Chairpersons:
Vladimir KANJUH (Belgrade, RS)
Giuseppe AMBROSIO (Perugia, IT)
Stefan I. DRAGULESCU (Timisoara, RO)

16:00 Tribute to late Dean of Belgrade University School of Medicine,
Academician Bogdan Đuričić
Vladimir BUMBAŠIREVIĆ (Belgrade, RS)

16:10 Pathophysiology of diastolic heart failure: role of myocardial stiffness and potentials for cardioprotection.
Zoltan PAPP (Debrecen, HU)

16:30 Role of mitochondria in obesity, diabetes, and heart failure.
Vladimir BUMBAŠIREVIĆ (Belgrade, RS)

16:50 Pathophysiology of heart failure in diabetes mellitus
Dan GAITA (Timisoara, RO)

17:10 Translational medicine in diabetic heart failure.
Marcus MEYER (Hannover, DE)

17:20 Discussion