Baltic Atherosclerosis Conference 2021

Biography: Ulrich Laufs is Chair and Professor of Cardiology at Leipzig University, Germany. After completing his training at the University of Hamburg, he served a residency at the University of Cologne and spent 2 years as post-doctoral researcher at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, USA. Before moving to Leipzig in 2017, he was Vice-chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Medicine at the University of Saarland in Homburg, Germany. Professor Laufs has published multiple experimental and clinical studies in the areas of ‘heart failure’, ‘heart and brain’ and ‘prevention’ with special interest in lipoprotein metabolism. He has received numerous honours, serves in several editorial boards of international cardiovascular journals and holds positions in cardiovascular societies.

Biography: Žaneta Petrulionienė is a Professor of Cardiology at Clinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty of Vilnius University, Lithuania and Head of the first Department of Cardiology at Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Žaneta Petrulionienė has focused her efforts on primary and secondary CVD prevention, CVD epidemiology, morbidity and mortality trends, risk profile evaluations, lipidology, lipid-lowering pharmacology, nationwide heterozygous and homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.
Currently she is taking part in the world-wide familial hypercholesterolemia projects: she is National Leader of International Project ScreenPro FH also National Leader of International Project Global EAS FH Studies Collaboration.
Together with colleagues she has founded first Preventive Cardiology Department in Lithuania. She is member of organizing committee and one of the leaders of nationwide Primary Prevention Project - Lithuanian High Cardiovascular Risk Programme (LitHiR) since 2005.
Nucleus member of the Primary Care and Risk Factor Management Section of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC);
Board member of International Atherosclerosis Society (IAS);
Member of International Lipid expert Panel (ILEP);
National Leader of International Familial Hypercholesterolemia Project ScreenPro FH (Screening Project for Familial Hypercholesterolemia in Central, Southern and Eastern Europe, Project leader Prof. Richard Ceska).
2017 Lithuanian President H. E. Dalia Grybauskaite awarded prof. Žaneta Petrulionienė with the of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.

Biography: Kārlis Trušinskis is an Assoc. Professor in Cardiology, working at the Latvian Center of Cardiology at Stradins Clinical University Hospital and Department of Internal Medicine at Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia. He is also the President of Latvian Society of Hypertension and Atherosclerosis. Professor Trušinskis gained his medical degree from the Latvian Academy of Medicine and undertook post-graduate studies in Interventional Cardiology at the San Donato Hospital, Milan, Italy, Glenfield University Hospital, Leicester, UK, and at Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Biography: Professor Margus Viigimaa is the Research Chief of the Centre of Cardiology, Centre of Cardiology, North Estonia Medical Centre and Head of the Centre for Cardiovascular Medicine, Tallinn University of Technology.
Medical Doctor (cum laude), Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu (EST), PhD, postdoctoral research in Germany, Sweden, UK and Japan.
He has published more than 300 original scientific papers, H-index is 41 and number of citations is 31403 (Scopus database). M. Viigimaa is the editorial board member of several journals: Cardiology, Blood Pressure, High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention, Journal of System Hypertension, Arterial Hypertension, Romanian Journal of Cardiology, Russian Journal of Cardiology, Journal of Cardiology and Therapy.
He is the President of the Baltic Atherosclerosis Society, past president of the Estonian Society of Cardiology, Membership Committee member of the European Society of Cardiology, Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, past Council member of the European Society of Hypertension, Chairperson of the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on Hypertension and Sexual Dysfunction.
Prof. Viigimaa is honorary member of the Swedish Society of Hypertension, Hungarian Society of Hypertension, Bulgarian Hypertension League, Association of Cardiologists of Kazakhstan, Estonian Society of Cardiology and Estonian Society of Hypertension. He is holding the Red Cross III class Service Order of the Republic of Estonia, Tallinn city Order of honor and Gold medal of the Ukraine National Academy of Medical Sciences.