Zagreb University Hospital, Croatia
Margarita Brida, Assistant Professor, MD PhD FESC completed her specialization in
Internal Medicine and Cardiology and her doctoral postgraduate study at University
Hospital Centre Zagreb. She attended a two-year clinical and research Fellowship in
Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) at the University Hospital Muenster,
Germany and the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, and has a University of Harvard
degree on the Global Clinical Scholars Research, Boston. She has taken a leadership
role on clinical and academic development of ACHD in the Central and South Eastern
European region through international collaboration, research, clinical, and scientific
meetings and projects and has established and leads the ACHD Academy
international organization. She holds two affiliations; apart from Assistant
Professorship in her home country Croatia she is consultant cardiologist at Royal
Brompton Hospital, London, UK. Her main clinical interests within ACHD are
echocardiography and heart failure. Dr Brida is an official Nucleus Member of the
European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Working Group on ACHD and she
has been elected as ESC WG Chairperson-Elect 2022-2024. She serves as an
Associate Editor for ACHD in the European Heart Journal and International Journal
of Cardiology Congenital Heart Disease.