Cardiology is the study of the heart. Cardiology is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects,coronary artery disease,heart failure,valvular heart disease,and electrophysiology. Physicians who specialize in this field of medicine are called cardiologists,a specialty of internal medicine. Pediatric cardiologists are pediatricians who specialize in cardiology. Physicians who specialize in cardiac surgery are called cardiothoracic surgeons or cardiac surgeons,a specialty of general surgery.
A thoracic aortic aneurysm is an aortic aneurysm that presents primarily in the thorax.
Joseph Hillel Silverman is a professor of mathematics at Brown University working in arithmetic geometry,arithmetic dynamics,and cryptography.
Asan Medical Center (서울아산병원) is a tertiary hospital and the teaching hospital of the University of Ulsan College of Medicine,located in Seoul,South Korea. It was established to embody the founding principles of Asan Foundation founder Chung Ju-yung. The hospital was inaugurated on June 23,1989,originally named Seoul Jungang (Central) Hospital,and later renamed Asan Medical Center on April 27,2002. With a capacity of 2,732 licensed beds and a total floor area of approximately 280,000 square meters,it stands as the largest hospital in Korea.
The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is an independent non-profit,non-governmental professional association that works to advance the prevention,diagnosis and management of diseases of the heart and blood vessels,and improve scientific understanding of the heart and vascular system. This is done by:
The 2009 Korean League Cup,also known as the Peace Cup Korea 2009,was the 22nd competition of the Korean League Cup. It began on 25 March 2009,and ended on 16 September 2009.
Stefanie Dimmeler is a German biologist specializing in the pathophysiological processes underlying cardiovascular diseases. Her awards and honours include the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation for her work on the programmed cell death of endothelial cells. Since 2008 she has led the Institute for Cardiovascular Regeneration at the University of Frankfurt. Her current work is focusing to develop cellular and pharmacological strategies to improve cardiovascular repair and regeneration. Her work aims to establish non-coding RNAs as novel therapeutic targets.
Ron Waksman is a cardiologist. He is the Associate Director,Division of Cardiology,Washington Hospital Center (WHC) and professor of medicine (cardiology) at Georgetown University.
The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) is a membership organisation devoted to the practice of cardiothoracic surgery. The mission statement of the association is to advance education in the field of cardiac,thoracic and vascular interventions;and promote research into cardiovascular and thoracic physiology,pathology and therapy,with the aim to correlate and disseminate the results for the public benefit. Within the EACTS there is a large number of committees working on various issues in order to improve cardio-thoracic surgery.
Song Ho-young is a South Korean radiologist. He studied at the Chonbuk National University and now works at the Asan Medical Center. He is the founder of the Society of Gastrointestinal Intervention (SGI).
Christodoulos I. Stefanadis is Professor of Cardiology in the Medical School of the University of Athens. Professor of Medicine,Department of Medicine,Division of Cardiology,Emory University,Atlanta U.S.A.Professor of Internal Medicine,Cardiology,Yale University,New Haven,Connecticut,USA. He has been recognised as the top researcher in the field of Cardiovascular medicine in the last 20 years with the most original research publications in peer review journals. Some of his main research interests include coronary heart disease,detection and treatment of vulnerable atheromatic plaque,aortic elastic properties,mitral valve disease,interventional treatment of resistant hypertension and designing many catheter types used for various diagnostic and therapeutic interventional procedures.
Steven Anton Jozef Chamuleau is a cardiologist and professor at the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) in the Netherlands,specializing in cardiac regenerative therapy,valvular disease and cardiac imaging.
Ulf Landmesser is a German specialist for cardiology and internal medicine. He is professor at the Institute for Health Research in Berlin and Head of the Medical Clinic of Cardiology at the Charitéin Berlin. Landmesser is known for his work on coronary interventions and modern methods of catheter-based heart valve therapy.
Kamal Kumar Sethi is an Indian neurologist
William A. Zoghbi is a Lebanese-American cardiologist. He is Professor of Medicine at the Houston Methodist Institute for Academic Medicine,in Houston Texas,and Weill Cornell Medical College. He holds the Elkins Family Distinguished Chair in Cardiac Health at the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart &Vascular Center. Zoghbi is the Chairman of the Department of Cardiology at Houston Methodist Hospital. He is a Master of the American College of Cardiology and served as its president in 2012.
Koh Gou Young is a researcher from South Korea studying organ vasculature and lymphatic vessels with an interest in angiogenesis,lymphangiogenesis,adipogenesis,and cardiogenesis. His research has contributed to the publication of more than 200 journal articles,including multiple publications on how Tie2 deficits are related to sepsis,blood-retinal barrier damage,and an imbalance of intraocular pressure in Schlemm's canal which induces glaucoma.
Robert Wayne Alexander was an American biologist and cardiologist known for research in the fields of atherosclerosis,hypertension,and vascular biology.
Dr. Béla Merkely is a Hungarian interventional cardiologist and sports cardiologist,a university professor,director of Semmelweis University's Heart and Vascular Centre and the current rector of Semmelweis University since 1 July 2018.
Ruth McPherson is a Canadian lipidologist researching in the field of cardiovascular genetics and preventive cardiology.
Thomas F. Lüscher is a Swiss professor of cardiology,director of research,education and development and a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College London,and director of the Center for Molecular Cardiology at the University of Zurich.
