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Clinical board

Filippo Crea
Professor of Cardiology
Director Institute of Cardiology
Catholic University
Rome
Italy

John Deanfield
Professor of Cardiology
Heart Hospital
UCL
London
UK

JE Deanfield is currently the British Heart Foundation Vandervell Professor of Congenital Heart Disease based at the Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK. He has a special interest in the understanding of the preclinical development of atherosclerosis and the role of the endothelium.

Adam Redpath
Program Principal
Information Services Division
NHS National Services Scotland
Edinburgh
UK

Rob Simari
Chair of Cardiovascular Research
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, MN
USA

RD Simari is the Chair of Cardiovascular Research and Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. His postgraduate training was at Beth Israel Hospital, the University of Michigan and the Mayo Clinic. His research interests are vascular biology and the development of novel biologic therapies for vascular disease.

Anthea Springbett
Senior Statistician
Information Services Division
NHS National Services Scotland
Edinburgh
UK

Frans Van de Werf
Professor and Chairman
Department of Cardiology
Gasthuisberg University Hospital
Leuven
Belgium

Freek Verheugt
Chairman
Department of Cardiology
University Medical Center
Nijmegen
The Netherlands

Freek WA Verheugt was born and raised in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 1974 and did a thesis on platelet and granulocyte antigens and antibodies. He trained in cardiology at the Thoraxcenter of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He was President of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology between 1999 and 2001.

Currently, he is Professor of Cardiology and Chairman of the Department of Cardiology at the University Medical Center of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Professor Verheugt has published over 270 papers in peer-reviewed international journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the European Heart Journal, of which he is an Editorial Board Member. His main fields of scientific interest are pharmacological and interventional treatments for acute coronary syndromes.


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