Faculty

Cleveland Clinic Activity Directors

Francis Caputo, MD
Vascular Surgery Director, Aorta Center, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart and Vascular Institute

Milind Desai, MD
Director of Clinical Operations, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Medical Director, Aorta Center, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart and Vascular Institute

Sean Lyden, MD
Chairman, Department of Vascular Surgery, Interventional Director, Aorta Center, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart and Vascular Institute

Venu Menon, MD
Section Head, Clinical Cardiology, Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart and Vascular Institute

Eric E. Roselli, MD
Surgical Director, Aorta Center, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart and Vascular Institute

Guest Faculty

Keynote
Bruce W. Lytle, MD

Patient Advocate
Adam Haniff, MD

Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust
Catherine Fowler
Graham Cooper, MD

Henry Ford Hospital (Alumni)
Adam Daly, MD

John Ritter Foundation
Meredith Ford O’Neal, CEO
Amy Yasbeck Ritter
Ellen Hostetler, Chief Science Officer

Marfan Foundation
Eileen Masciale, Chief Program Officer

Toronto University Health Network
Jennifer Chung, MD
Sean Crawford, MD
Maral Ouzounian, MD
Kong Teng Tan, MD
Sara Thorne, MD

University of Texas
Anthony L. Estrera, MD
David Murdock, MD
Siddharth K. Prakash, MD

Washington University
Alan C. Braverman, MD
Puja Kachroo, MD
Luis Sanchez, MD

CardioNerds Conference Scholars
Rashmi Nedadur, MD
Chelsea Amo Tweneboah

Cleveland Clinic Faculty

Ravi Ambani, MD

Suneel Apte, PhD

Faisal Bakaeen, MD

Brian Baskin, MD

Michael Bolen, MD

Abigail Brown, DNP, MBA, ACNP

Nicole Byram

Pulkit Chaudhury, MD

Susan Gross

Karen Hurley, PhD

Sagar Kalahasti, MD

Kim Karl

Ali Khalifeh, MD

Lee Kirksey, MD

Bryan Kolar, RT (R)(VI)

Marijan Koprivanac, MD

Amar Krishnaswamy, MD

David Laczynski, MD

Ran Lee, MD

Xiaoying Lou, MD

Deirdre Mattina, MD

Michael Militello, PharmD, RPh, BCPS

Christopher Nguyen, PhD

Jay Ramchand, MD, PhD

Penelope Rampersad, MD

Grant Reed, MD

Christina Rigelsky, MS

Iliana Santiago, MSN, RN

Paul Schoenhagen, MD

Tamanna Singh, MD

Edward Soltesz, MD, MPH

Carmela Tan, MD

Oscar Tovar-Camargo, MD

Justin Tretter, MD

Patrick Vargo, MD

Kenneth Zahka, MD

Juan P. Umana, MD