Finance and operations
The F&OC has been established to ensure the financial basis upon which EACTS operates is secure and to deliver a financial scrutiny and oversight function to support the Council in maintaining the Association as a going concern. In conducting business, the F&OC will act with the appropriate authority of the Council, and this is facilitated through the Chairman of the F&OC, the Honorary Treasurer, reporting to the Council.
Members
COUNCIL
Secretary General 2022-2025
ACQUIRED CARDIAC DISEASE DOMAIN
Member 2020-2023
BIOGRAPHY
Patrick Myers is a consultant cardiac surgeon at CHUV - Lausanne University Hospitals in Switzerland and appointed Privat Docent at the Geneva University Medical School. After finishing medical school in Geneva, Patrick completed his cardiovascular surgery residency at the Geneva University Hospitals. He served as senior fellow in adult cardiac surgery at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and then as fellow in cardiac surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital. He was appointed instructor in surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, before returning as attending surgeon in adult and congenital cardiac surgery in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was named associate of the chief of cardiac surgery. Since 2017, he has focused on adult cardiac surgery in his private practice in adult cardiac surgery in Geneva and serves as consultant cardiac surgeon at CHUV Lausanne. He serves as secretary of the European Board for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. His areas of interest are multiple arterial coronary artery bypass grafting, evolving transcatheter techniques to treat structural heart disease, HOCM and critical appraisal of clinical trials and their discussions on social media.
COUNCIL
International Councillor 2021-2024
COUNCIL
Domain Chair 2022-2025
ACQUIRED CARDIAC DISEASE DOMAIN
Chair 2022
Aortic Valve including AV Repair - Taskforce
Deputy Chair 2020-2023
BIOGRAPHY
Filip Casselman has been trained in General and Cardiac Surgery at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He continued his training with a fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and at the St Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. Since 2001 he is working in the department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the OLV Clinic in Aalst, Belgium. His interests include minimally invasive surgery (robotic and videoscopic), valvular reconstructive surgery, percutaneous valve replacement and arrhythmia surgery. Filip is actively involved in cardiac clinical research and has participated in multiple multicenter trials (including Syntax trial, Partner and Prevail trial, etc). He is (co)author of more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has given more than 250 presentations at international meetings.
Finance and Operations
Member 2022-2025
