Conference Speakers

Dr Aminian is active in clinical research in the field of the intervention and treatment of coronary cardiac diseases and in the field of structural heart disease. He has a particular interest in innovative technologies related to the transradial approach.

CERTIFICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY

Specialist in Cardiology (MD), Free University of Brussels, 2007
Fellowship in interventional cardiology in University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), 2008
Board Member of the BWGIC (Belgian Working Group on Interventional Cardiology)
Consultant and Proctor for Saint-Jude Medical
Consultant for Terumo Medical.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Interventional Cardiologist
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Charleroi (CHU Charleroi)
Division of Cardiology

CERTIFICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY

American College of Cardiology (ACC) – Fellow
American Heart Association (AHA) – Member
Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) – Fellow
American Board of Vascular Medicine – Diplomate

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Developed and conduct quarterly training courses for transradial angiography and intervention. Developed and conduct quarterly training courses for the use of percutaneous left ventricular assist devices. Participate in numerous industry-sponsored and investigator-initiated clinical trials.

Dr. Ajay Kirtane is a cardiologist in New York, New York and is affiliated with New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell. He received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and has been in practice between 11-20 years.

Dr. Binita Shah is a cardiologist in New York, New York and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including NYC Health and Hospitals-Bellevue and NYU Langone Hospitals. She received her medical degree from NYU School of Medicine and has been in practice between 11-20 years.

Dr. Gilchrist has been active in >150 multi-centered clinical trials over the last 20 years. These have included many of the pivotal trials of thrombolytic therapy, antiplatelet and antithrombin agents that define standard and future care in interventional cardiology.

CERTIFICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY

ABIM Certifications in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Interventional Cardiology, and Critical Care Medicine
Fellow (FAHA) American Heart Association
Fellow (FACC) American College of Cardiology
Fellow (FSCAI) Society of Cardiac Angiography & Intervention
Fellow (FCCM) Society for Critical Care Medicine

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Interventional Cardiologist, Penn State Hershey Medical Center
Professor of Medicine.

Dr. Bernat is active in clinical research in interventional cardiology and treatment of coronary artery disease. He is principal investigator or co-investigator of clinical trials. He is initiator of national multicenter trial comparing radial and femoral approach.

CERTIFICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY

Doctor of Medicine (MD), Charles University Prague
Board certifications, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology

Czech Society of Cardiology, Member
Working Group of Interventional Cardiology, Czech Society of Cardiology, Board Member
European Society of Cardiology (ESC), Member
European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions, Member

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Interventional Cardiologist
Associate Chief Cardiology, University Hospital Pilsen
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine Pilsen, Charles University Prague

Jonathan Roberts, MD, FACC, FSCAI is a board-certified cardiologist. He earned his medical degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine in 1982, and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Emory University Affiliated Hospitals in Atlanta in 1983 and 1985, respectively. He completed his fellowships in cardiology at Emory University Affiliated Hospitals in 1987 and 1990. Dr. Roberts completed his fellowship in interventional cardiology at Emory in 1991.

Dr. Roberts served as Chief Resident in Medicine at Grady Memorial Hospital, Emory University School of Medicine from 1987 to 1988. He was Acting Chief of Cardiology and Instructor of Medicine at Atlanta Veterans Administration Hospital, Emory University School of Medicine from 1990 to 1991.

Dr. Roberts has been Director of Interventional Cardiology at Miami Cardiology Group, practicing at Baptist Hospital of Miami from 1992 through 2014. He has a special interest in complex coronary artery interventions, and has been a leading proponent of using coronary physiology to guide coronary interventions. Dr. Roberts also has an interest in clinical research, and has been the principal investigator in more than 45 clinical and interventional cardiology trials. His current research has focused on improving success rates in radial artery access for cardiac catheterization, especially the use of ultrasound guided radial artery access.

Dr. Roberts also has interests in structural heart procedures. He currently performs TAVR (transcatheter aortic valve replacement), balloon aortic valvuloplasty, atrial septal defect and patent foramen ovale closure, and aortic and left ventricular pseudoaneurysm closure. These are all techniques that once required surgery, but are now performed percutaneously in the cardiac cath lab.

CERTIFICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY

Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (ACC)
Editorial Board Member for American Heart Journal
Member of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCAI)
Member of the National Hispanic Cardiologists Leadership Network (NHCLN)
Member of the Latin American Society of Interventional Cardiology (SOLACI)
Member of the Argentine Society of Cardiology

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Dr. Cohen is active in clinical research in several fields including transradial catheterization and intervention, health disparities and outcomes research, anticoagulation for percutaneous coronary interventions and transcatheter valve interventions. Dr. Cohen has led multiple research projects in these areas and his work is widely recognized at an international level.

Dr. Le May is the Director of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute Regional STEMI Program and an Interventional Cardiologist and Professor of Medicine.

Dr. Vidovich is director of the Cardiology Clinical Trials Unit with experience in interventional cardiology pharmaceutical and device trials. He is active in national radial coronary angiography / intervention and percutaneous left ventricular device education efforts.

CERTIFICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY

American Heart Association
American Society of Anesthesiologists
Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention (AHA)
Interdisciplinary Working Group on Quality of Care & Outcomes Research (AHA)
European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI)
Society for Cardiolovascular Angiography and Intervention (SCAI)

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Interventional Cardiologist, University of Illinois Medical Center, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois Medical Center

Chief, Section of Cardiology, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center

Director, Cardiology Clinical Trials Unit, University of Illinois and Jesse Brown VA.

Proficiency in, but not limited to:

• Atrial Fibrillation ablation (radiofrequency and CryoBalloon)
• Ischemic and idiopathic ventricular tachycardia ablation
• Electro-anatomic mapping using the EnSite/NavX or Biosense-Webster CARTO systems
• Laser Lead Extraction/Femoral Lead Extraction
• Single/Dual/Bi-Ventricular chamber pacemaker and ICD implantation and programming
• Supraventricular tachycardia ablation (AVNRT, AVRT, typical and atypical atrial flutter, atrial tachycardia)
• Invasive electrophysiologic study
• Tilt table testing
• Consultative clinical electrophysiology

TRAINING

• Clinical Electrophysiology Fellowship – New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY
• General Cardiology Fellowship – George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC
• Internal Medicine Residency – Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
• Medical School – Rutgers – New Jersey Medical School, Newark, N.J.
• Undergraduate – B.A. in Medical Sciences, Seven-Year Medical Program Honors: Summa Cum Laude graduate – Boston University, Boston MA

CERTIFICATIONS

• Diplomate of Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, ABIM
• Certification in Nuclear Cardiology, CBNC
• Diplomate of Cardiovascular Diseases, ABIM
• Diplomate of Internal Medicine, ABIM

RESEARCH

• Sub-Principle Investigator: Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Life Vest Defibrillator and Improving Methods for Determining the Use of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (The VEST/PREDICTS Study)—NCT00628966
• Sub-Principle Investigator: Clinical Study to Evaluate the Catheter Robotics Amigo for Performing Right-Sided Electrophysiology Mapping Studies, Catheter Robotics, Inc.—NCT01139814
• Sub-Principle Investigator: S-ICD System IDE Clinical Study; Cameron Health, Inc.—NCT01064076
• Sub-Principle Investigator: The IMPACT of BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring Guided Anticoagulation on Stroke Risk in Patients With Implanted ICD and CRT-D Devices (IMPACT)—NCT00559988

Dr. Nils Johnson completed his undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, and earned his medical degree from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, New York. He then completed his internal medicine residency and fellowships in cardiology and interventional cardiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. In addition, he also received a Master of Science degree in epidemiology and biostatistics from the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern.

Board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, interventional Cardiology and nuclear cardiology, Dr. Johnson hasclinical interests that include determining when invasive cardiac catheterization, angioplasty (stent), or bypass surgery are necessary by using non-invasive tools like cardiac PET imaging or invasive tools like FFR and CFR.

His research with mentor Dr. Kenneth Lance Gould started in 1999 and focuses on clinical coronary physiology, from perfusion imaging to intracoronary hemodynamics. During the 2015-16 academic year, he spent a sabbatical emphasizing invasive coronary physiology with Dr. Nico Pijls at the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Dr. Johnson served as the principal investigator for international trials in coronary physiology like CONTRAST (NCT02184117) and DEFINE-FLOW (NCT02328820). He lectures worldwide and has published numerous academic articles.

Dr. Bertrand is active in clinical research in particular in the field of the intervention and treatment of coronary cardiac diseases. He acts as principal investigator of clinical trials and is also the initiator of several original projects of clinical research (investigator initiated trials) on a worldwide scale.

CERTIFICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY

Specialist in cardiology (MD), State University of Liege (Belgium)
PhD in experimental medicine, McGill University, Montreal
Chercheur-boursier clinicien junior level 2, Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec (FRSQ)
Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology – Member, executive
Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) – Member, scientific committee
American Heart Association (AHA) – Member
Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI) – Fellow

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Interventional Cardiologist, Interventional Cardiology Laboratory, Cardiology Department, Quebec Heart-Lung Institute, affiliated to Laval University

Director EASY Program for the research and education of the transradial approach
Professeur agrégé, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec
Adjunct-Professor, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal.

Medical Doctor (MD), National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Specialist in Internal Medicine, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Specialist in Cardiology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Interventional Cardiology, Laval University, Quebec City (QC), Canada
Philosophiæ Doctor (PhD) in Experimental Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City (QC), Canada

Member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
Member of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI)
Member of the Latin American Society of Interventional Cardiology (SOLACI)
Member of the Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology (CAIC)
Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA), Council on Clinical Cardiology
Member of the Working Group on Valvular Heart Disease of the ESC

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Dr. Bagur’s main research interests include transradial coronary interventions, transcatheter aortic valve implantation, quality of care & cardiovascular outcomes and program development.
Dr. Bagur has been principal author and co-author on papers published in highly regarded peer-reviewed journals. He also serves as a peer reviewer for many cardiovascular journals suchs as the American Journal of Cardiology, Catheterization & Cardiovascular Interventions, Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, EuroIntervention, Heart, International Journal of Cardiology, JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions, Journal of Interventional Cardiology and Journal of Invasive Cardiology.

My research interests include blood flow modelling in circulatory pathologies (stenoses, aneurysms) and the influence of the flow on these diseases, the study of the mechanical properties of vascular tissues (vascular wall and arterial plaques, erythrocytes membrane), the design, development and evaluation of cardiovascular devices (heart pumps, heart valves, stents, catheters) using numerical, experimental and animal models and image processing for medical diagnosis (motion analysis, tissue characterization).

Diplomat of American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology
Licensed to Practice Medicine in Pennsylvania, and New York
American College of Physicians (ACP) – Fellow
American College of Cardiology (ACC) – Fellow
Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI)- Fellow
SCAI, Co-chair, Transradial Committee
SCAI, Member Simulation Committee
American Board of Internal Medicine Simulation Workgroup – Member

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Involved with evaluation of prevention of radial artery occlusion after transradial access, and development of newer techniques related to upper extremity cardiac catheterization, and comparing them to traditional approaches.

Sandeep Nathan, MD, is a highly skilled cardiologist who specializes in interventional cardiovascular procedures. Dr. Nathan performs a wide range of coronary and peripheral vascular procedures for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease, including balloon angioplasty, stenting, atherectomy, thrombectomy, cryoplasty and intravascular ultrasound imaging.

Dr. Rao’s research interests revolve around new therapies for ischemic heart disease, including PCI and ST-elevation myocardial infarction. He also is interested in bleeding and blood transfusion issues as they apply to antithrombotic therapy, and quality improvement for the treatment of acute coronary syndrome and PCI. His research is through prospective randomized clinical trials as well as involvement in large multicenter registries.

CERTIFICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY

Bachelor of Arts, Zoology, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Doctor of Medicine (MD), The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH
Board certifications – Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology
Fellow, American College of Cardiology (ACC)
Fellow, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), Voting Member, Simulation Committee, Transradial Committee, Quality Committee
SCAI Representative to National Quality Forum
Executive Committee, VA Cardiovascular Assessment, Reporting, and Tracking for Cath Labs (CART-CL)
Member, Research and Publications Committee, VA CART-CL

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center

Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Durham VA Medical Center.

Dr. Kwan is active in clinical research in particular the field of transradial approach to coronary intervention. He is also active in many clinical studies in bifurcation stenting, and recently transpedal approach for peripheral vascular diseases.

CERTIFICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY

Fellow, American Heart Association (FAHA)
Fellow, American College of Physicians (FACP)
Fellow, American College of Cardiology (FACC)
Fellow, Society of Coronary Angiography and Intervention (FSCAI)

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Interventional Cardiologist,
Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospitals, New York, NY

Senior Associate Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Interventional Cardiology,
Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, NY

Professor of Medicine,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY

Education

• Fellowship 1987, Interventional Cardiology, Medical Center, Stanford University
• Fellowship 1986, Cardiology, Medical Center, Stanford University
• Residency 1984, Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
• MD 1981, Medical College, Cornell University
• AB 1978, College Scholar, concentration in Neurobiology/Psychology, Cornell University

Dr. Alfaro is active in the development of radial interventional field and researches.

CERTIFICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY

Specialist in Internal Medicine (MD), University of Costa Rica
Specialist in Cardiology (MD), University of Costa Rica
Sub-specialist in Interventional Cardiology, Instituto Dante Pazzanese, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Latino-american Interventional Cardiology Society (SOLACI), Member

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Interventional cardiologist
Chief Interventional Cardiology Laboratory, Cardiology Dept
Hospital San Juan de Dios, affiliated to University of Costa Rica

PI Current (OASIS 7) study, Appraise Study.
Initiator and main investigator of the CRASOC (« compression de la radiale sans occlusion ») study.
Former TIMI PI (TIMI III, IV, VII, X, XIV,… and XXIII), PI HART II, IMAGINE, SYNERGY, CART II studies.

CERTIFICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY

Professor, Clin Univ UCL de Mont-Godinne
CSPQ in Cardiology, Canada
Former (full) Professor Faculty of Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Former Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Mc Gill University, Canada
Member of the Canadian Society of Cardiology and of the Belgian Society of Cardiology

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Interventional Cardiologist, Cliniques Universitaires UCL de Mont-Godinne, Yvoir

Dr. Ruzsa is active in clinical research in particular in the field of the intervention and treatment of coronary cardiac diseases. He acts as principal investigator of clinical trials and is also the initiator of several original projects of clinical research (investigator initiated trials).

CERTIFICATIONS AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY

Paramedic degree (University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine)
Medical degree (University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine)
Specialist in Internal Medicine (University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine)
Specialist in Cardiology (University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine)
Specialist in Angiology (University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine)

Member: ESC, EAPCI, SCAI, CIRSE, International Union of Angiology
Member: MACIRT (Hungarian association of angiology and vascular surgery)
Vice-president: Hungarian Society of Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology Working Group

ADMINISTRATIVE AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Interventional Cardiologist,
Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory, Cardiac and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University
Invasive Cardiology, Bács-Kiskun County Hospital, Teaching Hospital of University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine

Assistant Professor,
Semmelweis University, Cardiac and Vascular Center

Head of Invasive Cardiology,
Bács-Kinkun County Hospital