Cancelled : Ethical Dilemmas in Medical Research

**** Unfortunately this event has been cancelled****

FREE UNIVERSITY
FOR THE DIASPORA OF LONDON
17th Cycle of Lectures 24.10.2017 – 14.05.2020

Organised by the Greek Cypriot Brotherhood in collaboration with the University of Cyprus

We are pleased to invite you to the very interesting lecture of the 17th round of lectures by the Free University of London on the topic of:

“Ethical Dilemmas in Medical Research” by Professor Gerasimos Filippatos 

Professor Gerasimos Filippatos studied Medicine at the University of Patras, GR, and earned his doctorate Cum Laude from the University of Athens. He subsequently completed his clinical training in Chicago, USA; and Cambridge, UK. He has been elected Professor of Cardiology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Prof Filippatos is past President of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). He has served as Chair of the Clinical Section and the Committee on Acute Heart Failure of the HFA, and as Chair of the ESC’s Working Group on Acute Cardiac Care. He was also member of the ESC Practice Guidelines Committee and American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association HF Guidelines Writing Committee, and International Governor of the American College of Chest Physicians.

Dr. Filippatos is Associate Editor of the European Heart Journal and Senior Consulting Editor of JACC-HF. He has published over 450 articles in peer-reviewed journals and authored more than 30 book chapters including the “Acute Heart Failure” chapter in Braunwald’s and Oxford Desc Reference: Cardiology. Moreover, he has (co) edited 5 books including the ESC Textbook of Acute and Intensive Cardiac Care, Highly Commended in the 2011 British Medical Association Medical Book Awards; in 2014 presented the book Heart Failure: The Expert’s Approach and in 2016 the pocket book: Treatment Algorithms in Heart Failure.Prof. Filippatos is in the Thomson Reuters list of Highly Cited Researchers.

Honorary Member of many Cardiac Societies: ie French Cardiac Society, Romanian Cardiac Society,Hungarian Cardiac Society.

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