Prof Philipp Sommer is Director of the Clinic for Electrophysiology and Professor at the Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, University clinic of Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.

Prof Sommer is an invited speaker, media correspondent, and editorial board member active in peer review at several high-impact journals including Europace, JACC, JACC EP, European Heart Journal, The Lancet. He is member of the scientific committee of “Herzschrittmachertherapie + Elektrophysiologie”, German Journal of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology and Member of the EHRA Scientific Program Committee 2018 – 2020.

Prof Lucas Boersma is a cardiologist/electrophysiologist at St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein and a Professor of Cardiology at the University of Amsterdam, NL. In his research, Prof Lucas Boersma has primarily focused on transcatheter treatment of atrial fibrillation. Prof Lucas Boersma is the chairman of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology (NVVC) Knowledge Agenda Committee.

Prof Boersma graduated from Medical School in 1996 at the University of Maastricht. In the same year he finished his PHD on Ventricular Tachycardia in the Rabbit Heart. He completed his Cardiology specialty training in 2000 at St. Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein and his subspecialty training in Electrophysiology in 2001 at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, ES. He was Head of the Cardiology Department from 2008-2016, as well as Medical Manager of the Cardiovascular Unit from 2011-2017.