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Harry Suryapranata is a prominent Belgian interventional cardiologist. He was born in Pangkalpinang, Indonesia, on 24 June 1951. He studied in Leuven, Antwerp and Rotterdam where he became a cardiologist. He became Professor of Cardiology in 2010. His present position is Professor at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Harry Suryapranata was one of the pioneers in interventional cardiology and as member of the Zwolle Cardiology Group they developed primary angioplasty as principal treatment in acute myocardial infarction. For this and other related work he received in 2006 the Andreas Gruentzig award of the European Society of Cardiology.

Harry Suryapranata is founder and CEO of Diagram BV (1996), a research organisation that contributed through the years to important international research.