Thomas F. Luscher

Professor Lüscher (www.tomluescher.ch) studied medici-ne at the University of Zurich and obtained board certifi-cation in internal medicine and cardiology in Switzerland and is GMC certifified in the U.K.. He trained at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, USA in cardiovascular physiology and cardiology and was Pro-fessor of Pharmacotherapy and Director of Clinical Phar-macology at the University Hospitals Basel, then Profes-sor and Vice-Chairman of Cardiology at the University Hospital Bern and later Professor and Chairman of Cardio-logy and Director of the University Heart Center at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2017, he is Director of Research, Edu-cation & Development and consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals and professor of cardiology at the Imperial College and Kings College in London, U.K.. In the newly formed huge trust with St. Thomas’, Guys and King’s Hospital, he has been appointed Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Academic Group. He also holds a parttime commitment as Chairman of the Center for Molecular Cardiology at the University of Zurich (see www.cmc.uzh.ch). Professor Lüscher has been mentoring numerous physicians and scientists from more than 20 countries with many holding chairs or directorships at universities and major hospitals in Switzerland, Europe, Asia and North America. His research is translational from bench to bedside and focuses on endothelium-derived mediators and their alteration with aging, hypertension, lipids and inflammation as well as on atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, acute coronary syndromes and heart failure. He is among the 0.1% most cited scientists with a h-index of 151 (Research Gate). He is an editor of the ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine (Oxford University Press 2019) and the Module Innere Medizin (Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, FRG; 2014- 2024) and of the Manual of Cardiovascular Medicine (Oxford University Press 2022). He lectures worldwide and is chairman of the board of charities in Switzerland and the UK (Zurich Heart House and London Heart House) and instrumental for their educa-tional programmes (Postgraduate Course on Heart Failure London, London Shock, Cardiology Update London, MasterClasses in Heart Failure worldwide, Webinars). He is also active on social media (https://twitter.com/TomLuscher) and has his own youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/InsideCardiology). He was editor-in-chief of the European Heart Journal 2009-2020 (increase in IF from 8.9 to 29.9) and continues as senior editor. He is now president elect of the European Society of Cardiology.