18^th Annual Cardiologists Conference June 19-21, 2017 Paris, France

Guy H Fontaine MD PhD HDR has made 15 original contributions in the design and the use of the first cardiac pace makers in the early 60s. He has serendipitously identified ARVD during antiarrhythmic surgery in the early 70s. He has developed the technique of Fulguration to replace surgery in the early 80s. He has been one of the 216 individuals who have made a significant contribution to the study of cardiovascular disease since the 14th century and one of the 500 greatest geniuses of the 21st Century (USA Books), one of the 100 life time of achievement (UK Book). He has > 900 publications including 201 book chapters. He is a reviewer of 17 scientific journals both in basic and clinical science. He has given 11 master lectures of 90 minutes each in inland China in 2014. He is now developing new techniques for brain protection in OHCA, stroke and spinal cord injury by hypothermia.

Cardiomyopathies, Right Ventricular Dysfunction, cardiac imaging, myocarditis.

Roland Hetzer has completed his cardiothoracic surgery training in Hannover Medical School, Germany and in Stanford University, California. He performed the first heart transplantation in Hannover in 1983 and the first pediatric heart transplantation in Germany in 1985. As the Medical Director and Chairman in Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin from January 1986 to September 2014, he and his team performed more than 1900 heart transplantations and more than 2300 implantations of mechanical circulatory support systems. He has made numerous original contributions in the field of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery particularly in surgical treatment of end-stage heart failure and valve surgery. Presently, he still serves as the Medical Director of Herzzentrum Cottbus and sees his private patients in Cardio Centrum Berlin.

Heart disease,Coronary artery,heart transplantation,cardiomyopathy

Dr. Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Professor of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, is CEO of Institute for cardiac diagnostic and therapy (IKDT) Berlin, Germany since 2003. He was the chairman of the Working group “Inflammatory heart muscle diseases“ of the German Society of Cardiology, Chairman of the “Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Disease“ of the European Society of Cardiology, Member of the "Council on Cardiomyopathies“ of the International Society of Cardiology, Chairman of the Medical Society Berlin, Member of German Society for Internal Medicine, Member of European Society of Cardiology.

Cardiomyopathy,Cardiac diseases, Inflammatory heart diseases

Prof. Yehuda Adler is Director of Development of Medical Resource, Director of Internship Committee, Director of the Talpiot Medical Leadership Program (a revolutionary program to build medical leadership in Israel), and Director of health professions at the Chaim Sheba Medical Centre, Israel. He is a member of the National Council for Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases at the Ministry of Health in Israel. He is also a Vice Chair of the Nucleus, The ESC's Committee for Myocardial and Pericardial diseases. Other positions include Vice Dean of Health Administration and Director of the BA Studies of the Master of Health Administration, Academic Centre in Or Yehuda. In the past he served as General Director, Misgav-Ladach Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.

Prof. Adler wrote the ESC guidelines for pericardial disease in 2005 and chaired the ESC guidelines for pericardial disease in 2015. He is credited with publishing over 200 original articles in leading professional medical and research journals throughout the world and is an active participant and speaker in international scientific meetings.

Dr. Jose Ramon Gonzalez Juanatey is the President Spanish Society of Cardiology, Director of the Cardiovascular Department. University Hospital. Santiago de Compostela,Spain, Full Professor of Cardiology, University of Santiago de Compostela, School of Medicine, Director of the Cardiovascular Investigation Group in the IDIS Consortium. He is the Member of the Direction Board of the Spanish Network in Heart Failure (REDINSCOR), Former President of the Hypertension Chapter, Spanish Society of Cardiology, Governor for Spain of the International Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Member of the Steering Committee and End-Pint Validation Committee of several Clinical Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine (Heart Failure, Arterial Hypertension and Cardiovascular Risk), Member of the Editorial Board and Referee of International Cardiovascular Journals like European Heart Journal, Lancet, American Journal of Cardiology, Circulation, Revista Española de Cardiología, etc.

Main investigation lines: heart failure with special focus on heart failure with preserved systolic function, hypertension and the heart, cardiac myocite endocrinology and biology of epicardial adipose tissue.

Dr. Seth Baum is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the National Lipid Association. He is a Founding Physician/Scientist Member of the Society for Cardiovascular CT and is board certified in Cardiovascular CT. Dr. Baum served as treasurer of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids. He directs Women’s Preventive Cardiology at Boca Raton Regional Hospital. He is the President of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology (ASPC). Annually, Dr. Baum chairs the ASPC’s Conference on CVD Prevention. Dr. Baum is on the Board of Directors of the FH Foundation. He sits on the American Heart Association’s Council for Epidemiology and Prevention, the Interdisciplinary Council for Prevention, and the Prevention Science Committee.

Integrative cardiology, Preventive cardiology

Daniel Lichtenstein is medical intensivist working at Ambroise-Paré Hospital (Paris-West, France) since 1989, visiting Professor. Main developments: use of critical ultrasound since 1985, defined in 1991 (Intensive Care Med 19:353-355) as a discipline associating ultrasound diagnoses and immediate therapies, with adjunct uses (venous canulation, thoracentesis).

Lung ultrasound, Acute respiratory failure, Cardiac sonography

Aris Lacis, cardiac surgeon, professor, MD, PhD graduated 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). Since 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. 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 at first in the world have been used transcutan intramyocardial delivery autologous bone morrow derived progenitor stem cells for 3 months aged patient suffering from idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.In November 2010 the first patient with end stage pulmonary hypertension received intrapulmonary implantation autologous stem cells.

Cardiac surgery, Pediatric Cardiologists,hypothermia hybrid procedures

Marco Picichè (MD, Ph.D.) graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Florence in 1995 and completed his cardiac surgery residency at the Tor Vergata University of Rome in 2000, both summa cum laude. He has worked as an assistant at Saint Luc Hospital, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels (1999–2001), as a clinic head/hospital assistant at the universities of Clermont-Ferrand (2003–2004) and Montpellier (2004–2007). He held regular teaching appointments at the university of Montpellier school of medicine, obtained certification by the French Board in cardiac surgery (Paris, 2007), earned his research master in surgical science (Paris, 2007). In Canada he authored a research project on ‘‘Noncoronary collateral circulation,’’ which was submitted to the annual research competition at Québec Heart & Lung Institute, Laval University, and received the competition’s highest grant. In September 2011 he received a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) in therapeutic innovations from Paris-Sud University. He is the Editor in Chief of the book : « Dawn and evolution of cardiac procedures : research avenues in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology » (Springer-Verlag publishing house, September 2012). Currently he is a consultant cardiac surgeon in Italy.

Cardiac surgery, Interventional cardiology

Dr. Jean Pierre Usdin MD., is a Former Internal of the Hospitals of Paris, Former head of clinic, Assistant of the Hospitals of Paris, Former consultant in scientific committee of medical Journal CONSENSUS and previous Chief of the cardiologic department of American Hospital of Paris(2006-2012). He is currently renowned Cardiologist at American Hospital of Paris, Member of European Society of Cardiology, Member of French Society of Cardiology. Being a Journalist and Blogger in Medscape France(From 2010) he has blogs dedicated to general cardiology: reports discussions and notes about trials, cardiology congresses, live-comments on 2015 ESC congress in London.

Global physician’s approach in patient day life. Importance of face to face discussion as human beings: leaving the computers to their place of servant (and not master) Set clinical evaluation its marvellous and irreplaceable place.

Sergey Suchkov is the chair, Dept for Personalized and Translational Medicine, I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University; Professor, Dept of Clinical Immunology, A.I.Evdokimov Moscow State Medical and Dental University; Secretary General, United Cultural Convention (UCC), Cambridge, UK. Dr Suchkov is a member of the: New York Academy of Sciences; American Chemical Society (ACS); American Heart Associa-tion (AHA); EPMA (European Association for Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine), Brussels, EU; ARVO (American Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology);ISER (International Society for Eye Research), Tokyo, Japan

Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine

Dr. Fabiola Sozzi MD, PhD, works as a staff cardiologist at the University Hospital Policlinico of Milan, Italy, with high-specialization nomination.

She has high skills in multimodality imaging of heart disease using echocardiography integrated with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, cardiac computed tomography and nuclear. She also works in the acute clinical setting treating acute cardiac syndromes. She gained a high expertise in echocardiography at the Thoraxcentre of Rotterdam (NL), where she defended the PhD thesis on stress cardiac imaging under the supervision of Professor J. Roelandt. She is Visiting Professor at the University of Milan where she leads several research projects and teaches at the Faculty of Medicine and School of Specialization of Cardiology. She is author of 70 papers published in indexed peer-reviewed international journals and reviewer of several medical international journals.