Date

Members Day: 3rd April 2025
Seminar: 4th – 5th April 2025

Venue

Hilton Zurich Airport Hotel
Hohenbuehlstrasse 10
8152 Opfikon
Switzerland

Accreditation

SGA: 15 Credits
SGG: 16 Credits
SGHC: 15 Credits
EACCME: 14 Credits

Course Directors

Jürg Schmidli
Prof. Dr.
Senior Consultant of the Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery
University Hospital of Bern,
Switzerland

Martin Czerny
Prof. Dr.
Medical Director of the Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery
University Hospital of Freiburg,
Germany

Andreas Martens
Prof. Dr.
Clinic Director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery
University Hospital of Oldenburg, Germany

Faculty

Pekka Aho
Dr.
Helsinki University Hospital, Finland

Luca Bertoglio
M.D.
University & ASST Spedali Civili of BrescIa, Italy

Roberto Chiesa
M.D.
Ospedale San Raffaele, Italy

Alessandro Della Corte
Prof.
University of Campania, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy

Martin Funovics
Prof. Dr.
Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Luca Di Marco
MD, PhD.
S.Orsola Hospital, University of Bologna, Italy

Julia Dumfarth
Ass.Prof. PD Dr.
Medical University Innsbruck, Austria

Evaldas Girdauskas
Prof. Dr.
Augsburg University Hospital, Germany

Ryan Gouveia e Melo
Dr.
Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte, Portugal

Alessandro Grandi
Dr.
University & ASST Spedali Civili Brescia, Italy

Sven Hauck
Dr.
Medical University of Vienna, Austria

Selim Mosbahi
Dr.
University of Bern, Switzerland

Hansjörg Jenni

University Hospital Bern, Switzerland

Adrian Huber
Prof.
Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, Switzerland

Michael Jenkins
Prof.
Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Maximilian Kreibich
M.D.
Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Germany

Foeke Nauta
Dr.
Radboudumc, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Mario Lescan
M.D.
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Germany

Davide Pacini
Prof.
University of Bologna, Italy

Gabriele Piffaretti
MD, Ph.D.
University of Insubria School of Medicine, Varese, Italy

Eduard Quintana
MD PhD
Hospital Clínica Barcelona. University of Barcelona, Spain

Bartosz Rylski
Prof. Dr.
Robert Bosch Krankenhaus Stuttgart, Germany

Florian Schoenhoff
Prof.
University Hospital Bern, Switzerland

Roland Siegwart
Prof. Dr.
ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Matthias Siepe
Prof.
University Hospital Bern, Switzerland

Konstantinos Tsagakis
MD, PhD
University of Cologne, Germany

Thomas Wyss
Dr. Med.
Kantonsspital Winterthur, Switzerland

Andreina Carbone
Dr.
University Federico II, Naples, Italy

Stoyan Kondov
Prof.
University Hospital Freiburg, Germany

Drosos Kotelis
Prof. Dr.
Bern University Hospital, Switzerland

Maciej K. Kolowca
Dr.
Rzeszow University, Poland

Martin Grabenwöger
Prof. Dr.
Clinic Floridsdorf, Austria

Eren Karpuzoglu
Assoc. Prof.
Siyami Ersek Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Stefano Benussi
Prof.
Spedali Civili University Hospital Brescia, Italy

Murat Sargin
Assoc. Prof.
Siyami Ersek Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Best Abstracts

Luca Di Marco (Italy)
Jai Sule (Singapore)
Walid Elmahdy (UK)
Florian Huber (Austria)
Giuseppe Comentale (Italy)
Philipp Discher (Germany)
Alexandra Merino (Spain)
Gerardo Andres Dieguez Palacios (Spain/Remote)
Nesar Hasami (Netherlands)
Marwan Youssef (Germany)

Dr. Nikoleta Bozini (Germany)
Dr. Diego Soto (Italy)
Dr. Nikoleta Stanitsa (Greece)
Dr. Lukas Resemann (Austria)
Dr. Gustavo Fernandez Baca Garcia (Germany)
Dr. Fabian Hundertmark (Germany)
Dr. Laura Rings (Switzerland)
Dr. Julia Rogaczewski (Germany)
Dr. Mehmet Şanser Ateş (Turkey)
Dr. Philipp Szalkiewicz (Austria)
Dr. Davide Turchino (Italy)
Dr. Mélanie Frei (Switzerland)
Mrs. Nikoletta Bereczkyné Bánhidi (Hungary)
Dr. Nicole Piber (Germany)
Dr. Viktoria Pöll (Switzerland)
Dr. Tamas Donauer (Hungary)

Germano Melissano
Prof.
San Raffaele, Milano, Italy

Dirk Westermann
Prof.
UHZ Freiburg Bad Krozingen, Germany

Markus Krane
Prof. Dr. med.
Deutsches Herzzentrum München TUM Universitätsklinikum, Germany

Arminder Jassar
Dr.
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States

Aron-F. Popov
Prof. Dr.
Asklepios Clinic Hamburg-Harburg, Germany

Aung Oo
Prof.
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Marco Virgilio Usai
MD
St. Franziskus Hospital Münster, Germany

Nimrat Grewal
Ass. Prof.
Amsterdam University Medical Center, Netherlands

Joseph Kletzer
Dr. med. univ.
University Heartcenter Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Germany

Sabine Wipper
Prof. Dr.
Univ.-Klinik für Gefäßchirurgie Innsbruck, Austria

Petar Risteski
Dr.
University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland

Anil Z. Apaydin
Prof.
Ege University Hospital, Türkiye

Christian Etz
Prof. Dr.
Universitymedicine Rostock, Germany

Abstract Presenter

Young Faculty Committee

Maria Nucera (Switzerland)
Vincenzo Vento (Italy)
Mathias Van Hemelrijck (Switzerland)
Joseph Kletzer (Germany)
Mattia Migliari (Italy)
Claudia Marissa Aguirre Ramon (Spain)
Yojiro Koda (Japan)
Kazufumi Yoshida (Japan)

ePoster Presenter

Dr. Jessica Gottsberger (Austria)
Dr. Giuseppe Paone (Italy)
Dr. Robert Pruna-Guillen (Spain)
Dr. Florian Helms (Germany)
Dr. Anil Kumar Singh (India)
Dr. Massimiliano di Mauro (Switzerland)
Dr. Dorothee Bail (Germany)
Dr. Caroline Radner (Germany)
Dr. Isabelle Haas (Germany)
Dr. Armin Darius Peivandi (Germany)
Dr. Patryk Skórka (Poland)
Dr. Federica Lo Presti (Italy)
Dr. Marco Ferraresi (Italy)
Dr. Rares Eniu (Switzerland)
Dr. Paolo Berretta (Italy)
Dr. Michela Parise (Switzerland)