Social Media Ambassadors

Dr. F. Aaysha Cader is cardiologist with an interest in interventional cardiology and complex coronary interventions at the Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital & Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has research interests in acute coronary syndromes and outcomes, sex disparities in cardiovascular disease and coronary intervention, and as awarded an ESC educational grant from the European Heart Academy for the MSc in Clinical Trials at the University of Oxford. An advocate for medical education via social media, she also enjoys medical blogging, occasionally writes for the lay press, and was formerly an American Heart Association Early (AHA) Career Blogger (2019-2021). She serves as an Associate Editor for European Heart Journal Case Reports, Postgraduate Medical Journal and BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, and is Assistant Editor of the Ibrahim Cardiac Medical Journal. Dr Cader is a World Heart Federation Emerging Leader and serves on the AHA’s CLCD Leadership Committee, the QCOR Early Career Committee and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention (SCAI)’s Women in Innovations Committee.

Dr. Chun-Yuan Chu is currently working as an Interventional Cardiologist at Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Taiwan for more than 10 years, and as Associate Secretary General of Taiwan Society of Cardiovascular Intervention. His expertise is in coronary and peripheral intervention including antegrade & retrograde recanalization of coronary CTO, CHIP/Complex PCI, Rotablation, using coronary image modalities, carotid stenting, and balloon pulmonary angioplasty for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Dr. Chu also specializes in renal sympathetic denervation and in adult structure heart intervention including TAVI, PTMC and percutaneous LAA/ASD/PFO closure. Beyond above interventions, he is known as a member of the Pulmonary Hypertension and Circulation Committee of Taiwan Society of Cardiology and participates the development of clinical guidelines in the management of Pulmonary Artery Hypertension in Taiwan.

Dr. Reem Hasan received her medical degree in Aleppo, Syria in 2005 as MMBS, and joined General Internal Medicine residency in Aleppo University Hospital for 4 years. She worked as a medical specialist from 2010 to 2018 in Saudi Arabia, then joined Adult Cardiology Fellowship Program in Saud Al-Babtain Cardiac Center until 2021 and was certified as adult cardiology Associate Consultant.
Currently she practices general cardiology in Saud Al-Babtain Cardiac Center in noninvasive departments. She is interested in Echocardiography and Cardiac Imaging, planning to complete subspecialty in the future.

Dr. Meral Kayikcioglu is Professor of Cardiology at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey. She is working as a general cardiology consultant and Lipid and Prevention specialist at Ege University Medical School. She is running Lipid out-patient Clinic since 1996, Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic since 2008, and the Young MI Clinic since 2005. She is working as a National CVD Prevention Coordinator of Turkey for EAPC. She is the deputy ambassador of MENA and India Regions of ESC. She is also a member of both the ESC-EORP Oversight Committee and the ESC Global Affairs Committee. She is also a social media ambassador of EAS and Associate Editor of Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology. Her research field includes atherosclerosis, prevention, lipids, familial hypercholesterolemia, premature myocardial infarction, cardiovascular involvement in rare disease, and pulmonary hypertension. For research, she is chairing several national registries including familial hypercholesterolemia (A-HIT 1 and A-HIT 2), a registry of premature myocardial infarction in Turkey (A-HIT 3), ARTEMIS (registry of peri-partum CMP), and TURK-MI (a 15-day snapshot registry of AMI).

Dr. Yongcheol Kim is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Yongin Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Yongin, Korea. He has been in Great Britain as a research fellow for 18 months in Bristol Heart Institute / Bristol Royal Infirmary. Coming back to Korea, actively researching in the field of acute myocardial infarction, he has published more than 40 papers in international journals as the first or corresponding author. With his outstanding works, he has received Best Abstract Award and Best Case Award in TCTAP 2018. He recently achieved FESC; Fellow of European Society of Cardiology, FACC; Fellow of American College of Cardiology, FAPSC; Fellow of Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology. It has great significance in that he is the very first Korean cardiologist to achieve FAPSC.

Dr. Niya Mileva is a young cardiologist currently working in Alexandrovska University Hospital in Sofia, Bulgaria. With nearly 6 years’ experience in cardiology, she has developed interest and gained experience in the field of non-invasive cardiovascular imaging, working with echocardiography, cardiac computed tomography, and cardiac magnetic resonance. She had the remarkable opportunity to train in one of the biggest and most experienced research and clinical centers in Europe - the Cardiovascular center OLV in Aalst, Belgium. During the fellowship there she gained valuable knowledge in coronary physiology and coronary microvascular disease. She has a particular interest in research and is currently in a PhD program in Medical University of Sofia. She believes that nowadays social media plays a unique role in the educational process, in improving multidisciplinary communication and sharing knowledge.

Dr. Erik Rafflenbeul is a consultant interventional cardiologist and head of cathlab at Schoen Clinic Hamburg Eilbek, Hamburg, Germany. He is passionate about Complex and High-risk Coronary Interventions (CHIP) and all fields of interventional cardiology especially access routes like radialfirst, snuffbox and dTRA. He is a voted nucleus member of the working group for interventional cardiology (German Society of Cardiology) and he an active Social Media editor for ESC Journals.
Teaching young fellows and colleagues who are passionate about cardiology is one of his main goals in daily practice.

Dr. Hany Ragy, graduated in Cairo in 1980, trained in USA, Holland, and Germany. He was an ex-head of Cardiology Department at Egypt’s largest cardiology hospital the National Heart Institute. He is a high-volume interventional cardiologist in both coronary interventions and mitral balloon Valvuloplasty, including invasive and non-invasive imaging and physiology. In addition, he recently shifted his interest to prevention and combatting NCD’s and help leading the NGO efforts in Egypt. He has featured in numerous publications and currently active on social media.

Dr. Amit Singh is currently a cardiology fellow at the King Edward Memorial University Hospital in India. His interests are CHIP (Complex, High risk Indicated PCIs) and Transcather valve therapies. He intends to advance his learning and pursue an interventional cardiology fellowship in the future. He has been actively associated with SummitMD CVRF. He believes that serving as a social media ambassador for CVRF meetings has enhanced his learning by dissipating valuable insights to other fellows on social platforms, helping engage & build meaningful relationships with the giants and stalwarts in the field. He aspires to further his learning at Asan Medical Center.

Dr. Vo is an Interventional cardiologist and a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), a member of The Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) and a member of The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) after obtaining his medical degree from The University of Melbourne. He completed his cardiology training at various Australian teaching hospitals; Royal North Shore Hospital, Ryde Hospital, Launceston General Hospital (LGH) and Royal Darwin Hospital. He completed his Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at the Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland, Australia. During his time as a trainee, he was involved in approximately 4,000 procedures in not only coronary work with complex higher risk and indicated patients (CHIP) including left main stenting, graft and bifurcation stenting, primary PCI, CTO, rotablation, coronary physiology and imaging, and also engaged in structural training as well with TAVI, BAV and PFO/ASD closures. He believes in sowing back to the younger generations of medical students, junior medical officers and cardiology trainees (and nurses) and enjoys teaching both at the bedside and within the cath lab.