Angela H. E. M. Maas

Angela Maas, MD PhD, is a clinical cardiologist since more than 30 years and has developed a main interest in heart disease in women over the past decades. She established the first outpatient clinic for women in the Netherlands in 2003. She was appointed as professor in cardiology for women at the Radboudumc in Nijmegen in 2012. Her main interests are the early identification of women at increased CV risk and symptom evaluation in women at middle-age. She has received many awards such as by the Dutch Society of female physicians (2010), the Radboud University (2014) and was knighted by the King in 2017. She is currently one of the most influential female doctors in Dutch healthcare and was the 2020/21 Women’s representative of the Dutch Government to the United Nations. From May 2022 onwards she primarily dedicates her work to research, educational activities and advisory boards.Eva Gerdts, MD PhD, is a cardiologist since 1994. Her main interest has been how hypertension contributes to sex differences in common cardiac diseases, including hypertensive heart disease, coronary artery disease, atrial fibrillation and aortic valve stenosis. She has worked as a clinical cardiologist at Haukeland University Hospital since 1997. She was appointed professor of cardiology at the University of Bergen (UiB) in 2006. Based on her work, a dedicated Center for Research on Cardiac Disease in Women, which she chairs, was established at the UiB in 2020. She has extensive international research experience, including as postdoctoral fellow at Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, USA and as guest professor at Federico II University, Naples, Italy. She has received many awards for her work and is a member of the Norwegian Academy for Science and Letters. She is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and of the American Heart Association – Council on hypertension.