Jarosław Drożdż, a specialist in cardiology and internal medicine. Head of the Department Cardiology, Chair of Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Angiology Medical University Lodz. Former Chairman of the Working Group on Heart Failure and Informatics Committee, actually serve as a Chairman of the Educational Platform of the Polish Cardiac Society. He was a Steering Committee member for heart failure registry within EUROobservational Research Programme. Actively participate in two landmark NIH trials: STICH and ISCHEMIA, as well as many others: AFFIRM-AHF, DAPA-HF, His main interests include: echocardiography, heart failure, valve heart disease, chronic coronary syndromes, and disease of the aorta. He is a co-editor of four textbooks including „Grand Internal Medicine”, and 48 chapters. Co-author of over 200 papers indexed in PubMed with IF>250 and >3.500 citations, Hirsh Index= 22 (Scopus).