Gerasimos Filippatos MD, DrHC, FESC, FHFA, FHFSA

Professor Gerasimos Filippatos, MD, DrHC, FESC, FHFA, FHFSA (hc) is Chair of the Department of Cardiology and the Director of the Heart Failure and Cardiology Units at Athens University Hospital Attikon, Greece. He studied at the University of Patras, GR, and earned his doctorate in Cardiology and CV physiology cum laude from the University of Athens. He subsequently completed his clinical training in internal medicine, cardiology, critical care, heart failure, and transplantation in Athens GR, Chicago USA; and Cambridge UK.

Dr. Filippatos is the Past President of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology. He has served as Chair of the Clinical Section and the Committee on Acute Heart Failure of the HFA, and as Chair of the ESC’s Working Group on Acute Cardiac Care. He was also the Coordinator of the ESC Congress Programme Committee for Heart Failure and Acute Cardiac Care, a member of the ESC Practice Guidelines Committee and ACC/AHA Heart Failure Guidelines Writing Committee, and an International Governor of the American College of Chest Physicians.

Dr. Filippatos is Senior Consulting Editor for JACC-HF and was Associate Editor of the International Journal of Cardiology and European Heart Journal. He is a member of the Editorial Board and Guest Editor of many Cardiology and Critical Care Journals. He has published over 600 articles in peer-reviewed journals and authored more than 30 book chapters including the “Acute Heart Failure” chapter in Braunwald’s 2011 edition and Oxford Desc Reference: Cardiology.