ESC 365 - Doctor Stavros Drakos

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Doctor Stavros Drakos

University of Utah, Salt Lake City (United States of America)

Member of:

Heart Failure Association

Dr. Drakos is a Professor of Cardiology at the Univ. of Utah Healthcare & Medical School, Medical Director Cardiac Mechanical Support Program, Co-Chief Heart Failure & Transplant and Director of Cardiovascular Research for the Division of Cardiology. Dr. Drakos is licensed to practice medicine both in the US and the EU. He currently receives patient referrals and consultations from a twelve-state region in the West United States and beyond. He has published original scientific work generated both in the clinical arena and in his lab which led to the establishment of the award-winning Utah Cardiac Recovery Program (UCAR). Dr. Drakos is also co-chairing the NIH/NHLBI Working Group on Cardiac Recovery and the Annual International Utah Cardiac Recovery Symposium (UCARS). He is a regular visiting professor in several medical centers/medical schools worldwide. He and his mentees have received over the years extensive extramural research funding and competitive scientific medical awards.

Cardiac reverse remodeling and recovery in dilated cardiomyopathy medication-naive patients requiring durable left ventricular assist device support

Event: ESC Congress 2019

Topic: Ventricular Assist Devices

Session: Stage D heart failure

Predicting cardiac recovery before durable left ventricular assist device implantation in advanced heart failure patients

Event: ESC Congress 2019

Topic: Ventricular Assist Devices

Session: Heart failure: prognosis, outcome

Myocardial recovery: update 2019

Event: Heart Failure 2019

Topic: Gene Therapy, Cell Therapy

Session: Cardiac repair therapies

“Shock Team” approach and other new ideas in managing cardiogenic shock

Event: ESC Congress 2018

Topic: Cardiogenic Shock

Session: Expert Advice - Cardiogenic shock during an ICU night shift – preparing for the worst to get the best

Mechanical circulatory support: indications and outcomes

Event: ESC Congress 2018

Topic: Acute Heart Failure

Session: Advanced heart failure - Best advice to treat critically ill patients

Will we use VADs to recover the failing heart in the future?

Event: ESC Congress 2017

Topic: AHF - Drug treatment

Session: The future therapy of heart failure: shall we find the answers in the crystal ball?

Predicting myocardial recovery in MCS patients: what have we learned?

Event: HEART FAILURE 2016

Topic: Devices / Artificial heart / CRT / ICD

Session: Advanced heart failure therapies as a bridge to transplantation

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