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The Emory Percutaneous Intervention Course is the longest running annual interventional cardiology event in the world. Based on the teachings of founder Dr. Andreas Gruentzig, EPIC has provided...
The Emory Percutaneous Intervention Course is the longest running annual interventional cardiology event in the world. Based on the teachings of founder Dr. Andreas Gruentzig, EPIC has provided training for thousands of interventional cardiologists from the United States and abroad since 1981.
The meeting’s mission is to engage interventional cardiologists and cardiac surgeons specializing in coronary and structural heart disease to further enhance the care of their patients, mentor and train future generations of cardiovascular specialists, and lead front-line clinical research in the field.
Speakers
Catalin Toma
Speaker
Catalin Toma, MD, is an interventional cardiologist and is certified in cardiovascular disease... Catalin Toma, MD, is an interventional cardiologist and is certified in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He currently serves as director of interventional cardiology for the Heart and Vascular Institute and director of the Interventional Fellowship at UPMC. He is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iasi, Romania. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, he completed an internal medicine residency at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City and a fellowship in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology at UPMC. Dr. Toma joined the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute in 2007. He currently leads the Chronic Total Occlusion Program as well as the Pulmonary Vascular Interventional Program at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. He is an integral part of the Structural Heart Program with interests in the aortic and tricuspid space. Additional interests include intracoronary imaging and mechanical circulatory support. Dr. Toma has had an extensive amount of publications and presentations over his career, has several invention patents, and serves as a clinical study leader at local and national levels.
Pratik Sandesara
Speaker
Dr. Pratik Sandesara is an interventional cardiologist at Emory University Hospital and an... Dr. Pratik Sandesara is an interventional cardiologist at Emory University Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. His clinical focus is on complex and high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention including chronic total occlusion revascularization.
Wissam Jaber
Speaker
Medical Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Emory University Hospital. Professor... Medical Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Emory University Hospital. Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine. Senior Physician, Emory University School of Medicine
