Andrea Sarkozy

Prof. Andrea Sarkozy graduated in 1995. Between 2007 and 2013 she was Director of the Clinical Electrophysiology Program of the Heart Rhythm Management Center in the University Hospital of Brussels, Belgium. Between 2013 and 2022 she was director of the Electrophysiology Program of the Cardiology department of the University Hospital of Antwerp and professor at the University of Antwerp. Since February 2023, she is the director of the Ventricular Arrhythmia and Sudden Death Management Unit of the Heart Rhythm Management Center of the University Hospital of Brussels and professor at the Free University of Brussels. Prof. Sarkozy is since 2017 Fellow of the European Heart Rhythm Association, between 2014 and 2017 she was board member of the EHRA, between 2017 and 2020 she was EHRA webinar course director and since 2022 she is scientific program co-chair of the EHRA congress. She is an internationally recognized expert in the field of cardiac electrophysiology.

Opleiding

• Prof. Andrea Sarkozy graduated in 1995 from the Semmelweis Medical University of Budapest, Hungary. Following her internal medicine and cardiology training, she completed a clinical electrophysiology fellowship training at the St. Michael’s Hospital of the University of Toronto in Canada for further specialization in the field of interventional electrophysiology. Between 2007 and 2013 she was Director of the Clinical Electrophysiology Program of the Heart Rhythm Management Center in the University Hospital of Brussels, Belgium, where she completed her PhD entitled “Brugada syndrome: facts and controversies”, under the guidance of Prof. Pedro Brugada.

Publicaties

• She is author of >150 scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals and co-author of several international guidelines in the field of Brugada syndrome and catheter ablation of complex cardiac arrhythmias. She serves as principal investigator and national clinical trial coordinator in multiple international multicenter trials and as reviewer in several international cardiology and electrophysiology journals.