Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

Imaging Research, Interventional Radiology and Cardiology, Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy.

Ovidio A. Garcia Villarreal is a cardiac surgeon dedicated to the private practice, retired from the social medicine. Surgery. He has been working on the mitral, aortic and tricuspid reconstruction for more than 25 years. He has been spearheading in the field of Cardiac arrhythmia surgery, particularly in atrial fibrillation surgery (Cox-maze procedure) as well as in aortic valve sparing operations in Mexico. He has executed national surgical models for valvular heart reconstruction and maze procedure. He has been also dedicated to clinical research, with more than 50 international publications in PubMed. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cirugia Cardiaca en Mexico, and analyst in more than 15 international journals. He is an active member of the Mexican Society of Cardiac Surgery, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery, amongst others.

Cardiac surgery

M.-Saadeh Suleiman (PhD, DSc) is currently working as a Professor of Cardiac Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Bristol, UK. His current academic activities include teaching clinical and biomedical sciences to undergraduate and postgraduate students in both Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry and Faculty of Medical & Veterinary Sciences. Professor Suleiman’s current research is focused on investigating cellular mechanisms underlying the damaging effects of cardiac insults. Current clinical research includes investigating novel cardio-protective interventions during adult and paediatric cardiac surgery and during angioplasty. Distinctions include being a member of the team that was awarded the UK Hospital Doctor Award for Team of the Year in Surgery and runners up for Cardiovascular Medicine, election to the executive committee of the British Society for Cardiovascular Research, elected as Fellow of both the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences and the Society of Biology. Has more than 250 scientific publications including papers, reviews, book chapters and peer reviewed abstracts. Awarded more than 60 grants (as PI or collaborator) with income totalling more than £15Million. Professor Suleiman has organised and contributed as speaker to a large number of international meetings and has acted as a reviewer for national and international grant giving bodies and journals.

Adult and paediatric cardiac surgery,Angioplasty

Prof. Dr. Sonia Sayyedalhosseini, is faculty member in California Northstate University, CNSU as well as university Professor in Losrios Community College District, in USA. She is editorial board member in International Medical Journals in United States of America such as Journal of Gynecology and Women’s Health Research in Sciforschen journals in California, International Journal of Computational and Neural Engineering, IJCNE in Delaware , International Journal of Cancer Studies and Research in Delaware, International Journal of Clinical Surgery and Research in Delaware, International Journal of Psychiatry, International Auctores Journal of Clinical Case Reports and Reviews, International Journal of Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders, IJDMD in Kansas, International Journal of Biomedical Research and Practice in Delaware, American Medical Journal of Neurology Research in New Jersey.

Aortic Arch surgery Aortic valve surgery Mini-invasive surgery Aortic valve-sparing operations Left atrial reduction CAB surgery Surgery for atrial fibrillation (Cox-Maze III , Cox-Maze IV) Mitral valve reconstruction Mitral valve surgery

I am British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and a Consultant Cardiologist at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust. I joined The University of Manchester in April 2013 as Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences. I was a preclinical student at the University of St. Andrews and qualified in medicine from Oxford in 1988. Following junior clinical posts, I was an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow in the Nuffield Department of Medicine at Oxford from 1993 to 1996. I completed training in clinical cardiology and set up my own scientific group in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Oxford 1997-2000 under the mentorship of Hugh Watkins. In 2001 I moved to a Senior Lectureship at Newcastle University, where I founded the Molecular Cardiovascular Research Group. I led the group 2001-2012 as it grew from one PI to nine (including five Chairs and three Programme Grants). I was awarded a BHF Personal Chair in 2008. I have been an active clinical cardiologist throughout my scientific career. Between 2001 and 2013 I practiced as a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist; during most of this time my personal procedure volumes were in the top 10% of all operators nationally. Presently, my clinical focus is on inherited cardiovascular diseases where I am part of an integrated service for affected patients and their families provided with colleagues in Clinical Cardiology and the Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine.

My main research interest is in the genetics of complex cardiovascular diseases. Among contributions my colleagues and I have made to this field are: the first demonstration of limited haplotype diversity over long distances in the human genome (1996); the first success in trans-ethnic fine mapping of a complex genetic trait in man (1998); the first large-scale genetic studies of myocardial infarction (2000-2004); the introduction of the approach known as “Mendelian Randomisation” into genetic epidemiology (2001); several large-scale meta-analyses of genetic associations with myocardial infarction (2005-2008); demonstration of the mechanism involved in the association between MI and its strongest common genetic risk factor (polymorphisms at CDKN2B-AS1 [2010]); demonstration of association between copy number variants in the human genome and sporadic congenital heart disease (2012) and the first published genome-wide association studies of congenital heart disease (2013). My group are now chiefly interested in understanding the functional biology underlying some of the many genetic associations with complex cardiovascular diseases that have been detected in genome-wide association studies (including our own work), and using next-generation sequencing approaches to further define the genetic architecture of congenital heart disease.

Paolo Manunta is Director of the Genetics of Kidney Diseases and Hypertension Unit, in the Division of Genetic and cellular Biology in San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy and he is also the Director of the Research Programs of the Nephrology and Dialysis Unit in San Raffaele Milan, Italy. He is the Co-chief of the Division of Nephrology and Dialysis of San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan. Paolo Manunta is Director for School of Nephrology, in the Università Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy and Director, Associate Professor, Chair of Nephrology, Università Vita Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. He is the Editorial Board Member of Journal of Hypertension World and etc., and serves as a member of various associations European Hypertension Society. His research interest includes Nephro-vascular hypertension, Physiology and pharmacology of cardiovascular and renal system with particular reference to hypertension disease, Cellular physiology, membrane ion transports, cellular volume regulation, and cellular membrane biochemistry in essential and genetic hypertension etc.

 

Nephro-vascular hypertension, Cellular physiology, Cardiovascular complication of renal failure

vascular surgery General vascular surgery