2025 Faculty
SYMPOSIUM CHAIRMEN
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ANTHONY ESTRERA, MD
Professor and Chair of the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Hazim J. Safi Distinguished Chair UTHealth Houston, McGovern Medical School Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute Houston, TX |
ALI AZIZZADEH, MD
Professor & Director, Division of Vascular Surgery Vice Chair, Department of Surgery Associate Director, Smidt Heart Institute Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, CA |
PROGRAM DIRECTORS
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GUSTAVO S. ODERICH, MD
John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Professor of Surgery and Distinguished Chair of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Chief, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Director of Aortic Center UTHealth Houston, McGovern Medical School Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute Houston, TX |
DANNY RAMZY, MD, PHD, FACC
Professor and Chief of Cardiac Surgery UTHealth Houston Chair in Cardiac Surgery UTHealth Houston, McGovern Medical School Medical and Surgical Director Memorial Hermann Memorial City Heart and Vascular Institute Houston, TX |
HONORARY CHAIRMEN
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HAZIM J. SAFI, MD
Clinical Professor of Surgery University of Houston Medical School Chief of Aortic Surgery HCA Medical Center Houston, TX |
DAVID D. MCPHERSON, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Internal Medicine UTHealth Houston, McGovern Medical School Chief, Cardiology Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute Houston, TX |
INVITED FACULTY
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George Arnaoutakis, MD
UT Austin Dell Med Austin, TX |
Vinay Badhwar, MD
WVU Heart & Vascular Institute Morgantown, WV |
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Joseph Bavaria, MD
Jefferson Health Philadelphia, PA |
Adam Beck, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL |
Edward Chen, MD
Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC |
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Jennifer Chung, MD
Toronto General Hospital Toronto, ON, Canada |
Joseph Coselli, MD
Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX |
R. Clement Darling III, MD
Albany Medical Center Albany, NY |
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Nimesh Desai, MD, PhD
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA |
Joseph DuBose, MD
University of Texas - Austin Austin, TX |
Matthew Eagleton, MD
Mass General Brigham Boston, MA |
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Marek Ehrlich, MD
University of Vienna Vienna, Austria |
Javairiah Fatima, MD
Georgetown University Washington, DC |
Uwe Fischer, MD, PhD
Yale School of Medicine New Haven, CT |
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Fernando Fleischman, MD
Keck School of Medicine University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA |
Mehrdad Ghoreishi, MD
University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, MD |
Joshua Goldberg, MD
Weill Cornell Medical Center New York, NY |
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Joshua Grimm, MD
Dell Medical School Austin, TX |
T. Sloane Guy, MD, MBA
Georgia Heart Institute Gainesville, GA |
Sukgu Han, MD
Keck Medical Center University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA |
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Dawn Hui, MD
UT Health San Antonio San Antonio, TX |
Dimitrius Iliopoulos, MD
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens HYGEIA Hospital Athens, Greece |
Karen Kim, MD
UT Health Austin Dell Medical School Austin, TX |
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Steven Lansman, MD
Westchester Medical Center Valhalla, NY |
Bradley Leshnower, MD
Emory Atlanta, GA |
Joseph Lombardi, MD, MBA
Cooper University Hospital Camden, NJ |
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Michael Mack, MD
Baylor Scott & White Health Plano, TX |
S. Chris Malaisrie, MD
Northwestern Chicago, IL |
Tomas Martin, MD
University of Florida Gainesville, FL |
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Bernardo Mendes, MD
Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN |
Michael Moon, MD
Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute Edmonton, AB, Canada |
Randy Moore, MD
University of Calgary Calgary, AB, Canada |
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Nupoor Narula, MD
Weill Cornell Medical College New York, NY |
Tom C. Nguyen, MD
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute Miami, FL |
Maral Ouzounian, MD, PhD
University Health Network Toronto, ON, Canada |
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Davide Pacini, MD, PhD
IRCC S. Orsola Hospital University of Bologna Bologna, Italy |
Himanshu Patel, MD
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI |
Ourania Preventza, MD, MBA
University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA |
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Animesh Rathore, MBBS
Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA |
T. Brett Reece, MD, MBA
University of Colorado Aurora, CO |
Evelio Rodriguez, MD
Ascension Saint Thomas Heart Nashville, TN |
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Luis Sanchez, MD
Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO |
Darren Schneider, MD
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Philiadelphia, PA |
Sherene Shalhub, MD, MBA
Oregon Health & Science University Portland, OR |
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Malakh Shrestha, MBBS, PhD
Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN |
Ibrahim Sultan, MD
University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA |
Wilson Szeto, MD
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Philadelphia, PA |
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Bradley S. Taylor, MD, MPH
University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, MD |
Elaine Tseng, MD
University of California, San Francisco San Francisco VA San Francisco, CA |
Grace Wang, MD
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA |
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Sabine Helena Wipper, MD, PhD
University Hospital Innsbruk Innsbruk, Austria |
Bo Yang, MD, PhD
University of Michigan Michigan Medicine Ann Arbor, MI |
Local Faculty
Rana Afifi, MD
Alana Cecchi, MS, CGC
Abhijeet Dhoble, MD
Vijay Govindarajan, PhD
Steven Maximus, MD
Charles C. Miller III, PhD
David Murdock, MD
Siddharth Prakash, MD, PhD
Harleen Sandhu, MD, MPH
Naveed Saqib, MD
Akiko Tanaka, MD, PhD
Alana Cecchi, MS, CGC
Abhijeet Dhoble, MD
Vijay Govindarajan, PhD
Steven Maximus, MD
Charles C. Miller III, PhD
David Murdock, MD
Siddharth Prakash, MD, PhD
Harleen Sandhu, MD, MPH
Naveed Saqib, MD
Akiko Tanaka, MD, PhD