FACULTY

Meet our national and international faculty members

Course Directors

Daniel Weilenmann

Kantonsspital St. Gallen, SWITZERLAND

Gregor Leibundgut

University Hospital, Basel, SWITZERLAND

Hansjörg Salomon

Salomon Medical, SWITZERLAND

International Faculty

Alexandru Achim

Niculae Stăncioiu Heart Institute, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA

Pierfrancesco Agostoni

HartCentrum, Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerp, Antwerp, BELGIUM

Ignacio J. Amat Santos

University Clinic Hospital, Valladolid, SPAIN

Jurij Avramovic

Hospital Izola, Izola, SLOVENIA

Alexandre Avran

Centre Hospitalier de Valenciennes, FRANCE

Ludovit Baldovsky

CINRE, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA

Michael Behnes

University Medical Centre, Mannheim, GERMANY

Emmanouil Brilakis

Minneapolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis, UNITED STATES

João Brum-Silveira

Hospital Geral de Santo António, Porto, PORTUGAL

Heinz Joachim Büttner

Formerly University Heart Center, Freiburg, GERMANY

Nino Cocco

Campus biomedico University Hospital, Rome, ITALY

Mihai Cocoi

Niculae Stăncioiu Heart Institute, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA

Dan Deleanu

Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases C.C. Iliescu – Bucharest, ROMANIA

Amr Elhadidy

University Hospital, Cairo, EGYPT

Benjamin Faurie

Institut Cardiovasculaire, Grenoble, FRANCE

Roberto Garbo

Maria Pia Hospital, Torino, ITALY

Gabriele Gasparini

Humanitas Research hospital, Milan, ITALY

Alexander Geppert

Wiener Gesundheitsverbund, Vienna, AUSTRIA

Ömer Göktekin

Memorial Bahçelievler Hospital, Istanbul, TURKEY

Stefan Harb

Medical University of Graz, Graz, AUSTRIA

John Hung

Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, UNITED KINGDOM

Dan Iones

Sahlgrenska University Hospital Gothenburg, SWEDEN

Bilal Iqbal

Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria, CANADA

Ilya Litovchik

Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh) – Beer Yaakov, ISRAEL

Paul Knaapen

VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS

Mihajlo Kovačić

County Hospital Čakovec, CROATIA

Ales Kral

General University Hospital Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC

William B. Lombardi

University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, UNITED STATES

Kalaivani Mahadevan

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Portsmouth, UNITED KINGDOM

Kambis Mashayekhi

Mediclin Heart Center, Lahr, GERMANY

Neisser Morales Victorino

Medical Sur Mexico, MEXICO

Alexander Nap

Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS

Antoinette Neylon

Institut Cardiovasculaire Paris Sud, Paris, FRANCE

Vojtěch Novotný

Kardiologické centrum Agel, Pardubice, CZECH REPUBLIC

Anja Øksnes

Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, NORWAY

Goran Olivecrona

Lund University/ Skåne University Hospital, SWEDEN

Maksymilian Opolski

National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, POLAND

Marin Postu

Spitalul Monza, Bucharest, ROMANIA

Stelios Pyxaras

Klinikum Fuerth, Fuerth, GERMANY

Alexandre Quadros

Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, BRAZIL

Ricardo Santiago

Bayamón Heart and Lung Institute, PUERTO RICO

Muhamet Sinani

SRH Zentralklinikum Suhl, Suhl, GERMANY

Hussein Sliman

Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, ISRAEL

Elliot Smith

Barts Heart Centre, London, UNITED KINGDOM

Roman Stipal

University Hospital Brno, Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC

Tien-Ping Tsao

Cheng Hsin Heart Center, Taipei, TAIWAN

Claudiu Ungureanu

Jolimont Hospital, La Louvière, BELGIUM

Bert Vandeloo

Heysel Heart Center, Stombeek-Bever, BELGIUM

Kristian Wachtell

Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, NORWAY

Gerald Werner

Klinikum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, GERMANY

Simon Wilson

St George’s Hospital, London, UNITED KINGDOM

Felix Woitek

Heart Center Dresden University Clinic, Dresden, GERMANY

Wei-Hsian Yin

Cheng Hsin Heart Center, Taipei, TAIWAN

National Faculty

Diego Arroyo

HFR Fribourgeois, Freiburg, SWITZERLAND

Jasper Boeddinghaus

University Hospital Basel, Basel, SWITZERLAND

Matthias Bossard

Luzerner Kantonsspital, Luzern, SWITZERLAND

Joannis Chronis

Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Basel, SWITZERLAND

Florim Cuculi

Luzerner Kantonsspital, Luzern, SWITZERLAND

Peter Dietrich

Stadtspital Zürich Triemli, Zürich, SWITZERLAND

Gregor Fahrni

Stadtspital Zürich, Zürich, SWITZERLAND

Oliver Gämperli

Heart Clinic Hirslanden, Zürich, SWITZERLAND

Lukas Hunziker

University Hospital, Bern, SWITZERLAND

Felix Mahfoud

 University Hospital, Basel, SWITZERLAND

Nathalie Noirclerc

CHUV (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois), Lausanne, SWITZERLAND

Florian Riede

Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, SWITZERLAND

Johannes Rigger

Kantonsspital St.Gallen, St Gallen, SWITZERLAND

Vladimir Rubimbura

Hôpital de Morges, Morges, SWITZERLAND

Tim Schäufele

Lindenhofspital, Bern, SWITZERLAND

Patrick Siegrist

HerzZentrum Hirslanden Zürich, Zürich, SWITZERLAND

Barbara Stähli

Universitäts Spital Zürich, Zürich, SWITZERLAND

Daniel Sürder

Cardiocentro Ticino Lugano, Lugano, SWITZERLAND

Max Wagener

University Hospital Basel, Basel, SWITZERLAND

Rainer Zbinden

Spitalzentrum Biel, SWITZERLAND

Nurse & Technician Faculty

Severine Dziergwa

 University Hospital, Basel, SWITZERLAND

Sara Klötzli

University Hospital, Basel, SWITZERLAND

Michèle Deubelbeiss

 Luzerner Kantonsspital, SWITZERLAND

Sarah Spahr

Formerly University Heart Center, Freiburg, GERMANY

Maurice Englisch

 Kantonsspital St. Gallen, SWITZERLAND