Finn Waagstein MD PhD

The Evolution of the Use of β-Blockers to Treat Heart Failure: A Conversation With Finn Waagstein, MD.

Finn Waagstein was born in Copenhagen in 1938. He graduated from Aarhus University Medical School in 1964. He received his cardiology training in the Sahlgrenska University Hospital at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He was appointed Associate Professor in 1980, and he assisted in establishing and directing the first Swedish heart transplant program. From 1990 he directed the heart failur...

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Effects of Controlled-Release Metoprolol on Total Mortality, Hospitalizations, and Well-being in Patients With Heart Failure The Metoprolol CR/XL Randomized Intervention Trial in Congestive Heart Failure (MERIT-HF)

Åke Hjalmarson, MD, PhD Sidney Goldstein, MD Björn Fagerberg, MD, PhD Hans Wedel, PhD Finn Waagstein, MD, PhD John Kjekshus, MD, PhD John Wikstrand, MD, PhD Dia El Allaf, MD Jirı́ Vı́tovec, MD, PhD Jan Aldershvile, MD, PhD Matti Halinen, MD, PhD Rainer Dietz, MD Karl-Ludwig Neuhaus, MD András Jánosi, MD, DSc Gudmundur Thorgeirsson, MD, PhD Peter H. J. M. Dunselman, MD, PhD Lars Gullestad, MD Jerz...

recipe for translational research in INDIA: MD-PhD or PhD-MD?

The current scientific scenario in India overemphasizes translational research without highlighting need to bring educational and training reforms that can enable such translational research. It is widely believed that there are two cycles of translation, namely T1 cycle which is characterised by bench to bedside approach and the T2 cycle which is characterised by bedside to bench approach. Bot...

Prof Ismet Ceric, MD, PhD (1935-2017)

Professor Ismet Ceric, MD, PhD, was one of the last representatives of the recognizable Sarajevo Neuropsychiatry School in the former Yugoslav territory, which was founded by Professor Nedo Zec (1899-1971) in 1946/47 with professors Dimitrije Dimitrijevic (1900-1989), Josip Horvat (1911-1964), Salih Ridjanovic, Slobodan Loga (1936-), Dusan Kecmanovic (1940-2014) and others. He was born 1935 in ...