Guest Faculty

Dr. Khattab is currently holding the position of consultant cardiologist at Bern University Hospital – Switzerland and was appointed Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine. Before he moved to Switzerland last year, he was directing the cardiac catheterization laboratories at the Heart and Vascular Center Bad
Segeberg – Germany. He is leading clinical and research programs in the field of structural heart interventions, myocardial infarction and complex coronary interventions. Khattab completed his medical education at Ain Shams University Cairo – Egypt and gained his Masters degree and Medical Doctorate degree in Cardiology from the same University. Dr. Khattab is member of several international academic boards and serves as a consultant for several medical device companies.

Vice-president of the French Society of Cardiology, Professor of Cardiology at Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, and is a member of the Institut National de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM 633), Paris, France. He is involved in the clinical and experimental aspects of heart failure and cardiomyopathies, particularly concerning new therapeutic modalities, imaging and genetics. He was involved in the first experimental and clinical works concerning the use of cell therapy in myocardial diseases and recently became European Coordinator of a Transatlantic Leducq Network devoted to mitral valve diseases, particularly in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
He has more than one hundred international publications concerning genetics, cardiomyopathies and new therapies for heart failure.

Graduated in Medicine at Oviedo school of medicine, Director of the University Hospital Central de Asturias, Tutor in postgraduate training of cardiology at the Hospital Central de Asturias, Vicepresident of the teaching comision at the Hospital Central de Asturias President of the Asturiana Society of Cardiology 1995-1997 President of the Haemodinamic and interventional cardiology group of the Spanish Society of Cardiology 1997-2000, Member of the editorial board of the journal of the Spanish society of cardiology.1997 Member of the regional ethics and clinical investigation committee of the Principado de Asturias. 1999

Senior consultant, Department of Cardiology, Georges Pompidou Hospital 2002-ongoing: Head, Interventional Cardiovascular Unit, European Hospital Georges Pompidou, Paris 2000- ongoing: Head, Department of Regulation for Implantable Devices, European Hospital Georges Pompidou, Paris 2004-ongoing: Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology 2004-ongoing: Member of the EAPCI - European Association for Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions
Chairman of the French national database on interventional cardiology

Medecin adjoint agrégé University Hospital of Geneva and University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland, Director interventional cardiology. University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland. (Prof P. Delafontaine 1998-2000; Prof U. Sigwart 2002-2006) Dr med, University of Lausanne 1992 Visiting Professor, Thomas Jefferson University of Philadelphia USA1999 Diploma of European Cardiologist Privat Docent (associated professor) of the University of Geneva 2004

Is interventional cardiologist, professor of cardiovascular medicine at Aarhus University and codirector of Department of Interventional Cardiology at Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark. President of the Danish Society of Cardiology and board member of EBAC. Clinical education and research career at Odense and Aarhus University Hospitals and University of Texas HoustonMedical School, Houston, TX. He has published 140 papers in international per-review journals mainly within cardio protection, myocardial metabolism and interventional cardiology. Author of ten book chapters in international textbooks of cardiology and internal medicine.

Graduated (M.D.) from the School of Medicine of the University of Paris PhD in Cardiovascular Physiology obtained at the Faculty of Sciences Of the University of Paris-Orsay, Professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Advisor to the Minister of Health on stem cells (2005-2007), Member of the National Council of the Universities, Member of The French Society of Cardiology, Member of the Council of Cardio-thoracic and Vascular Surgery of the American Heart Association.