29^th World Cardiology Conference November 19-20, 2018 Edinburgh, Scotland

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. Since 1986 he has been Professor of Surgery of the Free University of Berlin and then of the Charité and from January 1986 to September 2014 he was Medical Director and Chairman of the Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin. 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. From 1998 to 2016 he also served as Medical Director of Herzzentrum Cottbus. Presently, his clinical work is at the Cardio Centrum Berlin.

Cardiac Surgery, Heart Transplantation

Sergey Suchkov, MD, PhD was born in 11.01.1957, a researcher-immunologist, a clinician, graduated from Astrakhan State Medical University, Russia, in 1980.Suchkov has been trained at the Institute for Medical Enzymology, The USSR Academy of Medical Sciences,National Center for Immunology (Russia), NIH, Bethesda, USA) and British Society for Immunology to cover 4 British university facilities. Since 2005, Dr Suchkov has been working as Faculty Professor of I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University and Of A.I.Evdokimov Moscow State Medical & Dental University. From 2007, Suchkov is the First Vice-President and Dean of the School of PPPM Politics and Management of the University of World Politics and Law. In 1991-1995, Dr Suchkov was a Scientific Secretary-in-Chief of the Editorial Board of the International Journal“Biomedical Science” (Russian Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of Chemistry, UK) and The International Publishing Bureau at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1995-2005, Suchkov was a Director of the Russian-American Program in Immunology of the Eye Diseases.Dr Suchkov is a member of EPMA (European Association of Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine,Brussels-Bonn), a member of the NY Academy of Sciences, a member of the Editorial Boards for Open Journal of Immunology and others. Dr Suchkov is known as an author of the Concept of post-infectious clinical and immunological syndrome, co-author of a concept of abzymes and their impact into the pathogenesis of autuimmunity conditions, and as one of the pioneers in promoting the Concept of PPPM into a practical branch of health services.

Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine,Immunology, Medicine, Pathology

Aristotle Protopapas Msc. (DIC) FRCS (Glasg), is a Cardiothoracic Surgeon on the Specialist Register of the Unite Kingdom since 2013. He read Medicine in Athens, Greece and holds an Msc. in Surgical Technology from the Imperial College London since 2006. Mr. Protopapas is a fellow-qua-surgeon (by examination) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow since 1998, and member of the society of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland since 2002. Mr. Protopapas served as an Army Medical Officer for two years before embarking in a career in surgery in native Greece, Republic of South Africa, New Zealand and presently the United Kingdom. Mr.Protopapas is interested in surgical Technology, minimal access surgery and repair of chest deformities, beating-heart and computer-assisted surgery, endoscopic conduit harvesting, pulmonary resection for primary and metastatic tumours, thoracoscopy, assessment of surgical technological solutions at clinical outcome level and virtual endoscopy-augmented reality. Mr. Protopapas envisages z hybrid cardiovascular physician for the immediate future. He serves at the Editorial Boards of Interactive Cardio Vascular and Thoracic Surgery and Medical Instrumentation, and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Medicine Case Reports. Dr.Protopapas has sat at committees for healthcare commissioning and guiding of clinical evidence, and working groups of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Biomedical Publishing/Bibliometry Limited Access Surgery Avalanche Safety/Snowboarding Surgical Technology and Innovation

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.

Cardiovascular Disease,Cardiovascular Réhabilitation, Women Heart health

Marco Picichè is 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 and Lung Institute, Laval University, and received the competition’s highest grant. In September 2011 he received a doctor of philosophy (PhD) 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. Currently he is a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon in Italy.

Cardiovascular surgeries, internal medicine,Interventional cardiology

Kewal Kishan Talwar (b. 1946) is an Indian cardiologist, medical academic and writer, and a former chairman of the Medical Council of India. He is a former director of the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) and is reported to have performed the first implantation of Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy in South Asia. He is also credited with the introduction of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in India. He is a recipient of several honors including B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian award in the medical category.The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 2006, for his contributions to medicine.

Electrophysiology, Heart transplant