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Doctor Stavros Drakos

University of Utah, Salt Lake City (United States of America)

Member of:

European Society of Cardiology
Heart Failure Association

Dr. Stavros George Drakos is a Professor of Cardiology at the U of Utah Health and School of Medicine and holds the H. A. & Edna Benning Presidential Endowed Chair. He is the Medical Director of the institution's historic Cardiac Mechanical Support/Artificial Heart Program, Co-Director of Heart Failure & Transplant and Director of Research of the Cardiology Division. He is licensed to practice medicine in the US and the EU. His team published clinical studies in heart failure together with original scientific work generated in the laboratory which led to the establishment of the award-winning Utah Cardiac Recovery Program (UCAR). He is the chairperson of the Clinical Integrative Cardiovascular and Hematological Sciences (CCHS) at the NIH and a visiting professor in academic medical centers nationally and internationally. He has mentored over the years several individuals who are now independent faculty in academic medical centers in the US and overseas.

Derivation and validation of a multicenter model to identify candidates for advanced HF therapies with high potential to achieve post-LVAD reverse cardiac remodeling

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Ventricular Assist Devices

Session: Heart transplantation, LVADs and inotropic support in heart failure: challenges and expectations

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Impact of HF etiology on the sustainability of favorable response after LVAD weaning: A VAD Wean Registry analysis

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Ventricular Assist Devices

Session: Advanced heart failure: new challenges, new opportunities

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Cardiac reverse remodeling and recovery in dilated cardiomyopathy medication-naive patients requiring durable left ventricular assist device support

Event: ESC Congress 2019

Topic: Ventricular Assist Devices

Session: Stage D heart failure

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Predicting cardiac recovery before durable left ventricular assist device implantation in advanced heart failure patients

Event: ESC Congress 2019

Topic: Ventricular Assist Devices

Session: Heart failure: prognosis, outcome

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Myocardial recovery: update 2019

Event: Heart Failure 2019

Topic: Gene Therapy, Cell Therapy

Session: Cardiac repair therapies

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“Shock Team” approach and other new ideas in managing cardiogenic shock

Event: ESC Congress 2018

Topic: Cardiogenic Shock

Session: Expert Advice - Cardiogenic shock during an ICU night shift – preparing for the worst to get the best

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Mechanical circulatory support: indications and outcomes

Event: ESC Congress 2018

Topic: Acute Heart Failure

Session: Advanced heart failure - Best advice to treat critically ill patients

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Will we use VADs to recover the failing heart in the future?

Event: ESC Congress 2017

Topic: AHF - Drug treatment

Session: The future therapy of heart failure: shall we find the answers in the crystal ball?

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Predicting myocardial recovery in MCS patients: what have we learned?

Event: HEART FAILURE 2016

Topic: Devices / Artificial heart / CRT / ICD

Session: Advanced heart failure therapies as a bridge to transplantation

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