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Professor Jacob Tfelt-Hansen

Rigshospitalet - Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen (Denmark)

Member of:

European Heart Rythm Association

Jacob Tfelt-Hansen is Professor and Senior Consultant at the Department of Cardiology, The Heart Centre, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark and Department of Forensic Genetics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark He graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 1999, defended his doctoral dissertation in 2007 and is a board certified specialist in cardiology since 2012 with a sub specialization in sudden cardiac death, inherited heart diseases and intracardiac devices. He is a consultant cardiologist at the Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet. He is health representative in the EU, ERN network, for rare heart diseases Guard Heart. He is the national PI major multidisciplinary grant working with groups in London, Amsterdam, Milan, Paris, Oslo and Boston working towards an understanding the genetic and the mechanism and the epidemiology of sudden cardiac death and primary arrhythmias.

Revisiting risk stratification in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Event: EHRA 2024

Topic: Arrhythmias, General

Session type: Symposium

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How to use the genetics and genomics in sudden cardiac death risk prediction

Event: EHRA 2024

Topic: Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD)

Session type: Symposium

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Sudden cardiac death scenarios

Event: EHRA 2024

Topic: Clinical

Session type: Clinical Cases

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Meet the Gold Medallist – Arthur Wilde

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: Other

Session type: Special Session

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Sudden death in the family: how to deal with it

Event: EHRA 2023

Topic: Prevention

Session type: Case-Based Session

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Inherited cardiac disorders

Event: ESC Congress 2022

Topic: Pathophysiology and Mechanisms

Session type: Moderated ePosters

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2022 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and prevention of sudden cardiac death

Event: ESC Congress 2022

Topic: Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD)

Session type: New ESC Guidelines

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2022 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and prevention of sudden cardiac death – Meet the Guidelines Task Force

Event: ESC Congress 2022

Topic: Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD)

Session type: New ESC Guidelines

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Sudden death and beyond

Event: EHRA 2022

Topic: Arrhythmias, General

Session type: Abstract Sessions

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Risk calculators in arrhythmias: are they useful?

Event: EHRA 2022

Topic: Genetic Aspects of Arrhythmias

Session type: Guidelines in Practice

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