Janina Stepinska MD, PhD, FESC

Professor Jenina Stepinska is a Professor, and former Head of Department (1980-2019), in the Intensive Cardiac Therapy Department at the National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland. She was also Head of the Valvular Heart Department at the same institution between 2003 and 2010. Professor Stepinska's main areas of interest and expertise include intensive cardiac care, acute coronary syndrome, acute heart failure, anticoagulation, antiplatelet, antithrombotic therapy, valvular heart diseases, and infective endocarditis.

Jenina has played an active role in the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) since becoming a Fellow in 2000. She was an ESC Nominating Committee member from 2018-2020, an ESC Acute Cardiac Care Association Board Member from 2014–2018 and a member of the Congress Programme Committee (CPC) for the ESC Congress in 2017 & 2018. In addition, Professor Stepinska was a member of the nucleus of the WG Valvular Heart Disease (2006-2012) and a SACC ESC reviewer for the accreditation of Educational Programmes in Cardiology.

Jenina's other current positions include Chair of the Scientific Board at the Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw since 2017 and member of the Scientific Board at the National Institute of Cardiology in Warsaw since 2000. In addition, she has been the Chair of the Steering Committee of the Strategic Programme of the National Centre for Research and Development –STRATEGIES: "Prevention practices and treatment of civilization diseases” since 2016.

Jenina has published extensively in the field of Cardiology, having authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers. Professor Stepinska is also a co-author of the ESC Guidelines on the management of Valvular heart disease (2012) and Guidelines on Acute and Chronic Heart Failure (2012). She has also been a reviewer of the Guidelines on Management of Atrial Fibrillation (2010) and Management of Valvular Heart Diseases (2016), as well as the Guidelines for preoperative cardiac risk assessment and perioperative cardiac management in non-cardiac surgery.