Course Directors

Steven Bolling, MD
University of Michigan Hospital
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Disclosure(s): Abbott: Consultant (Ongoing); Edwards: Consultant (Ongoing); Medtronics: Consultant (Ongoing)

Joanna Chikwe, MD
Editor-in-Chief, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery; Professor & Chairman
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Health System
Los Angeles, California, United States

Faculty

Ralph Damiano, Jr., MD
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Ahmad Sheikh, MD
Kaiser Permanente
San Francisco, California, United States

Serguei Melnitchouk, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Gerald Lawrie, MD
DeBakey Distingushed Chair of Cardiac Surgery
Houston Methodist Hospital Specialty Physician Group
Houston, Texas, United States

Arnar Geirsson, MD
Professor of Surgery, Director Cardiovascular Institute
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York, United States

T. Sloane Guy, IV, MD, MBA
Director of Robotic & Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Georgia Heart Institute, Northeast Georgia Medical Center
Gainesville, Georgia, United States

Tom Nguyen, MD
Chief Medical Executive | Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute
Baptist Health
Miami, Florida, United States

Matthew Romano, MD
University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Patrick McCarthy, MD
Executive Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute; Vice President, Northwestern Medical Group; Heller-Sacks Professor of Surgery
Northwestern Medicine, Division of Cardiac Surgery
Chicago, Illinois, United States

Michael Halkos, MD
Chief and Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Brittany Zwischenberger, MD, MHSc
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina, United States

Dominic Emerson, MD, FACS
Associate Professor
Cedars Sinai
Los Angeles, California, United States

Danny Ramzy, MD PhD
Professor and Chief of Cardiac Surgery
UT Health Houston McGovern School of Medicine
Housotn, Texas, United States

Thuy Le, PA-C
Physician Assistant
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Jeffrey Schneider, PA-C
Physician Assistant
Michigan Medicine

Moritz Wyler von Ballmoos, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor of Surgery & System Chair, Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
Texas Health Resources
Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Tirone David, MD
Professor of Surgery
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Michael Acker, MD
Executive Assistant
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Vinay Badhwar, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States

Francis Pagani, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Lindsay Nitsche, BS
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Kirsten Young, PA-C
Physician Assistant
Children's Hosptial of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Sabet Hashim, MD
Chairman of Cardiac Surgery, Hartford Hospital
Hartford HealthCare
Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Alexander Brescia, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Cardiac Surgery
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri, United States