The objectives of the Heart Failure WG are to promote the awareness of heart failure among European Internists and to promote common European strategies for prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of patients with heart failure.
The Chair of the Heart Failure Working Group is Prof. Antonio Cittadini from the Italian Society of Internal Medicine, SIMI.
The representatives of the Heart Failure Working Group are:
- Prof. Markus Wallner - Austrian Society of Internal Medicine
- Prof. Marc Zaruba - Austrian Society of Internal Medicine
- Dr. Marie Lazarova - Czech Republic Society of Internal Medicine
- Prof. Christiane Angermann - German Society of Internal Medicine
- Prof. Georg Ertl - German Society of Internal Medicine
- Dr. Avshalom Leibowitz - Israeli Society of Internal Medicine
- Dr. Roberts Feders - Latvian Society of Internal Medicine
- Prof. Oskars Kalejs - Latvian Society of Internal Medicine
- Prof. Zbigniew Heleniak - Polish Society of Internal Medicine
- Dr. Joana Pimenta - Portuguese Society of Internal Medicine
- Dr. Vera Larina - Russian Scientific Society of Internal Medicine
- Prof. Matej Samoš - Slovakian Society of Internal Medicine
- Dr. José Carlos Arévalo - Spanish Society of Internal Medicine
- Dr. Jesús Manuel Casado Cerrada - Spanish Society of Internal Medicine
About the Heart Failure WG:
The EFIM Heart Failure Working Group was officially launched in June 2024, under the leadership of Professor Antonio Cittadini from the “Federico II” University of Naples. The group comprises members from 13 European countries, selected to bring a diverse and multidisciplinary perspective to heart failure management within internal medicine. Since its inception, the working group has convened 4 virtual meetings and 1 meeting in person during the 2025 european congress of internal medicine in Florence. On December 19th, 2024, the group organized a well-received international webinar titled “The Challenge of Congestion in Heart Failure”.
Currently, the working group started developing two collaborative position statements:
- A joint statement with the EFIM Working Group on Infectious Diseases on the management of in- fections in heart failure.
- A joint statement in collaboration with the EFIM Working Group on Multimorbidity, focused on integral palliative care for patients with end-stage chronic heart failure and multimorbidity.
These initiatives underscore the group’s commitment to advancing multidisciplinary approaches to heart failure care across Europe.
Primary Contact:
Prof. Antonio Cittadini