Attila Kovacs has joined the Semmelweis University Heart and Vascular Center in 2009 as a student researcher, and his main field of interest was exercise physiology and cardiovascular imaging from the very beginning. He focused on the implementation of novel echocardiographic techniques (speckle-tracking echocardiography and 3D imaging) in the everyday clinical routine. His PhD degree was completed in 2015 by a thesis concerning the comparison of physiological and pathological LV hypertrophies. Beyond that, he has a strong background in experimental research as well. He is working now as assistant professor and echocardiography core lab leader with a team of medical doctors, sonographers, PhD fellows and student researchers. He is the lead developer of the ReVISION method, an award-winning 3D echo technique for a detailed characterization of RV mechanics. He is an active member and Fellow of the ESC, and he has also served as a Hungarian Young Ambassador of Heart Imagers of Tomorrow.
Equal significance of longitudinal and radial wall motion represents the normal right ventricular mechanical pattern: 3D echocardiographic study in 231 healthy volunteers
Event:
ESC Congress 2019
Topic:
3D Echocardiography
Session:
Right ventricular function from mechanics to prognosis
Impact of pulmonary pressures on the functional shift in right ventricular mechanics after mitral valve surgery: initial results of the PREPARE-MVR study
Event:
ESC Congress 2018
Topic:
3D Echocardiography
Session:
Echocardiographic assessment of the right heart
Characteristic changes of systolic and diastolic function in rat models of type 1 versus type 2 diabetes mellitus assessed by speckle-tracking echocardiography