Professor of Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology and Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Tirgu Mures, Romania
Founder of the Clinic of Cardiology, County Clinical Emergency Hospital Tirgu Mures
President of the working group of transborder hungarian cardiologists, Hungarian Society of Cardiology
Editor in chief Journal of Cardiovascular Emergencies
Principal Investigator in over 30 clinical studies
Project director in 11 grants funded by the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research and the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences
Award of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences for excellence in research – 2007
Member in the PhD School Council, UMF Tg.Mureș
Accreditation in Interventional Cardiology, echocardiography, electrophysiology and pacing
Patent of transvascular pulmonary puncture-biopsy – method and device
Founder of the first Romanian Network of acute myocardial infarction
Professor of Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology and Internal Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Tirgu Mures, Romania
Founder of the Clinic of Cardiology, County Clinical Emergency Hospital Tirgu Mures
President of the working group of transborder hungarian cardiologists, Hungarian Society of Cardiology
Editor in chief Journal of Cardiovascular Emergencies
Principal Investigator in over 30 clinical studies
Project director in 11 grants funded by the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research and the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences
Award of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences for excellence in research – 2007
Member in the PhD School Council, UMF Tg.Mureș
Accreditation in Interventional Cardiology, echocardiography, electrophysiology and pacing
Patent of transvascular pulmonary puncture-biopsy – method and device
Founder of the first Romanian Network of acute myocardial infarction
Presedintele Societatii Romane de Cardiologie
Presedintele Societatii Romane de Cardiologie
Prof. Zoltan Csanádi MD, PhD, FESC Chief of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology,Vice Director of the Department of Cardiology, the University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
Zoltan Csanadi graduated at the Medical University of Szeged in 1984. He did his residency in internal medicine and in cardiology in Szeged. He completed a fellowship program in cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto between 1992 and 1995. From 1996 he started and established clinical cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Szeged. In 2004 he moved to Debrecen and developed clinical cardiac electrophysiology at the Department of Cardiology. The Debrecen Center has been accredited as a training center in clinical electrophysiology for the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) and also as a European training center of Medtronic for atrial fibrillation ablation. Dr. Csanádi is running a PhD program including different topics on ablation techniques and device implantations. Three young candidates defended their thesis already and 4 have been currently working on their thesis. He served as member of the National Societies Committee of EHRA and was responsible for the Eastern-European fellowship program between 2011-2013. He has been member of the Board of the Hungarian Society of Cardiology since 2007, currently chairing the Scientific Committee. He has been member of the board of the Working Group on Cardiac Pacing and Arrhythmias since 2008 and served as President of the WG between 2007 and 2010. He is the author of more then 100 scientific publications, the cumulative impact factor of his first/last author “in extenso” papers is 80.
Prof. Zoltan Csanádi MD, PhD, FESC Chief of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology,Vice Director of the Department of Cardiology, the University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
Zoltan Csanadi graduated at the Medical University of Szeged in 1984. He did his residency in internal medicine and in cardiology in Szeged. He completed a fellowship program in cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto between 1992 and 1995. From 1996 he started and established clinical cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Szeged. In 2004 he moved to Debrecen and developed clinical cardiac electrophysiology at the Department of Cardiology. The Debrecen Center has been accredited as a training center in clinical electrophysiology for the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) and also as a European training center of Medtronic for atrial fibrillation ablation. Dr. Csanádi is running a PhD program including different topics on ablation techniques and device implantations. Three young candidates defended their thesis already and 4 have been currently working on their thesis. He served as member of the National Societies Committee of EHRA and was responsible for the Eastern-European fellowship program between 2011-2013. He has been member of the Board of the Hungarian Society of Cardiology since 2007, currently chairing the Scientific Committee. He has been member of the board of the Working Group on Cardiac Pacing and Arrhythmias since 2008 and served as President of the WG between 2007 and 2010. He is the author of more then 100 scientific publications, the cumulative impact factor of his first/last author “in extenso” papers is 80.
Theodora Benedek, MD, PhD, Habil, FESC
Theodora Benedek is professor of cardiology and internal medicine in the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tirgu Mures, Romania. She is the Director of the Department of Internal Medicine in this university, head of the Clinic of Cardiology and President of the Committee for Scientific Research of the Senate University. Since 2008, she works at the European Commission as external expert and reviewer for FP7 and Horizon 2020 programs, serving since 2015 as Vice Chair of the Life Sciences panel in the Marie Curie fellowships program. She published more than 200 articles in extenso in peer-reviewed journals and 7 books and book chapters. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal indexed in 8 international databases, and her editorial activity includes also the position of Managing Editor in one Thomson Reuters indexed journal (The Journal of Critical Care Medicine) and in several peer-reviewed journals (Journal of Cardiovascular Emergencies, Acta Medica Marisiensis). Prof. Benedek is member in the steering committee and coordinator of all Eastern-European centers in the Discharge trial, financed by the European Commission within FP7 program, and has participated in 10 research grants financed by the Romanian Ministry of Research and the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences and in more than 30 clinical trials in the field of cardiology. At the same time, Prof. Benedek created and coordinates the Center of Advanced Research in Multimodal Cardiac Imaging in the Cardio Med Medical Center, Romania. The main fields of her research interests are related to cardiac imaging, CT assessment of coronary artery diseases, stem cell therapy in cardiovascular diseases, heart failure and acute cardiac care.
Theodora Benedek, MD, PhD, Habil, FESC
Theodora Benedek is professor of cardiology and internal medicine in the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tirgu Mures, Romania. She is the Director of the Department of Internal Medicine in this university, head of the Clinic of Cardiology and President of the Committee for Scientific Research of the Senate University. Since 2008, she works at the European Commission as external expert and reviewer for FP7 and Horizon 2020 programs, serving since 2015 as Vice Chair of the Life Sciences panel in the Marie Curie fellowships program. She published more than 200 articles in extenso in peer-reviewed journals and 7 books and book chapters. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal indexed in 8 international databases, and her editorial activity includes also the position of Managing Editor in one Thomson Reuters indexed journal (The Journal of Critical Care Medicine) and in several peer-reviewed journals (Journal of Cardiovascular Emergencies, Acta Medica Marisiensis). Prof. Benedek is member in the steering committee and coordinator of all Eastern-European centers in the Discharge trial, financed by the European Commission within FP7 program, and has participated in 10 research grants financed by the Romanian Ministry of Research and the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences and in more than 30 clinical trials in the field of cardiology. At the same time, Prof. Benedek created and coordinates the Center of Advanced Research in Multimodal Cardiac Imaging in the Cardio Med Medical Center, Romania. The main fields of her research interests are related to cardiac imaging, CT assessment of coronary artery diseases, stem cell therapy in cardiovascular diseases, heart failure and acute cardiac care.
