Dr. Navin Suthahar is a Fellow of the ESC (FESC) and a senior scientist at the Department of Cardiology (Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands). He completed his medical degree (MD) in 2008, holds postgraduate diplomas (PG-Dip) in Cardiology and Respiratory Medicine, and a masters (MSc) in Preventive Cardiology. His doctoral thesis in Cardiology (PhD) was on novel aspects of heart failure biomarkers, including the overlapping effects of sex and adiposity. During his PhD tenure, he conducted a part of his research in the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. He has authored over 75 research items. His research focuses on i) replacing BMI with relative fat mass (RFM) in the clinical estimation of adiposity ii) obesity-related cardiometabolic disease, particularly HFpEF and iii) cardiac hormones: natriuretic peptides and BMP10. Additionally, he is involved in cardio-oncology research, examining mechanisms linking cardiometabolic disease with cancer.