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Clinical specialty(ies): Congenital heart disease; Pediatric cardiac anesthesia and anesthesia for Adult Congenital Heart Disease; Adult cardiac anesthesia; Transesophageal ultrasound; Anesthesia for vascular and thoracic surgery; Anesthesia for non-cardiac surgery in patients with congenital heart disease. Center of interest and research for pre-and post-operative neurological problems: Angina pectoris, Pulmonary embolism, Atrial fibrillation, Pulmonary arterial hypertension, Heart attack, Heart failure, Endocarditis, Myocarditis, Pericarditis, Cardiomyopathies, Congenital heart disease, Heart valve diseases, Sudden death, Syncope, Acute coronary syndrome or Coronary heart disease, Tachycardia, Rhythm disturbances or arrhythmias. Languages spoken: Persian, Dutch, French, English, Italian. Background and career: Graduated in medicine from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1998; Graduated as a specialist in anesthesia and resuscitation at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in 2003; Graduated in transthoracic and transesophageal cardiac ultrasound at the Faculty of Medicine of Créteil in Paris in 2004; Thesis at the Catholic University of Louvain in 2012: “New insights into the production and the pleiotropic effects of erythropoietin”; Certificates of participation in basic and advanced courses in medical statistics organized by SMCS (UCL) in 2013 and European Society of Anaesthesiology in 2014; References Professional companies: Member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists; Member of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologists; Member of the Belgian Society of Anesthesia and Reanimation; Council member for Belgium at the European Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care; Subcommittee member for cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia at the European; Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care; Scientific committee member at the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society. The teacher. Momeni has received several research awards from the Belgian Society of Anesthesia and Resuscitation. She was also: Author and co-author of around thirty articles in various international medical journals; Principal investigator of several multicenter studies; Reviewer of several anesthetic journals; Scientific committee leader for “Pediatric and Congenital Subspeciality” at the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologists; Reviewer and editor of several anesthetic journals.