Institutional Opening
Alba Ancochea
Interim Head of the AstraZeneca Foundation
Valentín Fuster
General Director, CNIC. President of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital, and Physician-in-Chief at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York
Marina Pollán
Director, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
Policy and Advocacy in European Health Policy: Why it matters for researchers
Kitti Almer
Cardiopolicy Consultant working with the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
Héctor Bueno
CNIC Researcher and Member of the Spanish Cardiovascular Health Strategy Development Committee
Presentation of the SAFE HEARTS PLAN
Kitti Almer
Cardiopolicy Consultant working with the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
Block I: Prevention and Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Thematic Presentation
José Antonio Valverde
Cure Heart and Brain MSCA Fellow within the Cardiac Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Therapies group
Javier Laura Francés
Cure Heart and Brain MSCA Fellow within the Molecular and Genetic Cardiovascular Pathophysiology group
From Prevention Science to Population Level Impact
Borja Ibáñez
Scientific Director, CNIC; Interventional Cardiologist H.U Fundación Jiménez Díaz
José Luis Peñalvo
Director of the National Centre for Epidemiology (CNE) at the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
Cristina Pérez Herreras
Corporate Health Director, Banco Santander
Javier Sánchez-González
Philips MR Clinical Scientist Southwestern Europe
Moderator: Marcos Machado
Cure Heart and Brain MSCA Fellow within the Cardiovascular Health and Imaging group
Block II: Early Detection, Data and Digital Innovation
Thematic Presentation
Xiaoxi Luo
Cure Heart and Brain MSCA Fellow within the Intercellular Signaling in Cardiovascular Development and Disease group
Data Governance and Responsible AI Deployment
Folkert W. Asselbergs
Cardiologist, Chair Amsterdam Heart Center, Prof at UCL and University of Amsterdam, Chair Digital Cardiology & AI ESC
Aleida Alcaide
Director General of Artificial Intelligence at the Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service
Laura Dubreuil Vall
Director, Emerging Technology Innovation, AstraZeneca
Fátima Sánchez Cabo
Head of Computational Systems Biomedicine Lab and Bioinformatics Unit, CNIC
Moderator: Hana Matuskova
Cure Heart and Brain MSCA Fellow within the Neurovascular Pathophysiology group
Block III: Health Inequalities and Vulnerable Populations
Thematic Presentation
Giovanni Maroli
Cure Heart and Brain MSCA Fellow within the Molecular Regulation of Heart Failure group
Nely Rodríguez
Cure Heart and Brain MSCA Fellow within the B Lymphocyte Biology group
Embedding Equity in SAFE HEARTS Implementation
Sonya Babu-Narayan
BHF Clinical Director, Reader in Adult Congenital Heart Disease at Imperial College London
Juan Carlos Julián
Managing Director of the Spanish Kidney Patients’ Federation (ALCER)
Rikke Vibeke Nielsen
Health Counsellor, Royal Danish Embassy in London
María Rubini
Cardiologist and Senior Researcher, CNIC; Chair of the ESC Gender Task Force
Natalia Skogberg
Chief Researcher in Health Inequities and Diversity, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Moderator: Lucie Boulgakoff
Cure Heart and Brain MSCA Fellow within the Genetic Control of Organ Development and Regeneration
Block IV: Multi Stakeholder Pathways for Policy Uptake and Implementation
Thematic Presentation
Shunsuke Inoue
Cure Heart and Brain MSCA Fellow within the Inherited Cardiomyopathies group
Seung Jae Shin
Cure Heart and Brain MSCA Fellow within the Mechanoadaptation and Caveolae Biology group
Operationalising SAFE HEARTS Across Governance Levels
Benedetta Armocida
Scientific Coordinator, Joint Action on Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes JACARDI
Héctor Bueno
CNIC Researcher and Member of the Spanish Cardiovascular Health Strategy Development Committee
Andreas Heddini
Vice President Medical Affairs, Europe & Canada, AstraZeneca
Birgit Beger
Chief Executive Officer of the European Heart Network (EHN)
Antonio Parenti
Director for Public Health, Cancer and Health Security, DG Health and Food Safety, European Commission
Moderator: Meng Zhang
Cure Heart and Brain MSCA Fellow within the Molecular Genetics of Angiogenesis group
Institutional Closing
Borja Ibáñez
Scientific Director, CNIC; Interventional Cardiologist H.U Fundación Jiménez Díaz
