Visiting professors
CARIM attracts nationally and internationally renowned researchers via several foundations or own initiatives. With their visions and networks, they contribute to the innovation of education and research.
Hein Wellens Visiting Professorship
The Hein Wellens Visiting Professorship is endowed by the St. Annadal foundation to stimulate clinical research in the field of cardiovascular disease. The purpose of this chair is to give renowned scientists the opportunity to teach and apply their knowledge at CARIM.
The chair is named after Prof. Hein Wellens (1935-2020), a Dutch cardiologist who is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the cardiology subspecialty of clinical cardiac electrophysiology. From 1978 until 2002, Prof. Wellens held a chair at Maastricht University as Professor and Head of the Department of Cardiology.
| 2004 - 2005 | J. Narula | Irvine, USA |
| 2007 - 2008 | M. Krucoff | Durham, USA |
| 2008 - 2010 | Y. Rudy | St. Louis, USA |
| 2010 - 2011 | R. Kim | Durham, USA |
| 2011 - 2013 | K. Mayo | Minneapolis, USA |
| 2013 - 2014 | M. Stoll | Münster, Germany |
| 2016 - 2017 | A. Zaza | Milano, Italy |
| 2020 | Th. Münzel | Mainz, Germany |
CARIM-HVC chair
The programme is founded and funded by the CARIM together with the HVC and aims at strengthening the translational cardiovascular axis.
| 2020 - 2022 | C. Hughes | Irvine |
Stichting ter Bevordering van Cardiovasculair Onderzoek en Onderwijs (SBCOO)
2020 | P. Kirchhof | Hamburg, Germany |
2022-2024 | P. Stenvinkel | Stockholm, Sweden |
2024-2025 | C. Shanahan | King's College London, UK |
2025 | R. Foo | National University of Singapore |
The current chair of the SBCOO is held 
by Prof. Roger Foo. Prof. Foo is the inaugural Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute, Senior Consultant (Genetics Lead) at the National University Heart Centre Singapore (NUHCS) and Vice Dean (Research) at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He is also an Adjunct Research Director, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR.