Hypertension and Cardiovascular Diseases

Author received post-graduate degree in Ophthalmology in 1987 from Mangalore University in India and has undergone clinical trainings at London MOORFIELDS Eye Hospital) and Munich (University Eye Hospital) and has 35 years of experience as an Ophthalmologist. He has published over 30 papers in journals and at various regional and international conferences.

Blood Pressure

Yasmine has completed her MD from Faculty of medicine , Alexandria University,Egypt. She is assisstant lecturer of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, She has her expertise in evaluation and passion in improving the health and wellbeing. She has built this model after years of experience in research, evaluation, teaching and administration both in hospital and education institutions.

Antihypertensive

Bertram Pitt received his MD degree from the University of Basel in 1959. After a residency in medicine he worked at the Walter Reed Army Medical research Institute from 1963-1966. He completed a fellowship in cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and remained there on the faculty until 1977 when he joined the University Of Michigan School Of Medicine as director of the division of cardiology. He is currently professor of medicine emeritus, has published over 750 peer reviewed papers, and received life time achievement awards from the AHA and ESC-HF society.

Cardiovascular diseases, Ischemic heart disease, heart failure

Siniša Grujić, MD, is an internal medicine specialist – cardiologist with specialisation in internal medicine and diploma in cardiology. He completed his education in Moscow (Russia), Novi Sad (Serbia) and London (United Kingdom). He has a rich experience of over 30 years in cardiology. He particularly specialises in ultrasound cardiac diagnostics, where he works in Slovenia, Italy and Austria. He regularly participates in professional training at clinics in the US and Europe. His international career path also means that he speaks several languages fluently. He is a member of the European, US and Austrian societies of cardiology and the European Association of Echocardiography.

Cardiologist, Ultrasound cardiac diagnostics, Echocardiography

François Mach born in 1961, is an expert in the field of cardiology, in particular with regard to the development and progression of atherosclerosis diseases. After obtaining his MD at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, he studied internal medicine and cardiology at Geneva University Hospital. He then went on to complete a post-doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Prof. Peter Libby, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston (1995-1999). Following his return to Switzerland in 2000, he became full Professor of cardiology, and in 2006 he was appointed Head of the cardiology department at Geneva University Hospital. Between 2012-14, he was the President of the Swiss Society of Cardiology. François Mach is the author of more than 350 High Impact Factor publications, has obtained several European research grants (“European Vascular Genomic Network” [EVGN] FP6, “Inflammation and Vascular Wall Remodelling in Atherosclerosis” [AtheroRemo] FP7), and is currently involved in the Athero-B-Cell FP7 (Targeting and exploiting B cell function for treatment in cardiovascular disease, all funded by the European Community. As director of the cardiology basic science laboratory at the Faculty of Medicine University of Geneva, Prof. François Mach and his research group have developed animal models of atherosclerosis, acute myocardial infarction, chronic myocardial ischemia and ischemic stroke. During the last 10 years, the group of Prof. François Mach has substantially contributed to a better clarification of the inflammatory mechanisms underlying atherosclerosis and its acute dramatic complications, such as myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke, both in human cohorts and animal studies. For several years now, Prof. François Mach has also been strongly implicated in clinical research in the field of lipidology, by contributing to the design and completion of several clinical research projects and multi-center studies focussed on lipid lowering agents, such as statins and, more recently, anti-PCSK9. In addition, he is also responsible of several Swiss cohorts of atherothrombotic patients

Cardiology, Atherosclerosis, Cardiovascular diseases, Acute myocardial infarction

Hossein Tabriziani is well known speaker whose has special interset in Kidney and Pancreas Transplantaion. He has completed his Medical School at Iran University of Medical Sciences(IUMS) with honors. He finished his Internal Medicine residency at St. Barnabas Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. Then he did his fellowship in Nehrology and Hypertension at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and conitnued his eduction at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) with a Transplant Nephrology fellowship. He was appointed at the Medical director of Pancreas Transplantation at Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical college before moving to Loma Linda Univeristy in California to serve as an Assistant Professor of Medicinie in Nephrology / Transplant division. He is a diploamte of American Board of Internal medicine(ABIM) as well as a diplmoate of American Board of Nephrology. He is also an active member of American Society of Nephrology(ASN) and American society of Tranplantation(AST).

Hypertension, Chronic kidney disease, Oxidative Stress, Transplantation

Sekib Sokolovic is professor of Internal Medicine at Medical Faculty of Sarajevo and subspecialist cardiologist at University Clinical Center. He is the director of the Excellence Center for Hypertension, and director of the National Training in Cardiology representing Cardiac National Society in the ESC. He has published more than 100 papers in some of the reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Blood Pressure, Arterial Stiffness, Cardiovascular risk factors, Hemodynamics

Walid Bsata Since June 2013, he is working as full time Consultant at Cardiology Department at International Medical Center (IMC) in Jeddah / KSA. IMC is a modern 300 bed multidisciplinary tertiary private referral hospital.Also,he is in charge of Cardiology OPD. He is the Founder & Board Member / Saudi Hypertension Management Society.

Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Renal Denervation, CRT and Pacemaker Implantation