Prof. Lina Badimon is Professor of Medicine at the Medical School of UVic-UCC and Director of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation for Health and Innovation. Her research activities focus on cardio-metabolic diseases and ischemic heart disease. She has published over 725 articles with her work highly cited (citations: >80,000; H: 115).She has written more of 250 book chapters (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Badimon+L&show_snippets=off&sort=date). Previous appointments in Spain include Director of the Cardiovascular Area at IR-Sant Pau Barcelona (2018-2025); Director of the Cardiovascular Sciences Institute-ICCC/CSIC in Barcelona (2003-2018); and in USA, Director of the Cardiology-Research Laboratory and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY and Lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School/Consultant-to-the-Cardiac Unit, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. She has been Vice-President of European Society of Cardiology and of the Spanish Society of Cardiology, and President of the European Society for Clinical Investigation and of the Spanish Society of Atherosclerosis.

José Luis Ferreiro, MD, PhD is currently Head of the Cardiology Department at the Joan XXIII University Hospital in Tarragona, Spain. He has developed his clinical activity mainly as interventional cardiologist and his research activity has been focused on translational and clinical research in thrombosis and cardiovascular diseases, with a particular interest in variability in response to antiplatelet agents and personalized antithrombotic therapy in the setting of acute coronary syndromes. He has authored or co-authored 154 articles in peer-reviewed journals (h-index 34) and 7 book chapters. Dr. Ferreiro has served as Coordinator of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Thrombosis of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2016-2020), President of the National Practice Guidelines Committee of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2020-2023) and is currently Nucleus member (Treasurer) of the Working Group on Thrombosis of the European Society of Cardiology.