Fabio Barili
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Università Degli Studi di Milano. 

University Cardiac Surgery, I.R.C.C.S. Galeazzi – Sant’Ambrogio, Milan.

Visiting Scientist, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston.

Scientific Secretary, Italian Society for Cardiac Surgery.

Raffaele De Caterina
Full Professor of Cardiology and Director, University Cardiology Division University of Pisa

Chief, Cardiovascular Division, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa Italy

Alessandro Parolari
Full Professor of Cardiac Surgery, University of Milano, Italy.

Chief, Universitary Cardiac Surgery, Policlinico San Donato IRCCS.

President of the Italian Society for Cardiac Surgery.

Francesco Musumeci
Chief, Department of Cardiac Surgery and Heart Transplantation, San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy.

Former President, Italian Society for Cardiac Surgery

Giuseppe Biondi Zoccai

Associate Professor in Cardiology at Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy.

Editor-in-Chief of an international biomedical journal (Minerva Cardiology and Angiology)

Amedeo Anselmi

Associate Professor, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Rennes University Hospital, France

Sylvain Beurtheret

Cardiac Surgery Department, Saint Joseph Hospital, Marseille, France.

Jean-Philippe Verhoye 

Full Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rennes, Rennes. (Past)

President of the French Society of Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery (SFCTCV).

Jacques Tomasi

Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Pontchaillou University Hospital, Rennes

Jorge Rodriguez-Roda Stuart

Chief, Servicio de Cirugía Cardiovascular Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid.

Presidente Sociedad Española de Cirugía Cardiovascular y Endovascular

Miguel Sousa Uva
Associate Professor at the Porto University Medical School, Porto, Portugal.

Staff Surgeon, Department of Cardiac Surgery-Hospital Santa Cruz, Carnaxide

President of the Portuguese Society of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery. 

Former President of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery  

Martin Misfeld

Professor and Co-Director, Clinical Lead for Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery, University Department for Cardiac Surgery
Heart Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Visiting Medical Officer, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Clinic, Camperdown, Australia

Co-Director of Research, Institute of Academic Surgery, RPAH, The Baird Institute of Applied Heart and Lung Surgical Research, Sydney

Honorary Professor, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney

M.J. Kawczynski

Maastricht Universitair Medisch Centrum – Cardiothoracic surgery / Cardiac physiology

Mateo Marin Cuartas 

Cardiac surgery and critical care resident, University Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany

Board of directors, Latin American Association of Cardiac and Endovascular Surgery (LACES)

Manuela de la Cuesta

Medical Intern, Universidad CES, Medellin, Colombia

Research Fellow, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany

Cardiac Surgery Resident Aspirant

Milan Milojevic

Department of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiovascular Research, Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute, Belgrade, Serbia.

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Chair, Clinical Pracitice Guidelines Task Force, the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.

Sam Heuts
Maastricht Universitair Medisch Centrum – Cardiothoracic Surgery

William Boden 
Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine. Lecturer in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Sanjay Kaul
Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,  Los Angeles, USA

John Mandrola
Baptist Health Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Michael Firstenberg

Director of Research and Special Projects at the William Novick Global Cardiac Alliance

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Marco Zenati

Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery, VA Boston Healthcare System

Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Chair, National Surgery Office, Cardiothoracic Surgery Scientific Advisory Board

Rita Redberg

Professor of Medicine,  Araxe Vilensky Endowed Chair in Cardiology, UCSF Division of Cardiology – San Francisco

David Faxon

Vice Chair of Medicine for Strategic Planning at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts

James Brophy
Professor of Medicine, Dept. of Medicine, McGill Health University Center, Montreal, Canada

Ovidio A. García-Villarreal

Mexican College of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery; Mexico City, México.