Defining the role of exercise testing and cardiac rehabilitation in the detection and prevention of early-stage heart failure: a roadmap to personalised profiling

The postdoc will help in a planned clinical study that aims to define the role of exercise testing and cardiac rehabilitation in the detection and prevention of early-stage heart failure. The postdoc will be the key person for the study preparation, patient recruitment, the data acquisition and post-processing, the biobanking and the data management related to the study. He will also continue analysing data from the Flemish Study on Environment, Genes and Health Outcomes, a large-scale population study directed by the Research Unit of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Epidemiology. He will also participate in ongoing and planned projects led by this research unit as well as in projects resulting from our interuniversity partnership with the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute (Stanford University, California, USA). From next academy year on, he will also supervise Master students in Medicine and co-supervise a PhD student. Furthermore, he will help writing grant applications.

Keywords:Heart failure, Exercise testing, Cardiac rehabilitation, Magnetocardiography, Immune profiling

Disciplines:Cardiac surgery