Dr. Navin Suthahar (MD, PhD) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Cardiology, Erasmus MC (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and a Fellow of the ESC (FESC). He obtained his medical degree (MD) in 2008, followed by postgraduate diplomas (PGDip) in Cardiology and Respiratory Medicine, an MSc in Preventive Cardiology, and a PhD in Cardiology. During his doctoral studies, he unraveled the interaction between sex, obesity and biomarker profiles related to heart failure (HF), and conducted part of his research at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA. He has published over 80 research items. His research interests are 1) novel HF markers 2) metabolic HFpEF, considering sex-specific aspects; and 3) improving clinical obesity assessment using relative fat mass (RFM) instead of BMI, with attention to sex-specific body composition patterns. He also explores the interplay between obesity, cardiometabolic dysfunction and cancer - and how this may differ between women and men.
