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Academician Petar M. Seferović

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Academician PETAR M. SEFEROVIC

Petar M. Seferović  

Academician of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

  • Chairman, 2025 Heart Failure Congress, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Chair, European Society of Cardiology Task Force, Eastern Countries (2024-)
  • Lead Editor, ESC Textbook of Heart Failure (2023)
  • Co-Editor for Eastern Europe, European Heart Journal (2021-)
  • Co-chairman, Quality of Care Centers, Registries, HFA Atlas Committee of the Heart Failure Society of the ESC (2022-)
  • Vice President, European Society of Cardiology (2020-2022)
  • President, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (2018-2020)
  • Academician, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2018-)
  • Professor of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade (2000 – )
  • President, Heart Failure Society of Serbia (2011 – )
  • Academician, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (corresponding member 2012-2018, member, 2018-)
  • Head, Department of Heart Failure, Clinic for Cardiology, University Medical Center, Belgrade (2010-16)
  • Director, Clinic for Cardiology, University Medical Center, Belgrade (2011-13) ▪ Deputy Director for education, University Medical Center, Belgrade (2009-12)
  • Director, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Faculty University of Belgrade (2012-2016)
  • Chairman, Committee for Heart Failure National Societies, Heart Failure Association of the ESC (2016- ) ▪ Visiting Professor, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA (1990-91)

Professor Seferović is the leading European expert in the field of cardiology, heart failure, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, heart muscle disorders and pericardial disease. He co-authored 812 scientific papers with a cumulative impact factor of 3957. According to the Clarivate list, he is among 1 in 1000 most cited researchers in 2023. This fact was instrumental in placing the University of Belgrade among 1.8% out of 20,966 universities worldwide according to the 2024 Centre for World University Rankings. Professor Seferović is a member of the Heart Failure Society of America Hall of Fame.

Most important quantitative data

Professor Petar M. SeferovićTotal quantitative data  
Total number of publications831
Cumulative impact factor4499,7
        ▪    Papers in international journals506
▪ Рapers in top international journals M21a (best 10%)198
        ▪    Papers in top international journals M21 (best 30%)  94
        ▪     Textbooks8
        ▪    Chapters in international monographies30
        ▪    Chapters in national monographies42
        ▪     Papers presented at international Congresses 386
International lectures at Congresses and Meetings with significant386
international reputation 
Citations without auto-citations 
        ▪    Google Scholar134066
        ▪    Scopus 81,320 (in 64,857 manuscript)
H-index 
        ▪    Scopus102
        ▪    Google Scholar102

New cardiology methods Professor Seferović introduced in Yugoslavia (Serbia)

  • Cardiomyoplasty (1998)  
  • Percutaneous balloon pericardiotomy (1997)
  • Flexible percutaneous pericardioscopy and pericardial biopsy (1996)
  • Percutaneous dilatation of the pulmonary artery (1995) 
  • Endomyocardial biopsy (1994)
  • Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and coronary stents (1993)

Textbooks

  • The ESC Textbook on Heart Failure (Oxford University Press, 2023)
  • The Textbook of Internal Medicine (Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, 2021)
  • Interventional Pericardiology, (Springer, 2011)
  • Pericardiology (Science, 2000)
  • Endomyocardial biopsy: Indications and perspectives (Science, 1990)

Activity in the professional associations

The most important positions and capacities of Professor Seferović include the following: 

  • Chairman, 2025 Heart Failure Congress, Belgrade, Serbia
  • Chair, European Society of Cardiology Task Force Eastern Countries (2024-)
  • Co-Editor for Eastern Europe, European Heart Journal (2021-)
  • Vice President, European Society of Cardiology (2020-2022)
  • President, Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (2018-2020)
  • Co-chairman, Quality of Care Centers, Registries, HFA Atlas Committee of the Heart Failure Society of the ESC (2022-)
  • Academician, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2018-)
    • President, Committee for Cardiomyopathies of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC (2016-)
    • Member of the Board, Heart Failure Association of the ESC (2008 – )
    • President, Working Group for National Serbian Guidelines for Heart Failure (2012)
    • President, National Serbian Board for Heart Transplantation (2011-13)
    • Coordinator, Heart Failure National Societies of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC (2011-15)
    • President, Heart Failure Society of Serbia (2011- )
    • President-elect, Cardiology Society of Serbia and Montenegro (2005-2006)
    • Coordinator of the Tempus project (Joint European Project 19046-2004) “Restructuring of the postgraduate studies & training in medicine in Serbia”  
    • President of the Serbian Society of Cardiology (2000-2002)
    • Member of the nucleus of the Working Group of the Myocardial and Pericardial Disease of the ESC (2001-07)
    • Member of the American College of Cardiology (1991 – ); Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (1995 – )
    • Member of the Committee for Cardiovascular Pathology of the Serbian Academy of the Sciences and

Arts (1986 – )

As the HFA of the ESC President (2018-2020) and the Vice-President of the ESC (2020-2022), Professor Seferović initiated and successfully completed several major long-term ESC/HFA scientific projects, including:  the ESC Textbook on Heart Failure (published 2023),  the Central/Easter Europe Quality of Care Centers (the network of HFA accredited centers, cooperating to establish contemporary standards of diagnostic and therapeutic management for heart failure patients) and the two surveys on the epidemiology and management resources for heart failure in ESC member countries, the ESC ATLAS on Heart Failure (published in 2021) and the HFA Observe Survey (expected publication 2025)

Editorial and reviewer engagement s in journals, textbooks and ESC guidelines

  • Lead Editor of the ESC Textbook on heart failure (Oxford University Press, 2023)
  • Editor-in-chief of Textbook of Internal Medicine (Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade, 2021)
  • Co-Editor for Eastern Europe, European Heart Journal (2021-)
  • Editor-in-chief of Textbook of Internal Medicine (Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade, 2021)
  • Reviewer for the European Society of Cardiology and European Heart Failure Association Congresses (2006 – )
  • Reviewer for 7. cycles of the European Union Projects (FP7) (2010).
  • Member of Task forces or Reviewer of the European Society of Cardiology Guidelines for Infective endocarditis (2009), Diabetes and Cardiovascular disease

(2009, 2019) Heart Failure (2016, 2021) and Myocardial revascularization (2018) ➢ Author, Cardiovascular Textbook of the European Society of Cardiology.

  • Reviewer for the leading international cardiology journals (Circulation, European Heart Journal, European Journal of Heart Failure, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, ESC Heart Failure, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, American Journal of Cardiology, Herz).
  • Guest Editor for Rheumatology Oxford, Oct 2006 (IF 4,052)