Expert panel

Chief of the Department of Medicine
Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi-Bologna

Head of the Hypertension Unit and the ESH Excellence Center for hypertension

Professor of Medicine
University of Bologna
Italy

• Prof. Borghi is the immediate Past-President of the Italian Society of Hypertension and chairmen of the Foundation for Hypertension Research of the same Society.
• Currently he is National Coordinator for the ACCELERATE Study, FORWARD Study.
• He is author and co-author of over 350 peer-review scientific papers and many other scientific publications and scientific contributions in the field of hypertension, CHD and drug treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

Medical Director of Hypertension Department
University Medical Centre Ljubljana
Slovenia

• Head of the Hypertension Department at the University Medical Centre in Ljubljana since 2016
• Assistant Professor, Lecturing at the Medical University of Ljubljana since 2006
• President of the Slovenian Hypertension Society since 2006
• Member of European Society of Cardiology and was awarded a Fellow of European Society of Cardiology (FESC) in 2014
• Prof, J. Brguljan is publisher of several papers on different topics related to the subject of Hypertension, some position papers and was part of the reviewer team that set the Guidelines on Hypertension in 2013. She remains as a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Hypertension and has presented more than 90 lectures at different scientific meetings around Europe

Head of the Research Department on Diabetes and CVD Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) Spain

• Prof. Ceriello was consultant of the National Institutes of Health, U.S.A. for the program of the research 2003-2005, related to cardiovascular disease and type 1 diabetes.
• Prof. Ceriello has published widely in the area of diabetes with over 400 original papers and several book chapters.
• Prof. Ceriello is the winner in the 1984 of the “Italian Annual Award for Young Researcher”, in the 1990 of the “National Award for Research on the Pathophysiology of Diabetic Complications”, in the 1998 of the “National Award Italian Society of Diabetology” and in the 2004 of the “Camillo Golgi Prize” of the EASD.

Honorary Professor of Internal Medicine
School of Medicine, University of Barcelona
Spain

• Former Chief of the Hypertension and Vascular Risk Unit of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Hospital Clinic, Barcelona (1984-2018).
• Editor or co-Editor of 58 books on various topics within the field of hypertension.
• Prof. Coca has published more than 600 papers in international journals and has presented more than 500 invited lectures at international and national meetings and universities.

Senior physician
Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch and Charité Berlin
University Medical Center Berlin, Medical Clinic m. S.
Molecular and Clinical Cardiology, Campus Berlin-Buch
Germany

• Prof. Dechand habilitated in 2003 on the topic: “The importance of the transcription factor NF-kB and inflammatory reactions in the pathogenesis of arteriosclerotic and hypertensive vascular damage”.
• In 2007 he was Hypertensiologist of ESH and DHL.
• In 2009 he gotspecialist in cardiology
• In 2015 he was awarded the professorship in translational research by Southern Denmark University in Odense.
• Prof. Dechend received the science award from the German Hypertension League in 2018.
• Prof. Dr. Dechend is a board member of the German Hypertension League.

Professorship of urology
Medical Faculty of the University of Freiburg
Germany

Medical Director
Department of Urology
Germany

• He completed his specialist training at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, where he also habilitated and most recently served as Senior Consultant of Urology.
• The clinical focus of Prof. Christian Gratzke includes the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer and benign prostate enlargement.
• Prof. Gratzke completed DFG-funded research stays at Wake Forest University (NC, USA) and at Lund University (Sweden).

Head of Nephrology
Klinikum Braunschweig
Germany

• He is section editor at Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation and International Urology and Nephrology as well as Editorial Board member of “Der Nephrologe” and member of the Board of Trustees of the International Society for Apheresis (ISFA).
• 09/11 – 07/15|Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at the Medical School Hannover, Germany (Director: Prof. Dr. med. Hermann Haller)
• 07/15 – Present|Director Medical Clinic V, Hypertension and Nephrology, Tertiary Care and Teaching Hospital Braunschweig, Germany

Full Professor of Hypertension and Clinical Pharmacology
Head: Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Germany

• In 2002 he was European Hypertension Specialist of ESH-
• In 2005he was Hypertension Specialist (DHL) of the German Society of Hypertension
• In 2015, he got elected as a Council member of the Scientific Council of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and elected as an associated member of the Drug Commission of the German Medical Association

Professor Emeritus
University Milano-Bicocca
Italy

Head of the Hypertension Center
Istituto Clinico Universitario, Verano Brianza
Italy

President
Italian Foundation on “Ricerca e Innovazione su Ipertensione e Protezione Cardiovascolare”
Italy

President
Foundation of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) in Switzerland

• Since 2008 he serves as Chairman of the Joint Board of the Italian Scientific
• Societies operating in the area of cardiovascular prevention.
• Currently he is Chairman of the Educational Board of ESH.
• He was appointed Lecturer of the Year by the Belgian Universities and Hypertension Leagues (1992) and was conferred the Talal Zein Foundation Award, the International Recordati Prize (2000), the 2001 Invernizzi Award for Medicine, the Gold Medal of the Lorenzini Foundation (2008), and the Hariri Memorial Award (2009).
• In 2015 he has been awarded as one of the 100 Italian excellences in various areas of human activities.

Director Cardiology Department
Asklepeion Hospital, Athens
Greece

Adj. Clinical Professor of Medicine
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
USA

Adj. Assistant Professor of Hypertension
Boston University
USA

• Member of the Council of the European Society of Hypertension
• Member of the Editorial Board and reviewer of Journals in the field of Hypertension and Cardiology.
• He has published more than 120 papers in peer reviewed international journals, more than 300 lectures in international meetings and more than 20 chapters in international books.

Senior Specialist of the Rheumatology Division
Hospital Universitario Cruces
Spain

Head of the Investigation Group for Arthritis at Biocruces Health Research Institute
Spain

Associated Professor
Department of Medicine in School of Medicine and Nursery
Basque Country University in Vizcaya
Spain

• Dr. Pérez-Ruiz is a member of the Spanish Society for Rheumatology and the American College of Rheumatology.
• He has collaborated with the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Task Force for Gout and for Calcium Pyrophosphate Disease recommendations, the ACR Guidelines for gout, the OMERACT special interest group for gout, and the T2T initiative for gout.
• He founded and coordinated the Crystal-induced Arthritis Study Group (GEAC-SER) and the SER-Guidelines for the management of gout.
• For the last years he has served as associated editor and editorial boards of several indexed journals and as an invited reviewer for more than 30 international journals.
• Dr. Pérez-Ruiz has delivered over 100 lectures, published more than 100 indexed articles and over 20 book chapters, presenting over 250 scientific abstracts in rheumatology meetings.

Professor of Medicine, endocrinologist and angiologist Munich Diabetes Research Group e.V.
Helmholtz Center Munich – Neuherberg
Germany

Prof. Standl is retired director of the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism at the Academic Hospital Munich-Schwabing and of the Forschergruppe Diabetes eV.

• He has published some 625 original papers, review articles, textbook chapters and monographs.
• He received a wide range of scientific awards, including the Hellmut Mehnert Award for his lifetime achievement at the World Diabetes Congess of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) (December 2013).
• Prof. Standl is an honorary member of multiple National Diabetes as well as Cardiology Societies and Associations.

Professor of Urology
First Moscow state medical university
Russia

• Author and co-author of the Textbook on Urology and 11 books and of more than 270 scientific articles, papers and reports.
• Member of Board: of Russian Urological Society, of Russian OncoUrological Society, of Russian Professional Association of Andrology.
• Active member of European Association of Urology.