Meet the EACTS faculty

Theodoros Kratimenos

Born in Athens, Greece in 1968, graduated in Medical school of Verona University, Italy in 1995, served as medical doctor…

Yves d’Udekem

Yves d’Udekem, M.D., Ph.D., joined Children’s National Hospital as Division Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Co-Director of the Children’s National…

Geoffroy de Beco

Geoffroy de Beco graduated in 2007 as a medical doctor at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. After his cardiovascular…

Thomas Schweiger

Thomas Schweiger, MD, PhD, is a board-certified thoracic surgeon and staff surgeon at the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University…

Paul Whitaker

Dr Paul Whitaker is a Respiratory Consultant from the UK with a specialist interest in bronchiectasis and pulmonary infections. He…

Matthias Evermann

Matthias Evermann graduated in 2021 from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Now he is in his 2nd year as…

Angela De Palma

Angela De Palma graduated in 1998 as a medical doctor at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy. She…

Jerry Estep

Jerry Estep is the current Chairman of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Florida. He served as the Section Head of Heart Failure…

Andreas Zierer

Andreas Zierer is director of the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery of the Kepler University Hospital Linz, Chair of…

Patrick Wouters

Patrick Wouters MD, PhD is a Cardiac Anaesthesiologist in the Department of Anaesthesia at the Ghent University Hospital.  He is…

Sascha Ott

Sascha Ott, MD. Consultant for Cardiac Intensive Care Medicine at the German Heart Center Berlin. He graduated Medical School at…