Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Region Hovedstaden, belongs to the elite university hospitals and aims to be the preferred choice for patients and professionals. The Danish healthcare system is highly centralised, with primary, secondary, and tertiary hospitals. All healthcare costs, including genetic analysis, are covered by the government. Rigshospitalet is one of Denmark’s largest workplaces, with about 12,000 employees covering more than 50 professional groups. The hospital offers clinical and advanced residency programmes for cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, vascular medicine, anaesthesia, and research. Physicians complete over 6,000 interventional and diagnostic cardiac catheterisation procedures each year and perform approximately 1,000 open-heart operations. Rigshospitalet is affiliated with Copenhagen University, recently rated 39th in the world by the Academic Ranking of the World Universities. The Department of Cardiology has 6 professors, 5 associate professors, 30-35 PhD fellows, 20 master's students, and 30 senior researchers.