Faculty
2023
| Full Name | Professional Title(s) |
|---|---|
| Sophia Airhart, M.D., FACC | Medical Director of Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Pulmonary Hypertension Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center |
| Mehmet Akay, M.D., FACS | Associate Professor Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute-TMC |
| David Baran, M.D. | Section Head, Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant and MCS, Cleveland Clinic |
| Mir B. Basir, M.D. | Associate Professor, Interventional Cardiology, Henry Ford Hospital |
| Anju Bhardwaj, M.D., FACC, FHFSA | Assistant Professor, Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute-TMC |
| Arvind Bhimaraj, M.D. | Associate Professor of Clinical Cardiology Houston Methodist |
| Phyllis Billia, M.D., Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Director of Research, Medical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support Program, Co-director of the Peter Munk Cardiovascular Biobank University of Toronto |
| Biykem Bozkurt, M.D., Ph.D. | The Mary and Gordon Cain Chair in Cardiology Professor of Medicine Senior Dean of Faculty, Baylor College of Medicine Director, Winters Center for Heart Failure Research Assoc. Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute Vice-Chair of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine Editor-in-Chief, JACC: Heart Failure Baylor College of Medicine |
| James Burke, M.D., Ph.D. | Associate Chief of Cardiology Medical Director, Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support Regional Cardiogenic Shock Program Lehigh Valley Heart and Vascular Institute |
| Daniel Burkhoff, M.D. | Director of Heart Failure, Hemodynamics and Circulatory Support in the CRF Clinical Trials Center (CTC) Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) |
| Subhasis Chatterjee, M.D. | Associate Professor of Surgery Director Thoracic Surgical ICU & ECMO Program Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine Texas Heart Institute at CHI Baylor St. Lukes |
| Andrew Civitello, M.D. | Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program Co-Director, Advanced Heart Failure Center Director, Advanced Heart Failure Fellowship Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center / Texas Heart Institute |
| Johanna Contreras, M.D. | Director of Ambulatory Heart Failure Network Director of Diversity in Heart Failure The Mount Sinai Health System |
| Jerome Crowley, M.D. | Instructor in Anesthesia Massachusetts General Hospital |
| Harish Devineni, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Cardiology, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation, Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute-TMC |
| Abhijeet Dhoble, M.D. | Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine Director, Structural Heart Interventions Co-Director, Heart & Brain Program University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston |
| Dirk Donker, M.D. | Professor, Division Vital Functions, Medical Staff Intensive Care University Medical Center Utrecht University of Twente |
| Aly El Banayosy, M.D. | Executive Director, Acute Circulatory Support and Advanced Critical Care Integris Health |
| Rania Esteitie, M.D., FCCP | Pulmonary Critical Care Associate Professor Central Michigan University President Michigan Chapter Society of Critical Care Medicine Pulmonary Hypertension and Thromboembolic Disease Covenant HealthCare, Saginaw-MI |
| Jerry Estep, M.D. | Chairman of Cardiology Staff, Section of Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support & Transplantation Cleveland Clinic Florida |
| David Feldman, M.D. | Director of Clinical Services, Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute; Director of Advanced Myocardial and Circulatory Services, Division of Cardiovascular Health and Disease |
| Amy Fiedler, M.D. | Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery University of California San Francisco |
| Igor D. Gregoric, M.D. | Chief and Program Director, Surgical Division, Professor, Program of Advanced Heart Failure, Director of Research, Center for Advanced Heart Failure McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston |
| Maya Guglin, M.D. | Medical director of the IU Health Heart Transplant Program, Advanced Heart Failure Program and Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) Services Indiana University Health |
| Alexander Hajduczok, M.D. | Cardiology Fellow PGY-5 Thomas Jefferson Cardiology Fellowship Program Penn State Hershey Internal Medicine, 2021 University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, 2018 |
| Gregory Haralson | Senior Vice President/Chief Executive Officer Memorial Hermann – Texas Medical Center |
| Tarek Helmy, M.D. | Professor of Internal Medicine, Division Chief of Cardiology, Assistant Director of Clinical and Translational Research for the CCDS LSU Health- Shreveport |
| Steve Hollenberg, M.D. | Professor of Cardiology, Critical Care Medicine Emory Healthcare |
| Nils Johnson, M.D., M.S. | Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine Department of Internal Medicine McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston |
| Marwan Jumean, M.D. | Associate Professor, Interventional Cardiology Program Director, Interventional Heart Failure Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute-TMC |
| Christian Jung, M.D. | Professor & Head, Coronary Heart Disease and Critical Care Division University Duesseldorf |
| Navin Kapur, M.D. | Executive Director, The CardioVascular Center for Research and Innovation (CVCRI); Director, Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support Program; Director, Interventional Research Laboratories; Director of Cardiac Biology Research Center, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI); Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine Tufts Medicine |
| Biswajit Kar, M.D. | Professor, Internal Medicine, Memorial Hermann (10) Chair Chief, Medical Division, Center for Advanced Heart Failure, Memorial Hermann Hospital McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston |
| Jason Katz, M.D. | Associate Professor of Medicine Director of Cardiovascular Critical Care, Duke University Health System & Duke Heart Co-Director, Duke Mechanical Circulatory Support Program Co-Director, Duke Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Duke University Medical Center |
| Rishi Kumar, M.D., FACC, CMQ | Assistant Professor, Director, Dual Cardiothoracic/Critical Care Fellowship Program McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston |
| Sachin Kumar, M.D. | Associate Professor, Interventional Cardiology Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute-TMC |
| Maan Jokhadar, M.D. | Associate Professor, Program Director, Emory Adult Congenital Cardiology Fellowship Emory Healthcare |
| Carlos Manrique, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute-TMC |
| Venu Menon, M.D. | Section Head of Clinical Cardiology in the Robert and Suzanne Tomisch Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute, Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the Cardiovascular Fellowship Program, Mehdi Razavi Endowed Chair and Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine Cleveland Clinic |
| Michael Mooney, M.D. | Director, Coronary Therapeutics Allina Health |
| Nikhil Narang, M.D. | Cardiologist Advocate Health Care |
| Jagat Narula, M.D., Ph.D. | Executive Vice President and Chief Academic Officer, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston |
| Sandeep Nathan, M.D. | Associate Professor of Medicine Director, Coronary Care Unit Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program Co-Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory UChicago Medicine |
| Sriram Nathan, M.D. | Professor, Director, Cardiogenic Shock, Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute-TMC |
| William O'Neill, M.D. | Medical Director, Center for Structural Heart Disease Henry Ford Hospital |
| Natesa Pandian, M.D, FACC | Director of the Nancy & Bill Thompson Heart Valve Center, Director of Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging at Hoag, Professor of Medicine and Staff Cardiologist Hoag |
| Maria Patarroyo, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute-TMC |
| Manish Patel, M.D. | Associate Professor Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon Advanced Heart Failure McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute-TMC |
| Indranee Rajapreyar, M.D. | Associate Professor Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support Program Director, Advance Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship Thomas Jefferson University |
| Danny Ramzy, M.D. | Chief of Cardiac Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston Medical Director and Surgical Director for the Heart & Vascular Institute Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center |
| Ethan Rowin, M.D. | Assistant Professor of Medicine, Associate Director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center Tufts University School of Medicine |
| Ayaaz Sachedina, M.D. | Interventional Cardiology, TAVI, and Mechanical Circulatory Support Lead, Percutaneous Mechanical Circulatory Support Program (Cardiac Catheterization Lab) Assistant Program Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Clinical Assistant Professor Foothills Medical Centre, Libin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary |
| Ismael Salas de Armas, M.D. | Associate Professor Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon Advanced Heart Failure McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute-TMC |
| Atman Shah, M.D. | Professor of Medicine, Co-Director, Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Clinical Director, Section of Cardiology The University of Chicago |
| Scott Silvestry, M.D. | Surgical Director, Thoracis Transplant Programs Transplant Institute Advent Health |
| Steve Singh, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Cardiac Surgery, Surgical Director for Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support University of Toronto |
| Mark Slaughter, M.D. | Professor and Chair Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery CII Medical Director and Jewish Hospital Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery Editor-in-Chief ASAIO Journal Impact Factor 3.826 University of Louisville |
| Marvin Slepian, M.D. | Regents' Professor Professor of Medicine – Cardiology Professor of Medical Imaging Professor and Associate Department Head - BioMedical Engineering Professor of Materials Sciences and Engineering Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering McGuire Scholar, Eller College of Management Director, ACABI – Arizona Center for Accelerated BioMedical Innovation University of Arizona |
| Lakshmi Sridharan, M.D. | Assistant Professor of Medicine Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) Emory University School of Medicine |
| Nitin Tandon, M.D. | Professor and Chair ad interim Director, Epilepsy Surgery Program University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston |
| Jeffrey Teuteberg, M.D. | Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) Stanford Medicine |
| Nir Uriel, M.D. | Director of Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation New York-Presbyterian, Professor of Medicine Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians Professor of Medicine Weill Cornell Medicine Columbia University |
| Sean Van Diepen, M.D. | Assistant Professor Department of Critical Care Medicine University of Alberta |
| Esther Vorovich, M.D. | Associate Professor, Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University |
| Joyce Wald, D.O. | Professor of Clinical Medicine Medical Director, Shock Team Interim Medical Director of Mechanical Circulatory Support Director, Practice Development Heart Failure, Transplant and MCS Programs University of Pennsylvania |
| Haider J. Warraich, M.D. | Director, Heart Failure Program, VA Boston Healthcare System Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School |
| Dirk Westermann, M.D. | Professor of Medicine University Heart Center Freiburg-Bad Krozingen, Freiburg (Germany) |
| Joseph Zwischenberger, M.D., FACS | Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics University of Kentucky |