Director. Department of Cardiology
Hospital Universitario and Reseach Institute La Paz
Madrid, Spain

José Luis Lopez-Sendon is the Chief of the Cardiology Department, Director of Cardiovascular Research at the Instituto de Investigación IdiPaz in Madrid. He obtained his MD at the University of Valladolid in Spain and after his training in cardiology at the National School of Chest Diseases, he worked as a clinical cardiologist at La Paz Hospital (Universidad Autonoma, Madrid). While there, he earned his PhD and served as an associate professor of medicine.

Professor Lopez-Sendon’s main fields of interest are acute coronary syndromes, heart failure and chronic ischemic heart disease.

He has been a Board member and Councillor of the European Society of Cardiology,
Chairman of the Scientific Board of the World Heart Federation, member of the Board of the Heart Failure Association, and General Secretary of the Spanish Society of Cardiology.
He actively works in teaching and research programmes with the ESC, the American Heart Association and the World Heart Federation. He is a Foundation Fellow of the ESC and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.

He has published over 800 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
He has been National Coordinator of the Euro Heart Survey program of the ESC, member of the Guideline Committee of the ESC, and member of the Steering Committees of numerous trials in acute coronary syndromes, secondary prevention, heart failure and atrial fibrillation.