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Victor Aboyans, MD, PhD, FAHA, FESC
After his years of medical school at the University of Nice, Victor Aboyans has been graduated (MD) as cardiologist and vascular physician at the Limoges University in 1996.
He obtained a PhD degree in Public Health after a thesis on peripheral artery disease (PAD) epidemiology.
He prolonged his research work at the University of California, San Diego (2005-2006), under the mentorship of Pr. Michael Criqui.
He has been nominated as Full-Professor in Cardiology in 2011 and is the head of the Department of Cardiology at Limoges University Hospital since 2012. His clinical research is mostly oriented to the management of patients with PAD or polyvascular disease, and risk stratification through cardiac and vascular ultrasound markers. He authored more than 350 pubmed-referenced papers. He is currently a senior member of an INSERM-labelled research team oriented in the epidemiology in tropical countries. He chaired the AHA scientific statements on the Ankle-Brachial Index in 2012, the 2011 and 2017 ESC guidelines on PAD and the 2014 ESC guidelines on Aorta diseases. He chaired (2018-2020) the ESC working group of Aorta & Peripheral Vascular Diseases. He is the current scientific secretary of the French Society of Cardiology, andan elected board member of the ESC as Councillor

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Biography Teresa López-Fernández is a clinical investigator and senior consultant cardiologist at La Paz University Hospital in Madrid, Spain.
Dr. López-Fernández specializes in cardio-oncology and cardiac imaging (she is board certified in advanced and transesophageal echocardiography by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).
Dr. López-Fernández sets up and coordinates the cardio-oncology programme at La Paz University Hospital. Teresa co-chair the first ESC Guidelines on Cardio-oncology with Dr. Alexander Lyon.
She is the founder and chair of the Spanish Cardio-Oncology Working Group at the Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC).
She serves also as Vicepresident for International Cardio-Oncology Society (ICOS) and she is the ESC council of cardio-oncology chair-elected.
Dr. López-Fernández is also regularly invited to speak about cardio-oncology at both national and international conferences.
Her current research interests focus on cardiotoxicity diagnosis and preventive strategies.
Dr. López-Fernández has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.