Heart and Pediatric Cardiology

Marco Picichè (MD, Ph.D.) graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Florence in 1995 and completed his cardiac surgery residency at the Tor Vergata University of Rome in 2000, both summa cum laude. He held regular teaching appointments at the university of Montpellier school of medicine, obtained certification by the French Board in cardiac surgery (Paris, 2007), earned his research master in surgical science (Paris, 2007), and received a university diploma in vascular surgery (Paris, 2007). In Canada he authored a research project on the occlusion of the internal mammary arteries as an alternative method of myocardial blood supply (2008, Laval University). In May 2009 he had the honor of opening the 44th Congress of the European Society for Surgical Research with a lecture on ‘‘The history of surgical research.’’ In September 2011 he received a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) in therapeutic innovations from Paris-Sud University. He is the Editor in Chief of the book : « Dawn and evolution of cardiac procedures : research avenues in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology » (Springer-Verlag publishing house, September 2012). He patented a new surgical instrument. Currently he is a cardiac surgeon in Italy.

Cardiology

Camelia Nicolae, PhD is currently the Assistant Professor at Internal Medicine and Cardiology Department, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania. She has been working in the Coronary and Intensive Care Unit since graduation. In clinical activity, she was interested in diagnosis and treatment of acute coronary syndrome, acute cardiac failure and pulmonary thromboembolism. She had a special preoccupation about ventricular remodelling post-acute myocardial infarction, which was reflected in her doctoral thesis. After the publication of the latest cardiology guidelines about stable coronary ischemic disease, she developed a constant interest in the high incidence and prevalence of this pathology “in real life”. Dr. Nicolae is constantly searching diagnostic solutions for early identification of coronary ischemic disease in different subgroups of general population with high cardiovascular risk, that don’t have a detailed approach accordingly to current protocols. In her career, she sustained and published over 70 scientific papers and original studies and in the last three years public conferences were mainly focused on stable coronary ischemic disease.

Cardiology

Oleksii is a serial entrepreneur and investor with twenty-five years experience. He creates twelve companies and do couple exits while. His professional background is business and team development, software/hardware engineering, sales, and finance. Last eight years he is focusing on healthcare area with a company called HeartIn. Oleksii's company creates a unique smart t-shirt with build in sensors, that brings wellness solutions and cardio-diagnostic to the mass market. The product has user-friendly comfortable design and costs just $160. On the wearable market now dominate devices with very low accuracy measurement HR/HRV and no solutions for mass preventive diagnostic. Those problems a team of HeartIn likes to solve.

Cardiology

Naranjan S. Dhalla, CM OM FRSC is a Canadian cardiovascular research scientist focusing on cardiovascular pathophysiology and therapy of heart disease. Dhalla is recognized as a world leader in heart research.

Cardiology