Improving
Heart Function

Advancing trans-disciplinary innovation in heart failure

drugs and device solutions to improve patient care

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Trans-disciplinary innovation in heart failure drugs and device solutions to improve patient care

What is iHF? 

Welcome to the Improving Heart Function (iHF) initiative, an innovative educational project dedicated to promoting comprehensive care for heart failure patients accross all specialties. 

Our mission is to assemble a trans-disciplinary team to identify and address unmet needs in heart failure management. By enhancing the collaboration between pharmaceuticals and medical devices, we aim to optimise patient outcomes. 

Our focus areas include:

  • Healthcare management: Integrating lifelong management of drugs and devices to ensure the effective implementation of guideline-directed medical therapy. 
  • Patient management: Enhancing patient selection and risk stratification through advanced imaging and biomarkers, while addressing the challenges faced by patients with implanted devices. 

This initiative is open to all healthcare professionals committed to the optimal management of heart failure patients. Whether you are a cardiologist, general practitioner, nephrologist, endocrinologist, intensivist, geriatrician, or primary care specialist, your expertise is highly valuable.

Join us in this global effort to transform and improve heart failure care.

Heart Failure Care

A word from our Steering Committee

Emanuele Barbato - Interview

25 September 2025

Giuseppe Rosano - Interview

25 September 2025
Our team

Steering Committee

  • Emanuele Barbato
    Emanuele Barbato
    Interventional cardiologist
    Italy
  • Sabine Bleiziffer
    Sabine Bleiziffer
    Cardiac surgeon
    Germany
  • Christophe Leclercq
    Christophe Leclercq
    Electrophysiologist
    France
  • Alexandre Mebazaa
    Alexandre Mebazaa
    Anaesthesiologist
    France
  • Giuseppe Rosano
    Giuseppe Rosano
    Cardiologist
    United Kingdom
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Industry Partners

Support our initiative

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to the industry partners who support the Improving Heart Function Initiative. Your commitment and collaboration are vital to our mission of advancing trans-disciplinary innovation in heart failure drugs and devices to improve patient care.

By partnering with us, you will join an initiative aimed at addressing unmet needs in heart failure management and advancing healthcare. We aim to work collaboratively to impact the lives of patients globally. Our focus areas include biomarkers, devices, HF management systems, imaging, and drug-oriented solutions.

Your support will help create educational tools and consensus messages on drug and device synergy for the trans-disciplinary worldwide community through webinars, articles, and tailored sessions at the iHF Annual Course. 
For more information, please contact us at Ihf-organisation@europa-group.com