Borja Ibáñez MD, PhD
Director, Clinical Research Department, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC); Cardiology Department, Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital; Group Leader, CIBERCV, Madrid, SpainBorja Ibáñez is a clinician/scientist who combines research activites as scientific director of the Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC, www.cnic.es) and as member of the CIBERCV, with clinical activities as interventional cardiologist at University Hospital Fundación Jiménez Díaz. He received training in Madrid and in Mount Sinai Heart, New York NY. His research is at the verge of basic and clinical arena, mainly in the fields of MI, heart failure and cardiooncology. He actively participates in primary prevention studies focused on atherosclerosis early identification by imaging to improve risk prediction. He is PI of several multicenter clinical trials recruiting patients with myocardial infarction and heart failure, including the megatrial REBOOT, enrolling 8500 post-MI with normal ejection fraction randomized to beta-blockers or not.
He has published more than 350 scientific publications, with an H-index of 74 (scholar). He has received numerous awards for his scientific merits, including the Banco de Sabadell, Constantes y Vitales, Princesa de Girona, and Fundación Jesús Serra among others.
He served as the Chairman of the 2017 ESC STEMI Guidelines and is the Chairman of the forthcoming 2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of ACS.