FACULTY INFORMATION


Guest Faculty:

  1. Waqar Ahmed, MD, Jedda, Saudi Arabia
  2. Teiji Akagi, MD, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan
  3. BG Alekyan, MD, Bakoulev Scientific Center for CVS, Moscow, Russia
  4. John Alexander, MD, Evanston Hospital, Evanston, IL
  5. Mazeni Alwi, MD, National Heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  6. Zahid Amin, MD, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
  7. Emile Bacha, MD, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
  8. David Balzer, MD, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO
  9. John Bass, MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
  10. Lee Benson, MD, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
  11. Lisa Bergersen, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
  12. Jacek Bialkowski, MD, Silesian Center for Heart Disease, Zabrze, Poland
  13. Philipp Bonhoeffer, MD, Institute of Child Health, London, UK.
  14. Elchanan Bruckheimer, MD, Schneider Children's Medical Center, Petach Tikva, Israel
  15. Werner Budts, MD,University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
  16. Qi-Ling Cao, MD, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
  17. Mario Carminati, MD, San Donato Milanese, Milan, Italy
  18. John Carroll, MD, University of Colarado, Denver, CO
  19. Alpay Celiker, MD, Hacettepe University, MD Istanbul, Turkey
  20. Francisco Chamie, MD, Hospital dos Servidores do Estado-MS, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
  21. Jae Young Choi, MD, Yonsei Cardiovascular Center, Seoul, Korea
  22. Roberto Cubeddu, MD, Aventura Hospital and Medical Center, Miami, FL
  23. Bharat Dalvi, MD, Glenmark Cardiac Centre, Mumbai, India
  24. Michael de Moor, MD, Floating Hospital for Children, Tufts University, Boston, MA
  25. Karim Diab, MD, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
  26. Makram Ebeid, MD, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
  27. Maiy El Sayed, MD, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
  28. Horacio Faella, MD, Hospital Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  29. Thomas Fagan, MD, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
  30. Ted Feldman, MD, Evanston Northshore Hospital, Evanston, IL
  31. Hans Figulla, MD,  Jena University Hospital, Thuringua, Germany
  32. David Fish, MD, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX
  33. Craig Fleishman, MD, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Women, Orlando, FL
  34. Gregory Fontana, MD, Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
  35. Simone Fontes-Pedra, MD, Danta Pazzanese Instituto de Cardiologia, Sao Paolo, Brazil
  36. Thomas Forbes, MD, Detroit Children’s Hospital, Detroit, MI
  37. Olaf Franzen, MD, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  38. Stacey Froemming, RCIS, Children’s Hospital of Omaha, Omaha, NE
  39. Yun Ching Fu, MD, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
  40. Mark Galantowicz, MD, Columbus Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
  41. Wei Gao, MD, Shanghai Children’s  Medical Center, ,Shanghai, China
  42. Francisco Garay, MD, Pontificia Universidad Catolira de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  43. Marc Gewillig, MD, University of Lueven, Lueven, Belgium
  44. Matt Gillespie, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA  
  45. Miguel Granja, MD, Children’s Hospital of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  46. Daniel Gruenstein, MD, Amplatz Children’s Hospital. Minneapolis, MN
  47. Donald Hagler, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
  48. Ali Halabi, MD, Pediatric Cardiology, Amman, Jordan
  49. Mary Heitschmidt, RN, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL.
  50. James Hermiller, MD, St Vincent Carmel Hospital, Carmel, IN.
  51. Sharon Hill, ACNP, PhD(c) Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
  52. Anthony Hlavacek, MD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
  53. Eric Horlick, MD, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada
  54. Reda Ibrahim, MD, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  55. Michel Ilbawi, MD, Advocate Hope Children's Hospital, Oak Lawn, IL
  56. Frank Ing, MD, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX
  57. Alex Javois, MD, Hope Children’s Heart Institute, Oak Lawn, IL
  58. Henri Justino, MD, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX
  59. Saibal Kar, MD, Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
  60. Seong-Ho Kim, M.D., PhD, Cheju Halla General Hospital, South Korea
  61. Terry D. King, MD, Pediatric Cardiology, Monroe, LA
  62. Jackie Kreutzer, MD, Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
  63. Krishna Kumar, MD, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Cochin, Kerala, India.
  64. Geoffrey Lane, MD, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
  65. John Lasala, MD, St Louis University Hospital, St Louis, MO
  66. Larry Latson, MD, Joe DeMaggio Children’s Hospital, Hollywood, FL
  67. Trong-Phi Le, MD, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  68. Dr Jeffrey Pollak, MD, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
  69. Robert Lederman, MD, NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD
  70. Daniel Levi, MD, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
  71. Achiau Ludomirsky, MD, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY
  72. Raj Makkar, MD, Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
  73. Gerard Martin, MD, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
  74. Pat McCarthy, MD, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL.
  75. Kristina McCoy, MSN, NP-C, Clinical Quality Consultant, American College of Cardiology
  76. Tarek Momenah, MD, Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  77. Phillip Moore, MD, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  78. Michael Mullen, MD, The Brompton Hospital, London, UK
  79. Charles E. Mullins, MD, Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX
  80. Kathleen Nolan, RT, Rush Center for Congenital & Structural Heart Disease, Chicago, IL
  81. David Nykanen, MD, Arnold Palmer Hospital for Women, Orlando, FL
  82. Alejandro Peirone, MD, Children’s Hospital of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina
  83. Shakeel A. Qureshi, MD, Evelina Children’s Hospital, London, UK
  84. Mark Reisman, MD, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA.
  85. John Rhodes, MD, Duke Medical Center, Durham, NC
  86. Tiana Riley, MSN, APN, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago. IL
  87. Richard Ringel, MD, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, MD
  88. David Roberson, MD, The Heart Institute at Christ, Oak Lawn, IL
  89. Raymond Romero, MA, W. L. Gore Associates, Flagstaff, AZ
  90. Raul Rossi, MD, Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  91. Masood Sadiq, MD, The Children's Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan
  92. Dietmar Schranz, MD, The Pediatric Heart Center, Giessen, Germany
  93. Girish Shirali, MD, Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
  94. Robert Siegel, MD, Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
  95. Horst Sievert, MD, CardioVascular Center Sankt Katharinen Hosp, Frankfurt, Germany
  96. Jeffrey Soble, MD, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
  97. Robert Sommer, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
  98. Jason Swinning, RTR, RCIS, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
  99.  Jill Swinning, MSN, APN, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
  100. Hideshi Tomita, MD, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Japan
  101. Zoltan Turi, MD, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Camden, NJ
  102. Mike Tynan, MD, Professor Emeritus, Guys Hospital, London, UK
  103. Julie Vincent, MD, Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York, New York, NY
  104. Robert Vincent, MD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
  105. Kevin Walsh, MD, Our Lady’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
  106. Jou-Kou Wang, MD, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  107. Howard Weber, MD, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA
  108. Paul Weinberg, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
  109. Ruby Whalen, RN CCRC, Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL
  110. Brian Whisenant, MD, Intermountain Utah Heart Clinic, Murray, UT
  111. Robert White, Jr, MD, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
  112. Neil Wilson, MD, John Ratcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
  113. Carlos Zabal, MD, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia, Mexico City, Mexico
  114. Evan Zahn, MD, Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami, FL