Every year during the Annual Meeting of the AEPC, a selected honored member of the AEPC Interventional Cardiology Working Group is invited to give the Gerd Hausdorf memorial lecture. This important lecture was initiated in 2015.
Until now the following lectures were given:
2024: Ina Michel-Behnke, Austria - Ductus is the Latin word for way
2023: Ziyad Hijazi, Qatar - Innovations in Pediatric/congenital Interventional Cardiology
2022: Marc Gewillig, Belgium - Be aware of the written word!
2021: Jo deGiovanni, United Kingdom: The Heart - an inspirational organ from deep emotional feelings, intervention, engineering and art
2019: Grazyna Brzezinska-Rajszys, Poland - Mind the gender gap in interventional cardiology - views of female interventionalist
2018: Neil Wilson, United States: Training in paediatric interventional cardiology in the era of TAVI, PVL and mitraclip
2017: Mario Carminati, Italy - Errors in the cath lab - how to improve patient safety
2016: John Cheatham, United States - Changing our practice: collaboration not competition
2015: Felix Berger, Germany - Innovation in the treatment of congenital heart disease. Getting the balance right