Faculty

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Jean-Luc Vachiéry is Clinical Professor of Cardiology and Director of the Pulmonary Vascular Diseases and heart Failure Clinic at the Hôpital Erasme, academic hospital of the Free University of Brussels Belgium.

He received his board certification in Internal Medicine in 1992 and in Cardiology in 1995. Jean-Luc has authored several manuscripts on pulmonary vascular disorders (H-index 36) and is consulting senior editor for the Journal of heart and lung transplantation.

Jean-Luc has co-chaired the Pulmonary Hypertension Council at the International Heart and Lung Society (2002 – 2005), the Working Group on Pulmonary Circulation and Right Ventricular Function at the European Society of Cardiology (2006 – 2008) and the Working Group on Heart Failure at the Belgian Society of Cardiology (2008 – 2010). He was a Task Force member and section editor of the European Guidelines on pulmonary Hypertension (2009 and 2015). He is the current chair of the PH Council at the ISHLT (2018 – 2020).

Jean-Luc has also been involved in the World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension as task force member in 2003 (Transplantation and atrial septostomy), co-chair of the PH due to heart and lung diseases task force in 2013 and was chair of the Task Force on Pulmonary Hypertension due to left heart diseases in 2018.

He is member of the scientific steering committee of the World Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension Association. Jean-Luc’s center is also founding member of the European Reference Network (ERN) – Lung, Pulmonary Hypertension, where he is part of the Research and Guidelines subcommittee.  

Jean-Luc acts as expert for regulatory agencies and scientific organizations for matters related to medicines and care of pulmonary hypertension.

 

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