Prof. Dr Kurt Huber, MD, FESC, FACC, FAHA, is director of the Department of Cardiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the Klinik Ottakring (formerly the Wilhelminen hospital)and Vice Dean of Research and Professor for Acute and Interventional Cardiology at the Sigmund Freud University Medical School, Vienna, Austria. He is an interventional cardiologist with over 35 years of experience. His main research interest covers basic research (mechanisms of thrombus formation and dissolution) as well as clinical research (acute coronary syndromes, organization of STEMI networks, antithrombotic therapy in CV diseases). He has performed over 100 international clinical trials as national coordinator and steering committee member ,has published over800peer reviewed papers, his Hirsh factor is 84 (Thomson Reuters), his lifeIF > 4000, he has organized > 200 national and international conferences, and he has been listed annually from2015-2019among the top0,1% of the most cited researchers globally in ClinicalMedicine.Dr Huber is president of the Austrian Heart Foundation (sinceNovember 2019) and president-elect of the Association of Acute Cardiovascular Care (ACVC) of the EuropeanSociety of Cardiology (ESC )(sinceMarch 2020)

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