Professor at Department of Cardiology, Clinical Center of Serbia, Serbia
Professor at Department of Cardiology, Clinical Center of Serbia, Serbia
Petar Seferovic is President of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology.
He has a long standing experience in the activities of ESC, and later was involved in Heart Failure Association projects for almost a decade. He is a Chair of Internal medicine, Belgrade University School of Medicine and Professor, Heart failure Department, University Medical Center Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
After completing his training and fellowship at Belgrade University School of Medicine and Kings College Hospital in London, UK, he spent two years as a Visiting Assistant professor in Methodist Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA.
Prof. Seferović was leading the introduction of several methods of interventional cardiology and myocardial and pericardial disease in Serbia, including percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, endomyocardial biopsy, percutaneous pericardioscopy and pericardial biopsy. Starting mid-90’s, he dedicated his clinical and research activity to chronic and acute heart failure. He is Corresponding member of Serbian Academy of Sciencies and Arts and President, Heart Failure Society of Serbia.
His research interests mainly include heart failure, acute and chronic, cardiomyopthies, myocarditis, pericardial disease as well as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
He has been involved in numerous heart failure clinical trials as a National coordinator and Principal investigator, member of international steering committees, endpoint committees, and advisory boards.
Prof. Seferović has coauthored a total of 570 publications, with cumulative impact factor of 730 (h-index 31), including multiple papers in peer-reviewed international journals. He has a total citation of 15560 (Google Scholar) / 14758 (Scopus). He presented more than 221 lectures at International conferences.
He acted as a Task Force member on several ESC guidelines, including ESC guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure, the ESC guidelines for the management of pericardial disease, and the guidelines on cardiovascular diseases in diabetes. In addition, Petar Seferovic serves as a reviewer for several journals.