Albertino Damasceno

Albertino Damasceno MD, PhD, FESC, FISH, is a Full Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. Previous head of the Cardiology Department of the Maputo Central Hospital between 1984 and 2018, he leads a very productive research unit in the Department of Medicine of the same hospital. His areas of interests include hypertension and salt sensitivity, heart failure, stroke and cardiovascular epidemiology. He was a member of the steering committees of several landmark studies such as INTERHEART, INTERSTROKE, RELY, THESUS, IMPI, REMEDY, CREOLE. Is Author or Co-Author of more than 250 papers with more than 63 989 citations, a h Index of 63 and a i10-index of 150. He is a member of the Lancet Commission on Hypertension, International Society of Hypertension, South African Heart Association and the Pan African Society of Cardiology. He was one of the trustees of the ASO. He was a member of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Noncommunicable Diseases (STAG-NCD). He is now the president of the African Heart Failure Association from PASCAR.