Michel Komajda is a Past President of the European Society of Cardiology and of the French Cardiac Society.He was also chairperson of the congress programme committee ESC 2005-2006 and of the Global scientific Affairs (2010-2014). He is an expert in heart failure management and chaired the working group on heart failure of the ESC, Euro Survey I and was a member of the writting committee of guidelines on the management of heart failure on two occasions. he has been member of the steering committee, of the clinical endpont committee or DSMB of many heart failure clinical trials including SHIFT, CORONA, I PRESERVE, COMET, PARADIGM HF, CARMEN, EMPHESUS, RENAISSANCE, PARAGON.