Prof. Maciej Banach

Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital – Research Institute, Lodz (Poland)​

Founder and President of International Lipid Expert Panel

Prof. Maciej Banach is a member of the Executive Committee of European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) working as an Advisor in Matters related to European Union Relations/Contacts, and the International Atherosclerosis Society (IAS) Regional Federation Executive Committee Member for Europe. He is a Founder and Head of the Polish Lipid Association (PoLA) (2011-) – the official partner of National Lipid Association (NLA, US) 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. 

Abdulla M.A Shehab

United Arab Emirates University

Adrian Hernandez Diaz

University of Connecticut, USA

Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola (USIL), Peru

Amirhossein Sahebkar

Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Andreas Zirlik

Medical University Graz, Austria

Ashraf Reda

Menofia University, Egypt

Atanas G. Atanasov

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety, Austria

Bojko Bjelakovic

University Clinical Center, Serbia

Cicero Arrigo F. G.

University of Bologna, Italy

Collet Xavier

Institut Fédératif de Recherche Claude de Preval, France

Dan Gaita

Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babes, Romania

Daniel Pella

L. Pasteur University Hospital, Slovak Republic

Demosthenes Panagiotakos

Harokopio University in Athens, Greece

Dimitri P. Mikhailidis

University College London Medical School, UK

Dimitri Richter

Euroclinic Hospital, Greece

Djuric Dragan

University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Dragos Vinereanu

University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, Romania

Eric Bruckert

Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Paris, France

Erkin Mirrakhimov

Kyrgyz State Medical Academy,
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Fahad Alnouri

Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Saudi Arabia

Gani Bajraktari

University of Prishtina, Kosovo

Gustavs Latkovskis

Paul Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Latvia

György Paragh

University of Debrecen, Hungary

Hung-I Yeh

Mackay Medical College, Taiwan

Jacek Jóźwiak

Jemaa Riadh

Karam Kostner

Mater Private Hospital Brisbane, Australia

Manfredi Rizzo

University of Palermo, Italy

Marat V. Ezhov

National Medical Cardiology Research Center, Russia

Margus Viigimaa

Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Matteo Pirro

University of Perugia, Italy

Mohsen Mazidi

King’s College London, UK

Nair Devaki

Royal Free Hospital and North Middlesex University Hospital, UK

Nathan Wong

University of California at Irvine, USA

Naveed Sattar

University of Glasgow, UK

Patrick Moriarty

University of Kansas Medical Center, USA

Peter P. Toth

University of Illinois College of Medicine, USA

Peter Penson

Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Raimondas Kubilius

Hospital of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania

Raman Puri

Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, India

Seth S. Martin

Johns Hopkins University, USA

Stephan von Haehling

University of Göttingen Medical School, Germany

Steven R. Jones

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Zaneta Petrulioniene

Vilnius University, Lithuania

Zeljko Reiner

University of Zagreb, Croatia

A. David Marais

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Claudia Stefanutti

Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

G. B. John Mancini

University of British Columbia, Canada

Michal Vrablik

Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Olena Mitchenko

Strazhesko Institute of Cardiology, National Academy of Medical Sciences, Ukraine

Tomasz Tomasik

Jagiellonian University Medical College, Poland

Zlatko Fras

University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia

Fahma Amar

The University of Minnesota, USA

Olivier Descamps

Center for Medical Research at Jolimont, Belgium

Ronen Durst

Hadassah Medical Center, Israel

Branislav Vohnout

Slovak Medical University in Bratislava, Slovakia

Agata Bielecka-Dąbrowa

Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital – Research Institute, Poland

Arman Postadzhiyan

Saint Anne University Hospital, Bulgaria

Amit Khera

Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Belma Pojskic

Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mutaz Alkhnifsawi

Iraqi Lipid Clinics Network

Niki Katsiki

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Seyed Mohammad Nabavi

Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Sonu Bhaskar

Liverpool Hospital, Sydney

Dr. Carlos Escobar Cervantes

Aleksandr Shek

Head of Ischemic Heart Disease and Atherosclerosis Department, Uzbekistan

Cesare Sirtori

Honorary President of the Italian Society of Nutraceutics, Italy

Maria-Corina Serban

University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania

Ibadete Bytyçi

Clinic of Cardiology, University Clinical Centre of Kosovo

Ioanna Gouni-Berthold

Head, Lipid Research Clinic
Polyclinic for Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Preventive Medicine University of Cologne, Germany

Massimiliano Ruscica

Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Amani Kallel

University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

Krzysztof Chlebus

First Department of Cardiology Medical University of Gdansk

Francesco Paneni

University Heart Center
Zurich University Hospital

Anca Mihaela Pantea Stoian

National Institute of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases Bucharest 

Adrian Covic

Professor Internal Medicine & Nephrology, FERA, FRCP, FESC

Ivan Pećin

the Division of Metabolic Diseases (Head) of the Department of Internal Medicine at University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Croatia.

Laura-Adriana Gaita

Department of Diabetes, Nutrition, Metabolic Diseases and Systemic Rheumatology from “Victor Babes” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania

Mamas A. Mamas

Keele Cardiovascular Research Group, Centre for Prognosis Research Keele University Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 7QB Department of Cardiology, Royal Stoke Hospital University Hospital North Staffordshire

Sebastián Garcia-Zamora

Chief of the Coronary Care Unit at Delta Clinic in Rosario, Argentina.

Krzysztof Dyrbuś

III Dept. and Clinic of Cardiology, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland

Suowen Xu

Professor of Pharmacology at the Department of Life Science and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)