Gerasimos Filippatos is a Cardiologist at University of Athens, Greece. He studied at the University of Patras, GR, and earned his doctorate in physiology and critical care cum laude from the University of Athens. Dr Filippatos is President of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC. He has served as Chair of the Clinical Section and the Committee on Acute Heart Failure of the HFA, and as Chair of the ESC’s Working Group on Acute Cardiac Care. He was also Coordinator of the ESC Congress Programme Committee for Heart Failure and Acute Cardiac Care, member of the ESC Practice Guidelines Committee and ACC/AHA HF Guidelines Writing Committee, and International Governor of the American College of Chest Physicians. He has published over 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals and authored more than 30 book chapters.
His research field is expertise in expertise in cardiology.