Cardiologist
Harald T. Jørstad (1980) is a senior attending cardiologist and a consultant cardiologist in sports and prevention at the Amsterdam UMC and the Sports Medical Center Papendal. He furthermore chairs the national Sports Cardiology Section of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology, and the Netherlands Olympic Committee (NOC*NSF) cardiac screening programme. He has a personal distinction as a NOC*NSF ‘High Performance Partner’. He was the Lead of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology Young Community (2020-2022) and currently chairs the EAPC Accreditation sub-committee. He pioneered the first sports cardiology fellowship in the Netherlands and is currently the head of the sports cardiology residence programme at the Amsterdam UMC. He is also the head of the Cardiac Care Unit/ Cardiac Emergency Room at the Amsterdam UMC.
His research focuses on elite athletes, pre-participation screening, imaging in athletes, return-to-sports after COVID-19, and network medicine and multidisciplinary decision-making in athletes with cardiovascular disease. He currently supervises numerous PhD students and a post-doc. His research within the fields of sports cardiology and cardiovascular prevention has been is included in several European Society of Cardiology guidelines. When not engaged in clinical work or research, he is a fervent runner and enthusiastic gym nerd.
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