Professor, Centre for Paediatric Inherited and Rare Cardiovascular Disease, University College London and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
Juan Pablo Kaski, MD(Res) FRCP FESC, is Professor of Paediatric Inherited Cardiovascular Medicine at the UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, where he leads the UCL Centre for Paediatric Inherited and Rare Cardiovascular Disease, and Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), London, UK. He is the Director of the GOSH Centre for Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases. His clinical and research interests are focused on the clinical and genetic characterisation of cardiomyopathies and other inherited cardiovascular disease, and sudden cardiac death in childhood. He leads an internationally recognised research programme in the field of paediatric cardiomyopathy, having established a unique clinical cohort and the only UK bioresource for paediatric inherited cardiovascular disease, with the aim of stratifying disease phenotypes and identifying novel therapeutic targets.
He is Secretary/Treasurer of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Council on Cardiovascular Genomics and sits on the Executive Board of the ESC Cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis Registry Programme. He has also served as Chair and Secretary of the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology (AEPC) Working Group on Genetics, Basic Science and Myocardial Disease. He leads an international paediatric HCM consortium of over 65 centres, which was responsible for the development of the first sudden death risk prediction model for childhood HCM. He chaired the Task Force for the 2023 European Society of Cardiology Cardiomyopathy Guidelines.