Tienush Rassaf is a Professor of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Vascular Medicine. He serves as the Department Head and Chair of the Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine and the Medical Director of the West German Heart and Vascular Center, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany. He obtained his MD at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf in 2000. After completing his residency and attending the Department of Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases, Vascular Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine, RWTH Aachen, the Division of Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases, Vascular Medicine at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, he joined the Division of Cardiology, Pulmonary Diseases, Vascular Medicine at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf in 2013 as Vice-Director. After his postdoctoral research fellowships in Düsseldorf, Louisiana, and Aachen, he served as the leader of the CardioBioTech Research group of the Department of Cardiology, Pulmonary Pulmonary Diseases, Vascular Medicine at RWTH Aachen. In 2010, he became a Heisenberg professor of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. Since 2016, he has been the Department Head and Chair of the Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine and Medical Director of the West German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University Duisburg-Essen. He focuses on interventional cardiology with a focus on coronary interventions, interventional valve therapy, and structural heart disease.
Ingo Eitel is a Cardiologist at the University of Lübeck, Heart Center, Lübeck, Germany. His research interests include myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, atherosclerosis, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and catheterization. His scientific output includes 396 publications, corresponding to 19063 citations (h-index 62) (Scopus, 1 December 2023).
Hans-Josef Feistritzer is a Cardiologist at the Department of Cardiology, Heart Center Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. His research interests include acute coronary syndromes, cardiogenic shock, aortic stenosis, and cardiac imaging. His scientific output includes 79 publications, corresponding to 1463 citations (h-index 22) (Scopus, 6 December 2023).
Holger Thiele is the Medical Director of the Department of Internal Medicine/Cardiology at the Heart Center Leipzig at the University of Leipzig, which is one of the largest heart centers in Europe. He is a full professor of cardiology at the University of Leipzig. He is also the president-elect of the German Cardiac Society. His main research interests are acute myocardial infarction, acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock, mechanical circulatory support, acute cardiovascular care, interventional cardiology, and structural heart disease. He has published over 750 articles in international scientific journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, JAMA, Circulation, JACC, and the European Heart Journal with a cumulative impact factor of >7400, h-index 109. He has received multiple awards from the German Society of Cardiology and other organizations.
