TAVI Webinars 2020

ESC Immediate Past-President (2018 – 2020), Jeroen Bax is Director of non-invasive imaging and Director of the echo-lab at the Leiden University Medical Center. His main interests include clinical cardiology, heart failure, cardiac resynchronization therapy and the application of all different imaging modalities to these clinical fields. Professor Bax has authored numerous papers and holds several positions in national and international scientific organizations, as well as serving on the editorial boards of many different journals.

Professor Lars Søndergaard is a consultant cardiologist at Rigshospitalet – Copenhagen, Denmark. Professor of Cardiology at University of Copenhagen, he published over 300 peer reviewed articles, and more than 15 textbook chapters. His research interests are focused on adults with congenital heart diseases and catheter-based heart valve interventions, as well as congenital and structural heart diseases. He led the first-in-human transcatheter mitral valve implantation (CardiAQ) in 2012 and he actively participated to several trials, including NOTION (transcatheter vs. surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with aortic stenosis and low surgical risk), and the REDUCE randomised trial (PFO vs anti-platelet therapy after cryptogenic stroke).

Received his doctorate from the Medical University of Vienna. He trained in internal medicine and cardiology and went on to become an Associate Professor of Cardiology there in 2005. He is now director of the clinic for valvular heart disease at the Medical University of Vienna. His research interests include structural heart disease, valvular heart disease as well as echocardiography with a particular focus on defining the optimal timing and choice of intervention for these conditions. Professor Rosenhek also serves on the editorial boards of several cardiological journals. He is the Past-Chairman of the Nucleus of the Working Group on Valvular Heart Disease of the European Society of Cardiology and serves on the programme committees for the European Society of Cardiology meeting and the Euroecho meeting.

Interventional cardiologist in University Hospital Düsseldorf, Germany. Senior consultatnt since 2007 joining the TAVI team in 2010 and in charge of the transcatheter valve implantation program since 2014.

A senior consultant cardiologist at University Hospital Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany. Features in 2 videos on Wondr Medical. Verena Veulemans generally speaks on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI), Covid-19, and Covid19 Webinars and Discussions.