FACULTY INFORMATION

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Course Directors:

Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD, M.P.H.
Professor of Pediatrics & Internal Medicine
James A. Hunter, MD, University Chair, Director, Rush Center For Congenital & Structural Heart Disease 
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL

John P. Cheatham, MD

Director, Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Therapies
Professor of Pediatrics & Internal Medicine
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH

Carlos Pedra, MD

Dante Pazzanese Instituto de Cardiologia,
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Thomas K. Jones, MD
Professor of Pediatrics & Medicine

University of Washington, Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories,
Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA

 

Course Co-Directors:

Damien Kenny, MD
Rush Center For Congenital & Structural Heart Disease
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL

 

Giacomo Pongiglione, MD

Director of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù Rome
Vatican City, Italy

 

Clifford J. Kavinsky, MD, PhD
Professor of Internal Medicine
Rush Center for Congenital & Structural Heart Disease
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL

 

Ralf Holzer, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, OH

 

Director Emeritus

William E. Hellenbrand, MD

Yale University Medical Center
New Haven, CT