Doctor Emel Kaplan
University Hospital Basel, Basel (Switzerland)
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FESC Member
Biography
Dr Emel (Eliza) Kaplan, MD, PhD, FESC, is an attending cardiologist at University Hospital Basel and co-leads the Women’s Heart Health Program in Basel (since 2024). She is a senior clinical researcher at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel and has a background in interventional cardiology. She received her MD from Radboud University (the Netherlands) and conducted her doctoral research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston (Harvard Medical School). Her clinical and research focus is sex- and gender-specific cardiovascular medicine, particularly INOCA/MINOCA, coronary microvascular dysfunction, and syncope risk stratification and prognosis, including biomarker-based diagnostics. She co-leads the BRAVE brain–heart microvascular project and is a founding member of the Swiss Women’s Heart Board.
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From benign to significant: adverse outcomes in patients with first degree AV block and syncope
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False-positive cardiac troponin I values in healthy athletes post COVID-19 Infection: concerning insights from a prospective cohort study
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