Professor Bogdan Alexandru Popescu

Bogdan A. Popescu is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila" in Bucharest, Romania. He is head of the Cardiology Department and director of the echocardiography laboratory at the Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Disease "Prof. C. C. Iliescu" in Bucharest. He published more than 200 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals having a Hirsch index of 50, and published more than 25 book chapters and books in cardiology and cardiac imaging. His main fields of research interest are on myocardial function/heart failure, valvular heart disease and cardiomyopathies. He has been an invited lecturer at major congresses in Europe, USA, Canada, Asia, Australia, South America. He is Past-President of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (2016-2018) and President of the Romanian Society of Cardiology (2020-2023). He is also Chair of the EORP Committee of the ESC and served as a Board member of the ESC (2016-2018, 2020-2022).