Cecilia Linde, MD

Cecilia Linde is a Professor in Cardiology at Karolinska University Hospital and the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. Her research focuses on devices such as cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and cardiac contractility modulation (CCM) and epidemiology in heart failure. She was the principal or co-principal investigator of international RCTs on CRT or CCM such as the MUSTIC, REVERSE, MIRACLE-EF and the CCM HFpEF studies. She chairs the Stockholm PREFERS studies and co-chaired the KaRen study which focus on epidemiology, imaging and biomarkers in heart failure with special attention to HFpEF. She has served in various board leadership positions of ESC. 2016-2018 as councillor, 2018–2020as Vice President and currently as Secretary Treasurer of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2022-2024. Board Professor Linde contributed to many guideline writing committees of European Heart Rhythm Association and Heart Failure Association. She has authored over 300 papers, reviews and editorials covering a wide variety of topics and since 2020 is the executive editor for the topic heart failure of European Heart Journal.