Katarzyna Byczkowska, MD&PhD, Graduate of Postgraduate Studies of Heart Failure in University of Zurich, a certified cardiologist, heart failure and transplant specialist in training, certified echocardiographer and currently serving in Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation Department and Mechanical Circulatory Support Department in National Institute of Cardiology in Warsaw. She has completed Advanced Heart Failure Course of ESC, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Imaging Course of EACVI and The EACVI Teaching Course on Thoracic Echocardiography. Her main clinical interests and research focus on cardiac imaging, heart failure and cardiomyopathies.