Faculty

Mehmet H. Akay, MD
Associate Professor, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation

Bindu Akkanti, MD, CMQ, FCCP
Associate Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Heart Failure ICU, Heart and Vascular Institute
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Memorial Hermann Hospital

Enrico Ammirati, MD
De Gasperis Cardio Center and Transplant Center
Niguarda Hospital
Milan, Italy

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

Sukhdeep S. Basra, MD
Assistant Professor
Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

Anju Bhardwaj, MD
Assistant Professor
Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

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

Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD, FHFSA, FACC, FAHA, FACP
The Mary and Gordon Cain Chair and Professor of Medicine
Associate Provost of Faculty Affairs, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development
Director, Winters Center for Heart Failure Research
Assoc. Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Vice-Chair of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
Medicine Chief, DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston TX

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

Blas Carabello, MD, PhD
Professor and Chief
Division of Cardiology
East Carolina Heart Institute

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

Harish Devineni, MD
Assistant Professor
Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

Kha Dinh, MD
Assistant Professor
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

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

David Feldman, MD, PhD
Section Chief Advanced Myocardial Therapies
Director of Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support
Robert Wood Johnson/Barnabas Service Line Lead for Advanced Myocardial Therapies
Newark Beth Israel Hospital/Rutgers University

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

Igor D. Gregoric, MD
Professor and Chief, Surgical Division
Center for Advanced Heart Failure
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

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

Ashrith Guha MD MPH FACC
Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist
Division of Cardiology
Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center

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

Rahat Hussain, MD
Associate Professor
Faculty Senator
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

Emily Ingebretson, MSN, APRN, AGACNP-BC
Lung Transplant Nurse Practitioner
UC San Diego Health

Lisa Janowiak, BS, CCP, LP
Lifeflight/Cardiogenic Shock Center Coordinator
Center for Advanced Heart Failure
Cardiovascular Perfusion Program
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

Marwan Jumean, MD
Associate Professor
Center for Advanced Heart Failure
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

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

Soma Jyothula, MD
Associate Professor, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Medical Director Of Lung Transplantation, Advanced Heart Failure And Transplantation
Pulmonologist, Advanced Heart Failure And Transplantation

Biswajit Kar, MD
Professor & Chief, Cardiology Division
Center for Advanced Heart Failure
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

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

Ishikawa Kiyotake, MD
Assistant Professor
Icahn School of Medicine
Mount Sinai, New York

Sachin Kumar, MD
Associate Professor
Center for Advanced Heart Failure
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

Kayla Kutilek, MPS, BS, CCP, LP
Perfusionist
Center for Advanced Heart Failure
Cardiovascular Perfusion Program
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

Carlos R. Manrique Neira, MD
Assistant Professor
Center for Advanced Cardiopulmonary Therapies and Transplantation
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

Venu Menon, MD, FACC, FAHA
Professor of Medicine
Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular at Cleveland Clinic

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

Angelo Nascimbene, MD
Assistant Professor
Center for Advanced Heart Failure
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

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

Sriram Nathan, MD
Professor,
Director, Cardiogenic Shock
Center for Advanced Heart Failure
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

Brittany Owen, MD
Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Disease
Department of Internal Medicine
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

Maria Patarroyo Aponte, MD
Assistant Professor
Center for Advanced Heart Failure
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

Jayeshkumar Patel, MD
Assistant Professor, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeon, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation

Manish K. Patel, MD
Associate Chief, Surgical Division, Center for Advanced Heart Failure, Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute-TMC
Associate Professor, Program of Advanced Heart Failure, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

Jesus Eduardo Rame, MD, M.Phil. FAHA FESC
Louis R. Dinon MD Professor of Medicine and Surgery
Enterprise Chief of Advanced Cardiac and Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Jefferson Health, Philadelphia, PA

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

Ismael Salas de Armas, MD
Associate Professor, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth
Cardiothoracic And Vascular Surgery, Advanced Heart Failure And Transplantation

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

Saumya Sharma, MD
Assistant Professor
Electrophysiology
Cardiovascular Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth

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

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

Manoj Thangam, MD
Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Austin Dell School of Medicine

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

Nir Uriel, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine,
Director of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant
New York-Presbyterian
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Weill Cornell Medical Center

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

Joyce W. Wald, DO, FACC
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Interim Medical Director of Mechanical Circulatory Support
Director, Practice Development Heart Failure, Transplant and MCS Programs
University of Pennsylvania

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