Meet the EACTS faculty

Bart van Putte

Bart van Putte received his medical degree from the University of Antwerp, Belgium in 2002 and his PhD from the…

Eng-Shiong Tan

Eng-Shiong Tan works at the University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands. He received his medical degree from the University of…

Samer Nashef

Samer Nashef is a consultant cardiac surgeon at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. He practises all types of cardiac surgery and…

Dipak Kotecha

Dipak Kotecha is a clinician scientist at the University of Birmingham, UK, a consultant cardiologist specialising in cardiac imaging, and…

Christian Pizarro

Christian Pizarro, MD is the Director of the Nemours Cardiac Center and Chief, of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery located at the…

Morten Helvind

Morten Helvind has been the head of the department for Congenital Heart Surgery at Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Denmark…

Olivier Ghez

Olivier Ghez is the lead consultant paediatric surgeon at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. He specialises in complex neonatal and…

David Barron

David Barron has been a consultant at Birmingham Children’s Hospital since 1999. He trained at St Thomas’ Hospital, Royal Brompton…

Rashmi Yadav

Rashmi Yadav is an adult cardiac surgeon with special interest in minimally invasive cardiac surgery, mitral valve surgery and transcatheter…

Hugo Vanermen

Hugo Vanermen is a globally renowned expert on mitral and tricuspid repair, and a pioneer of minimally invasive survery via…

Thomas van Brakel

Thomas van Brakel is a cardio-thoracic surgeon with special interests in arrhythmia surgery, aortic surgery and oncologic pulmonary surgery. He…

Marta Sitges

Marta Sitges completed her Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the Autonomous University in Barcelona in 1993. She also visited…

Paul Diprose

Paul Diprose is a consultant cardiac anaesthetist and intensivist at University Hospitals Southampton NHS Trust. Following initial experience in surgery…