The individuals below have disclosed whether they have financial relationships with ineligible companies in the past 24 months. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

Course Directors

Joseph F. Sabik III, MD
Financial Relationships: Medtronic – Speakers Bureau/Honoraria, Consultant/Advisory Board

Marc Ruel, MD, MPH
Financial Relationships: Medtronic – Research Grant, Proctor, MICS CABG

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

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

Mario Gaudino, MD, PhD, MSCE
Financial Relationships: Abbott Vascular – Consultant/Advisory Board

Faculty
The following faculty have nothing to disclose:

Irbaz Hameed, MD
James Tatoulis, MB, BS, MS, MD
Jennifer Lawton, MD
Brittany Zwischenberger, MD, MHS
Christopher Lau, MD
Giuseppe Tavilla, MD, PhD
Patrick Myers, MD
Keita Kikuchi, MD, PhD
Jacqueline Tamis-Holland, MD
Amit Pawale, MD

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

Joseph Zwischenberger, MD
Financial Relationships: Avalon, Maquet – Royalties; Verthermia Acquisitions, Inc. – Consultant/Advisory Board

James Cox, MD
Financial Relationships: AtriCure – Consultant/Advisory Board, Ownership Interest; Adagio Medical Holdings – Consultant/Advisory Board, Ownership Interest; Lucid Diagnostics – Consultant/Advisory Board, Ownership Interest

Subodh Verma, MD, PhD
Financial Relationships: Amarin, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Canadian Medical and Surgical Knowledge Translation Research Group, Eli Lilly, HLS Therapeutics, Humber River Health, Janssen, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, PhaseBio, S & L Solutions Event Management Inc – Speakers Bureau; Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, HLS Therapeutics, Janssen, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi – Consultant/Advisory Board; Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, HLS Therapeutics, Merck, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, PhaseBio, Sanofi – Other Research Support

Piroze Davierwala, MD, MCh
Financial Relationships: Medtronic – Speakers Bureau/Honoraria, Fellowship Support; Edwards Lifesciences – Fellowship Support

Richard Whitlock, MD, PhD, FRCSC
Financial Relationships: AtriCure – Research Grant, Speakers Bureau/Honoraria; Procyrion – Chair DSMB; Boston Scientific – Research Grant

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

S. Chris Malaisrie, MD
Financial Relationships: Edwards Lifesciences – Research Grant, Other Research Support, Speakers Bureau/Honoraria, Consultant/Advisory Board; Medtronic – Research Grant, Other Research Support, Consultant/Advisory Board; CryoLife – Research Grant, Speakers Bureau/Honoraria, Consultant/Advisory Board; AtriCure – Speaker/Honoraria includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness; Terumo Aortic – Consultation/Advisory fees, Speaker/Honoraria, Research Grant, Grant/Research Support

John Puskas, MD, MSc, PhD(hc)
Financial Relationships: Medtronic – Consultant/Advisory Board; Medistim – Consultant/Advisory Board; AtriCure – Consultant/Advisory Board 

Abstract Presenters
The following abstract presenters have nothing to disclose:

Omar Abdel Kerim, MPH
Sameer Singh, MD
Dario Petrone, MD  
Michael Catalano, MD
Sarah Nisivaco, MD
Islam Salikhanov, MD, PhD
Sahra Tasdelen, BSc, MSc
Augusta Paulikaite
Teerth Patel
Nassim Bousmaha, MD
Joshua Crane, MD
Trent Sherman  
Massimo Baudo, MD
Syed Peer, MD
Riya Bhasin
AlleaBelle Bradshaw, MD
Sina Danesh, MD
Ahmed Elmahrouk, MD
Irsa Hasan, MD
Živojin Jonjev, MD, PhD
Joshua Leibowitz, MD
Samim Azizi, MD
Fatima Qamar, MD, MPH
Lauryn Spinetta
Ryohei Ushioda, MD
Hong Jun Yong, BHSc
Zhandong Zhou, MD, PhD
Ahmed Hozain, MD
Joanna Lin
Aditya Sengupta, MD, MPH
Ricky Patil, MD
Yazan AlJamal, MD
Andrea Amabile, MD
Connor Barrett
Gustavo Orellana, MD
Alexander Egoavil
Christine Yang
Fadhill Alamrani, MD

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

Gregory Rushing, MD
Financial Relationships: AtriCure – Research Grant or Support, Consultant; Medtronic – Research Grant or Support, Consultant

Mark Lutz
Financial Relationships: Medtronic – Research Grant or Support

Pablo Ruda Vega, MD
Financial Relationships: AtriCure – Consultant; Medtronic – Consultant; Zimmer Biomet – Consultant; Intuitive Surgical – Consultant

Robert Hawkins, MD, MSc
Financial Relationships: Medtronic – Honoraria for Podcast Paid to Institution

Thierry Carrel-Dahinden, MD
Financial Relationships: Novostia – Consultant/Advisory Board; Abbott Inc – Consultant/Advisory Board; SwissCardioTechnologies AG – Consultant/Advisory Board 

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
Kasia Chalko, Senior Marketing Manager
Colleen Donohoe, CMP, DES, Vice President of Meetings and Conventions  
Isabel Dunn, Education Coordinator
Meredith A. Herzog, Associate Director of Education  
Melisa Puthenmadom, Senior E-Learning Coordinator  
Michele D. Rush, Senior Manager for Education