MD, PhD Anna Vachulova, cardiologist, arrhythmia and heart failure specialist completed her medical degree and PhD. studies at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. She continued her training in Bratislava; in the Dept of Anesthesiology at Slovak National Institute of CVD, in the Dept of Internal Medicine University Hospital, at the Comenius University, in the Dept Arrhythmia and Pacemaker Implantation, and currently in the Dept of Heart failure and HTX at the Slovak National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases. She completed her specialist training in Internal Medicine and later in Cardiology at Slovak Medical University, Bratislava. Between 2013 and 2015 she attended specialist training in heart failure and graduated with a Certificate of Advanced Studies at the University of Zurich in Heart Failure - in collaboration with the ESC, and the HFA. She has a special interest in arrhythmias, especially AF, anticoagulation treatment, LAAO, heart failure, arterial hypertension.