Faculty

Steven R Bailey MD MSCAI, MACP, FACC, FAHA
Professor and Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine
Malcolm Feist Chair of Interventional Cardiology
Professor Emeritus, UT Health San Antonio
LSU Health School of Medicine

David Baran, MD, FACC, FSCAI
System Director, Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant & MCS
Professor of Medicine
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Sentara Heart Hospital

Arvind Bhimaraj, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Cardiology
Institute for Academic Medicine
Houston Methodist
Weill Cornell Medical College

James A. Burke, MD, Ph.D., FACC
Associate Chief of Cardiology
Medical Director, Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support
Regional Cardiogenic Shock Program
Lehigh Valley Heart Institute

Daniel Burkhoff, MD, PhD
Director, Heart Failure, Hemodynamics, and MCS Research
Cardiovascular Research Foundation

Subhasis Chatterjee, MD. FACS, FACC, FCCP.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Divisions of General & Cardiothoracic Surgery
Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine
Director Thoracic Surgical ICU & ECMO Program
Texas Heart Institute at CHI Baylor St. Lukes

Andrew Civitello MD, FACC
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

Mani A Daneshmand, MD
Andrew J McKelvey Professor in Lung Transplant Surgery
Associate Professor of Surgery
Director-Heart & Lung Transplant, Mechanical Circulatory Support, & ECMO
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Department of Surgery Emory University

Daniel De Backer, MD
Head, Intensive Care and Emergency Depts.,
CHIREC Hospitals, Belgium
Professor of Intensive Care Medicine
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
ESICM Past President

Stavros Drakos, MD, PhD, FACC
Professor of Cardiology & Physiology
Medical Director, Cardiac Mechanical Support & Artificial Heart Program
Co-Director, Heart Failure & Transplantation
Director of Research, Division of Cardiology
University of Utah Healthcare & School of Medicine
Salt Lake VA Medical Center

Aly El Banayosy, MD
Executive Director
Critical Care and Acute Circulatory Support
Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute/Advanced Cardiac Care
INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center

Jerry D. Estep, M.D., FACC, FASE
Section Head, Heart Failure & Transplantation
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

David Feldman, MD, PhD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director, Clinical Services Heart, Lung and Vascular Institute
Director, Advanced Myocardial and Circulatory Services
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

James Goldstein, MD
Cardiologist, Heart Failure & Interventional
Beaumont Hospital-Grosse Pointe
Beaumont Hospital- Royal Oak

Maya Guglin MD, PhD
Director, Heart Failure/Heart Transplantation/MCS Services
Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine
Krannert Institute of Cardiology

Finn Gustafsson, MD
Professor of Cardiology,
University of Copenhagen,
Rigshospitalet,
Copenhagen,
Denmark

Timothy Henry, MD
Interventional Cardiologist,
Lindner Family Distinguished Chair, Clinical Research
Medical Director,
The Carl and Edyth Linder Center for Research,
The Christ Hospital

Jaime Hernandez-Montfort, MD
Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Recovery
Baylor Scott & White Health
Central Texas – Greater Austin

Steven Hollenberg, MD
Professor of Medicine
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Director, Coronary Care Unit
Cooper University Hospital

Jacob Jentzer, MD
Critical Care Specialist, Cardiology
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Ulrich P. Jorde, MD
Professor of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Chair, Mechanical Circulatory Support Council
International Society of Heart & Lung Transplantation

Christian Jung, MD
University Professor
Oberarzt
Klinik für Kardiologie, Pneumologie und Angiologie

Navin Kapur, MD, FAHA, FACC, FSCAI
Associate Professor,
Tufts University School of Medicine

Jason N. Katz MD, MHS, FAHA
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

Ajay J. Kirtane, MD, SM
Professor of Medicine,
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories
New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Michael Mooney, MD
Director Coronary Therapeutics
Minneapolis Heart Institute, Abbott Northwestern Hospital

Sandeep Nathan, MD, MSc, FACC, FSCAI
Associate Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program
Co-Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
The University of Chicago Medicine, Heart and Vascular Center

Ivan Netuka, MD, PhD
Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Chairman of Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Sunil V. Rao MD
Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Section Chief, Cardiology
Durham VA Medical Center

Benedikt Schrage, MD
Doctorate of Medicine, Interventional Cardiology
University Medical Center Hamburg

JP (Jose) Simano Henriques, MD
Professor,
Heart Center, Department of Cardiology,
Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam UMC,
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Mark S. Slaughter, MD
Professor and Chair Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
CII Medical Director and Jewish Hospital Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery
University of Louisville

Marvin J. 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
President – ASAIO American Society for Artificial Internal Organs

Syed Tanveer Rab, MD
Professor, Interventional Cardiology
Emory University

Behnam Tehrani, MD
Medical Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories
Inova Heart and Vascular Institute

Jeffrey Teuteberg, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
The Stanford University Medical Center

Holger Thiele, MD
Professor and Director,
Department of Internal Medicine-Cardiology,
Director, Leipzig Heart Science gGmbH
Heart Center Leipzig at University of Leipzig

Joseph E. Tonna, MD, MS, FCCM, FACEP, FAAEM
Associate Professor with Tenure
Section Head, Cardiothoracic Critical Care
Medical Director, Cardiovascular ICU/Cardiothoracic Critical Care
Associate Director, ECMO Services

Sean van Diepen, MD, FRCPC
Assistant Professor, Critical Care Medicine
University of Alberta

Esther Vorovich, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Northwestern Medicine
Feinberg School of Medicine

Dirk Westermann, MD
Professor of Medicine
Deputy Clinic Director
University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg – UKE

Joseph Zwischenberger, MD
Professor and Chairman of Surgery
University of Kentucky Healthcare