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