The American Association for Thoracic Surgery | AATS

Program Directors

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Thomas D’Amico

Duke Medical Center

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Maral Ouzounian

Toronto General Hospital

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Adult Cardiac Program Co-Chairs

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Anelechi C. Anyanwu

Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine

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Faisal G. Bakaeen

Cleveland Clinic

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Congenital Program Co-Chairs

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Stephanie Fuller

The University of Pennsylvania

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Carlos M. Mery

University of Texas

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Perioperative Care Program Co-Chairs

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Rakesh C. Arora

Cleveland University Hospitals

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James M. Isbell

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Structural Heart Program Co-Chairs

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Isaac George

NYPH-Columbia University Medical Center

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Gorav Ailawadi

University of Michigan

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Thoracic Program Co-Chairs

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Stephanie Chang

NYU Langone Health

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Gaetano Rocco

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Scott J. Swanson

Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Program Committee

- Joanna Chikwe, Cedars Sinai Medical Center
- Danny Chu, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Juan A Crestanello, Mayo Foundation
- Ismail El-Hamamsy, Mount Sinai Hospital
- Anthony Estrera, University of Texas Houston, McGovern Medical School
- Mario Gaudino, Weill Cornell Medicine/NYP Hospital
- Arnar Geirsson, Columbia University
- Michael Halkos, Emory University School of Medicine
- Dawn Hui, University of Texas Health San Antonio
- Bob Kiaii, University of California Davis Medical Center
- S. Chris Malaisrie, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
- Carmelo Milano, Duke University Medical Center
- Nahush Mokadam, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
- Tom C. Nguyen, Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute
- Ourania Preventza, University of Virginia
- Eric Roselli, Cleveland Clinic
- Edward Soltesz, Cleveland Clinic
- Y. Joseph Woo, Stanford University
- Leora Yarboro, University of Virginia
- Marco Zenati, Harvard Medical School
- Iki Adachi, Texas Children's Hospital
- Bahaaldin Alsoufi, University of Louisville School of Medicine
- David Barron, University of Toronto
- Paul Chai, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
- Pirooz Eghtesady, Washington University
- Sitaram Emani, Boston Children's Hospital
- Tara Karamlou, Cleveland Clinic, Case Western Reserve Medical School
- Jennifer Nelson, Nemours Children's Health, Florida
- Joseph Turek, Duke University
- Aaron Cheng, University of Washington Medical Center
- Daniel Egelman, University of Massachusetts Medical School - Baystate
- Michael Grant, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
- Robert Meguid, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center
- Vicki Morton-Bailey, Providence Anesthesiology Associates
- Daniel Raymond, Cleveland Clinic
- Rawn Salenger, University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center
- Gorav Ailawadi, University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center
- Rebecca Hahn, The New York Hospital
- Tsuyoshi Kaneko, Washington University
- Saibal Kar, Los Robles Hospital HCA Health Care
- Stephanie Mick, Weill Cornell
- Tamim Nazif, Columbia University
- Mark Russo, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
- Robert Smith, Heart Hospital Baylor Plano
- Leah Backhus, Stanford Univ School of Medicine
- Mark Berry, Leland Stanford Junior University
- Matthew Bott, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Stephen Broderick, Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Lisa Marie Brown, University of California Davis Health
- Bryan Burt, University of California Los Angeles
- Haiquan Chen, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
- Marcelo Cypel, University Health Network
- Jessica Donington, University of Chicago Medicine
- Loretta Erhunmwunsee, City of Hope
- Lorenzo Ferri, McGill University
- Konrad Hoetzenecker, Medical University of Vienna
- Young Tae Kim, Seoul National University Hospital
- Jasleen Kukreja, University of California San Francisco
- Michael Lanuti, Harvard University
- Mark William Onaitis, University of California San Diego
- Varun Puri, Barnes Jewish Hospital
- Siva Raja, Cleveland Clinic
- David Rice, MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Smita Sihag, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Joshua Sonnett, Columbia University Medical Center
- Betty Tong, Duke University
- Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Toronto General Hospital
- Jonathan Yeung, University of Toronto