CARS 2026 Program Committee

Purang Abolmaesumi, PhD (CA)
Samir Aboul-Hosn Centenero, MD, PhD (ES)
Russell J. Andrews, MD (US)
Christos Angelopoulos, DDS (GR)
Conrado Aparicio, PhD (ES)
Jumpei Arata, PhD (JP)
Eiichiro Ariji, DDS, PhD (JP)
Paulo Mazzoncini Azevedo-Marques, PhD (BR)
John S.H. Baxter, PhD (FR)
Maximilian Wolfgang Berlet, MD (DE)
Lukas Bernhard, PhD (DE)
Dirk Beyersdorff, MD, PhD (DE)
Ulrich Bick, MD (DE)
Uldis Bite, MD (US)
Ruey-Feng Chang, PhD (TW)
Xiaojun Chen, PhD (CN)
Mario A. Cypko, PhD (DE)
Andreas Dietz, MD, PhD (DE)
Stylianos Drisis, MD, PhD (BE)
Roy Eagleson, PhD (CA)
Caroline Essert, PhD (FR)
Allan G. Farman, PhD, DSc (US)
Manuel Fernández Garrido, MD (ES)
Gabor Fichtinger, PhD (CA)
Michael H. Friebe, PhD (PL)
Jonas Johannes Fuchtmann, MSc (DE)
Masakatsu G. Fujie, PhD (JP)
Hiroshi Fujita, PhD (JP)
Pablo Garcia Tahoces, PhD (ES)
Mónica García-Sevilla, PhD (ES)
Neil Glossop, PhD (CA)
Miguel Ángel González Ballester, PhD (ES)
Lixu Gu, PhD (CN)
Makoto Hashizume, MD, PhD, FACS (JP)
Hugo Herrero Antón de Vez, MD (ES)
Juan A. Hueto Madrid, MD (ES)
Alissa Jell, MD (DE)
Leo Joskowicz, PhD (IL)
Takashi Kamio , PhD (JP)
Zafrulla Khan, DDS, MS (US)
Ron Kikinis, MD (US)
Vassili Kovalev, PhD (BY)
Hongen Liao, PhD (CN)
Cristian A. Linte, PhD (US)

Brent J. Liu, PhD (US)
Rüdiger Marmulla, MD (DE)
Ken Masamune, PhD (JP)
Franziska Mathis-Ullrich, PhD (DE)
Yukiko Matsuda, PhD, DDS (JP)
Mamoru Mitsuishi, PhD (JP)
Janne J. Näppi, PhD (US)
Christopher Nimsky, MD (DE)
Yukihiro Nomura, PhD (JP)
Fridtjof Nüsslin, PhD (DE)
Masahiro Oda, PhD (JP)
Steffen Oeltze-Jafra, PhD (DE)
Yoshiharu Ohno, MD, PhD (JP)
Daniel Ostler-Mildner, MSc (DE)
José Blas Pagador Carrasco, PhD (ES)
Klaus Radermacher, PhD (DE)
Anke Reinschluessel, PhD (DE)
Stephen J. Riederer, PhD (US)
Sylvia Saalfeld, PhD (DE)
Ichiro Sakuma, PhD (JP)
Luisa F. Sánchez Peralta, PhD (ES)
Yoshinobu Sato, PhD (JP)
Armin Schneider, PhD (DE)
Alexander Schramm, MD, DDS, PhD (DE)
Rainer Schubert, MD (AT)
Ramin Shahidi, PhD (US)
Akinobu Shimizu, PhD (JP)
Jana Steger, PhD (DE)
Matthäus Stöhr, MD (DE)
Geert J. Streekstra, PhD (NL)
Nobuhiko Sugano, MD, PhD (JP)
Russell H. Taylor, PhD (US)
Jayaram K. Udupa, PhD (US)
Maarten J.A. van Alphen, PhD (NL)
Eric vanSonnenberg, MD (US)
Ina Vernikouskaya, PhD (DE)
Sergi Vidal-Sicart, MD, PhD (ES)
Gabriele von Voigt, PhD (DE)
Lars Wagner , MSc. (DE)
Andreas Wahle, PhD (US)
Gerlig Widmann, MD (AT)
Takaharu Yamazaki, PhD (JP)
Kitaro Yoshimitsu, PhD (JP)