Mathew Maurer

Columbia University, New York, United States

Mathew Maurer is a general internist and geriatric cardiologist with advanced training in heart failure and cardiac transplantation. He is the Arnold and Arlene Goldstein Professor of Cardiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, where he directs the Clinical Cardiovascular Research Laboratory for the Elderly (CCRLE). He is also a member of the Advanced Cardiac Care Center at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Columbia Campus.

Dr. Maurer has published over 300 articles, including peer-reviewed manuscripts, reviews, and book chapters. He was chair of the American College of Cardiology’s Geriatric Cardiology Member Section, which is the largest organization dedicated to advancing the care of older adults with cardiovascular disease. He was co-chair of the steering committee of the ATTR-ACT trial showing tafamidis was a safe and effective therapy for transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy. Throughout his career, he has promulgated an approach to older adults with cardiovascular disease that offers the best of both geriatric and cardiovascular medicine in which a comprehensive holistic approach to enhance functional capacity and quality of life is at the forefront of emerging techniques to address cardiovascular physiologic derangement that disproportionately affect older adults.    

Marianna Fontana

University College London, London, United Kingdom

Marianna Fontana is the director of the University College London (UCL) CMR unit at the Royal Free Hospital. She is professor of cardiology and honorary consultant cardiologist at the National Amyloidosis Centre, University College London, where she is deputy head of the Centre and deputy clinical lead. Prof. Fontana obtained her medical degree (MD) and qualifications as a cardiologist at the University of Pisa. She undertook a PhD at UCL which focused on CMR in cardiac amyloidosis. Her main research interests are cardiac imaging, amyloidosis, and heart failure. She is an intermediate British Heart Foundation Fellow and has co-authored 210 peer reviewed publications with more than 12,900 citations.