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

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

Marc Ruel, MD, MPH
Financial Relationships: Medtronic – MICS Proctor and Research Grant Support (MIST Trial), Speaker/Honoraria

Joseph F. Sabik III, MD
Financial Relationships: Medtronic – Speaker/Honoraria

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

Faculty

Faisal G. Bakaeen, MD
John H. Calhoon, MD
Gloria Färber, MD
Mario F.L. Gaudino, MD, PhD
Ki-Bong Kim, MD, PhD
Andre Lamy, MD, MHSc
Harry R. Lapierre, MD
Patrick Myers, MD
Hiroyuki Nakajima, MD
Thomas A. Schwann, MD, MBA
Louise Sun, MD, SM
Viviany R. Taqueti, MD, MPH
James Tatoulis, MD, MS
Gianluca Torregrossa, MD
Bobby Yanagawa, MD, PhD
Alicja Zientara, MD
 

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

Hirokuni Arai, MD, PhD
Financial Relationships: Medistim – Speaker/Honoraria (No longer, within past 24 mo.); Medtronic – Speaker/Honoraria; Sumitomo Bakelite Cp., Ltd. – Royalties

Andreas Böning, MD
Financial Relationships: Abiomed – Speaker/Honoraria; Guard Pharmaceutics – Advisory Board, Consultant; Marizyme – Advisory Board; ZOLL Medical – Speaker/Honoraria (No longer, within past 24 mo.)

Husam H. Balkhy, MD
Financial Relationships: Edwards Lifesciences – Consultant; Intuitive – Proctor

Joseph E. Bavaria, MD
Financial Relationships: Abbott/St. Jude Medical – Primary Investigator/DSMB Chair; Edwards Lifesciences – Consultant, Primary Investigator; Medtronic Vascular – Primary Investigator; Terumo Aortic -- Primary Investigator, Speaker's Bureau; W. L. Gore & Associates – Consultant, Primary Investigator

Rob Beanlands, MD
Financial Relationships: GE Healthcare – Advisory Board, Research Grant; JDI – Consultant, Research Grant; Lantheus – Advisory Board, Research Grant

Duke Cameron, MD
Financial Relationships: Z-Medica – Consultant (No longer, within past 24 mo.)

Aun-Yeong Chong, MD
Financial Relationships: Abbott Vascular – Advisory Board, Independent Contractor, Speaker/Honoraria

Gry Dahle, MD, PhD
Financial Relationships: Abbott – Consultant, Speaker/Honoraria

Piroze M. Davierwala, MD
Financial Relationships: Medtronic – Speaker/Honoraria

Torsten Doenst, MD, PhD
Financial Relationships: Medistim – Speaker/Honoraria (No longer, within past 24 mo.)

Pierre-Yves Etienne, MD
Financial Relationships: Medtronic – Speaker/Honoraria

Michael Farkouh, MD, MSc
Financial Relationships: AstraZeneca – Research Grant, Novartis – Research Grant (No longer, within past 24 mo.); Novo Nordisk – Research Grant

Stephen E. Fremes, MD
Financial Relationships: Boston Scientific – Site investigator for NeoAccurate IDE trial; Medtronic – Site investigator for SURTAVI trial, Site investigator for Low-Risk trial

A. Marc Gillinov, MD
Financial Relationships: Edwards Lifesciences – Consultant, Speaker/Honoraria; Medtronic – Consultant, Speaker/Honoraria; AtriCure – Consultant, Speaker/Honoraria; Clearflow – Consultant, Speaker/Honoraria; Abbott – Consultant, Speaker/Honoraria; Artivion – Consultant, Speaker/Honoraria

Dawn S. Hui, MD
Financial Relationships: Astellas Pharma – Site PI for investigational drug (No longer, within past 24 mo.)

Bob Kiaii, MD
Financial Relationships: Abbott Inc. – Consultant; Boston Scientific – Speaker/Honoraria; Ethicon – Consultant, Speaker/Honoraria; Medtronic – Speaker/Honoraria

Teresa Kieser, MD, PhD
Financial Relationships: Ethicon Endosurgery – Speaker/Honoraria; Medistim ASA – Speaker/Honoraria; Medistim USA – Speaker/Honoraria

Keita Kikuchi, MD, PhD
Financial Relationships: Medtronic – MICS CABG proctor

Roxana Mehran, MD
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

Milan Milojevic, MD, PhD, MSCE
Financial Relationships: LivaNova – Speaker/Honoraria (No longer, within past 24 mo.)

John D. Puskas, MD
Financial Relationships: CryoLife – Research Grant/Support; Edwards Lifesciences – Research Grant/Support; Medtronic Inc. – Consultant; Scanlan Inc. – Royalties

Fraser Rubens, MD, MSc
Financial Relationships: Abbott Vascular – Advisory Board

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

Elaine Tseng, MD
Financial Relationships: Amgen Inc. – Site PI for clinical trial; Artivion – Site PI for clinical trial; Duravena –
Consultant; Potrero Med – Site PI of clinical registry; ReValve Med – Founder, ownership interest (stocks,
stock options, or other intellectual property excluding diversified mutual funds)

Michael Vallely, PhD, FRACS
Financial Relationships: Getinge – Advisory Board; Medtronic – Advisory Board, Consultant

Pierre Voisine, MD
Financial Relationships: Abbvie – Consultant; HLS Therapeutics – Advisory Board, Consultant, Speaker/Honoraria
 

Abstract Presenters
The following abstract presenters have nothing to disclose:

Gary S. Allen, MD
Stella Aprilia, MBBS
Usman Aslam, DO, MPH, MS
Robert S. Boova, MD, MSHCM
Krish Chaudhuri, PhD FRACS
Keith A. Dufendach, MD
Olena Gogayeva, DSc
Ming Hao Guo, MD
Bridget Hwang
Kota Itagaki, MD
Craig Jarrett, MD, MBA
Ilhan Mavioglu, MD
Hugo M. N. Issa, MD
Antonio Panza, MD
Roberto Perezgrovas-Olaria, MD
Willa Potosnak
Fabio Ramponi, MD
Justin Ren, PhD
Gregory D. Rushing, MD
Yoshikatsu Saiki, MD, PhD
Giovanni Soletti Jr., MD
Aaron Tipton, MD
Ammu Vijayakumar, MD

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

Sarah O’Brien, CMP, DES
Meeting Planner/Contractor

Wesley K. Peart, MA
Education Manager

Melisa Puthenmadom, MS
E-Learning Coordinator

Michele D. Rush
Senior Manager for Education