Speakers

Prof. Dr. Victor Costache
- University professor, Titu Maiorescu University Bucharest
- Member of the French Academy of Surgery (https://www.academie-chirurgie.fr)
- Former Minister of Health in Romania 2019, 2020
- President of the Romanian Society of Vascular Surgery
- Medical Director and Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Sanador Clinical Hospital, Bucharest
- Executive Director for Eastern Europe within the International Society of Endovascular Specialists

Prof. Dr. Horatiu Moldovan
- MD. PhD Habil
- University Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery – Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy
- Qualified Doctor in Medical Sciences
- Full Member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences
- Head of the Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic, Bucharest Emergency Clinical Hospital
- Associate Member of the Romanian Academy of Scientists

Dr. Palma Shaw
- MD
- ISEVS President
- State University of New York
- General and Vascular Surgery
- Upstate Medical Center Syracuse, NY
- Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
- Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Vascular Surgery
- President Elect for the International Society for Endovascular Specialists

Prof. Dr. Ivo Petrov
- Professor at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
- University Hospital Acibadem City Clinic Sofia
- Cardiology, electrophysiology and angiology

Dr. Jacques Busquets
- Private practitioner – Val d’Or Surgical Clinic – Saint-Cloud
- Winner of the Hospitals
- Former head of clinics at the Hospitals of Bordeaux
- Member – French Society of Vascular Surgery (SCVCE)

Prof. Dr. Rodney White
- M.D
- ISEVS Vice-President
- Past President of the American Society of Cardiovascular Surgery
- Cardiovascular surgeon at UCLA

Dr. Martin D. Atkins Jr.
- Cardiac Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Vascular Surgery
- Houston Methodist Cardiovascular Surgery Associates

Dr. Kak Khee Yeung
- Specialist doctor, ACS – Atherosclerosis and ischemic syndromes
- Medical Specialist, ACS – Microcirculation
- Medical Specialist, Surgery
- VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Silviu Dumitrescu
- Senior cardiology consultant, MD PHD
- Cardiologist primary doctor
- Doctor of Medical Sciences
- Head of Cardiology Section 1 at the Military Emergency University Hospital “Dr. Carol Davila”

Dr. Peter Lukas Haldenwang
- Ruhr University Bochum | RUB
- Clinic for cardiac and thoracic surgery
- Doctor of Medicine

Prof Jan Marek
- Great Ormond Street Hospital London

Assoc. Prof. Andreea Dragulescu
- University Of Toronto, Hospital For Sick Children

Prof. Dr. Lucian Dorobantu
- University Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Titu Maiorescu University
- Scientific Director at Monza Hospital
- Head of the Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic at Monza Hospital
- Cardiomyopathy Center Coordinator at Monza Hospital

Prof. Dr. Horatiu Suciu
- Head of the Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic
- Head of discipline, IUBCvT Tîrgu Mures, UMF Tg. Mures

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Adrian Molnar
- M.D
- President SRCCMI
- Medical director of the Heart Institute “Niculae Stancioiu” Cluj-Napoca
- UMF “Iuliu Hatieganu” Cluj

Dr. Markus Liebrich
- Cardiac and heart valves surgery

Prof. Dr. Theodora Benedek
- Cardiologist primary doctor and internal medicine
- Competence in interventional cardiology
- Proficiency in pacemaker implantation
- Competence in transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography
European

Dr. Konstantinos Spargias
- CARDIOLOGIST CLINICAL
- Director, Transcatheter Heart Valves Department

Dr. Arjan Hoksbergen
- Aortic surgery, open and endovascular
- Aortic aneurysms, dissections and ruptures
- Thoracic and thoraco-abdominal aortic pathology
- Kidney transplant
- Varicose Vein Surgery
- Thoracic outlet syndrome
- Amsterdam UMC

Dr. Cristian Voinea

Dr. Jean Paul Couetil
- Chief of cardiac surgery
- Professor of Cardiac Surgery
- Head of the Cardiac Surgery Department.
- Henri Mondor University Hospital, Créteil

Prof. Dr. Claudia Gherman
- Primary physician surgeon
- Professor at UMF “Iuliu Hatieganu”
- Manager of the Cluj-Napoca Emergency County Hospital

Prof. Dr. Mihai Ionac
- Head of discipline: vascular surgery, microsurgery
- Vascular surgery primary care physician
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery
- General surgery
- Head of the Vascular Surgery Department (2006 – 2020)
- Emergency County Clinical Hospital “Pius Branzeu” Timisoara

Dr. Frank Criado MD
- Endovascular Surgery
- Aneurysm-Abdominal & Thoracic Aortic
- Carotid Endarterectomy
- MedStar Union Memorial Hospital

Dr. Rodica Niculescu
- Cardiology primary doctor
- Head of Interventional Cardiology Department, SANADOR Clinical Hospital
- Competence in invasive and interventional cardiology
- SANADOR Clinical Hospital, SANADOR Buzești Clinic

Dr. Cristina Pitis
- Cardiology primary doctor
- Competencies in: vascular ultrasound, transesophageal echocardiography
- SANADOR Clinical Hospital

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eliza Cinteza
- Primary physician Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology
- Emergency Clinical Hospital for Children “Marie Sklodowska Curie”

Professor. Petru Liuba
- Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiology
- Director Cardiac Catheterization Lab
- Lund University Hospital

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serban Stoica
- Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
- Honorary Associate Professor
- Bristol Children’s Hospital and the Heart Institute at the Bristol Royal Infirmary

Dr. Anatolie Cazacu
- Medical Doctor at the German Diagnostic Center
- Chisinau, Moldavia

Dr. Jos Gisberts

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Radu Vătășescu
- Cardiology primary physician
- Internal medicine primary physician
- European skills in interventional electrophysiology and pacing, internal defibrillators and resynchronization therapy
- SANADOR Clinical Hospital

Dr. Mihai Cucu
- Medic Specialist, Chirurgie vasculara

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Popa Radu Florin
- Head of the Department of Vascular Surgery Hospital “Sf
Spiridon” Iasi - Primary doctor of vascular surgery
- Assoc. Prof. UMF “Grigore.T.Popa” Iasi

Phd. Dr. Elisabeta Badila
- Primary Internal Medicine
- Cardiology
- Head of Thesis – UMF “Carol Davila”
- European Specialist in HTA, fellow of ESC
- Floreasca Emergency Hospital – Bucharest

Dr. Zara Cornelia
- Cardiology primary doctor
- Area of interest – heart failure
- Exceptional experience in Doppler echocardiography

Dr. Adrian Muresan
- Head of the cardiovascular surgery clinic of the County Hospital in Targu Mures

Dr. Andrada Guta
- Cardiology

Dr. Claude Vaislic
- Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgeon
- Member of the National Academy of Surgery
- Expert witness for the Court of Cassation
- First vice president for the expert company for the Court of Cassation

Dr. Claudia Nica
- Cardiology

Dr. Cristina Spinu
- Cardiology

Dr. Bogdan Dutu
- Interventional cardiology

Taiba Rostam

Dr. Markus Kofler
- Cardiac Surgeon at the DHZC

Dr. Horatiu Coman
- Vascular surgeon

Dr. Eliza Mikus
- Maria Cecilia Hospital, Cotignola, Ravenna, Italy
- Cardiovascular surgery

Dr. Lucian Stoica
- Cardiovascular surgeon

Dr. Magdalena Gurzun
- Primary Cardiology
- Doctor of Medicine
- Teaching Assistant at UMF Carol Davila – Bucharest

Prof. Dr. Irina Costache

Dr. Diana Tint
- Senior Consultant Cardiology and Internal Medicine
- Doctor of Medical Sciences

Dr. Sebastian Botezatu
- Coordinator of the Angiography and Cardiac Catheterization Department of the Central Military Emergency University Hospital, Bucharest