Heart & Surgery

Carola Förster, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Academic director for basic research at Clinics of Anaesthesia and critical care, Würzburg university hospital. Diploma in Biochemistry, PhD in Biochemistry, Institute of Biotechnology, Research Centre Jülich/ Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne, Germany. Post doc fellow 1999-00 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, and 2000-03, Department of Medical Nutrition, Karolinska Institute. 2007 lecture qualification for subject: Histology and Cell Biology. Present position: 2008- Associate professorship for Molecular Medicine, University hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany. This position is devoted to lead and develop research in the field of molecular medicine. Her position as university professor includes supervision of MD and PhD-students and postdocs as well as teaching undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate level in the subjects of molecular medicine and molecular neurophysiology and cell biology. CF´s research has been mainly focused in studying cell physiology of the cerebral blood vessels and with a special emphasis on its permeability regulation at the level of transport processes and cellular adhesion molecules in physiology and disorders like Neuroinflammation, Ischemic brain injury, brain cancer, comorbidities of heart failure. CF is moreover devoted to characterization of the related neurovascular barriers in the eye and inner ear.

• Molecular cell biology • Molecular medicine • Bioinformatics and computational biology

Michiaki Nagai has completed his graduation from the Jichi Medical University School of Medicine and has been engaged in the Cardiovascular Medicine. Using volumetric analysis in MR SPGR imaging, he has been investigating the fields for target hypertensive organ damages including the relationships among hypertension, blood pressure variability, brain atrophy, cognitive impairment and central autonomic nervous system including the insular cortex. He was engaged in the Interventional Cardiology at Hiroshima City Asa Hospital as the Vice Director. He won the Japanese Society of Hypertension Award in the International Society of Hypertension 2006, the Young Investigator’s Award in the 8th Japanese Neurocardiology Workshop 2007 and Young Scientist Award in the second annual scientific forum of clinical hypertension of the Japanese Society of Hypertension 2013.

Hypertension Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Medicine

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.

Medical writing

Damien Byas is the President, North American Scientific Committee on Cardiovascular Health, the USA as well as an Epidemiologist and Professor of Public Health, American Public Health Association, International Public Health Delegate, USA.

Cardiology, Cardiovascular Diseases, Epidemiology

Aris Lacis, cardiac surgeon, professor, MD, Ph.D. graduated from Riga Medical Institute in 1961. General and thoracic surgeon in P. Stradina University Hospital in Riga (1964–1969). Thoracic and cardiac surgeon in the Latvian Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery (1969–1994). From 1994 until 2012 – the head of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Clinic in University Children’s Hospital, Riga; since 2012 – a consulting professor of this Clinic. Vicepresident of Latvian Society for Cardiovascular Surgery. President of Latvian Association for Pediatric Cardiologists. Author of 395 scientific publications, 3 monographs, and 13 patents. Investigator in more than 10 clinical trials including cardiosurgical procedures performed under deep hypothermia, hybrid procedures, etc. In May 2009 have been used transhuman intramyocardial delivery techniques for treatment (idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy) for the first 3 months of aged patients in the world with autologous bone marrow-derived progenitor cells. In November 2010 the first patient with end-stage pulmonary hypertension received intrapulmonary implantation autologous stem cells.

Pediatric Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery

She was born in Zagreb. In 1972, she graduated from the School of Medicine in Zagreb. In 1980 she completed her specialization in internal medicine at the Department for Heart and Blood Vessel Diseases, Zagreb University Hospital Centre. She continued cardiology training in Stockholm, Uppsala and Pisa. She was the first person in Croatia to introduce and conduct the stress echocardiography method (1992) and has published 56 scientific and academic papers, primarily in the field of cardiology. By 2001, she had been working as an internist cardiologist specialist and chief of the Polyclinic Section at the Department for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases and Rehabilitation in Zagreb. In 2002, she founded the Saint Nicholas Polyclinic for Cardiovascular Diseases and Prevention on Korčula. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Physicians, the Croatian Cardiologic Association, European Cardiologic Association, European Association of Cardiac Decompensation (HFA), European Association for Echocardiography (EAE), and the New York Academy of Sciences. She holds the Homeland Appreciation Memorial.

Cardiovascular Diseases and Prevention

Galya Naydenova Atanasova completed her Ph.D. training in Cardiology from the Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Endocrinology at Pleven Medical University, Bulgaria. She is a Cardiologist, Assistant Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University, Pleven. She is a General Practitioner in Pleven. She specialized in Cardiology from Pleven Medical University in 2015, and General Medicine from Pleven Medical University, Bulgaria in 1993. She has attended many International Events and presented her research work. She did many types of research on metabolic syndrome and myocardial infarction of the heart.

metabolic syndrome and myocardial infarction of heart

Positions: - Professor of Cardiology, Alexandria Univ. Department of Cardiology, June 1994 - Head of the Cardiology Dept. Alexandria Univ. since 1/8/2004 till 30 August 2007. - Emeritus professor of cardiology Alexandria Univ. till now Other positions: - Vice president (Egyptian Cardiac Rhythm Association ECRA) for two years, a member now. - Fellow American College of Cardiology (FACC) - Emeritus Fellow European Society of Cardiology (FESC). - Fellow Heart Rhythm Society FHRS - Member Heart Rhythm Society EHRA - Member European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society (ECAS) - Member European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) - Member Egyptian Society of Cardiology. - Member and co-founder CVREP (Cardiovascular Research, Education and Prevention) - Founder of جمعية خدمة مرضى القلب Society of cardiac patient’s service - All my lectures are on Researchgate, Google Scholar, Publons - Assessor in National High Council for promotion of professors in cardiology

Electrophysiology, Echocardiography, Pacemaker therapy