Faculty
Structural Heart Disease

Prof. Alain Cribier MD
Prof. Alain Cribier, MD, has been Chief of
Cardiology at the University Hospital Charles
Nicolle of Rouen, France for 20 years.
In 2011, Cribier was made Professor
Emeritus at the Department of Cardiology at
this university.
Prof. Cribier has received many prestigious
scientific distinctions and awards in France,
Europe, the United States, South America,
Israel and Asia for his pioneering work and,
in 2012, the most recognized French
national distinction, the Legion of Honor. He
has published more than 600 indexed
articles in the field of interventional
cardiology, PCI, valvular disease, and
innovative technologies.
Heart failure

John Mc Murray MD
Professor of Medical Cardiology
Deputy Director (Clinical) of the Institute of
Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences and
honorary
Consultant Cardiologist at the Queen Elizabeth
University Hospital, Glasgow.
He is a Past-President of the Heart Failure
Association of the ESC and is involved in
guideline writing and the editorial boards of
several leading journals.
He has won several awards, including the Gold
Medal of the European Society of Cardiology
in 2020.

Wilfried Mullens MD
Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology, Hasselt
University, Belgium
Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation
Specialist
He is the principal investigator of the
‘Acetazolamide in Decompensated Heart
Failure with Volume OveRload trial (ADVOR)
He has been president of the
Belgian Working Group on Heart Failure and
serving as board member of European
Heart Failure Association (HFA).

Mikhail Kosiborod MD
He is vice president of Research at Saint
Luke’s Health System, codirector of
Cardiometabolic Research in Saint Luke’s
Michael and Marlys Haverty
Cardiometabolic Center of Excellence,
and professor of medicine at the
University of Missouri – Kansas City
School of Medicine.
Dr. Kosiborod is an internationally
recognized expert in the fields of
diabetes and cardiovascular disease,
cardiometabolic and cardiorenal
syndromes, and quality care and
outcomes.
He is involved in the leadership of
numerous clinical trials and multicenter
registries

Michael Felker MD
MD, MHS, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA
Professor of Medicine with tenure
in the Division of Cardiology at Duke University
School of Medicine
He is currently Director of Cardiovascular
Research at the Duke Clinical Research
Institute and Vice-Chief for Clinical Research in
the Division of Cardiology.
Member of the Heart Failure Society of
America Board of Directors

Gustavo Knop MD
MD, FRCS
Associate Cardiovascular Surgeon.
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA
Faculty member
Candidato a Instructor of Surgery
Licensed in Minnesota state as Eminent
Physician
Former Consultant Cardiothoracic
Surgeon in United Kingdom

Diego Delgado MD
Specialist in Heart Failure and Transplantation.
Medical Director of Cardiology at Toronto
General Hospital.
Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto.
Past President, Interamerican Society of
Cardiology

Federico Asch MD
Director, Cardiac Imaging Research and
Cardiovascular Core Laboratories, MedStar
Health Research Institute Professor of
Medicine in Cardiology, Georgetown
University, Washington DC USA

Hima Vidula MD
Dr. Vidula is the Medical Director of Heart
Transplantation. She is also the Cardiovascular
Director of the Comprehensive Sarcoidosis
Program. Her special interest and expertise
include heart transplantation, left ventricular
assist devices, cardiac MRI, and infiltrative
cardiomyopathies. She is board certified in
Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation.
She is currently the Governor of the New York
State Chapter of
the American College of Cardiology.

Oscar Cingolani MD
MD
Associate Professor of Medicine.
Director Hypertension Program.
Associate Director Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.
Director Cardiology Grand Rounds.
Division of Cardiology Johns Hopkins
University Hospital

Alejandro Barbagelata MD
Invasive Cardiologist.
Current Adj Ast Professor
Medicine/Cardiology at Duke University,
member of the Board of Directors of DUCCS
(a Duke Clinical Research organization).
Staff member Interventional Cardiology
service, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Codirector of the Advanced Heart Failure
Postgraduate Program at the Universidad
Catolica Argentina (UCA) with DUCCS.
He is Fellow AHA and SCAI and reviewer in
different journals
Ischemic heart disease

Dipti Itchhaporia MD
President of the American College of
Cardiology Eric & Sheila Samson Chair in
Cardiovascular Health
Director of Disease Management at the Jeffrey
M. Carlton Heart and Vascular Institute
Clinical Associate Professor, University of
California, Irvine
Chair of the ACC Task Force on Health Equity

Mamas Mamas MD
Director for the Centre for Prognosis Research,
Institute of Primary Care and Health
Sciences
- Professor of Interventional Cardiology, Keele
University and Honorary Consultant
Cardiologist, Royal Stoke
Honorary Professor of Population Health,
University of Manchester
- Adjunct Professor of Research Jefferson
University, Philadelphia, USA
- Visiting Professor Case Western University,
Heart & Vascular Center, MetroHealth
Medical Center, USA

Marcelo Di Carli MD
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Cardiovascular Medicine, Radiology

Roxana Mehran MD
Professor of Medicine and Director of
Interventional Cardiovascular Research and
Clinical Trials at the Zena and Michael A.
Wiener Cardiovascular Institute at Mount Sinai
School of Medicine Specialist in clinical trials
with complex data analysis and research –
Interventional Cardiology

Marco Valgimigli MD
Marco Valgimigli (50) published more than 700
peer-reviewed manuscripts, with research
interests spanning from coronary and
structural interventions to anti-thrombotics.
With an H-index of 102 in Scopus and more
than 5000 citations, he has been awarded with
the highly Cited Researcher title in the field of
medicine since 2017. He led as principal
investigators more than 20 multicenter clinical
trials and served as member, section
coordinator or chairperson of multiple
European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
guidelines. He is currently Deputy Chief of
Cardiology at Instituto Cardiocentro Ticino in
Lugano, Switzerland.

Gabriel Steg MD
Chief, Department of Cardiology, Hôpital
Bichat, Paris, France.
Vice President for research of the board of the
Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris
network (39
hospitals).
Professor of Cardiology at Université Paris-
Cité, Paris, France
Chair of the FACT (French Alliance for
cardiovascular Clinical Trials) academic
research network.
Chair of the French National University Council
for Cardiology (Conseil National des
Universités)
- Senior Professor (innovation chair) at Institut
Universitaire de France, since 2022

Juan Carlos Kaski MD
DSc, MD, DM (Hons), FRCP, FRSM, FESC, FACC,
FAHA
Professor of Cardiovascular Science
(Emeritus), St. George's, University of London.
Hon. Consultant Cardiologist, Cardiology
Clinical Academic Group, St. George's
University Hospitals NHS Trust and Royal
Brompton Hospital, London.

Ana Iribarren MD
Medical Cardiologist Postdoctoral Scientist at
Barbra Streisand Women´s Heart Center,
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA.
Amyloidosis

Pablo Garcia-Pavia MD
Head of the Cardiology Section at H Puerta
de Hierro Majadahonda in Madrid, Spain.
In this center he directs the Heart Failure
and Familial Heart Diseases Unit at the
same time that he develops his activity as
Group Leader in the National Center for
Cardiovascular Research (CNIC).
Valvulopathies

José Luis Zamorano MD
Head of the Cardiology Service. Ramon y Cajal
Hospital Professor of Medicine
Member of the First European
Echocardiography Accreditation Committee of
the European Association of Echocardiography
Vice President European Society of Cardiology
Ambassador European Society of Cardiology

Arturo Evangelista Masip MD
President of the Catalan Society of Cardiology
Coordinator of the Cardiac Imaging Research
Unit and the Aortic Pathology Unit of the Vall
d'Hebrón Research Institute (VHIR).

Philippe Pibarot MD
Philippe Pibarot obtained a doctorate in
veterinary medicine (DVM) in 1987 at the
University Claude Bernard in Lyon, France, and
a PhD degree in biomedical sciences from the
University of Montreal in April 1995.
He has received the FACC, FAHA, FASE, FESC,
FASE, FCCS credentials. He is full professor at
the Department of Medicine of Laval
University, and he holds the Canada Research
Chair (Level I) in Valvular Heart Disease (VHD)
at the Québec Heart & Lung Institute. He is the
head of Cardiology Research at Québec Heart
& Lung Institute.

Ezequiel Guzzetti MD
Cardiologist
Adjunct Professor of Medicine University of
Montréal.
PhD candidate.

Victoria Delgado MD
Head of the cardiovascular imaging
department at the Germans Trias i Pujol
University Hospital in Badalona, Barcelona.
She is currently a member of the Board of the
European Society of Cardiology and a member
of the communications committee, chair of
the Social Media subcommittee, and of the
ESC Congress Program committee.
Senior Associate Editor for Circulation and
Associate Editor for JASE.
Cardio-Oncology

Gina González Robledo MD
Specialist in cardiology with advanced studies
in heart failure at the University Hospital of
Zurich (Switzerland)
Coordinator of the heart failure clinic at the
Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá University
Hospital, Associate Professor at the
Universidad de los Andes,
Former president of the Colombian chapter of
cardio-oncology, Secretary of the Inter-
American Council of Cardiology SIAC

Diego Sadler MD
MD, F.A.C.C., F.A.C.P
Section Chief of Cardio-Oncology, Robert
and Suzanne Tomsich
Department of Cardiology and
Cardiothoracic Surgery, HVI - Cleveland
Clinic Florida
Cardio-Oncology Leadership Council – ACC
Co-chair of the Cardio Oncology Advocacy
Working Group – ACC
Chair, Cardio-Oncology Committee, Florida
Chapter – ACC
Board of Directors, Florida Chapter - ACC
clinical cardiology

Zuilma Vásquez MD
Cardiologist specialist in Cardiovascular
Imaging and Cardio-oncology. National
Institute of Cardiology “Ignacio Chávez”,
Mexico.
Adjunct professor of the Echocardiography
postgraduate course. UNAM. SISIAC Board and
FELLOW.
Cardiovascular prevention

Fausto Pinto MD
President of the World Heart Federation
(WHF)
Full Professor of Cardiology/Medicine, Lisbon
School of Medicine, Univesristy of Lisbon,
Portugal
Head of Heart and Vascular Department of
Santa Maria University Hospital, Lisbon,
Portugal
President of Cardiovascular Center of
University of Lisbon (CCUL).
Past-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the
University of Lisbon (2015-2022),
Past-President of the European Society of
Cardiology (ESC) (2014-16),
Past-President of the European Association of
Echocardiography (EAE) (2002-04),

Pablo Perel MD
Pablo Perel is a cardiologist and
epidemiologist;
He is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
(United Kingdom) and is also the Senior
Science Advisor of the World Heart Federation
(Switzerland).
His main interest is implementation research
for people with cardiovascular diseases in
limited and humanitarian settings.

Antonio Luiz Ribeiro MD
Dr. Antonio Luiz Ribeiro is a Professor of
Internal Medicine and Vice-Director of the
Center of Artificial Intelligence for Health in
the University Hospital of the Federal
University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo
Horizonte, Brazil.
He is a Visiting Researcher at the University of
Southampton and an Associate Editor of the
BMJ Heart and Journal of Electrocardiology.

Pamela Morris MD
Professor of Medicine, Cardiology
The Medical University of South Carolina
Trustee, American College of Cardiology

Rachel-Maria Brown MD
Board certifications: Internal Medicine -
Cardiovascular Disease
Academic titles: Assistant Professor, Donald
and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at
Hofstra/Northwell
Education: Tufts University School of Medicine
Residencies: McGaw Medical Center of
Northwestern University
Fellowships: New York Presbyterian Hospital
Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease

Hani Najm MD
Hani Najm, MD, is the Chair of Pediatric
and Congenital Heart Surgery.
He has 25 years of experience in the field
of congenital heart surgery, as well as
operating on children with heart disease,
along with the development of
innovations and patents.

Lisa Carlson Hanse MD
Integrated PhD-student
Ex member of the organizing committee for
the SSRCTS meetingsPublicaciones: 7
coautorías
Awards:
2019 First Prize for my flash talk at the annual
Phd-day at the institute, Aarhus, Denmark.
2018 First Prize for my oral presentation at the
36th Annual Meeting of DMTS in Vingsted,
Denmark.
2016 First prize for my poster presentation at
the 27th SSRCTS meeting in Geilo, Norway.
Digital Medicine and Artificial Intelligence

Marco Perez MD
M.D., FAHA
Cardiac Electrophysiology & Arrhythmia
Service
Atrial Fibrillation AHA/ACC Guideline Writing
Committee
Principal Investigator: “The WHI Strong and
Healthy SilenT Atrial Fibrillation Recording
Study (WHISH STAR)”
Stanford-RambamInstitute Grant Award
“Elucidating molecular mechanisms of
inherited cardiovascular disease using whole
genome sequencing.”
Co-investigator: “Women’s Health Initiative
Extension” in the WHI
“Machine Learning in Atrial Fibrillation”

Matias Calandrelli MD
Specialist in Cardiology UBA-SAC
Master degree in Artificial Intelligence and
Big Data in Health, at the Universidad
Autónoma de Barcelona.
Research associate in the Cardiac Imaging
Unit of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant
Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
Member of the European Association of
Cardiovascular Imaging
(EACVI).
Arterial hypertension

Pedro Orduñez MD
Internal medicine, epidemiologist and
doctorate in Public Health.
PAHO/WHO Regional Advisor for
cardiovascular diseases.
Technical leader of HEARTS in the Americas.

Marc G. Jaffe MD
Internal medicine, epidemiologist and
doctorate in Public Health.
PAHO/WHO Regional Advisor for
cardiovascular diseases.
Technical leader of HEARTS in the Americas.
Arrhythmias

Eugenio Cingolani MD
Physician graduated from the National
University of La Plata, Argentina
Member of the medical staff at Sinai Medical
Center
Director of Cardiogenetics, Hereditary
Arrhythmia and Clinic at Cedars-Sinai Heart
Institute
Member of the American Heart Association,
Society for Cardiac Electrophysiology

Adrian Baranchuk MD
MD FACC FRCPC FCCS FSIAC
Professor of Medicine, Queen's University
President-elect, Interamerican Society of
Cardiology (SIAC)
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Electrocardiology
Vice President of the International Society of
Electrocardiology (ISHNE)
Secretary, Interamerican Society of Cardiology
(SIAC)

Andrés Klein MD
Cardiologist Specialist in Arrhythmias and
Electrophysiology at the University of Ottawa
Heart Institute
Assistant teacher. Faculty of Medicine,
University of Ottawa. Canada

Luciano Sposato MD
MD FACC FRCPC FCCS FSIAC
Professor of Medicine, Queen's University
President-elect, Interamerican Society of
Cardiology (SIAC)
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Electrocardiology
Vice President of the International Society of
Electrocardiology (ISHNE)
Secretary, Interamerican Society of Cardiology
(SIAC)
Multi-image

Ritu Thamman MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
She is on the Board of Directors of the
American Society of Echocardiography.

Nazarena Pizzi MD
Cardiologist of the Nuclear Cardiology Unit.
Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona

Erick Alexanderson Rosas MD
Chairman of Nuclear Cardiology
Department at the Instituto Nacional de
Cardiología “Ignacio Chávez”
Member of the ACC Governance
Committee
Cardiovascular Imaging, Journal of Nuclear
Cardiology, Current Cardiology
Review, Global Heart y Archivos de Cardiología
de México.

Albert Roque Pérez MD
Albert Roque Perez, MD, PhD
Radiologist of the Cardiovascular Imaging Unit
Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona
Genetics

Juan Pablo Ochoa MD
Medical Specialist in Internal Medicine and
Cardiology, expert in Genetics and Diseases
Cardiologist of the Scientific Department of
Health In Code (A Coruña, Spain).
Researcher of the Cardiovascular Research
Group (GRINCAR) of the University of La
Coruña.
Heart and Woman

Mag. Carolina Artucio MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Member of the staff of the Institute of Interventional
Cardiology Círculo Católico, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Consultant Cardiologist of the Honorary Commission
for Cardiovascular Health, Uruguay.
Master in Management of Health Companies, IEEM
of the University of Montevideo.
Former president of the Heart Disease Committee in
Women – SUC (2013-2015)
Secretariat of the Council of Heart Disease in
Women, SIAC (2022-2023)
SSC partner

Lía Mónica Giambruno Maroño MD
Former President of the Uruguayan
Society of Cardiology
Co-founder of the Committee on
Heart Disease in Women of the
SUC.
Clinical Cardiologist, with vast
experience in postoperative
management of cardiac surgery
and interventionism.
She is currently dedicated to the
prevention, treatment and
disclosure of heart disease in
women.