Dr Emel (Eliza) Kaplan, MD, PhD, FESC, is an attending cardiologist at University Hospital Basel and co-leads the Women’s Heart Health Program in Basel (since 2024). She is a senior clinical researcher at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel and has a background in interventional cardiology. She holds an MD from Radboud University (the Netherlands) and conducted her PhD research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston. Her clinical and research focus is sex- and gender-specific cardiovascular medicine, particularly INOCA/MINOCA, coronary microvascular dysfunction, and syncope prognosis and risk stratification, including biomarker-based diagnostics. She co-leads the BRAVE brain–heart microvascular project, serves in the ESC Gender Task Force, is a founding member of the Swiss Women’s Heart Board, and part of the scientific leadership of the Women’s Heart Symposium Basel.
