
Professor Helmut Puererfellner
Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen, Linz (Austria)
Membership:
FESC Member
EHRA Member
Biography
HELMUT PÜRERFELLNER, MD, Prof., FESC, FEHRA, FHRS, is head of the Department of Electrophysiology and Senior Consultant at Ordensklinikum Linz, Austria. He is a cardiologist with a main scientific interest in Clinical Electrophysiology and Ablation. He has been actively working for the Austrian Working Group of Arrhythmias and the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) since 2011. Prof. Pürerfellner is currently EHRA President from 2024-2026.
Education:
2011 Academic Professor of Medicine
2005 Academic Assoc. Professor of the University of Graz
1999 Head of Department of Clinical Electrophysiology at Ordensklinikum Linz Elisabethinen
1996 Senior Physician in Cardiology
1994 Training in Clinical Cardiology
1990 Fellowship for Clinical Electrophysiology at the Univ.-Klinik Münster/Germany
1987 Medical School of the University of Vienna
Science: Prof. Pürerfellner has 149 items in the PubMed (National Library of Medicine) as of July 2024
Contributor content
Session
The EU Cardiovascular Health Plan: implications for practice, research, and education in electrophysiology
13 April 2026
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EHRA honorary lectures
13 April 2026
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EHRA General Assembly
13 April 2026
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Pulsed Field Ablation for the Interventional Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation: A Scientific Statement of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) of the ESC, the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS), and the Canadian Heart Rhythm Society (CHRS)
12 April 2026
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Inaugural session
12 April 2026
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Catheter-based left atrial appendage occlusion
20 February 2026
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Pacemakers and beyond
1 September 2025
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Late-Breaking Clinical Trials: atrial fibrillation ablation and rhythm control
1 September 2025
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ESC Paul Hugenholtz Lecture in Innovation
1 September 2025
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Clinical Case Management: ventricular arrhythmias after myocardial infarction - patient-tailored treatment
31 August 2025

