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 Medical Center
Cary Akins, MD
Harvard Medical School
Joseph Bavaria, MD
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
Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University
Robert Emery, MD
Cardiac Surgical Associates, St. Paul, MN
Gino Gerosa, MD
Padua University Hospital
William A. Gray, MD
Columbia University College of Physicans and Surgeons
Dieter Horstkotte, MD
Heart Center North Rhine – Westphalia
Judy Hung, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
O. Wayne Isom, MD
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Jagat Narula, MD
University of California/Irvine
Yutaka Okita, MD, PhD
Kobe University
Nalini Rajamannan, MD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Hartzell Schaff, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Mark R. Starling, MD
Banner Baywood Heart Hospital, Mesa AZ
A. Jamil Tajik, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Johanna Takkenberg, MD, PhD
Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Other Faculty
Michael A. Acker, MD
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Fernando Aguel, MSE
US Food & Drug Administration
Jean-François Avierinos, MD
Hôpital Timone, Marseilles, France
Amit Banerjee, MD
University of Delhi
Joke Breyne, PhD
University of Lille
John Brown, MD
Indiana University School of Medicine
Charles Bruce, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Adam, Budzikowski, MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Erdal Cavusoglu, MD
SUNY Downstate College of Medicine
Robert A.E. Dion, MD
Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Belgium
John Elefteriades, MD
Yale University School of Medicine
Alan Feit, MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Michael Fifer, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Aubrey Galloway, MD
New York University Medical Center
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
WR 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
Susheel Kodali, MD
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
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 College of Cornell University
Sunil Mankad, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Jonathan Marmur, MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Patrick McCarthy, MD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Bart Meuris, MD, PhD
U.Z. Gasthuisberg, Cardiale Heelkunde
Hector Michelena, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Jordan Miller, PhD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Patrick O'Gara, MD
Harvard Medical School
Ramdas G. Pai, MD
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Igor Palacios, MD
Harvard Medical School
Gösta Pettersson, MD, PhD
Cleveland Clinic
Philippe Pibarot, DVM, PhD
Laval University
Charanjit Rihal, MD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Eric Rose, MD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Anne B. Rossebø, MD
Oslo University Hospital
Marc Sakwa, MD
William Beaumont Royal Oak Hospital
Joerg Seeburger, MD
Heart Centre Leipzig
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
Vinay Tak, MD
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Stephen Thomas, MD
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Andrew Van Tosh, MD
President, American College of Cardiology, New York State Chapter
Kim A. Williams, MD
University of Chicago Medical Center
Joseph Woo, MD
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Agit Yoganathan, MD
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bram Zuckerman, MD
US Food & Drug Administration
