Gerasimos Filippatos, MD, Dr HonC, FESC, FHFA, FHFSA (hon)

Dr Filippatos is Professor of Cardiology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Chair of the Department of Cardiology and Medicine; He was Dean of the School of Medicine, University of Cyprus. He studied Medicine at the University of Patras, GR, and earned his doctorate Cum Laude from the University of Athens. He completed his clinical training in Chicago, USA; and Cambridge, UK. He is past President of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). He has served in the ESC Practice Guidelines Committee and the ACC/AHA Heart Failure Guidelines Writing Committee and as International Governor of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP).

Dr Filippatos served as Senior Consulting Editor for JACC-HF and Eur H Heart Fail and has been Associate Editor of the European Heart Journal and International Journal of Cardiology; member of the Editorial Board and Guest Editor of many other Cardiology and Critical Care Journals. He has published over 900 articles in peer-reviewed journals (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=filippatos+g&sort=date) and authored more than 30 book chapters including the “Acute Heart Failure” chapter in Braunwald’s 9th edition. Chair and/or Member of the Executive / Steering / Adjudication Committee of many major clinical trials. Honorary Member of many Cardiac Societies and Visiting Professor in European Universities. He is in the Thomson Reuters/Clarivate list of Highly Cited Researchers since 2015.