Maja Cikes, MD, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine and a cardiologist at the University hospital Centre Zagreb. She received subspecialty and academic training at St. George’s hospital London, KU Leuven and Univeristätspital Zürich and is an internationally recognized expert in heart failure and cardiac imaging. Her clinical and academic interests span from chronic to advanced heart failure and machine learning. Maja has been involved in many clinical trials and research projects in heart failure, as is currently the Principal Investigator of several multicentre trials and registries. For her scientific work, she has been awarded the UNESCO L’Oreal award “For Women in Science”, the Basic Science Young Investigator Award at EuroEcho-Imaging as well as the Croatian Award for Science for 2019.
