Baltic Atherosclerosis Conference 2021

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: 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.