MEET FELIZ MAHFOUD

 

Professor Felix Mahfoud studied medicine at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. He completed his residency at the Department of Internal medicine and Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospi aI, Homburg, Germany. He is currently professor and senior physician of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Saarland University Hospital and Affiliate/Visiting Professor of the Harvard-MIT, Biomedical Engineering, Boston, MA. Professor Mahfoud has board certifications in internal medicine, cardiology, intensive care medicine, and hypertension. He is a recipier4 of multiple national and international awards. His special scientific interest includes pathophysiology, conservative and novel interventional therapies of hypertension and heart failure He is member of several editorial boards and serves as Vice-Chair of the Working Gro up Interventional Hypertension Treatment of the European Society of Hypertension Board member of the European Society of Cardiology Council on Hypertension, EuroPCR Board of Directors, Co-Chairmen of the Resistant Hypertension Course, and program committee member of the ESC congress 2017 & 2018. Professor Mahfoud is involved as steering committee member in the design and execution of several pharmaceutical and interventional studies in hypertension treatment.