Felix Mahfoud

Prof Felix Mahfoud is a Professor of Cardiology at the University of Basel and the Chairman of the Department of Cardiology at University Hospital Basel, Switzerland. He also holds a position as Visiting Professor at Harvard-MIT, Biomedical Engineering in Boston, MA. 

Prof Mahfoud is board-certified in internal medicine, cardiology, intensive care medicine, emergency medicine and hypertension. He is Deputy Editor of the European Journal of Heart Failure and is a Councillor on the Board of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) for 2024-2026. Additionally, he chairs both the ESC Communication Committee and the Scientific Documents Committee of the EAPCI for the 2024-2026 term. 

He has published more than 500 publications in peer-reviewed journals and contributed as a wiring committee member to the 2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of chronic coronary syndromes, the 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension and the 2023 ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension.