New Insights in LAAC Imaging: WATCHMAN TruPlan

Sergio Berti serves as Director of the Cardiovascular Department at Fondazione Toscana Monasterio, Italy. He focusses on percutaneous interventional treatment of structural heart diseases. Previously, he has served as a Full Professor at the School of Cardiology of University of Florence, and as President of the Tuscan Italian Society of Interventional Cardiology. Dr Berti specialises in cardiology, radiology and nuclear medicine. He is widely published in leading peer-reviewed international journals. Dr Berti has served as Principal Investigator and on the steering committees of several leading drug and device-based clinical trials.

Xavier Iriart is Head of Non-invasive Imaging at the Department of Paediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiology at the University Hospital of Bordeaux, France. Dr Iriart focusses on congenital and structural heart disease interventions, including on the LAA percutaneous programme and the percutaneous paravalvular leak closure programme, where his expertise includes 3D transoesophagial guiding. Dr Iniart is widely published in leading international journals on a range of subjects including cardiac computer tomography and left atrial appendage occlusion.

Dr. Millán obtained his Degree in Medicine in 2006 and completed his cardiology residency at the Vall Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona. He later completed a 3-year fellowship in Cardiac Intervention, divided into a first year at the Hospital de la Santa Creu y Sant Pau (Barcelona) and 2 years at the Montreal Heart Institute (Quebec, Canada) through scholarships obtained from the Fundación Martínez- Escudero and Erasmus Mundus Novadomus. Simultaneously, he obtained the Diploma in Statistics Applied to Research in Health Sciences, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

He obtained the title of Doctor Cum Laude for a thesis focused on the percutaneous treatment of paravalvular leaks (UAB, 2018) and his scientific activity has led to the publication of more than 40 scientific articles and multiple communications at national and international conferences.

Carsten Skurk works at the Division of Cardiology at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany. Prof Skurk is an interventional cardiologist, whose interests include complex interventions, mechanical circulatory support, cardiogenic shock and structural interventions, particularly LAAC. He is widely published and has lectured internationally at leading scientific meetings.

Jens Erik Nielsen Kudsk is a Professor of Cardiology and Head of Structural Heart Interventions at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. He has many clinical areas of interest, including structure heart (LAAC). Prof Nielsen Kudsk is widely published and has lectured internationally, including at leading congresses and events.