Dr. Frederik de Lange is a cardiologist with special interests in cardiac devices and diagnosing / treating patients with syncope. After his MD PhD on the cardiac conducting system he did his specialization in the Amsterdam UMC, AMC. He is now head of the outpatient clinic of the Amsterdam UMC Heart Centre and the managing cardiologist of the Syncope Unit in the AMC. This is a tertiary outpatient clinic facility which is part of the cardiology department. He was involved as a Taskforce member writing the new 2018 ESC Guidelines on Syncope. His main research project at the moment is the Fainting Assessment Study (FAST), a research project that comprises the clinical benefit a tertiary syncope unit as described in the EHRA position paper. Full name of the institution: The Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC) Current title: MD PhD