Gerasimos Filippatos

Dr. Filippatos is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Athens, Greece, and Chair of the Department of Cardiology at the Athens University Hospital Attikon. He was Dean of the School of Medicine, University of Cyprus. He studied Medicine at the University of Patras, Greece, 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. 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. Dr. Filippatos has been Associate Editor of the European Heart Journal, the International Journal of Cardiology and Senior Consulting Editor for JACC-HF. He has authored books (Heart Failure and Acute Cardiac Care) and more than 30 book chapters, including the “Acute Heart Failure” chapter in Braunwald’s 9th edition and Oxford Desk Reference: Cardiology. He is Chair and/or Member of the Executive/Steering/Adjudication Committee of many major clinical trials and Honorary Member of many Cardiac Societies. He has been in the Thomson Reuters/Clarivate list of Highly Cited Researchers since 2015.