AEPC Council and Officers

Nico Blom

President (2022-2025)

Leiden University Medical Centre
P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, Netherlands
Phone: +31 71 526 28 35

Katarina Hanseus

Past President (2022-2023)

Children´s Heart Center, Skane University Hospital Lund
S-22185 Lund, Sweden
Phone: +46 70 2699626

Ina Michel-Behnke

Secretary General (2021-2026)

Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde
Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43-1-40400-32170

Werner Budts

Scientific Secretary (2021-2026)

Congenital and Structural Cardiology, University Hospitals, Leuven, Belgium
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium
Phone: +32-1-6344369

Juha-Matti Happonen

Treasurer (2019-2024)

Department of Paediatric Cardiology, New Children´s Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital
Stenbäckinkatu 9, POB 347, FIN 00029 HUS, Finland
Phone: +358 500 611588

Emanuela Valsangiacomo Buechel

Councillor (2020-2023)

Paediatric Heart Center, University Children's Hospital Zurich
Steinwiesstrasse 75, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 266 7519

Tara Bharucha

Councillor (2021-2024)

University Hospital Southampton, Paediatric Cardiology
Southampton, UK

Ewa-Lena Bratt

Councillor - Nurse & AHP representative (2021-2024)

Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
Arvid Wallgrens backe 1, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, The Queen Silvia Children´s Hospital/Sahlgrenska University Hospital

Margarita Brida

Councillor - ESC/ACHD representative (2021-2024)

Department of Cardiovascular Diseases,
Division for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease,
University Hospital Centre Zagreb
Kispaticeva 12
HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Phone: +385-1-2367501

Hitendu Dave

Councillor - Surgical representative (2021-2024)

Division of Congenital Cardiovascular Surgery,
University Children's Hospital Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 2667111

Enrico Piccinelli

Junior Councillor (2021-2024)

Paediatric Cardiology registrar
Royal Brompton Hospital
London, UK

Frank Casey

AEPC 2023 Local Chairman (2022-2023)

Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children
180 Falls Road, Belfast, BT12 6BE, Northern Ireland
Honorary Senior Lecturer in Child Health, Queen`s University, Belfast