Prof. Dr. Costas TSIOUFIS

Professor of Cardiology

Director of 1st Cardiology Clinic

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Hippokration Hospital, Greece

President of European Society of Hypertension (2018-2019)

President of Hellenic Society of Cardiology (2017-2018)

Prof. Dr. Victor ABOYANS

Professor in Cardiology, Limoges University, France

Head of the Department of Cardiology at the Dupuytren University Hospital in Limoges, France, since 2013

Chair (2018-2020) of the ESC working group of Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases.

Co-chairman of the 2014 ESC guidelines on aortic diseases.

Co-chairman of the 2017 ESC guidelines of peripheral arterial diseases.

Prof. Maciej BANACH

Head of Cardiovascular Research Centre at University of Zielona Gora, full Professor of Cardiology at the Medical University of Lodz (MUL) and PMMHRI.

Member of the Executive Committee of European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) working as an Advisor in Matters related to European Union Relations/Contacts.

Founder and Head of the Polish Lipid Association (PoLA) (2011-) and Lodz Chapter of Polish Society of Hypertension (2009-).

President of Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital – Research Institute (PMMHRI) (February 2014-).

Dr. Kyriakos DIMITRIADIS

MD, PhD, FESC

Consultant Ιnterventional Cardiologist

Cardiology Department Hippokration Hospital

Chairman Working Group on Device-Based Treatment of Hypertension

European Society of Hypertension

Dr. Tudor TOMA

Dr. Tudor Toma graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Iasi, Romania, in 1993. After graduation he trained in respiratory medicine and worked as an assistant professor in the Chest Department at University of Iasi. In 2000 he went to London and worked at the Royal Brompton Hospital, Imperial College, University of London, where he completed his doctoral thesis (PhD) in interventional bronchoscopy. In his thesis he described for the first time in the world a minimally invasive endoscopic treatment for patients with emphysema: endoscopic lung volume reduction. Since 2007, dr. Toma works in London as a Consultant Respiratory Physician, having a special interest in respiratory problems, in particular in relation to airway diseases and diagnostics using bronchoscopy and point of care ultrasonography.