Dr Jeroen Bax
Dr Bax is a professor of cardiology and Director of both Non-invasive Imaging and the Echo Laboratory at the Leiden University Medical Center. He has also served on the editorial boards of various journals, including as Associate Editor for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Heart and is the past President of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). He was elected as ESC president at 50 years of age, making him the youngest president in the Society’s history.
Dr Bax has served the ESC in numerous capacities, including chair of the Cardiology Practice Guidelines Committee, Chair of the Scientific Program, Chair of the Press Committee, Co-Chair of two International Conferences on Nuclear Cardiology (ICNC) and Co-Editor of two ESC books on cardiac imaging. He has also authored more than 700 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.
Dr Bax studied medicine from 1984 to 1990 and before launching his research career at the University of Miami, where his primary focus was in the field of immunology and basic science. In 1996, he obtained his doctorate from the Free University in Amsterdam on the subject of "metabolic imaging with FDG SPECT" and completed his training as a cardiologist in 2002. He continued his training at the Leiden University Medical Center, where he now works as a general cardiologist with a focus on cardiac imaging.
His main interests include clinical cardiology, heart failure, cardiac resynchronisation therapy and the application of all different imaging modalities to these clinical fields.
- H-index 175 – according to Scopus
- Number of publications (according to PubMed) 2162
- Sum of times cited without self-citations 168,212
- Average citation per article 25.66 (according to Web of Science)
- D-Index & Metrics (Best Scientists-Medicine)
- Discipline Medicine D-index 187 citations 218,225
- publications 2470; world ranking 150; national ranking 5, LUMC ranking 1 (source research.com/u/jeroen-j-bax-1)
