Dr. Philippe Charron National Referral Center for Hereditary or Rare Cardiac Diseases - University Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière  Philippe Charron is Professor of medicine, Head of the National referral center for cardiac hereditary diseases and president of the scientific committee of the French association of patients “League against cardiomyopathy”. As a cardiogeneticist, he is also Team leader of INSERM/Sorbonne University 1166 unit dedicated to Genomics of cardiac diseases and a board member of ICAN IHU. He is also a board member of the ERN Guard-Heart (European reference network for rare heart diseases), former Chairman of the European EORP registry on cardiomyopathies (>3200 patients included), former president of the ESC working group on myocardial and pericardial diseases. He has coordinated or participated in various international research networks (ERA-CVD, UE-Horizon, FP7, Leducq transatlantic network for excellence), in various clinical trials and is a member of several scientific boards in the field of hereditary or rare heart diseases.