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aitdzudie

About: Prof Dzudie is a professor of cardiology of the PU-PH competition of the National Council of Universities of France, a full professor of cardiology, cardiovascular physiology, and research methods at the University of Yaounde I, and also a cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the General Hospital, Douala, Cameroon. He did his MD and internal medicine training in Cameroon, his post-graduate training in clinical cardiology in France, his PhD (supervised by Professor Karen Sliwa) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and his post-doc (supervised by Professor Xavier Jouven) in Paris, France. He is the current President of the Cameroon Cardiac Society and a visiting Scholar and scientist in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA. Dr Dzudie founded CRENC (www.crenc.org), a leading not-for-profit research organization in Africa. Dr Dzudie has been the country PI for several registries/trials in collaboration with various institutions including the Population Health Research Institute, Mc Master, Canada (collaboration with Professor Salim Yusuf). His research focuses on arterial hypertension, heart failure, and the interplay between cardiometabolic and infectious diseases. He led two roadmaps to combat hypertension in Africa and Cameroon, respectively. He is an editorial board member for several Journals and international committees, a hypertension expert for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. He has published around 250 scientific papers, H index 38, 5755 citations. With a proactive personality, high integrity, and ethical standards, he has excellent communication skills and is perfectly bilingual (English and French).