• President-elect Heart failure Association of the ESC
• Corresponding member of Serbian Academy of Sciencies and Arts
• Head, Heart failure Department, University Medical Center Belgrade
• Chair of internal medicine, Belgrade University School of Medicine
• President, Heart Failure Society of Serbia

• 1996-Professor, Belgrade University School of Medicine
• 1994-Head, Cardiology II, Dept. of Cardiology, University Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases, Belgrade, Serbian and Montenegro
• 1994-Expert for Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases, Fed. Ministry of Science
• 1992-Associate Professor, Belgrade University School of Medicine
• 1992-94-Head, Outpatient Department of Invasive & Interventional Cardiology,  University Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases, Belgrade, FRY
• 1989- Assistant Professor, Belgrade University School of Medicine (reelected)

• 1981 - M.Sc.
• 1982 - Specialist in Internal Medicine
• 1984 - Subspecialist in Cardiology
• 1990 - Ph.D.

• President-elect Heart failure Association of the ESC
• Member of the HFA Board
• Member of the Executive Committee of HFA Board
• Task Force in charge of Guidelines “Management of Pericardial Diseases”
• Task Force in charge of Guidelines “Management of Acute and chronic heart failure”
• Task Force in charge of Guidelines “Diabetes and cardiovascular disease”

• Member, Task Force Myocardial revascularization Guidelines 2018
• Member, Task Force Diabetes and Cardiovascular disease Guidelines 2013
• Scientific Chairperson, Heart Failure Association Annual Meeting 2012
• Chairman, Committee on Heart failure National Societies (Heart failure Association of ESC) (2010-)
• Member, Task Force Heart Failure Guidelines 2012
• Member, Task Force on Pericardial Disease and Interventional pericardiology (2010-2012)
• Member, Task Force Peripartum Cardiomyopathy 2010

• N/A

• Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology 
• Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
• Honorary member, Cardiac Promotion Society, Marburg, Germany (2002-)
• Member, Scientific Abstract Review Committee and Advisory Board
• President Elect, Society of Cardiology of Serbia and Montenegro (2004-2006)
• President, Serbian Heart Association (2001-2002)
• Member, European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Task Force in charge of the Guidelines on the Management of Pericardial Diseases (2001-2004)
• Member of the Nucleus, ESC WG for on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases (2001-07)
• Chairman of the WG for Pericardial, Myocardial Diseases, and Pulmonary Circulation, Cardiology Society of Serbia
• Member of the Scientific Council on Cardiomyopathies, World Heart Federation (1987-)
• Honorary member, Cardiology Association of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2016-)
• Honorary member,  Association of cardiologists of Kazahstan (2016-)
• Honorary member, Society of cardiology of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2014-)

• Member, Scientific Executive Committee, International Academy of Cardiology
• Member, Scientific Executive Committee, 1st International Congress on Heart Disease – New Trends in Research, Diagnosis and Treatment, Washington, DC, USA, May 16-19, 1998    
• Secretary General, Cardiology Journal
• Treasurer, Yugoslav Society of Cardiology (1984-1990)
• Fellow of the Serbian Medical Association and Yugoslav Society of Cardiology

• Chioncel O, Lainscak M, Seferovic PM, Anker SD, Crespo-Leiro MG, Harjola VP,Parissis J, Laroche C, Piepoli MF, Fonseca C, Mebazaa A, Lund L, Ambrosio GA, Coats AJ, Ferrari R, Ruschitzka F, Maggioni AP, Filippatos G. Epidemiology and one-year outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure and preserved, mid-range and reduced ejection fraction: an analysis of the ESC Heart Failure Long-Term Registry. Eur J Heart Fail. 2017 Apr 6. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.813.
• Chioncel O, Mebazaa A, Harjola VP, Coats AJ, Piepoli MF, Crespo-Leiro MG, Laroche C, Seferovic PM, Anker SD, Ferrari R, Ruschitzka F, Fernandez SL, Miani D, Filippatos G, Maggioni AP; ESC Heart Failure Long-Term Registry Investigators.. Clinical phenotypes and outcome of patients hospitalized for acute heart failure: the ESC Heart Failure Long-Term Registry. Eur J Heart Fail. 2017 Apr 30. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.890.
• Sliwa K, Mebazaa A, Hilfiker-Kleiner D, Petrie MC, Maggioni AP, Laroche C, Regitz-Zagrosek V, Schaufelberger M, Tavazzi L, van der Meer P, Roos-Hesselink JW, Seferovic P, van Spandonck-Zwarts K, Mbakwem A, Böhm M, Mouquet F, Pieske B, Hall R, Ponikowski P, Bauersachs J. Clinical characteristics of patients from the worldwide registry on peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM): EURObservational Research Programme in conjunction with the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Study Group on PPCM. Eur J Heart Fail. 2017 Mar 8. doi:10.1002/ejhf.780.
• Bartunek J, Terzic A, Davison BA, Filippatos GS, Radovanovic S, Beleslin B, Merkely B, Musialek P, Wojakowski W, Andreka P, Horvath IG, Katz A, Dolatabadi D, El Nakadi B, Arandjelovic A, Edes I, Seferovic PM, Obradovic S, Vanderheyden M, Jagic N, Petrov I, Atar S, Halabi M, Gelev VL, Shochat MK, Kasprzak JD, Sanz-Ruiz R, Heyndrickx GR, Nyolczas N, Legrand V, Guédès A, Heyse A, Moccetti T, Fernandez-Aviles F, Jimenez-Quevedo P, Bayes-Genis A, Hernandez-Garcia JM, Ribichini F, Gruchala M, Waldman SA, Teerlink JR, Gersh BJ, Povsic TJ, Henry TD,  Metra M, Hajjar RJ, Tendera M, Behfar A, Alexandre B, Seron A, Stough WG, Sherman W, Cotter G, Wijns W; CHART Program.. Cardiopoietic cell therapy for advanced ischaemic heart failure: results at 39 weeks of the prospective, randomized, double blind, sham-controlled CHART-1 clinical trial. Eur Heart J. 2017 Mar 1;38(9):648-660.
• Targher G, Dauriz M, Laroche C, Temporelli PL, Hassanein M, Seferovic PM, Drozdz J, Ferrari R, Anker S, Coats A, Filippatos G, Crespo-Leiro MG, Mebazaa A,Piepoli MF, Maggioni AP, Tavazzi L; ESC-HFA HF Long-Term Registry investigators. In-hospital and 1-year mortality associated with diabetes in patients with acute heart failure: results from the ESC-HFA Heart Failure Long-Term Registry. Eur J Heart Fail. 2017 Jan;19(1):54-65.
• Harjola VP, Mebazaa A, Čelutkienė J, Bettex D, Bueno H, Chioncel O, Crespo-Leiro MG, Falk V, Filippatos G, Gibbs S, Leite-Moreira A, Lassus J, Masip J, Mueller C, Mullens W, Naeije R, Nordegraaf AV, Parissis J, Riley JP, Ristic A, Rosano G, Rudiger A, Ruschitzka F, Seferovic P, Sztrymf B, Vieillard-Baron A, Yilmaz MB, Konstantinides S. Contemporary management of acute right ventricular failure: a statement from the Heart Failure Association and the Working Group on Pulmonary Circulation and Right Ventricular Function of the European Society of Cardiology. Eur J Heart Fail. 2016 Mar;18(3):226-41.
• Pinto YM, Elliott PM, Arbustini E, Adler Y, Anastasakis A, Böhm M, Duboc D, Gimeno J, de Groote P, Imazio M, Heymans S, Klingel K, Komajda M, Limongelli G, Linhart A, Mogensen J, Moon J, Pieper PG, Seferovic PM, Schueler S, Zamorano JL, Caforio AL, Charron P. Proposal for a revised definition of dilated cardiomyopathy, hypokinetic non-dilated cardiomyopathy, and its implications for  clinical practice: a position statement of the ESC working group on myocardial and pericardial diseases. Eur Heart J. 2016 Jun 14;37(23):1850-8.
• Adler Y, Charron P, Imazio M, Badano L, Barón-Esquivias G, Bogaert J, Brucato A, Gueret P, Klingel K, Lionis C, Maisch B, Mayosi B, Pavie A, Ristić AD, Sabaté Tenas M, Seferovic P, Swedberg K, Tomkowski W, Achenbach S, Agewall S, Al-Attar N, Angel Ferrer J, Arad M, Asteggiano R, Bueno H, Caforio AL, Carerj S, Ceconi C, Evangelista A, Flachskampf F, Giannakoulas G, Gielen S, Habib G, Kolh P, Lambrinou E, Lancellotti P, Lazaros G, Linhart A, Meurin P, Nieman K, Piepoli MF, Price S, Roos-Hesselink J, Roubille F, Ruschitzka F, Sagristà Sauleda J, Sousa-Uva M, Uwe Voigt J, Luis Zamorano J; European Society of Cardiology (ESC). 2015 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of pericardial diseases: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Management of Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)Endorsed by: The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). Eur Heart J. 2015 Nov 7;36(42):2921-64. dPfeffer MA, Claggett B, Diaz R, Dickstein K, Gerstein HC, Køber LV, Lawson FC, Ping L, Wei X, Lewis EF, Maggioni AP, McMurray JJ, Probstfield JL, Riddle MC, Solomon SD, Tardif JC; ELIXA Investigators. Lixisenatide in Patients with Type 2  Diabetes and Acute Coronary Syndrome. N Engl J Med. 2015 Dec 3;373(23):2247-57.
• Seferovic PM, Pelliccia F, Zivkovic I, Ristic A, Lalic N, Seferovic J, Simeunovic D, Milinkovic I, Rosano G. Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists, a class beyond spironolactone--Focus on the special pharmacologic properties of eplerenone. Int J Cardiol. 2015 Dec 1;200:3-7.
• Adler Y, Charron P, Imazio M, Badano L, Barón-Esquivias G, Bogaert J, Brucato A, Gueret P, Klingel K, Lionis C, Maisch B, Mayosi B, Pavie A, Ristić AD, Sabaté Tenas M, Seferovic P, Swedberg K, Tomkowski  W; Document Reviewers, Achenbach S, Agewall S, Al-Attar N, Angel Ferrer J, Arad M, Asteggiano R, Bueno H, Caforio AL, Carerj S, Ceconi C, Evangelista A, Flachskampf F, Giannakoulas G, Gielen S, Habib G, Kolh P, Lambrinou E, Lancellotti P, Lazaros G, Linhart A, Meurin P, Nieman K, Piepoli MF, Price S, Roos-Hesselink J, Roubille F, Ruschitzka F, Sagristà Sauleda J, Sousa-Uva M, Uwe  Voigt J, Luis Zamorano J. 2015 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of pericardial diseases: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Management of Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)Endorsed by: The European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS). Eur Heart J. 2015 Nov 7;36(42):2921-64.
• Lip GY, Heinzel FR, Gaita F, Juanatey JR, Le Heuzey JY, Potpara T, Svendsen JH, Vos MA, Anker SD, Coats AJ, Haverkamp W, Manolis AS, Chung MK, Sanders P, Pieske B; Document Reviewers:, Gorenek B, Lane D, Boriani G, Linde C, Hindricks G, Tsutsui H, Homma S, Brownstein S, Nielsen JC, Lainscak M, Crespo-Leiro M, Piepoli M, Seferovic P, Savelieva I. European Heart Rhythm Association/Heart Failure Association joint consensus document on arrhythmias in heart failure, endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society and the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society. Europace. 2015 Aug 21.
• Mebazaa A, Yilmaz MB, Levy P, Ponikowski P, Peacock WF, Laribi S, Ristic AD,  Lambrinou E, Masip J, Riley JP, McDonagh T, Mueller C, deFilippi C, Harjola VP, Thiele H, Piepoli MF, Metra M, Maggioni A, McMurray JJ, Dickstein K, Damman K, Seferovic PM, Ruschitzka F, Leite-Moreira AF, Bellou A, Anker SD, Filippatos G. Recommendations on pre-hospital and early hospital management of acute heart failure: a consensus paper from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, the European Society of Emergency Medicine and the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine--short version. Eur Heart J. 2015 Aug 7;36(30):1958-66.
• Bentley-Lewis R, Aguilar D, Riddle MC, Claggett B, Diaz R, Dickstein K, Gerstein HC, Johnston P, Køber LV, Lawson F, Lewis EF, Maggioni AP, McMurray JJ,  Ping L, Probstfield JL, Solomon SD, Tardif JC, Wu Y, Pfeffer MA; ELIXA Investigators. Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics in Evaluation of LIXisenatide in Acute Coronary Syndrome, a long-term cardiovascular end point trial of lixisenatide versus placebo. Am Heart J. 2015 May;169(5):631-638.e7.
• Ristić AD, Imazio M, Adler Y, Anastasakis A, Badano LP, Brucato A, Caforio AL, Dubourg O, Elliott P, Gimeno J, Helio T, Klingel K, Linhart A, Maisch B, Mayosi B, Mogensen J, Pinto Y, Seggewiss H, Seferović PM, Tavazzi L, Tomkowski W, Charron P. Triage strategy for urgent management of cardiac tamponade: a position statement of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases. Eur Heart J. 2014 Sep 7;35(34):2279-84.
• Jakovljevic DG, McDiarmid A, Hallsworth K, Seferovic PM, Ninkovic VM, Parry G, Schueler S, Trenell MI, MacGowan GA. Effect of left ventricular assist device implantation and heart transplantation on habitual physical activity and quality of life. Am J Cardiol. 2014 Jul 1;114(1):88-93.
• Rydén L, Grant PJ, Anker SD, Berne C, Cosentino F, Danchin N, Deaton C, Escaned J, Hammes HP, Huikuri H, Marre M, Marx N, Mellbin L, Ostergren J, Patrono C, Seferovic P, Uva MS, Taskinen MR, Tendera M, Tuomilehto J, Valensi P, Zamorano JL; ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines (CPG), Zamorano  JL, Achenbach S, Baumgartner H, Bax JJ, Bueno H, Dean V, Deaton C, Erol C, Fagard R, Ferrari R, Hasdai D, Hoes AW, Kirchhof P, Knuuti J, Kolh P, Lancellotti P, Linhart A, Nihoyannopoulos P, Piepoli MF, Ponikowski P, Sirnes PA, Tamargo JL, Tendera M, Torbicki A, Wijns W, Windecker S; Document Reviewers, De Backer G, Sirnes PA, Ezquerra EA, Avogaro A, Badimon L, Baranova E, Baumgartner H, Betteridge J, Ceriello A, Fagard R, Funck-Brentano C, Gulba DC, Hasdai D, Hoes AW, Kjekshus JK, Knuuti J, Kolh P, Lev E, Mueller C, Neyses L, Nilsson PM, Perk J, Ponikowski P, Reiner Z, Sattar N, Schächinger V, Scheen A, Schirmer H, Strömberg A, Sudzhaeva S, Tamargo JL, Viigimaa M, Vlachopoulos C, Xuereb RG. ESC  Guidelines on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases developed in collaboration with the EASD: the Task Force on diabetes, pre-diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and developed in collaboration with the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).  Eur Heart J. 2013 Oct;34(39):3035-87.
• Imazio M, Belli R, Brucato A, Ferrazzi P, Patrini D, Martinelli L, Polizzi V,  Cemin R, Leggieri A, Caforio AL, Finkelstein Y, Hoit B, Maisch B, Mayosi BM, Oh JK, Ristic AD, Seferovic P, Spodick DH, Adler Y. Rationale and design of the COlchicine for Prevention of the Post-pericardiotomy Syndrome and Post-operative  Atrial Fibrillation (COPPS-2 trial): a randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter study on the use of colchicine for the primary prevention of the postpericardiotomy syndrome, postoperative effusions, and postoperative atrial fibrillation. Am Heart J. 2013 Jul;166(1):13-9.
• Elliott P, Andersson B, Arbustini E, Bilinska Z, Cecchi F, Charron P, Dubourg O, Kühl U, Maisch B, McKenna WJ, Monserrat L, Pankuweit S, Rapezzi C, Seferovic P, Tavazzi L, Keren A. Classification of the cardiomyopathies: a position statement from the European Society Of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases. Eur Heart J. 2008 Jan;29(2):270-6. Epub 2007 Oct 4.
• Seferovic PM. B-type Natriuretic Peptide in Aortic Stenosis: New insight in the era of biomarkers? J Am Coll Cardiol. 2014 Mar 15. PubMed PMID: 24681147.
• Sliwa K, Hilfiker Kleiner D, Mebazaa A, Petrie MC, Maggioni AP, Regitz-Zagrosek V, Schaufelberger M, Tavazzi L, van Veldhuisen DJ, Roos-Hesslink  JW, Shah AJ, Seferovic PM, Elkayam U, van Spaendonck-Zwarts K, Bachelier-Walenta  K, Mouquet F, Kraigher-Krainer E, Hall R, Ponikowski P, McMurray JJ, Pieske B. EURObservational Research Programme: a worldwide registry on peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) in conjunction with the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on PPCM. Eur J Heart Fail. 2014 Mar  3.
• Seferovic PM, Stoerk S, Filippatos G, Mareev V, Kavoliuniene A, Ristic AD, Ponikowski P, McMurray J, Maggioni A, Ruschitzka F, van Veldhuisen DJ, Coats A, Piepoli M, McDonagh T, Riley J, Hoes A, Pieske B, Dobric M, Papp Z, Mebazaa A, Parissis J, Ben Gal T, Vinereanu D, Brito D, Altenberger J, Gatzov P, Milinkovic  I, Hradec J, Trochu JN, Amir O, Moura B, Lainscak M, Comin J, Wikström G, Anker S; Committee of National Heart Failure Societies or Working Groups of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology. Organization of heart  failure management in European Society of Cardiology member countries: survey of  the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology in collaboration with the Heart Failure National Societies/Working Groups. Eur J Heart Fail. 2013 Sep;15(9):947-59.
• Seferović PM, Ristić AD, Maksimović R, Simeunović DS, Milinković I, Seferović  Mitrović JP, Kanjuh V, Pankuweit S, Maisch B. Pericardial syndromes: an update after the ESC guidelines 2004. Heart Fail Rev. 2013 May;18(3):255-66.
• Seferović Mitrović JP, Seferović PM, Vujisić Tešić B, Petrović M, Ristić AD, Lalić K, Jotić A, Tešić M, Giga V, Milić N, Singh S, Lalić NM. Predictors of diabetic cardiomyopathy in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes. Int J Cardiol. 2012 Apr 19;156(2):219-21.

• Congestive heart failure

- Epidemiology, drugs in chronic and acute heart failure, clinical trials
- Primary cardiomyopathies, pericardial disease, peripartum cardiomyopathy, myocarditis

• Diabetes and cardiovascular disease

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Petar. M.Seferović