University Clinic of Cardiology, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

Dr. Silvana Jovanova is Professor of Internal Medicine and Cardiology in the Faculty of Medicine, at Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, where she has been working since 1988. Currently, she is chief of the department of cardiomyopathies and heart failure and is senior consultant of echocardiography. In 1998 she was educated in echocardiography at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. Her clinical and scientific focus is on cardiac ultrasound with novel Doppler modalities, heart failure, cardiomyopathies; CVD in women, atherosclerosis. She is the author and co-author of several chapters in medical books and more than hundred scientific articles presented at national and international congresses and symposia and published in medical journals. She has been participated as co-investigator in national projects and EURObservational Research Programme.