Frank Flachskampf

Undergraduate education 1974-1980 Training in medicine at University of Bonn Medical School, Bonn, Germany Professional and scientific career 1983-1990 Training in internal medicine and cardiology at Med.Klinik I, RWTH Aachen edical School Aachen (Directors: Prof.Dr.S.Effert and Prof.Dr.P.Hanrath) 1988 – 1989 Research Fellow at the Echocardiographic Laboratory of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, U.S.A. (Director: Arthur E. Weyman, MD), 1997-99 Interventional and Advanced Imaging Fellow at the Cardiovascular Department of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, U.S.A. (Chairman: Eric J.Topol, MD) 2003 Professor of Internal Medicine (University of Erlangen) 2010 Chaired Professorship in Cardiology/Cardiac Imaging at University of Uppsala, Sweden Fellowships  Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (as a student)  Research Fellowship of the German National Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) 1988-1989 (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, USA) Membership in scientific societies  German Society of Cardiology (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kardiologie, Herz- und Kreislauf¬forschung): o Speaker of Working Group Cardiovascular Ultrasound of the German Society of Cardiology 1996-1997 o member of Education Committeee  European Society of Cardiology (ESC): o Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) since 1997 o past Member of the Education Committee and Programme Committee of the European Society of Cardiology o 1999-2003 Member of Nucleus of the Working Group Echocardiography (now European Association of Echocardiography, EAE) o 2006-8 and 2010-2016 Board Member of Eur Assoc Cardiovascular Imaging  Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC) since 1998  Honorary Adjunct Professor of the University of Wroclaw, Poland since 2022  Member of the American Society of Echocardiography  Honorary Member Italian Society of Cardiovascular Echocardiography (SIEC) 2001  Member of Swedish Society of Cardiology  Member of the Swedish Working Groups Heart Failure  Speaker of the Swedish Working Group Echocardiography (Svenska Cardiologföreningen, arbetsgrupp hjärtsvikt och klaffsjukdomar i Svenska Cardiologföreningen, Arbetsgrupp för Ekokardiografi i Svenska Hjärtförbundet,) Editorial Boards  Associate Editor Journal of the American College of Cardiology Cardiovascular Imaging  Associate Editor of Clinical Research in Cardiology  Section Editor European Heart Journal Open  past Editorial Board Member Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography and European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging  Over 280 publications in PubMed.