TCT 2019

Dr. Chhatriwalla is an Interventional Cardiologist and Clinical Scholar, and Medical Director of Structural Intervention at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He specializes in coronary and structural intervention.

Ajay J. Kirtane, MD, SM, is a Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Kirtane is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California – San Francisco. Dr. Kirtane is a practicing Cardiologist with an interest in coronary and peripheral intervention and assumed the directorship of the NYP/Columbia cardiac catheterization laboratories in 2015. In addition to his clinical commitments at CUMC, Dr. Kirtane has a strong interest in clinical education and research, serving as Chief Academic Officer of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy. On the national and international level, he is a co-director of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting, has served as a director of several international, national, and regional educational meetings, and has participated on the program committees for the scientific sessions of both the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association. Dr. Kirtane’s research interests are in clinical trial methodology and outcomes of device-based and pharmacologic interventions in Interventional Cardiology. He has authored/co-authored >150 original manuscripts and >50 reviews and chapters including the “Coronary Stenting” chapters of the two most widely used textbooks in Interventional Cardiology.

Works at CVPath Institute, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, USA. Features in 2 videos on Wondr Medical. Aloke Finn generally speaks on Drug coated balloons (DCB), Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI), Stents, Drug Eluting Stents (DES), and In-stent Restenosis (ISR).

Prof Andrew Sharp qualified from Edinburgh Medical School in 1998 and is Professor of Cardiology at the University Hospital of Wales and Cardiff University in the U.K. He conducted his early training at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, before moving to London for his senior clinical training. He completed the prestigious Milan-Imperial Interventional Cardiology Fellowship programme, having spent a year in San Raffaele and Columbus Hospitals, Milan, Italy, under the tutelage of Professor Antonio Colombo. He also spent three years training in interventional cardiology at Imperial College Hospitals in London. Prof Sharp was awarded an MD postgraduate research degree from the University of Edinburgh for his work on the hypertensive heart and his research interests include intracoronary imaging and physiology. as well as the use of device-based treatments for hypertension and pulmonary embolism.

Ankur Kalra is an interventional cardiologist at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Works at Clinica Mediterranea, Naples, Italy. Features in 10 videos on Wondr Medical. Carlo Briguori generally speaks on MitraClip, Mitral, Live Cases, Bifurcation, and Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS).

Carlo Di Mario is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Florence and Director of the Structural 
Interventional Cardiology Division of the University Hospital Careggi, Florence, Italy. Previous posts included 15 years as Professor of Clinical Cardiology at Imperial College of Sciences, Medicine & Technology, London and Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital. Despite his teaching, research and administrative commitments, he maintains an active clinical involvement performing more than 100 PCI per year with special interest in the treatment of calcified lesions, chronic total occlusions, bifurcations, and diffuse disease. He is a regular TAVI operator and certified implanter for the Medtronic Evolut R and Edwards Sapien 3 transcatheter aortic valves. He participated in more than 160 MitraClip implantations in London and Florence and has recently started direct annuloplasty with the CardioBand. Professor Di Mario pioneered the use of intracoronary Doppler, pressure measurement, intravascular ultrasound, optical coherence tomography, and near infrared spectroscopy. He was PI of the OPTICUS trial, failing to demonstrate superiority of IVUS guided stenting, and of the Lipid Rich Plaque study, due to report at TCT 2018. He was Principal Investigator of the DESTINI trial, using Doppler CRF to identify lesions in need of stenting, and of the CARESS in AMI trial, a large multicentre trial showing that patients who receive fibrinolytic therapy for ST-elevation myocardial infarction benefit from early angioplasty. This trial and a subsequent meta-analysis have led to a change in the European Society of Cardiology and AHA/ACC Guidelines for treatment of STEMI patients. He cooperated with Dr Davies to the validation of iFR to assess lesion severity and discriminate the contribution of individual lesions, and with Dr Lyon in the intracoronary delivery of SERCA-2 genes via adenoviral vectors in the CUPID2 trial.

David A. Wood is an interventional cardiologist at University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

Interventional Cardiologist in Interventional cardiology department of Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A.Gemelli. Professor and university researcher in cardiovascular science and thoracic department in University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. An interventional cardiologist at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy. Features in 11 videos on Wondr Medical. Francesco Burzotta generally speaks on Bifurcation, Left Main Stem (LMS), Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Coronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), and Calcified Lesions.

A consultant cardiologist at Darmstadt, Germany. Features in 2 videos on Wondr Medical. Gerald Werner generally speaks on Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO), and Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).

Gregg W. Stone, MD, FACC, MSCAI is an interventional cardiologist and Director of Academic Affairs for the Mount Sinai Heart Health System and Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Population Health Sciences and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY. Dr. Stone has served as the national or international principal investigator for more than 120 national and international multicenter randomized trials (many of which have led to new device approval or indications in the US), has authored more than 2000 manuscripts and abstracts published in the peer-reviewed literature, and has delivered thousands of invited lectures around the world. With a 2018 H-factor of 152, Dr. Stone was recently listed in Nature Medicine as one of the most prolific authors in science. Dr. Stone's areas of expertise include interventional therapies of acute coronary syndromes, myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock; drug-eluting stents and bioresorbable scaffolds; left main and complex coronary artery disease intervention; antiplatelet and antithrombotic pharmacotherapies; transcatheter valve repair and replacement; interventional hypertension and heart failure therapies; left atrial appendage closure; intravascular imaging (IVUS, OCT and NIRS); vulnerable plaque diagnosis and treatment; adjunctive interventional devices including atherectomy, distal embolic protection, thrombectomy, covered stents, chronic total occlusion devices, and brachytherapy; saphenous vein graft therapies; contrast nephropathy; clinical trial design; and regulatory issues. Dr. Stone is the director of TCT, the world's largest symposium devoted to interventional cardiology and vascular medicine. Dr. Stone founded the annual National Interventional Cardiology Fellow's Course and Transcatheter Valve Therapies TVT), the Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Summit, and co-directs multiple other meetings in the US, China, Russia, Europe, S. Korea and elsewhere.

Gregory Cascario is a ceo at XTENT, Inc., San Francisco, CA, US.

Gregory P. Fontana is a cardiothoracic surgeon at Cardiovascular Institute of Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center.

A consultant cardiologist at CardioVascular Center, Frankfurt, Germany. Features in 63 videos on Wondr Medical. Horst Sievert generally speaks on Atrial Fibrillation, Left Atrial Appendage (Closure), Live Cases, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI), and Left Main Stem (LMS).

Prof Javier Escaned is Head of Section (Interventional Cardiology Section) at Hospital Clinico San Carlos / Complutense University (Madrid, Spain). He trained in the United Kingdom as Specialist in Cardiology and obtained his PhD in The Netherlands. Author of >600 indexed scientific articles on interventional cardiology, imaging and physiology (h-index 74) and over 30 years of experience as PCI operator, he regularly lectures and performs live cases at major scientific and educational meetings. He is a recipient of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Silver Medal and the Andreas Grüntzig Award for his contributions to the fiedl fo Interventional Cardiology. Main areas of expertise include complex PCI, intracoronary diagnostics and functional coronary angiography. His track record in coronary physiology comprises being investigator on pioneer FFR trials like DEFER (1998), collaborator with Justin Davies in the validation and clinical implementation of iFR, and developer of new tools for the assessment of coronary microcirculation. Editorial roles include Deputy Editor EHJ, Advisory Editor Eurointervention, editor of the textbooks “Coronary Stenosis: Imaging, Structure and Physiology” and “Physiological Assessment of Coronary Stenoses and the Microcirculation". Recent board positions include EAPCI board / Education Committee Chair, ESC WG Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation, EuroCTO Board. Recent trials as Principal Investigator include ADVISE II, DEFINE FLAIR, SYNTAX II, PIONEER IV, Cerebral-Coronary-Connection (C3), DCR4Contrast, INOCA LongCovid and AID ANGIO. Additional interests are philosophy and music.

Jonas Lanz is a cardiologist at University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Joost Daemen is an interventional cardiology at Thorax Centre Erasmus MS, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Ken Kozuma is a consultant cardiologist at Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

Klaus Witte is a consultant cardiologist at The Leeds Teaching Hospital, Leeds, UK.

An interventional cardiologist at Heart Valve Clinic, University Hospital of Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Features in 1 video on Wondr Medical. Maurizio Taramasso generally speaks on Imaging.

Mayra Guerrero works at Evanston Hospital, Evanston, IL, USA.

Nicolas Van Mieghem is the Clinical Director of Interventional Cardiology and Professor of Interventional Cardiology at the Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam. He obtained his medical degree and cardiology degree at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. After subsequent Fellowships in interventional cardiology in at Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg Genk, Belgium, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, United States and Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, he joined the senior staff of the department of interventional cardiology in the Thoraxcenter in February 2010. Professor Van Mieghem’s academic interest is in complex (calcified) coronary lesions, mechanical circulatory support and structural heart interventions. He obtained a PhD based upon his research in transcatheter valve therapies. Professor Van Mieghem is involved in the percutaneous coronary interventions and structural heart program. Professor Van Mieghem has published and co-authored over 400 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is principle investigator and steering committee member in multiple ongoing international trials evaluating various coronary and transcatheter valve technologies. He is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology.

An assistant professor of medicine at Center of Structural Heart Disease Interventions, Heart Valve Center, Mainz Germany. Features in 7 videos on Wondr Medical. Ralph Stephan Von Bardeleben generally speaks on Intervention, Coronary Interventions, Acute Heart Failure, Pulmonary Circulation, Pulmonary Embolism, Right Heart Failure, and Right Heart Function.

Works at Thorax Centre Erasmus MS, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Features in 15 videos on Wondr Medical. Robert-Jan Van Geuns generally speaks on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI), Live Cases, Left Main Stem (LMS), Rotational Atherectomy, and Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS).

A consultant cardiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA. Features in 13 videos on Wondr Medical. Roxana Mehran generally speaks on Anti-Platelet Drugs , Coronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, and Cardiac Valves.

Works at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA. Features in 8 videos on Wondr Medical. Samir Kapadia generally speaks on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI), Mitral regurgitation, Mitral, Trans Mitral Valve Implantation (TMVR), and MitraClip.

Steven Goldberg works at Kalispell Regional Medical Center, Whitefish, MT, USA.

An interventional cardiologist at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA. Features in 2 videos on Wondr Medical. Suzanne Baron generally speaks on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI).

Suzanne J Baron is a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Vinay Badhwar is a professor of cardiac surgery at West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, WV, US.