Specialist of Internal Medicine and Cardiology

University Hospital Cetnre Zagreb, Croatia

Margarita Brida graduated from University of Zagreb School of Medicine where she also completed her specialization in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, and her doctoral postgraduate study. She underwent two-year Fellowship in Adult Congenital Heart Disease at the University Hospital Muenster, Germany and Royal Brompton Hospital London, UK. She also graduated from Harvard, Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program.  She is currently working as a Consultant Cardiologist at the tertiary Centre for Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) in Croatia, and she is a Vice President of the Croatian Society of Cardiology Working Group for Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Furthermore, she holds a visiting research position at Imperial College of London and Royal Brompton Hospital. She is publishing scientific papers in high impact cardiology journals. Her main fields of interest are echocardiography and imaging, heart failure and pulmonary arterial hypertension in ACHD. Her current work is focused on further clinical and academic development of ACHD in Southeastern European region through collaboration, national, multinational data/registries, future research in the field, and scientific meetings. As a part of these on-going efforts, she was director of ESC EuroGUCH meeting in April 2019 in Zagreb, Croatia. She is also official Nucleus Member of the ESC Working Group on Adult Congenital Heart Disease.