Associate Professor Otto Kamp

Associate Professor Otto Kamp

Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Amsterdam (Netherlands (The))

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Otto Kamp, MD, PhD, FESC, is staff member cardiologist and director of echocardiography laboratory at the Amsterdam UMC, location VU. He is member of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI). Furthermore, he is project leader of the Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences (ACS). He participated as principal investigator in multiple clinical trials, including CATS, PICTURE, DOS, PRIME-2, RACE, RACE 2, RACE 7, DESIRE, TIARA and ELANDD. Also, he is grader and reviewer of several scientific journals. Graduated from the Academic Hospital Dijkzigt in Rotterdam, he wrote his thesis in 1992 entitled: “Transesophageal Echocardiography in Mitral Regurgitation and Coronary Artery Disease” resulting in approx. 220 publications in the international literature (see Pubmed: o.kamp). Present research of the echo lab is focusing on 3-dimensional echocardiography, stress and contrast (myocardial perfusion) echocardiography and therapeutic ultrasound, in the setting of sonothrombolysis.