Global Heart Hub’s first patient advocate training on Heart Valve Disease in collaboration with Heart Team Academy

On June 5, Global Heart Hub held our first patient advocate training on Heart Valve Disease, in collaboration with the Heart Team Academy! By bringing together 39 participants across 18 countries, including patient organisation leaders, advocates and clinicians from the heart team, this event provided attendees with the tools to better support their heart valve communities.

The patient-led training day was designed to broaden the attendees’ knowledge of heart anatomy; the nature and types of HVD; treatment options and innovations, as well as an insight into treatment guidelines; shared decision making; and post-procedure expectations.

Global Heart Hub’s first patient advocate training on Heart Valve Disease in collaboration with the Heart Team Academy

Huge thank you to our speakers: Dr Peyman Sardari Nia, Dr Nabila Laskar and Dr Konstantinos Spargias.

  • Dr Peyman Sardari Nia, MD, PhD, serves as a Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Maastricht University Medical Center and associate professor at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, with a specialised focus on minimally invasive cardiothoracic procedures.

  • Dr Nabila Laskar specialises in Cardiac Imaging at Barts Heart Centre in London, with a focus on Heart Valve Disease.

  • Dr Konstantinos Spargias is an Interventional Cardiologist and the Director of the Transcatheter Heart Valves Department at the Hygeia Hospital in Athens, Greece.

Heart Team Academy is an initiative of Dr. Sardari Nia. This global foundation is dedicated to patient-centered care by redefining, promoting, researching, advancing and teaching the concept of the Heart Team.