6^th World Heart and Brain Conference November 13-14, 2023 Dubai, UAE

Michiaki Nagai has completed his graduation from the Jichi Medical University School of Medicine and has been engaged in the Cardiovascular Medicine. Using volumetric analysis in MR SPGR imaging, he has been investigating the fields for target hypertensive organ damages including the relationships among hypertension, blood pressure variability, brain atrophy, cognitive impairment and central autonomic nervous system including the insular cortex. He was engaged in the Interventional Cardiology at Hiroshima City Asa Hospital as the Vice Director. He won the Japanese Society of Hypertension Award in the International Society of Hypertension 2006, the Young Investigator’s Award in the 8th Japanese Neurocardiology Workshop 2007 and Young Scientist Award in the second annual scientific forum of clinical hypertension of the Japanese Society of Hypertension 2013.

Hypertension, Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Medicine

Aris Lacis, cardiac surgeon, professor, MD, PhD graduated Riga Medical Institute in 1961. General and thoracic surgeon in P. Stradina University Hospital in Riga (1964–1969). Thoracic and cardiac surgeon in the Latvian Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery (1969–1994). Since 1994 until 2012 – the head of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Clinic in University Children’s Hospital, Riga; since 2012 – a consulting professor of this Clinic. Vicepresident of Latvian Society for Cardiovascular Surgery. President of Latvian Association for Pediatric Cardiologists. Author of 395 scientific publications, 3 monographs and 13 patents. Investigator in more than 10 clinical trials including cardiosurgical procedures performed under deep hypothermia, hybrid procedures etc. In May 2009 have been used transcutan intramyocardial delivery techniques for treatment (idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathia) the first 3 months aged patient in the world with autologous bone marrow derived progenitor cells. In November 2010 the first patient with end stage pulmonary hypertension received intrapulmonary implantation autologous stem cells.

Pediatric Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery

Hermann Reichenspurner is currently the Director of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Medical Director of the University Heart Center at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf. He received his surgical training at the Universities of Munich, Cape Town, South Africa, and Stanford University, USA. The University Heart Center specializes in the modern and less invasive treatment of heart diseases, including endoscopic valve surgery and catheter-based operations and interventions. Another focus is the interdisciplinary treatment of patients with terminal heart and lung failure. Dr. Reichenspurner is the Past President of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation and the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Heart and Lung Transplantation & Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery

Dr. Catherine Demers graduated from Université de Sherbrooke and completed her training in Adult Cardiology at the Montreal Heart Institute. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology. Dr. Demers is involved in the ongoing management of complex heart failure patients at the Heart Function Clinic at the Hamilton Health Sciences.

Research interests include heart failure management in primary care and the impact of cognitive function on self-care and clinical outcomes in older heart failure patients

Dr. Rohit Mody has more than 25 years of experience in interventional cardiology. He worked in Beunos Aires, Argentina on stem cell therapy in myocardial infarction. He worked in Tokyo, Japan on chronic total occlusions. He has done more than 10000 Angioplasties. He is presently working as director cardiology, Max Hospital, Bathinda. He is invited faculty to various leading conferences at national and international levels. He conducts workshops on various complex PCI procedures like atherectomies, physiology, IVL, CTO and LM disease and bifurcation. He is the author chapters of many books and articles in journals. He is faculty to various conferences at international level and member of editorial board of many journals.

Coronaries intervention Peripheral intervention Cerebral intervention Structural intervention Heart failure intervention