ESC 365 - Professor Julie De Backer

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Professor Julie De Backer

University Hospital Ghent, Gent (Belgium)

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Julie De Backer, MD, PhD, FESC, is a genetic cardiologist at Ghent University Hospital, Belgium. She heads the Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) clinic and coordinates interdisciplinary programs for ACHD & Heritable Thoracic Aortic Disease (HTAD) patients, with a focus on patient centered care. She is appointed full professor at the Ghent University. Her translational research focuses on in-depth cardiovascular profiling in Marfan syndrome and HTAD, exploring geno/phenotype relationships. Julie De Backer and her team employ genetic animal models in search for novel treatment targets. She is an active member of VASCERN, ESC's Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Disease Working Group, and the Montalcino Aortic Consortium. She co-chaired the 2020 ESC ACHD guidelines and chairs the 2025 ESC pregnancy guidelines. Explore her scientific publications here: https://biblio.ugent.be/person/801001584995

Sessions Presentations Events Articles Podcasts

Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (CCTGA): what are the treatment challenges?

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: Treatment

Session type: Symposium

A new dimension in prevention of aortic events: reading the future by imaging and through peripheral blood

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: Diagnostic Methods

Session type: Abstract Sessions

Cardiology Toolbox: Managing heart disease in pregnancy

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: Cardiovascular Disease in Special Populations

Session type: Special Session

Of machines and molecules and how they will improve care in congenital heart disease

Event: ESC Congress 2022

Topic: Congenital Heart Disease and Paediatric Cardiology

Session type: Moderated ePosters

Guidelines in Practice: management of atrial septal defect with pulmonary hypertension

Event: ESC Congress 2021 - The Digital Experience

Topic: Congenital Heart Disease and Paediatric Cardiology

Session type: Guidelines in Practice

Congress committee e-posters choice in valvular

Event: ESC Congress 2021 - The Digital Experience

Topic: Valvular Heart Disease

Session type: Congress Committee e-posters Choice

2020 ESC Guidelines on Adult Congenital Heart Disease - Live

Event: ESC Congress 2020

Topic: Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD)

Session type: New ESC Guidelines

Differences in the management and outcomes in congenital versus acquired heart disease

Event: ESC Congress 2019

Topic: Clinical

Session type: Advances in Science

Knowledge gaps in left ventricular outflow tract obstruction

Event: ESC Congress 2018

Topic: Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD)

Session type: Symposium

Pregnancy and cardiovascular disease

Event: ESC Congress 2018

Topic: Pregnancy and Cardiovascular Disease

Session type: HowTo

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