MasterClass – “My Career in Cardiology”, Bucharest 2026
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City
Bucharest, Romania
Type of event
on site
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Course Directors: Ovidiu Chioncel, Filippo Crea, and Thomas F. Lüscher
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Programme
Day 1, October 28th, 2026
| 14:00-14:10 | Introduction: Ovidiu Chioncel, RO and Thomas F. Lüscher, UK | |
| 14:10 | Session 1: How Do I Become a Cardiologist? Chairs: Dan Dobreanu, Tg Mures and Thomas F. Lüscher, London/Zurich | |
| 14:10 | The Core Curriculum of the ESC and the ESC Cardiology Examinations | Chris Plummer, Newcastle |
| 14:30 | How Do I Find the Right Position? | Dragos Vinereanu, Bucharest |
| 14:50 | What Is Important in an Application? | Dan Dobreanu, Tg Mures |
| 15:10 | Working in Private Practice | D. Deleanu, Bucharest |
| 15:30 | How Do I Organize a Stay Abroad? | Maria Rubini, Madrid |
| 15:50 | Panel discussion | |
| 16:10-16:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:30 | Session 2: Which Specialization Should I Choose? Chairs: D.Vinereanu ,Bucharest and, Gianluigi Savarese, Stockholm | |
| 16:30 | The Path to Interventional Cardiology | D. Deleanu,Bucharest |
| 16:40 | How Do I Establish Myself in Electrophysiology? | D. Dobreanu, Tg Mures |
| 16:50 | Heart Failure as a Specialty | G.Savarese, Stockholm |
| 17:00 | Working in Critical Care Unit | O. Chioncel, Bucharest |
| 17:10 | Imaging: Echo, MRI, CT, or Nuclear Medicine? | Alison Duncan, London |
| 17:20 | A Medical Career in Industry | Carlos Eid, Warsaw |
| 17:30 | Collaboration with Industry | Marco Roffi, Geneva |
| 18:40 | Panel discussion | |
Day 2, October 29th, 2026
| 09:30 | Session 3: The Hospital Career Chairs: Thomas F Luscher and Elisabeta Badila, Bucharest | |
| 09:30 | The Path to Senior Physician or Consultant | Dragos Vinereanu, Bucharest |
| 09:40 | What Does It Mean to Lead a Department? | Ovidiu Chioncel, Bucharest |
| 09:50 | Why to find the most suitable institution? | Marco Roffi, Geneva |
| 10:00 | A Career in Cardiology as a Woman? | Elisabeta Badila, Bucharest |
| 10:10 | Panel discussion | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:00 | Session 4: The Academic Career Chairs: Filippo Crea,Rome and Mandeep Mehra, Boston RO | |
| 11:00 | What Makes Good Teaching? | Mandeep Mehra, Boston |
| 11:20 | How Do I organize my own research? | Mandeep Mehra, Boston |
| 11:30 | How Do I Successfully Write Papers? | Filippo Crea, Rome |
| 11:40 | Panel Discussion | |
| 12:00 | Closing Lecture | Alison Duncan, London |
| 12:00 | How to become a leader in Cardiology? | Thomas F. Lüscher, London |
| 12:20 | APERITIF AND FAREWELL | |
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