Board of Directors

Executive Committee

2025-2027

President

Dirk Blom

MBChB, MMed, FCP (SA), PhD

President-Elect

Samia Mora

MD, MHS, FACC

Secretary

Viviane Zorzanelli Rocha Giraldez

MD

Treasurer

Jessica M. Peña

MD, MPH, FACC, FNLA

Immediate Past President

Peter Libby

MD

Elected Members at Large

2025-2027

Iraq

Mutaz Al-Khnifsawi

MSc

Saudi Arabia

Fahad Alnouri

MD, MSc, FESC, FACC

Australia

Christina Bursill

PhD

Germany

Ioanna Gouni-Berthold

MD

China

Jianjun Li

MD, PhD, FESC, FACC

Dominican Republic

Maxima Mendez

MD

Italy

Manfredi Rizzo

MD, PhD

India

Banshi Saboo

MBBS, MD, MSc, PhD

Japan

Shizuya Yamashita

MD, PhD, FAHA, FJCC

Appointed Members at Large

2025-2027

Lebanon

Marianne Abi Fadel

PharmD, PhD, HDR

United Arab Emirates

Wael Almahmeed

MD, FRCPC

Oman

Khalid Al-Rasadi

BSc, MD

France

M. John Chapman

BSc (Hons), PhD, DSc, EFESC

Chile

Ada Cuevas

MD, MSc, FNLA

Brazil

Maria Cristina Izar

MD, PhD, FESC, FACC

Brazil

Raul D. Santos

MD, PhD, MSc

Pakistan

Salim Virani

MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FASPC

Regional Federation Chairs

2025-2027

Chair, Africa & Middle East

Nasreen Alsayed

MD, FACE, FACP

Chair, Americas

Rodrigo Alonso

MD, PhD

Chair, Asia-Pacific

Brian Tomlinson

MD, FRCP, FHKAM

Chair, Europe

Michal Vrablík

MD, PhD

Past Presidents

2022-2024

Peter Libby

MD

2019-2021

Raul D. Santos

MD, PhD, MSc

2016-2018

Yuji Matsuzawa

MD, PhD

2013-2015

Philip Barter

MBBS, PhD, FRACP

2010-2012

W. Virgil Brown

MD

2007-2009

Jean-Charles Fruchart

PharmD, PhD

2004-2006

Scott M. Grundy

MD, PhD

2000-2003

Heiner Greten

MD

1997-1999

Rodolfo Paoletti

MD, PhD

1985-1996

Antonio M. Gotto, Jr.

MD, DPhil

1978-1984

Gotthard Schettler

MD, PhD

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