Patrick Myers is a consultant cardiac surgeon at CHUV - Lausanne University Hospitals in Switzerland and 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 has served as secretary of the European Board for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, chair of the EACTS Acquired Cardiac Diseases Domain, Secretary General of EACTS since 2022, and president of CTSNet. 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.
Daisuke Kaneyuki is a clinical instructor, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery at Columbia University, NY, USA. He had completed his cardiac surgery residency training in Japan in 2020. Then he successfully completed Advanced Adult Cardiac Surgical Fellowship at Mayo Clinic, MN, USA between 2020-2021 and Cardiac Surgical Fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital between 2021-2023. He continues Advanced Adult Cardiac Surgery/LVAD/Tranplant Fellowship at Columbia University. He is interested in general adult cardiac surgery including robotic, minimally invasive surgery, MCS and transplantation.