Maciej Banach
Lodz, Poland
Prof. Maciej Banach was an Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland (2010-2012), and a President of the Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital – Research Institute (PMMHRI) (February 2014-March 2021). He is a Head of Cardiovascular Research Centre at University of Zielona Gora, full Professor of Cardiology at the Medical University of Lodz (MUL) and PMMHRI, Head of Foreign Affairs Office (2012-2014), Head of Department of Preventive Cardiology and Lipidology at the Medical University of Lodz and Professor in the Department of Nephrology, Hypertension and Family Medicine, Chair of Nephrology and Hypertension, at the WAM University Hospital in Lodz, Poland (2009-).
He is a Secretary of the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) (2021-2024) and member of the Scientific and Health Policy Advisory Group of the FH Europe. He is a Founder and Head of the Polish Lipid Association (PoLA) (2011-) and Lodz Chapter of Polish Society of Hypertension (2009-). He is the founder of the Lipid and Blood Pressure Meta-analysis Collaboration (LBPMC; lbpmcgroup.umed.pl) Group (2012-) – a group of over 150 worldwide experts aimed to investigate the most important issues in the field of lipid disorders, hypertension, nutrition and cardiovascular risk, as well as the International Lipid Expert Panel (ILEP; ilep.eu) (2015-), currently with >50 national society members, which has been founded to prepare recommendations in the area of preventive cardiology in the most debatable issues that have not been covered in the existing guidelines. He is also a member of the REPROGRAM Consortium – a group of experts challenging with Covid-19 pandemic, member of 2 largest worldwide databases – the Global Burden of Disease (GDB) (University of Washington, Seattle, US) and Non-Communicable Diseases Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC, Imperial College of London, UK). He is also Founder and President of the foundation – Think-Tank “Innovation for Health”, which gathers six main health research institutes and over 40 medical business representatives in Poland with main aim to make innovations in the medical area in Poland. He is a Visiting Professor of University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babes in Timisoara, Romania, and University of California at Irvine.
Prof. Banach has published over 1000 original articles, reviews, editorials, and book chapters in the field of hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiology, and risk stratification. His combined IF (for only full-text manuscripts) is over 10,000 pts, number of citations: 39,090 (acc. Web of Science Core Collection/Publons with >14,000 citations for year 2021), 40,228 (acc. SCOPUS; with >15,000 citations for year 2021), 49,601 (acc. ResearchGate), and 59,898 (acc. Google Scholar; with >21,000 citations for year 2021), Hirsch’s Index = 75 (WoS/Publons), 75 (SCOPUS), 88 (ResearchGate) and 93 (i10-index: 598) (Google Scholar) – being within 1% the highest cited scientists in the world (in the research area of Clinical Medicine and Pharmacology and Toxicology) according to Essential Science Indicators by Clarivate (with 42 TOP Papers). Prof. Banach is also within top 10 worldwide experts according to ExpertScape in the field of lipids (9), statins (2), dyslipidemias (6), cholesterol (5), lipoproteins (12), LDL cholesterol (9), lipoproteins LDL (6), HDL cholesterol (5), and dietary supplements (15). He is also a 1% Top Reviewer in the areas of Clinical Medicine and Cross-Field (in 2018 and 2019) by Publons/Clarivate and Publons Academy Mentor.
He is Founder (2005) and Editor-in-Chief of the Archives of Medical Science (IF2020 = 3.318), Archives of Medical Science – Civilization Diseases, and Archives of Medical Science – Atherosclerotic Diseases, Deputy Editor of European Heart Journal Open, Editor in Chief of the Cardiology Section in Journal of Clinical Medicine, Section Editor of Current Atherosclerosis Reports, Scientific Coordinator of the HeartBeat Journal (2012-2018), Regional Associate Editor of European Heart Journal – Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes, Co-Founder and Deputy Editor of Thyroid Research (2007-2012), Associate/Section Editor of BMC Medicine, Scientific Reports, Recent Patents on Cardiovascular Drugs Discovery & Biomed Research International, and member of Editorial Advisory Board of over 60 international medical journals. Guest Editor (2010-) among others in BMC Medicine, Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, Nutrients, Current Hypertension Reports, Journal of Diabetes Research, Current Vascular Pharmacology, Current Pharmaceutical Design, Current Medicinal Chemistry and Frontiers in Digital Public. He is also a Faculty member of F1000 prime. He is Reviewer of over 80 international journals, including New England Journal of Medicine, European Heart Journal, JACC, Circulation, JAMA-Cardiology, JAMA Network Open, Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Circulation Research, and British Medical Journal; editor or author of 31 books (102 chapters). He was also a Scientific President (2016-2020) of the Termedia Publishing House, being responsible for the indexation and developing of over 50 scientific journals, including 9 journals with IF.
Participation in clinical trials since 2005: (1) IPDACS Trial (Incidence and Predictors of Delirium After Cardiac Surgery) (NCT00784576) (study coordinator [SC]); (2) ACT 2 Trial with RSD1235 – vernakalant (principal investigator [PI]); (3) The Influence of Atorvastatin on the Parameters of Inflammation and the Function of Left Ventricle (NCT01015144) (PI); (4) SWEEP TRIAL (Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety and Immunogenicity of Subcutaneous HX575 in the Treatment of Anemia Associated With Chronic Kidney Disease) (PI); (5) SWEEP OLE Trial (PI); (6) STIPPARE Trial (Simvastatin in the Treatment of Isolated arterial hyPertension and Prevention of cARdiovascular Events) (NCT01017835) (PI); (7) FIRST Trial (Ferumoxytol Compared to Iron Sucrose Trial: A Randomized, Multicenter Trial of Ferumoxytol Compared to Iron Sucrose for the Treatment of Iron Deficiency Anemia in Adult Subjects with Chronic Kidney Disease); (8) FER-CKD Trial (An open-label multicentre, randomised 3-arm study to investigate the comparative efficacy and safety of intravenous ferric carboxymaltose versus oral iron for the treatment of iron deficiency anaemia in subjects with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease) (Co-Investigator [CPI]); (9) FOURIER (Further Cardiovascular Outcomes Research with PCSK9 Inhibition in Subjects With Elevated Risk) trial (PI); (10) ENSURE-AF (national PI [NPI]); (10) BetOnMACE trial (RVX222-CS-015) (NPI); (11) ODDYSEY APPRISE Trial (LPS14245) (NPI); (12) CLEAR Harmony trial (Evaluation of Long-Term Safety and Tolerability of ETC-1002 in High-Risk Patients With Hyperlipidemia and High CV Risk) (PI); (13) CLEAR Harmony OLE Trial (PI); (14) CLEAR Outcomes Study (1002-043) (NPI); (15) Da Vinci Study (co-NPI), ODDYSEY Kids (NPI), (16) VESALIUS-REAL Trial with evolocumab (NPI), (17) LIPIDOGRAM & LIPIDOGEN study (co-PI), (18) FHSC Registry (NPI), (19) TERCET Registry; (20) VESALIUS-CV Trial with evolocumab (PI), and (21) Lp(a)HORIZON with TQJ231 (PI), (22) ORION-16 with inclisiran (PI), (23) Study to Evaluate ARO-APOC3 in Adults With Severe Hypertriglyceridemia (PI).
He is a fellow of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the American Heart Association (FAHA), National Lipid Association (FNLA), American Society of Angiology (FASA), European Society of Cardiology (FESC), Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH) and Society of Geriatric Cardiology (FSGC; 2008-2010). He is a member of the working-core of Alliance for Biomedical Research/European Council for Health Research (2011-2013 and 2016- being as a EAS representative), steering committee of European Innovation Partnership in Active and Healthy Ageing (2010-2012) at the European Commission, member of the European Commission’s Scientific Panel for Health (SPH) (2014-2017), and steering committee of Centre for Good Aging / Healthy Ageing Research Center (HARC) at the Medical University of Lodz, member of Committee for Public Health of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the Scientific Board of Institute of Sport in Warsaw, Poland, and the Presiding Board of Scientific Committee of the Polish Ministry of Health (2015-). He is an expert of the European Medicines Agency (EMA, 2018-), and member of prestigious EU Academy of Sciences (EUAS; 2018-).
He is a laureate of several prizes and award, including: Doctor Honoris Causa of the Medical University in Kosice, Slovak Republic (2020), on Top-100 List of the most influential scientists in medicine in Poland for year 2020 (position 8), 2019 (10), and 2018 (9), Doctor Honoris Causa of the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania, “Gold Scalpel” Distinction in 2019 for the Innovation (Smart Hospital); Honorary Member of the Romanian Society of Cardiology (2019), Doctor Honoris Causa of the Institute of Cardiology in Kiev (2018), and the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babes in Timisoara (2017); Gold Honorary Medal for scientific achievements of the Medical Faculty of Medical University in Kosice, Slovak Republic (2018), The Manager of the Year 2016 – Public Entities (2017), “Innovator of the Year – Science Category” by Wprost journal (2017); “Gold Scalpel” Distinction in 2016 for the Innovation; The Personality of the Year 2013 in Poland for the development of science in the field of healthcare – founded by the Heath Manager journal (Termedia Publishing House), Super-Talent in Medicine 2012 Award – the winner of the competition for young scientists in medicine (up to 40) founded by Puls Medycyny journal; scientific awards of Ministry of Health of Republic of Poland for the cycle of publications (2009, 2011), >40 individual and group scientific awards of President of Medical University of Lodz (2009-2020); START Award (2008) and Conferences Awards (2005, 2007) of Foundation for Polish Science, Polityka journal Awards for Young Scientists (2006), and Travel Grants of European Society of Hypertension (2007) and Heart Failure Association of ESC (2005, 2007).
His main area of scientific interests concerns hypertension aspects (risk stratification, prehypertension, new biomarkers, optimal level of BP – J-curve phenomenon, pharmacotherapy/combined therapy, prevention, complications), lipid disorders (risk stratification, new biomarkers, diagnosis, rare diseases), dyslipidemia therapy (statins, new drugs, combined treatment) and new drugs in CVD therapy.
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Carl Orringer
Carl Orringer
Miami, USACarl E. Orringer, MD, FACC, FNLA is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida and Director of the Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine Program for the University of Miami Health System. He was the first recipient of the Harrington Chair in Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a past president and fellow of the National Lipid Association. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of three editions of the National Lipid Association Self-Assessment Program and is the author of the Lipid Management section of the American College of Cardiology Self Assessment Program through 2023. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and is a co-author of American College of Cardiology Expert Consensus Decision Pathway documents on the Management of Hypertriglyceridemia in 2021 and on Non-Statin Therapies in 2022. He served as a member of Writing Committee of the 2018 American Heart Association/ACC/Multi-Society Guideline on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol and has authored or co-authored multiple National Lipid Association Scientific Statements. He is an Associate Editor of the European Heart Journal.
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Kausik Ray
Kausik Ray
London, United KingdomKausik Ray is currently Professor of Public Health, Deputy Director of Imperial Clinical Trials Unit and Head of Commercial Trials within the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, Consultant Cardiologist and Chief Clinical Officer and Head of Trials –Discover Now as well as NIHR ARC National Lead of Cardiovascular Disease. Professor Ray received his medical education (MB ChB, 1991) at the University of Birmingham Medical School, his MD (2004) at the University of Sheffield, a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School and finally an MPhil in epidemiology (2007) from the University of Cambridge.
A Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the Royal College of Physicians, Kausik Ray is also a member of the British Cardiovascular Society and President of the European Atherosclerosis Society, also serving on the EAS Consensus panel and EAS Executive Committee. Professor Ray has either been the National Lead Investigator, Principal Investigator, or served on committees for several major medical trials, as well as international registries and is currently involved in 8 ongoing trials in lipids and diabetes and the PI for ORION 1, 3, 11 assessing PCSK9 inhibition through RNA interference and BETONMACE assessing BET protein inhibition in patients with ACS.
Professor Ray’s research interests have focused on the prevention of coronary disease with a focus on lipids, diabetes, biomarkers and risk prediction. He has an H index of 87, an i10 of 220 and over 92,000 citations for his work in journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, JAMA, European Heart Journal, Circulation and JACC. He has also been included in the Clarivate Analytics’ list of the top 1% most cited authors in all of global medicine in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Key original contributions which have influenced European and American guidelines include demonstrating the early benefits of statin therapy post ACS, the impact of more/less intensive glycaemic control on CVD and the risks/benefits of aspirin therapy in primary prevention. Recently, his work on statins and diabetes risk led to a global label change for statins by the FDA and EMEA. Currently Professor Ray leads the EAS FH Studies collaboration which is the first global registry of FH which includes 70 countries and 62,000 cases, as well as being the Senior PI for the TOGETHER study looking at cardiometabolic risk in the vascular health checks in 250,000 people in London.
