FACULTY
Meet our national and international faculty members
Course Directors
Daniel Weilenmann
Ostschweizer Herzzentrum St. Gallen,
SWITZERLAND
Gregor Leibundgut
University Hospital, Basel, SWITZERLAND
Hansjörg Salomon
Salomon Medical, SWITZERLAND
International Faculty
Youssef Abdelwahed
Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Berlin, GERMANY
Alexandru Achim
Niculae Stăncioiu Heart Institute, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Ignacio J. Amat Santos
University Clinic Hospital, Valladolid, SPAIN
Jurij Avramovic
Hospital Izola, Izola, SLOVENIA
Alexandre Avran
Centre Hospitalier de Valenciennes, FRANCE
Mohamed Ayoub
University Heart Center, Bad Oeynhausen, GERMANY
Michael Behnes
University Medical Centre, Mannheim, GERMANY
Marouane Boukhris
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Saint-Étienne, FRANCE
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
Rustem Dautov
Heart and Lung Institute, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
Ahmed El Guindy
Aswan Heart Centre, EGYPT
Amr Elhadidy
University Hospital, Cairo, EGYPT
Benjamin Faurie
Institut Cardiovasculaire, Grenoble, FRANCE
Alexander Geppert
Wiener Gesundheitsverbund, Vienna, AUSTRIA
Ömer Göktekin
Memorial Bahçelievler Hospital, Istanbul, TURKEY
Stefan Harb
Medical University of Graz, Graz, AUSTRIA
Su Hnin Hlaing
Heart and Lung Institute, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
John Hung
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, UNITED KINGDOM
Dan Ioanes
Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, SWEDEN
Bilal Iqbal
Royal Jubilee Hospital, Victoria, CANADA
Rami Jubeh
Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, ISRAEL
Arun Kalyanasundaram
Promed Hispital, Chennai, INDIA
Paul Knaapen
VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Edouard Koifman
Carmel Medical Center Haifa, ISRAEL
Mihajlo Kovačić
County Hospital Čakovec, CROATIA
Ilya Litovchik
Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh) – Beer Yaakov, ISRAEL
Ganeev Malhotra
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UNITED KINGDOM
Sa’ar Minha
Shamir Medical Center, Beer Yaakov, ISRAEL
Neisser Victorino Morales
Medical Sur Mexico, MEXICO
Alexander Nap
Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Mihnea Traian Nichita-Brendea
Clinical Emergency County Hospital of Bihor, Oradea, ROMANIA
Vojtěch Novotný
Kardiologické centrum Agel, Pardubice, CZECH REPUBLIC
Goran Olivecrona
Lund University/ Skåne University Hospital, Lund, SWEDEN
Maksymilian Opolski
National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, POLAND
Marin Postu
Spitalul Monza, Bucharest, ROMANIA
Kirti Punamiya
Breach Candy Hospital Trust, Mumbai, INDIA
Stylianos Pyxaras
Klinikum Fuerth, Fuerth, GERMANY
Alexandre Quadros
Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, BRAZIL
Yader Sandoval
Minneapolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis, UNITED STATES
Ricardo Santiago
Bayamón Heart and Lung Institute, PUERTO RICO
Konstantin Schwartz
Universitätsklinikum St. Pölten – Lilienfeld, St. Pölten, AUSTRIA
Ahmed Shaker
Memorial Bahçelievler Hospital, Istambul, TURKEY
Muhamet Sinani
SRH Zentralklinikum Suhl, Suhl, GERMANY
Hussein Sliman
Wolfson Medical Center – Holon, Tel Aviv District, ISRAEL
Elliot Smith
Barts Heart Centre, London, UNITED KINGDOM
James Spratt
St. Georges University Hospital, London, UNITED KINGDOM
Claudiu Ungureanu
Jolimont Hospital, La Louvière, BELGIUM
Bert Vandeloo
Heysel Heart Center, Stombeek-Bever, BELGIUM
Marnix von Kemp
UZ Brussel, Brussels, BELGIUM
Marco Wainstein
Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre, BRAZIL
Adriaan Wilgenhof
Heart Center Aalst AZORG, Aalst, BELGIUM
Maximilian Will
Sankt Pölten University Hospital, Wien, AUSTRIA
Simon Wilson
St George’s Hospital, London, UNITED KINGDOM
Felix Woitek
Heart Center Dresden University Clinic, Dresden, GERMANY
Masahisa Yamane
Saitama-Sekishinkai Hospital, Sayama, JAPAN
Myron Zaczkiewicz
Mediclin Heart Center, Lahr, GERMANY
National Faculty
Jasper Boeddinghaus
University Hospital Basel, Basel, SWITZERLAND
Matthias Bossard
Luzerner Kantonsspital, Luzern, SWITZERLAND
Joannis Chronis
Kantonsspital, St. Gallen, SWITZERLAND
Florim Cuculi
Luzerner Kantonsspital, Luzern, SWITZERLAND
Peter Dietrich
Triemli Hospital, Zürich, SWITZERLAND
Gregor Fahrni
Stadtspital, Zürich, SWITZERLAND
Philipp Haaf
University Hospital Basel, Basel, SWITZERLAND
Lukas Hunziker
University Hospital, Bern, SWITZERLAND
Juan Iglesias
Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Felix Mahfoud
University Hospital, Basel, SWITZERLAND
Nathalie Noirclerc
CHUV Lausanne, SWITZERLAND
Florian Riede
Kantonsspital, Aarau, SWITZERLAND
Johannes Rigger
Kantonsspital, St Gallen, SWITZERLAND
Tim Schäufele
EndoCardia, Bern, SWITZERLAND
Patrick Siegrist
HerzZentrum Hirslanden Zürich, Zürich, SWITZERLAND
Barbara Stähli
Universitäts Spital Zürich, Zürich, SWITZERLAND
Daniel Sürder
Cardiocentro Ticino Lugano, Lugano, SWITZERLAND
Nurse & Technician Faculty
Tobias Bühler
Schulthess Klinik, Zürick, SWITZERLAND
Michèle Deubelbeiss
Luzerner Kantonsspital, SWITZERLAND
Maurice Englisch
HOCH – Kantonsspital, St. Gallen, SWITZERLAND
Sarah Spahr
Formerly University Heart Center, Freiburg, GERMANY