Javier Escaned

Prof. Javier Escaned is Head of the Interventional Cardiology Section at Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain). He obtained his specialist certification as a cardiologist the United Kingdom before moving to the Thoraxcenter / Rotterdam (The Netherlands), where he obtained his PhD degree in 1994. He is author of over 400 indexed scientific articles (h-index 67). A skilled interventionalist with 30 years of experience, he regularly shares practical knowledge as live case operator in case transmissions to major global meetings like EuroPCR, TCT and ESC. One of his main interest is complex PCI, an area in which he has published multiple works on subsets like multivessel disease (principal investigator of SYNTAX II study), left main, chronic total occlusion, calcific stenoses, secondary revascularization, acute coronary syndromes, and procedural guidance with physiology and imaging techniques (OCT and IVUS). A pioneer author on IVUS and an early adopter of OCT, his track record in coronary physiology includes being investigator in the pivotal DEFER study on FFR (1998), collaborator in the development, validation and clinical implementation of resting indices of stenosis severity (iFR) (since 2010) and developer of new methods for the assessment of microvascular and non-obstructive coronary disease. Recent trials as principal investigator on intracoronary diagnostics include ADVISE, ADVISE II, DEFINE FLAIR, and ABSORB II Physiology, and ReVEAL. He has served as Task Force member for several ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines (most recent, 2019 Chronic Coronary Syndromes). He is Deputy Editor for Interventional Cardiology of the European Heart Journal, and editor of the textbooks “Coronary Stenosis. Imaging, Structure and Physiology”, (co-edited with Patrick W Serruys) and “Physiological Assessment of Coronary Stenoses and the Microcirculation) (co-edited with Justin Davies). As an educationalist he has trained and worked continuously with PCR since 2009, serving as international faculty at EuroPCR, Gulf PCR and Asia PCR. Besides, he has served as co-director of multiple courses on interventional cardiology held in European, Asian and Australian locations. Recent / current board positions in scientific societies include EuroPCR, EAPCI, EuroCTO and the ESC Working Group of Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation. Some of his additional interests are philosophy, education and music.