LECTORI INVITAȚI
Lectori invitaţi ȋn cadrul Iaşi Arrhythmia Forum 2021 care au confirmat până la acest moment:
Amin Al-Ahmad, MD
Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia, Austin, USA
St. David’s Medical Center
Tolga Aksu, MD
Associate Professor
University of Health Sciences, Kocaeli, Turkey
Kocaeli Derince Training and Research Hospital
Christine Albert, MD, MPH
Professor
Chair, Department of Cardiology
Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lee and Harold Kapelovitz Distinguished Chair in Research Cardiology
Jason Andrade, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Cardiology, University of British Columbia, Canada
Director, Atrial Fibrillation Clinic, Electrodiagnostics, and Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Vancouver General Hospital (VGH)
Roberto Antonicelli, MD
Professor
Director of Cardiology
Department of Cardiology
National Scientific Institute (INRCA) of Ancona, Ancona, Italy
Charles Antzelevich, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Philadelphia, USA
Research interests include: cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmia syndromes.
Elena Arbelo, MD, PhD
Professor
Cardiovascular Institute of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Spain
Coordinator of the Cardiac Genetic Diseases and Sudden Arrhythmic Death Unit
Cătălina Arsenescu Georgescu, MD, PhD
Professor Emeritus
University of Medicine and Pharmacy „Grigore T. Popa”, Iasi, Romania
Senior Physician in Cardiology and Internal Medicine
Adrian Baranchuk, MD
Professor
Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Vice President, International Society of Holter and Non-invasive Electrocardiology.
Bernard Belhassen, MD
Professor
Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem
Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Eduard Belu, MD, PhD
Senior physician in Cardiology
Emergency County Hospital, Brașov, Romania
Cardiac Pacing and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators Certification
Imre Benedek, MD, PhD, Habil
Professor
University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș, Târgu Mureș, Romania
County Clinical Emergency Hospital Târgu Mureș
Theodora Benedek, MD, PhD, Habil
Professor
University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Târgu Mureș, Târgu Mureș, Romania
County Clinical Emergency Hospital Târgu Mureș
Antonio Berruezo, MD, PhD
Senior Electrophysiologist
Hospital Clinic. University of Barcelona, Spain
Head, Arrhythmia Department. Director, Research and Innovation. Heart Institute, Teknon Medical Center, Quironsalud group.
Yochai Birnbaum, MD, PhD
Professor
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Research interests include: Non-invasive cardiology, electrocardiology, echocardiography, electrocardiography, clinical cardiology and acute coronary syndrome
Josep Brugada, MD, PhD
Professor
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Section Chief of Arrhythmias at barnaclínic+ and Pediatric Hospital of Sant Joan de Déu.
Thomas Jared Bunch, MD
Professor
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Founding editor of the Heart Rhythm Case Reports Journal
José Ángel Cabrera, MD
Professor
European University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Head of Cardiology at Quirónsalud Madrid University Hospital
John Camm, MD
Professor Emeritus
St. George’s University of London, London, UK
British Heart Foundation
Founder of the Atrial Fibrillation Association
John N. Catanzaro, MD, FHRS, FACC, FESC
Assistant Professor
Associate Medical Director
Program Director – Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
University of Florida Health – Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Anatolie Cazacu, MD
Cardiac Radiologist (MRI/CT)
German Diagnostic Center, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Member of the European Society of Cardiac Radiology, Member of the Eurpean Society of Radiology
Alexandru B. Chicos, MD
Associate Professor
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Jie Cheng, MD, PhD
Director, Electrophysiology Basic Research
Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, USA
Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center
Gabriel Cismaru, MD, PhD.
Assistant Professor
Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Irina Iuliana Costache, MD, PhD
Professor
“Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania
“Sf. Spiridon” County Clinical Emergency Hospital Iași
Victor Costache, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Senior physician in Cardiovascular Surgery
President of the Romanian Society for Endovascular Surgery and Valvular Surgery Transcateter
„Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania
Daniela Crișu, MD, PhD
Cardiology
“Sf. Spiridon” County Clinical Emergency Hospital, Iasi, Romania
Gopi Dandamudi, MD
Medical Director & Dyad Leader
Franciscan Heart & Vascular Associates at St. Joseph, Tacoma, WA, USA
Paolo Della Bella, MD
Director of Arrhythmia Unit and Electrophysiology Laboratories
IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele Milan, Italy
Nic Claudiu Dragotoiu, MD
Specialist in Cardiology
Arrhythmology Clinic
Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases „C.C. Iliescu” , Bucharest, Romania
Kenneth Ellenbogen, MD
Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Chief of Cardiology, Director of the Electrophysiology Service at the VCU School of Medicine
He is the main editor of the most important international pacing book: Clinical Cardiac Pacing, Defibrillation and Resynchronisation Therapy
Elena Ene, MD
Interventional Electrophysiologist,
Department of Cardiology,
Cardiovascular Center Bad Neustadt, Bad Neustadt, Germany
Larissa Fabritz, MD
Professor
Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Birmingham, UK
College of Medical and Dental Sciences University of Birmingham
Reader in Cardiovascular Sciences
Roger Freedman, MD
Professor
The University of Utah, USA
He specializes in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, particularly in the implantation and management of implanted pacemakers and defibrillators.
Csaba Herczku, MD, PhD
Head of Electrophysiology Laboratory
Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden
Expertise in Catheter Ablation/ Arrhythmias / Atrial Fibrillation / Heart Failure
Ray Hershberger, MD
Professor and Director, Division of Human Genetics
Wexner Medical Center at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Dorothy M Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute
Taylor Howard, MD
Assistant Professor
Member of the Arrhythmia and Pacing (Electrophysiology) Service
Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
Weijing Huang, MD, PhD
Director of Cardiovascular Medicine Department
The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Nanbaixiang, Wenzhou, China
Director of cardiovascular disease division of Wenzhou Medical Association
Yan Huo, MD, PhD
Consultant of Cardiology
Heart Center Dresden, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Elaine Hylek, MD, MPH
Professor
Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
Director of the Thrombosis and Anticoagulation Service at Boston Medical Center (BMC)
Jodie Ingles, MPH PhD
Associate Professor
Centenary Institute, Sydney, Australia
Head, Cardio Genomics Program
Cardiac Genetic Counsellor, Dept Cardiology, RPA Hospital, Australia
Adina Ionac, MD, PhD
Professor
“Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timișoara, Romania
Institute of Cardiovascular Disease Timisoara
Viviana Ivan, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Cardiology and Internal Medicine
„Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy
County Clinical Emergency Hospital, Timişoara, Romania
Marek Jastrzębski, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Jagiellonian University,Kraków, Poland
Head of Electrophysiology Laboratory , Department of Cardiology and Interventional Electrocardiology
Ruxandra Jurcuț, MD, PhD
Professor
University of Medicine and Pharmacy „Carol Davila, Bucharest, Romania
Coordinator Expert Center for Rare Cardiovascular Genetic Diseases
Roberto Keegan, MD
Past President of Latin America Heart Rhythm Society
Hospital Privado del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Electrophysiology Director – Hospital Español.

Adam C. Kean, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
IUPUI School of Engineering and Technology

Peter Kistler, MBBS, PhD
Professor
Head of Clinical Electrophysiology Research
The Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Head of Electrophysiology
The Alfred Hospital
Bradley Knight, MD
Professor
Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Chester C. and Deborah M. Cooley Distinguished Professor of Cardiology

Roko Krpetic
Connected Health Product Manager EMEA at Medtronic
Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Saurabh Kumar, MBBS, PhD
Associate Professor
Staff Specialist Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Program Director for Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death
Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
Valentina Kutyifa, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Chair of the Research Policy Committee
University of Rochester Faculty Senate
University of Rochester Medical Centre
Clinical Cardiovascular Research Center, Rochester, NY, USA
Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, MD
Executive Medical Director
Kansas City Heart Rhythm Institute at HCA Midwest Health, Kansas, KS, USA
Research interests include: electrophysiology, complex arrhythmia management, heart ablation, left atrial appendage closure, ablation, pacemaker and other device implantation and management.

Wilson Lam, MD
Assistant Professor
Texas Children’s Hospital, USA
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Na Li, PhD
Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Professional interests: to investigate novel molecular mechanisms underlying cardiac arrhythmias and cardiomyopathy
Daniel Lighezan,MD, PhD
Professor
„Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timişoara, România
Head of the Clinic of Internal Medicine at the County Emergency Clinical Hospital
Daniel Lawrence Lustgarten, MD,PhD
Professor
University of Vermont School of Medicine, Vermont, USA
Graduated from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Leonard Mandes, MD
Specialist in Cardiology
Arrhythmology Clinic
Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases „C.C. Iliescu”, Bucharest, Romania
Lionel Mangin, MD
CH Annecy-Genevois, France
Razminia Mansour, MD
Director of the cardiac electrophysiology lab
AMITA Health St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago, IL, USA
Certifications: Cardiovascular Disease (Cardiology)
Nassir Marrouche, MD
Professor, Executive Director of Tulane Research Innovation for Arrhythmia Center (Triad Center)
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, LA, USA
Director of the Western Atrial Fibrillation Symposium (23–24 February 2018, Park City, USA).
Florin Mitu, MD, PhD
Professor
University of Medicine and Pharmacy „Grigore T. Popa” Iasi
Recovery Clinical Hospital, Iasi, Romania
Specialities: Cardiology and Internal Medicine
Andrea Natale, MD
Executive Medical Director
Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute, St David’s Medical Center, Austin, TX, USA
Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cardiac Electrophysiology.
Saman Nazarian, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Runs an active clinical research program, funded by the US National Institutes of Health, with the goal of improving treatment strategies to reduce cardiac arrhythmia related morbidity and mortality
Igor Nedelciuc, MD
Catheterization Laboratory
Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases Iasi, Romania
Alina Negru, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Medicine „Victor Babeș” Timișoara, Romania
Tachapong Ngarmukos, MD
President of APHRS
Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Diplomate of The American Board of Cardiovascular Disease, Diplomate of The American Board of Clinical Cardiac Electro-physiology
Viviana Onofrei, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Cardiology and Internal Medicine
„Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iași, Romania
„Sf. Spiridon” County Clinical Emergency Hospital
Jonathan Paul Piccini, MD, MHS
Associate Professor
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology section at the Duke Heart Center
Silvia Priori, MD, PhD
Professor
Molecular Medicine Department of the University of Pavia, Italy
Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri
Abdi Rasekh, MD
Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
American Board of Internal Medicine
Joanna Molina Razavi, MD
Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Physician Ambassador, Center for Women’s Heart & Vascular Health
Mehdi Razavi, MD
Associate Professor
Director of Texas Heart Institute Electrophysiology Research and Innovations
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University
Vivek Y. Reddy, MD
Professor
Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology
Helmsley Trust Professor of Medicine, USA
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Ciprian Rezuș, MD, PhD
Professor
“Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iasi
Head of the 3rd Clinic of Internal Medicine
“Sf. Spiridon” County Clinical Emergency Hospital, Iasi, Romania
Mihail Rizov, MD
Cardiologist
Laboratory of Electrophysiology,
Institute of Cardiology, Chisinau, Moldova
Mohammad Saeed, MD
Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Massachusetts Medical Society, Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America.
Prashantan Sanders, MD
Professor
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Director – Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders
Pasquale Santangeli, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, USA
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Jacqueline Saw, MD
Clinical Professor
Division of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Vancouver General Hospital
Kamil Sedláček, MD
Electrophysiology and Device Therapy Department
University Hospital of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Specialties: Arrhythmias-General, Device Therapy, Chronic Heart Failure
Petar M. Seferović, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC
Professor
Vice-President, European Society of Cardiology
Past President of HFA of the ESC
Academician, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine and
Heart Failure Center, Belgrade University Medical Center
President, Heart Failure Society of Serbia
Christopher Semsarian, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor
Sydney Medical School, Sydney, Australia
Head of the Molecular Cardiology Group, Centenary Institute, Sydney
Robert Schaller, MD
Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology
Melvin Scheinman, MD
Professor Emeritus
Cardiologist and electrophysiologist
UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
Dr. Scheinman is best known as the first person to have performed catheter ablation in humans.
Boris Schmidt, MD
Department Head
Cardioangiologisches Centrum Bethanien, Frankfurt, Germany
Speciality: Atrial Fibrillation
Peter J. Schwartz, MD
Professor
Director of the Center for Cardiac Arrhythmias of Genetic Origin and of the Cardiovascular Genetics Laboratory at the Istituto Auxologico Italiano, IRCCS, Milan, Italy
Parikshit S Sharma, MD
Associate Professor
Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA
Specialties: Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology (Primary Specialty), Cardiovascular Disease
Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD
Professor
David Geffen School of Medicine & UCLA Health System, USA
Director, UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center & EP Programs
Director & Chief, UCLA Interventional CV Programs & Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories
Sergiu Sipos, MD, PhD
Specialist in Cardiology
Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases „C.C. Iliescu”, Bucharest, Romania
Martin Stiles, MB ChB, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Director of Electrophysiology at Waikato Hospital
Lan Su, MD
Cardiac EP
Cardiovascular department The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
Liliana Ştefan, MD
Cardiologist, Specialist in Electrophysiology and Cardiac Pacing
CHR La Citadelle, Liège, Belgium
Horaţiu Suciu, MD, PhD
Professor
“George Emil Palade” University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș
Institute of Emergency for Cardiovascular Diseases and Transplantation (IUBCVT), Târgu Mureș, Romania
Laurențiu Șorodoc, MD, PhD
Professor
2nd Internal Medicine Department
“Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Iasi, Romania
Clinical Emergency Hospital „Sfantul Spiridon”, Iași, Romania
Jose Maria Tolosana, MD, PhD
Specialist in Cardiology
Cardiovascular Institute of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Arrhythmia Unit, University of Barcelona, Spain
Pavlina Trajkova
Abbott Medical Balkan
Field Technical Engineer CRM Eastern Europe, Skopje, North Macedonia
Roderick Tung, MD
Associate Professor
University of Chicago, IL, USA
Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology
Gaurav A. Upadhyay, MD
Associate Professor
University of Chicago, IL, USA
Director, Heart Station
Santiago Valdes, MD
Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Texas Children’s Hospital, TX, USA
Atul Verma
Associate Professor
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Head of the Heart Rhythm Program at Southlake Regional Health Center
Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman, MD
Regional Director Cardiac Electrophysiology
Geisinger School of Medicine, PA, USA
Program Director, Geisinger Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Program.
Oussama M. Wazni, MD
Section Head, Electrophysiology
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Specialty: cardiologists diagnose and treat heart disease, such as congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart rhythm disorders and heart failure
Zachary I. Winnett, MD
Consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist
Hammersmith Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK
Primary medical qualifications – BM BS B MedSci, Consultant Cardiologist practicing at Imperial College NHS Trust
Arthur Wilde, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
In 2012 he received the Distinguished Investigator award of the Heart Rhythm Society.
Seth J. Worley, MD
Assistant Professor
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
F.H.R.S., F.A.C.C, Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Interventional Implant Program at Medstar Heart & Vascular Institute, Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC, USA
Francesco Zanon, MD
Director of Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology Unit
Santa Maria della Misericordia General Hospital, Rovigo, Italy
Fellow of ESC since 2007, fellow of HRS since 2011, fellow of EHRA since 2017, fellow of ANMCO since 2003, fellow of AIAC since 2017
Mathe Zsombor, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cardiovascular Surgery
“George Emil Palade” University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu Mureș
Institute of Emergency for Cardiovascular Diseases and Transplantation (IUBCVT), Târgu Mureș, Romania