Intracoronary Guidance in Complex PCI in Madrid, April 2019

Prof Javier Escaned is Head of Interventional Cardiology Section at Hospital Clinico San Carlos (Madrid, Spain). He trained as a cardiologist the United Kingdom before moving to the Thoraxcenter / Rotterdam (The Netherlands), where he obtained his PhD degree in 1994.  A skilled interventionalist with over 25 years of experience, he regularly serves as live case operator and educationalist in global events like EuroPCR, TCT or the ESC Congress. He is author of over 350 PubMed indexed scientific articles (h-index 58) on topics that include complex PCI in multivessel disease (principal investigator of SYNTAX II study), left main and chronic total occlusions, and secondary revascularization. His track record in coronary physiology includes being investigator on pivotal FFR trials like DEFER (1998), collaborator with Justin Davies in the validation and clinical implementation of iFR (since 2010), and developer of new methods for the assessment of microvascular and non-obstructive coronary disease. Recent / ongoing trials as Co-PI include ADVISE, ADVISE II, DEFINE FLAIR and ABSORB II PHYSIOLOGY, being investigator also in ILUMIEN I and IV, COMBINE and other studies on coronary imaging. Latest editorial contributions are the textbooks “Coronary Stenosis. Imaging, Structure and Physiology”, (co-editor Patrick Serruys) and “Physiological Assessment of Coronary Stenoses and the Microcirculation) (co-editor Justin Davies). Current or recent board positions in scientific societies include EuroPCR, EAPCI, EuroCTO and the ESC Working Group of Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation. Some of his additional interests are philosophy, education and music.

Dr Justin Davies is a consultant 
interventional cardiologist at Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College NHS Trust, London. After training at Imperial
College, he won a prestigious BHF research fellowship to study arterial haemodynamics. Since then he has continued to
work on the development of mathematical algorithms to aid 
understanding of large artery physiology and to develop new
tools to assess arterial disease. The holder of several patents,
he has published widely in the field of hypertension, coronary and large artery physiology and is the winner of many national and international awards. He has several international collaborations, and is the developer of iFR and the co-principal investigator of the ADVISE studies, the DEFINE-FLAIR, ORBITA and DEFINE-PCI studies. Justin also has an interest in renal denervation, and has lead the first-in-man studies to evaluate the safety of this technique to patients with chronic systolic heart failure (REACH studies). 

Dr Enrico Cerrato is Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at San Luigi Gonzaga University Hospital in Turin, Italy. He completed his training as cardiologist in the Molinette University Hospital (Turin, Italy) and, subsequently, a fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid.  Dr Cerrato has an important track record in the use of meta-analysis as a research tool, a statistical approach he trained on under the expert supervision of Dr Biondi-Zoccai. Dr Cerrato is one of the founders of CardioGroup (www.cardiogroup.org), a research network that has generated multiple studies on left main PCI, intracoronary physiology and imaging techniques, and spontaneous coronary dissection, among many other topics. An additional interest of Dr Cerrato is the assessment of real-world interventional cardiology practice, performed through internet-based surveys and tools. He is currently co-principal investigator in the PREDICT study which investigates the protective effect of ticagrelor against periprocedural microvascular damage in patients with diabetes.

Dr Carlos Collet Bortone completed his education as interventional cardiologist at the Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2011 with training in cardiac computed tomography angiography at the Holy Cross Hospital, Florida, USA. Dr. Collet Bortone continued his education with a doctorate in Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam with his Ph.D. thesis focused on the expansion of the current indication of cardiac CT to patients with complex coronary artery disease. Currently practices as interventional cardiologist at OLV-Aalst, Belgium. Dr. Collet Bortone has published more than 80 peer review articles and his research focused on the integration of cardiac imaging and physiology. 

Dr Mauro Echavarría Pinto is an Interventional cardiologist and currently works at “ISSSTE“ General Hospital in Querétaro, México. He trained clinically in the National Institutes of Health, in Mexico City, and in Hospital Clínico San Carlos, in Madrid, Spain. He holds a MSc degree in Research Methodology, Design and Statistics in Health Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, and a PhD from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is an author of >50 peer-reviewed manuscripts mostly focused on the use of coronary physiology to guide the treatment of ischaemic heart disease.

Prof Robert-Jan van Geuns, MD, PhD (1966) started his medical training at the University of Leiden. Prof van Geuns was trained in Interventional Cardiology by Prof. Patrick Serruys at the Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam. 

Prof Robert-Jan van Geuns has been staff member at the Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam, The Netherlands since 2004 and was clinical director of the cardiac intervention lab from 2011 to 2013. He has been a member of the board of Dutch Cardiology Society from 2007 to 2014. He is a of the program committee of the EuroPCR since 2012. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology.

His research focus is on coronary artery disease. He started his research in this field in 1996 and received his PhD in 2000 on the thesis: “Non-invasive coronary imaging with MRI and EBT. His current research focuses on new imaging techniques in cardiology for diagnostic applications and image guided interventions. Prof van Geuns was appointed associate professor in 2010 covering research in non-invasive cardiac imaging and percutaneous coronary interventions. As of June 2014 he is Professor of Interventional Cardiology with a special focus on the percutaneous treatment of coronary artery disease.  He acquired several individual grants and is author of 247 papers, numerous abstracts and presented his research across all continents. 

He has been involved in research for bioresorbable scaffolds since early 2006 in multiple studies and has over 500 implants in clinical cases.

Dr Nieves Gonzalo was born in Madrid, Spain in 1976. In 2006 she got the degree of Cardiologist after her training in Clinico San Carlos University Hospital in Madrid. After finishing her specialisation she moved to Rotterdam in The Netherlands for a research fellowship in the Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University with the team of Professor Patrick Serruys. There, she worked mainly in intracoronary imaging techniques and bioabsorbable stents. In 2010 she obtained her PhD with the thesis “Optical coherence tomography for the assessment of coronary atherosclerosis and vessel response after stent implantation”. Currently she works in the Interventional Cardiology Department at Clinico San Carlos University Hospital in Madrid.

Dr Allen Jeremias, MD, MSc, is the Director of Interventional Cardiology Research and Associate Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, NY. He is also a member of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY where he currently serves as the Director of the Physiology Core Laboratory. He completed his Medical training at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Stanford University School of Medicine, as well as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jeremias has numerous publications in the area of coronary physiology and intravascular imaging.