ESC Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy

Aims and Activities

Aims

• To promote and organise research in the field of cardiovascular pharmacology and drug therapy
• To design and coordinate scientific research in its specialty
• To be involved in task forces of the European Society of Cardiology related to cardiovascular pharmacology
• To increase the number of Working Group members

Activities

• To start up and strengthen the new journal of the Working Group, entitled European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy. The journal will come out with 4 issues during 2015 aiming at increasing that number up to 12 issues a year within 5-6 years. An aim with the journal is to become the strongest scientific journal within cardiovascular pharmacology
• To organise yearly scientific meeting of the Working Group with focus on cardiovascular pharmacology
• To participate in the production of ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines
• To publish position papers within the area of the Working Group
• To contribute to the organisation and preparation of the Annual Congress of the ESC
• To participate and support other scientific meetings and symposia
• To organise teaching workshops and other types of education on topics related to cardiovascular pharmacology and drug therapy
• To hold regular meetings of the nucleus of the Working Group

Nucleus 2022-2024

Chairperson

Prof. Juan Carlos Kaski, FESC
St George's, University Of London
Molecular & Clinical Sciences Research Inst
Cranmer Terrace, Tooting
SW17 ORE London
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Chairperson-Elect

Prof. Dobromir Dobrev, FESC
University Duisburg-Essen
Institute of Pharmacology
Hufelandstrasse 55
DE-45122 Essen
Germany
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Past-Chairperson

Assoc. Prof. Alexander Niessner, FESC
Medical University Of Vienna
Dept. Int. Med. Ii, Division Of Cardiology
Waehringer Guertel 18-20
AT-1090 Vienna
Austria 
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Treasurer

Prof. Claudio Ceconi, FESC
Italy
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Secretary 

Dr. Anne Grete Semb, FESC
Norway
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Communication coordinator

Assoc. Prof. Bianca Rocca
Italy
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Ordinary Nucleus members

Prof. Claudio Borghi
Italy
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Prof. Elisabetta Cerbai, FESC
Italy
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Prof. Peter Ferdinandy
Hungary
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Assoc. Prof. Erik Lerkevang Grove
Denmark
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Prof. Samuel Sossalla
Germany
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Dr. Patrick Sulzgruber, FESC
EuroCVP & Working Group representative in ESC Young Committee
Austria
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Non-voting Nucleus members

Prof. Gheorghe Andrei Dan
Romania
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Prof. Heinz Drexel
Austria
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Dr. Emma Magavern
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Assoc. Prof. Gianluigi Savarese, FESC
Sweden
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Prof. Juan Luis Tamargo, FESC
Spain
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