HCM Pills Episode 7 Professor Juan Pablo Kaski

HCM Pills is a series of webcasts organized by the HCM Patient Foundation. The purpose of the webcast is to ask the most burning questions of patients to world-renowned HCM experts who reply to them in a clear and understandable way. Our seventh guest, Juan Pablo Kaski, is Professor of Paediatric Inherited Cardiovascular Medicine at the UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, where he leads the UCL Centre for Paediatric Inherited and Rare Cardiovascular Diseases, and Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), London, UK. His clinical and research interests are focused on the clinical and genetic characterisation of inherited cardiovascular disease and sudden cardiac death in childhood. He has established an internationally-recognised research programme in the field of paediatric cardiomyopathy, having established a unique clinical cohort and the only UK bioresource for paediatric inherited cardiovascular disease, with the aim of stratifying disease phenotypes and identifying novel therapeutic targets. He is immediate past-Chair of the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology (AEPC) Working Group on Genetics, Basic Science and Myocardial Disease and sits on the Executive Board of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis Registry Programme and the ESC Council on Cardiovascular Genomics, as Liaison Officer. He leads an international paediatric HCM consortium of over 45 centres, which was responsible for the development of the first sudden death risk prediction model for childhood HCM. He chaired the Task Force for the 2023 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines for the Management of Cardiomyopathies. The anchor of HCM Pills is Dr. Niccolo' Maurizi, Chief Resident in Cardiology at CHUV | Lausanne university. Prior to that, he worked as a Researcher at Università degli Studi di Firenze. He co-founded D-Heart, a startup for innovative cardiologic wearable concepts in 2015. He has authored and co-authored almost 100 scientific articles with concentration on HCM-related issues (sudden cardiac arrest management, pregnancy in HCM, smart devices in clinical practice, etc.). Niccolo' will be asking all questions of HCM patients to our patients.