Attila Borbély graduated from the University of Debrecen, in 2002 and received his PhD in 2005. He was a Marie Curie Fellow at VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam from 2003–2004 and held an ESC HFA Basic Research Fellowship (2008–2010) on HFpEF cellular pathophysiology. He became a cardiologist in 2010, an invasive cardiologist in 2015, and a heart failure specialist in 2021, endorsed by the British Society for Heart Failure. Currently, Dr. Borbély is a staff cardiologist at the Institute of Cardiology, Debrecen. He established the Heart Failure Outpatient Clinic in 2016 and coordinates patient evaluation for heart transplantation/LVAD regionally. He is the past president and currently the international coordinator of the Working Group on Heart Failure and Myocardial Diseases of the Hungarian Society of Cardiology, the national coordinator of the GRASP-HF registry, and the founder of the Hungarian Heart Failure Nurse Training Program.
