Faculty and Staff Disclosure Information

Unless otherwise noted, the individuals below have had no commercial relationships with ineligible companies in the past 24 months. All commercial relationships have been mitigated.

Course Directors

Marc Ruel, MD, MPH
Financial Relationships: Medtronic - Research Grant, Speakers Bureau/Honoraria

Joseph F. Sabik III, MD
Financial Relationships: Medtronic - Other Research Support, Speakers Bureau/Honoraria, Consultant/Advisory Board

David Glineur, MD, PhD
Financial Relationships: Nothing to disclose

Sigrid E. Sandner, MD
Financial Relationships: Nothing to disclose

Faculty

Jennifer Lawton, MD
Brittany Zwischenberger, MD
Menaka Ponnambalam, NP
Mario Gaudino, MD, PhD, MSCE, FEBCTS, FACC, FAHA
Christopher Lau, MD
Faisal Bakaeen, MD
Thomas Schwann, MD, MBA
Chase Brown, MD
Gianluca Torregrossa, MD
Torsten Doenst, MD, Phd
James Tatoulis, MBBS, MS, MD, FRACS, FCSANZ
Viviany Taqueti, MD, MPH, FACC
Patrick Myers, MD
Ellen Sabik, MD

The following faculty have disclosed these financial relationships with ineligible companies in the past 24 months:

Piroze Davierwala, M.Ch., DNB, MD
Financial Relationships: Medtronic – Speakers Bureau/Honoraria

Stephen Fremes, MD
Financial Relationships: Medtronic – Research Grant; Boston – Research Grant

Michael Vallely, BMBS
Financial Relationships: Getinge – Consultant/Advisory Board; Medtronic – Consultant/Advisory Board

Joseph McGinn, MD
Financial Relationships: Medtronic – Speakers Bureau/Honoraria

Husam Balkhy, MD
Financial Relationships: Edwards Lifesciences – Speakers Bureau/Honoraria; Intuitive – Proctor; Atricure – Proctor 

David Taggart, MD
Financial Relationships: Medistim – Consultant, Research Funding, Speaker/Honoraria; Medtronic – Speaker/Honoraria, Speaker's Bureau; VGS – Advisory Board, Ownership Interest (stocks, stock options or other intellectual property excluding diversified mutual funds), Speaker/Honoraria

Niv Ad, MD
Financial Relationship: Atricure – Consultant/Advisory Board; Medtronic – Speakers Bureau/Honoraria; VGS – Consultant/Advisory Board

Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, FACP, FCCP, FESC, FAHA, FSCAI
Financial Relationships: Abbott – Consultant, Institutional research payments; Abiomed – Institutional research payments; Alleviant – Institutional research payments; AM-Pharma – Institutional research payments; Applied Therapeutics – Institutional research payments, Ownership interest (stocks, stock options, excludes diversified mutual funds); Arena – Institutional research payments; AstraZeneca – Institutional research payments; BAIM Institute – Institutional research payments; Bayer – Institutional research payments; Biosensors International – Institutional research payments; BIOTRONIK – Institutional research payments; Boston Scientific – Institutional research payments; Bristol Myers Squibb – Institutional research payments; Cardiawave – Institutional research payments; CellAegis – Institutional research payments; CeloNova BioSciences – Institutional research payments; Chiesi – Institutional research payments; CineMed Research – Personal fees; Concept Medical – Institutional research payments; CSL Behring – Institutional research payments; CytoSorbents – Institutional research payments; DSI – Institutional research payments; Element Science – Institutional research payments; Elixir Medical – Consultant; Faraday Pharmaceuticals – Institutional research payments; Humacyte – Institutional research payments; Idorsia Pharmaceuticals – Institutional research payments; Insel Gruppe AG – Institutional research payments; Janssen – Consultant; Magenta – Institutional research payments; Medtronic – Consultant, Institutional research payments; Novartis – Consultant, Institutional research payments; OrbusNeich – Institutional research payments; Philips – Institutional research payments; RenalPro Medical, Inc. – Institutional research payments; Stel – Consultant; Vivasure Medical – Institutional research payments; ZOLL Medical – Institutional research payments

Nirav Patel, MD
Financial Relationships: Heart Inc. – Founder; Vascular Graft Solutions LTD – Consultant/Advisory Board; Medtronic – Consultant/Advisory Board

Michael Halkos, MD
Financial Relationships: Medtronic, Inc – Consultant/Advisory Board

Abstract Presenters
The following abstract presenters have nothing to disclose:

Elizabeth Norton, MD
Arnaldo Dimagli, MD
Les James, MD, MPH
Giovanni Jr Soletti, MD
Andrew Young, Resident
Zeke Pullan, MBChB
Lamia Harik, MD
Zain Khalpey, MD, PhD, FACS
Doosang Kim, MD
Aleksander Dokollari, MD
Zhandong Zhou, MD, PhD

The following abstract presenters have disclosed these financial relationships with ineligible companies in the past 24 months:

Andrea Garatti, MD, PhD
Financial Relationships: Abbot Tendyne – Consultant 

STS Staff
The following STS Staff have nothing to disclose:

Scott Bradbury, MS
Vice President of Education

Amy Cacich, CMP
Senior Manager, Meetings and Conventions

Colleen Donohoe, CMP, DES
Vice President of Meetings and Conventions

Isabel Dunn
Education Coordinator

Meredith A. Herzog
Associate Director of Education

Melisa Puthenmadom, MS
Senior E-Learning Coordinator

Michele D. Rush
Senior Manager for Education