Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology , FAPSIC, October 2006, Member of the National Heart Association of Malaysia, Member of the ASEAN Federation of Cardiology.

Clinical research in cardiology,Interventional Cardiology,Development of Evidence-based Clinical Practice Guidelines

Prof. Rui M. S. Almeida is Portuguese, born in Inhambane, Mozambique, and started medical school in Lisbon (Portugal). Received medical degree from the Parana Federal University - Brazil, in 1980. Rui Manuel de Sousa Sequeira Antunes de Almeida is the board member of the Paraná’ Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, since 2002, and became its President (2006-08). Was elected President of the South Brazilian’ Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (2007-09), a Member of the Board of the Brazilian’ Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (2009-2010), President of the Board (2011-2013) and President of the Endovascular Department of the Brazilian’ Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (2011-2013), Scientific Director of the Brazilian’ Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (2014-15) and Vice-President for the period of 2016-17. As an active member of the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, has represented it in meetings with the Medical Brazilian Association, the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the World Society of Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons, in which is the delegate for Brazil, and other international and national medical societies. He has published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed national and international, medical journals and presented more than 250 papers in scientific meetings. Was invited to lecture at specialized meetings more than 100 times, in Brazil, Argentina, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States of America. He is also part of the editorial board of ten international journals and five Brazilian.

Cardiovascular Surgery ,Cardiothoracic Surgery

Dr. Beder was graduated from La Plata University, School of Medicine, and I was completed Cardiology training at Hospital Interzonal General de Agudos San Juan de Dios, La Plata, Argentina. I'm staff of Cerhu Clinic and Chief of Cardiology of Italia Clinic in San Luis, Argentina, and I completed training in echocardiography and nuclear medicine. I was involved in many educational programs as a Teacher and Director. Some of those programs for echocardiographers in training. I'm Professor in Physiology, Physiopathology and Internal Medicine at Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica de Cuyo, San Luis, Argentine. I'm cardiologist at Argentinian Federation of Cardiology and Argentinian Society of CArdiology. I've published original researches in local journals. I've been invited as a guest lecturer in the most Scientific Sessions of the Argentinian Federation of Cardiology since 1996. I was president of San Luis Society of Cardiology in 2007. I was a President from National Congress of Cardiology in 2014

Cardiology, Cardiovascular Diseases

Consultant cardiologist and Bahrain’s first interventional cardiac electrophysiologist. He is the head of electrophysiology department; cardiac pacing and tachyarrhyhmia devices in Mohammed bin Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa Cardiac Centre at Bahrain Defence Force Hospital. He is board certified in internal medicine and adult cardiology from University of Toronto, Canada. Subsequently he did a sub-speciality clinical fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology at Toronto General Hospital. During his cardiology residency and clinical fellowship years he did a research focusing on the “Spatial organization of ventricular fibrillation in explanted Langendorff human heart” which he presented in the annual Ursula Bangs Clinical and Research day at University of Toronto. Subsequently he presented his research at the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Meeting in Montreal/Canada and then submitted an abstract at the American Heart Association. After returning from Canada he established the country's first electrophysiology (EP) laboratory in 2010, subsequently established an advanced EP program utilizing 3D mapping system and established a program for cryoablation of atrial fibrillation. He was the past president of the Gulf Heart Rhythm Society (GHRS). He is a fellow of the Gulf Heart Rhythm Society, Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians of Canada and a Fellow of the Westminster College in Vancouver. He is an Arab Board Examiner for adult cardiology. He received the following honors and decorations; Hawar Medal of a first grade, Military Assessment Medal 1st Class and Medal of Courage. His research interests include atrial fibrillation, new oral anticoagulants, cardiac devices and sudden cardiac death.

atrial fibrillation, new oral anticoagulants, cardiac devices and sudden cardiac death

Roberto Colque to date is Chief of Intensive Care Unit at Sanatorio Allende Cerro in Cordoba City, Staff of Cardiology Service at Sanatorio Allende Cerro. Past President of Cardiology Society of Cordoba. Member of Heart Failure Committee of Argentine Federation of Cardiology. Abstract reviewer of World Heart Failure Congress held in 2015 and 2016. Speakers of topics in National Heart Congress from 2010-2016 about topics of Heart Failure, Acute Heart Failure, and Coronary Syndromes. Pre grade studies made in National University of cordoba at December 1987. Residence in Cardiology at Hospital Itlaiano de Cordoba until 1991. coordinator of Coronary Unit from 1992-1994. Chief Of Coronary Unit at Italian Hospital since 1994 until 2006. Head of Cardiology Service at Clinica Velez Sarsfield 2006-2013. Post graduate activity in Hospital 12 de Octubre Madrid at Heart Failure and Transplation Unit (1993) Visitor at Buenos Aires Italian Hospital 1994 specializing on Postoperative recovery unit. Visitor at Cleveland Clinic in 1995.

Heart Failure, Heart Transplantation, Cardiology

Dr. Almahdi is a full time interventional cardiologist at the Dabbous Cardiac Center since July 2014. He received his medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2001. He then had his training in Internal Medicine in Kuwait and became Kuwaiti-board certified in Medicine in 2007. In 2010 he started his post graduate training as a fellow in Cardiology at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During the three-year fellowship training, he was appointed as “chief fellow” two years in a row. He received the 2012 fellow-of-the-year award. After completion of his general cardiology training, Dr. Almahdi joined the interventional cardiology fellowship training program at McGill University Health Center (Royal Victoria Hospital) in Montreal, Canada in 2013. Dr. Almahdi is primarily interested in chronic total occlusions. He has a few medical publications along with contributions in a few medical textbooks as well.

chronic total occlusions,Interventional cardiology