Planning Committee

Program Directors

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Faisal G. Bakaeen

Cleveland Clinic

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Kazuhiro Yasufuku

Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network

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Adult Cardiac Program Co-Chairs

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Arnar Geirsson

NewYork- Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center

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Eric E. Roselli

Cleveland Clinic

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Congenital Program Co-Chairs

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Bahaaldin Alsoufi

University of Louisville School of Medicine

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Paul J. Chai

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

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Pirooz Eghtesady

Washington University in St. Louis

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Perioperative Care Co-Chairs

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Daniel T. Engelman

University of Massachusetts Medical School - Baystate

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James M. Isbell

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Structural Heart Co-Chairs

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Gorav Ailawadi

University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center

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Isaac George

NewYork- Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center

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Tamim Nazif

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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Thoracic Co-Chairs

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Jessica S. Donington

University of Chicago Medicine

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Joshua R. Sonett

Columbia University Medical Center

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• Adult Car­diac Pro­gram Committee
  • Anelechi Anyanwu, Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine
  • Michael Argenziano, New York- Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
  • Husam Balkhy, University of Chicago
  • Leora Balsam, UMass Memorial Medical Center
  • Joanna Chikwe, Cedars Sinai Medical Center
  • Michael Fischbein, Stanford University Medical Center
  • William Hiesinger, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Douglas Johnston, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • Puja Kachroo, Washington University School of Medicine
  • Christopher Lau, Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Nader Moazami, New York University
  • Vicente Orozco Sevilla, Baylor College of Medicine-Michael DeBakey Dept of Surgery
  • Maral Ouzounian, Toronto General Hospital
  • Davide Pacini, University of Bologna
  • Ashish Shah, Vanderbilt University
  • Hiroo Takayama, New York- Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
  • Koji Takeda, Columbia University
  • Bradley Taylor, University of Maryland Medical System
  • Shinya Unai, Cleveland Clinic
• Con­gen­i­tal Pro­gram Commitee
  • Aaron Eckhauser, Nemours Children's Hospital
  • Sitaram Emani, Boston Children's Hospital
  • Stephanie Fuller, The University of Pennsylvania
  • David Kalfa, Columbia University
  • Michael Ma, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Carlos Mery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Peri­op­er­a­tive Pro­gram Commitee
  • Rakesh Arora, Cleveland University Hospital
  • Subhasis Chatterjee, Baylor College of Medicine
  • Ravi Ghanta, Baylor College of Medicine
  • Natalia Girardi, Weill Cornell Medicine
  • Michael Grant, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  • Jonathan Hastie, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Jane Heggie, Toronto General Hospital
  • Jonathan Ho, University of California Los Angeles
  • Stephanie Ibekwe, Baylor College of Medicine
  • Dao Nguyen, University of Miami School of Medicine
  • Robin Varghese, Mount Sinai Health System
• Struc­tur­al Heart Pro­gram Committee
  • Vinayak Bapat, The Minneapolis Heart Institute
  • Suzanne Baron, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Samir Kapadia, Cleveland Clinic
  • Anson Lee, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Basel Ramlawi, Lankenau Heart Institute
  • Molly Szerlip, Baylor Scott & White Health
  • Elaine Tseng, University of California San Francisc
• Tho­racic Pro­gram Committee
  • Usman Ahmad, Cleveland Clinic
  • Mark Berry, Leland Stanford Junior University
  • Shanda Blackmon, Baylor College of Medicine-Michael DeBakey Dept of Surgery
  • Errol Bush, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  • Stephanie Chang, NYU Langone Health
  • Marcelo Cypel, University Health Network
  • Thomas D'Amico, Duke University Medical Center
  • Marc de Perrot, Toronto General Hospital
  • Frank D'Ovidio, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Wentao Fang, Shanghai East Hospital
  • Konrad Hoetzenecker, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Moishe Liberman, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal
  • Daniela Molena, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Daniel Raymond, Cleveland Clinic
  • Gaetano Rocco, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Inderpal Sarkaria, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • Brendon Stiles, Montefiore Medical Center
  • Scott Swanson, Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Stephanie Worrell, University of Arizona
  • Jane Yanagawa, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  • Jonathan Yeung, University of Toronto