Program Committee & Faculty
Program Executive Committee
Jeffrey S. Borer, M.D.(co-chair)
Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine; Chief/Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
President, Heart Valve Society of America
Maurice E. Sarano, M.D. (co-chair)
Director, Valvular Heart Disease Clinic, Mayo Clinic
Executive Vice President, Heart Valve Society of America
Robert O. Bonow, MD
Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Cardiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medical
President, Society of Heart Valve Disease; Vice President/Heart Valve Society of America
Cary W. Akins, MD
Clinical Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Division of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
Vice President/Heart Valve Society of America
O. Wayne Isom, MD
Terry Allen Kramer Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Vice President, Heart Valve Society of America
Program Committee
David Adams, MD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Mount Sinai Medical Center
Luigi Badano, MD
Cardiology Unit - Echo-Lab, Department of Cardiopulmonary Sciences, Ospedale-Universitario "S Maria della Misericordia"
Joseph Bavaria, MD
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Michael Borger, MD, PhD
Leipzig Heart Center
Blase Carabello, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Adrian Chester, PhD
Imperial College London, Heart Science Centre
W. Randolph Chitwood, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University
Robert Emery, MD
Cardiac Surgical Associates, St. Paul, MN
Gino Gerosa, MD Padova University Hospital, Department of Cardiac Surgery
Dieter Horstkotte, MD
Heart Center North Rhine - Westphalia, Department of Cardiology
Judy Hung, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Karen Kunzelman, PhD
Superior Surgical Solutions/University of Maine
Jagat Narula, MD
College of Medicine, University of California/Irvine
Yutaka Okita, MD, PhD
Kobe University, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery
Jose Pomar, MD, PhD
Hospital Clinico de Barcelona, Department of Cardiovascular Sugery; Barcelona, Spain
Nalini Rajamannan, MD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; Northwestern University Medical Center
Hartzell Schaff, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Mayo Clinic
Mark R. Starling, MD
Banner Baywood Heart Hospital, Mesa AZ
A. Jamil Tajik, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Mayo Clinic, AZ
Johanna Takkenberg, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Pilar Tornos, MD
Servei de Cardiologia, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Spain
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Faculty
Course Directors
Jeffrey S. Borer, M.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Medicine; Chief/Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
President, Heart Valve Society of America
Maurice E. Sarano, M.D.
Director, Valvular Heart Disease Clinic, Mayo Clinic
Executive Vice President, Heart Valve Society of America
Robert O. Bonow, MD
Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Cardiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medical
President, Society of Heart Valve Disease; Vice President/Heart Valve Society of America
Friedrich W. Mohr, MD, PhD
Herzzentrum Universitaet Leipzig
Immediate Past President, Society of Heart Valve Disease
Invited Faculty
MIchael A. Acker, MD, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
David Adams, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Cary Akins, MD, Harvard Medical School
Amit Banerjee, MD, University of Delhi
Joseph E. Bavaria, MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Michael Borger, MD, PhD, University of Leipzig
Joke Breyne, PhD, University of Lille
John Brown, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine
Charles Bruce, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Adam, Budzikowski, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Blase Carabello, MD, Baylor College of Medicine
Erdal Cavusoglu, MD, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
Adrian Chester, PhD, Heart Science Centre, Harefield Hospital, UK
W. Randolph Chitwood, MD, East Carolina University School of Medicine
Robert Dion, MD, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Belgium
John Elefteriades, MD, Yale University School of Medicine
Robert Emery, MD, Cardiac Surgical Associates
Michael Fifer, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Valentin Fuster, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Aubrey Galloway, MD, New York University Medical Center
Gino Gerosa, MD, Padua University Hospital, Department of Cardiac Surgery
A. Marc Gillinov, MD, The Cleveland Clinic
Leonard Girardi, MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Martin Goldman, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Howard C. Herrmann, MD, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Edmund Herrold, MD, PhD, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Matthew Hillebrenner, MSE, US Food & Drug Administration
Dieter Horstkotte, MD, Heart Center North Rhine - Westphalia, Department of Cardiology
Judy Hung, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
O. Wayne Isom, MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Eric Jamieson, MD, University of British Columbia, Paul's Hospital
John Kassotis, MD, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Wilson Ko, MD, St. Vincent's Medical Center
Warren Laskey, MD, University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Jason Lazar, MD, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Robert Levine, MD, Harvard Medical School
Joseph Maalouf, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Charles Mack, MD, Weill Cornell Medical Center
Sunil Mankad, MD, Mayo Clinci College of Medicine
Jonathan Marmur, MD, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Patrick McCarthy, MD, Norwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Hector Michelena, MD. Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Jagat Narula, MD, College of Medicine, University of California/Irvine
Patrick O'Gara, MD, Harvard Medical School
Yutaka Okita, PhD, Kobe University
Ramdas G. Pai, MD Loma Linda University Medical Center
Igor Palacios, MD, Harvard Medical School
Gosta Pettersson, MD, PhD, Cleveland Clinic
Philippe Pibarot, DVM, PhD, Laval University
Jose Pomar, MD, PhD, Hospital Clinico de Barcelona
Nalini Rajamannan, MD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Charanjit Rihal, MD, May Clinic College of Medicine
Anne Rossebo, MD, Oslo University Hospital
Eric Rose, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Hartzell Schaff, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Allan Schwartz, MD, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Joerg Seeburger, MD, Heart Centre Leipzig
Mark Starling, MD, Banner Baywood Heart Hospital
Paul Stelzer, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
William Stewart, MD, Cleveland Clinic
Thoralf Sundt, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Phyllis Supino, EdD, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Julie Swain, MD, US Food & Drug Administration
A. Jamil Tajik, MD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Vinjay Tak, MD, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Joanna Takkenberg, MD, PhD, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Stephen Thomas, MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell Unversity
Pilar Tornos, MD, Servei de Cardiologia, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Spain
Andrew Van Tosh, MD, President, American College of Cardiology, New York State Chapter
Agit Yoganathan, MD, Georgia Institute of Technology
Bram Zuckerman, MD, US Food & Drug Administration