The OPTIMUM Registry Study with Dr. David Kandzari

Matthias Götberg, MD, Ass. Prof. works as an interventional cardiologist and Director of the... Matthias Götberg, MD, Ass. Prof. works as an interventional cardiologist and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Skane University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. Dr. Götberg has worked in the SCAAR steering committee for many years, and is currently vice chairman of the SWENTRY registry. Dr. Gotberg has been principal investigator/investigator of numerous clinical trials, has authored or co-authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals. His main interests are in the field of coronary physiology, complex coronary interventions, and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. Read more Show less

Jennifer Rymer is a cardiologist at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

Dr. Kern is Chief of Medicine, VA Long Beach Health Care System, Professor of Medicine,... Dr. Kern is Chief of Medicine, VA Long Beach Health Care System, Professor of Medicine, University California, Irvine. He continues to perform and teach cardiac catheterization and PCI. Dr. Kern is ABIM Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology and is a past president and now a Master Fellow of the SCAI. His research interests in coronary blood flow, intravascular physiology, intravascular ultrasound, vulnerable plaque and evaluation of cardiovascular hemodynamics. He has authored several textbooks, notably The Cardiac Catheterization Handbook, 6th ed. and its companion The Interventional Cardiac Cath Handbook, 4th ed. Read more Show less

Professor Felix Mahfoud is an Associate Professor and senior physician of Internal Medicine and... Professor Felix Mahfoud is an Associate Professor and senior physician of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Saarland University Hospital, and Affiliate/Visiting Professor Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Medical Engineering and Science, Cambridge, US. Professor Mahfoud completed training in Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology at the Department for Internal Medicine III, Saarland University Hospital, Germany in 2014. Since 2017, he has served as Vice Chairman of the ‘Working Group on Interventional Hypertension Treatment’ for the European Society of Hypertension, and as a Committee Member of the 2018 Hypertension Guidelines. Read more Show less

Manesh Patel is the Chief of the Division of Cardiology and the Division of Clinical... Manesh Patel is the Chief of the Division of Cardiology and the Division of Clinical Pharmacology. His clinical interests include diagnostic and interventional coronary angiography, peripheral angiography and endovascular intervention. His is involved in several clinical trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease and in cardiac imaging. He is also the Chair of the American College of Cardiology Task Force for Appropriate Use Criteria for Cardiovascular Procedures and is Chair of the American Heart Association Diagnostic and Interventional Cath Committee. Patel's interest in cardiac imaging, quality of care, cardiac devices is also evident in his research. His integration of these efforts into his roles at Duke was recognized in 2010 when he received the prestigious Duke Cardiology Fellowship Mentor Award. In 2011, Dr. Patel was named the endowed John Bush Simpson Assistant Professor of Cardiology. In 2013, Dr. Patel received the Robert M. Califf Faculty clinical research Award. Currently, Dr. Patel is leading an effort to redesign the delivery of care to patients undergoing invasive catheterization procedures in the health system with a specific aim of measure and providing individualized, patient centered, innovative, and efficient care. Read more Show less

Dr. Rao is Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, and the Section Chief of... Dr. Rao is Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, and the Section Chief of Cardiology at the Durham VA Medical Center. At the national level, Dr. Rao serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions, the interventional journal of the American Heart Association’s flagship Circulation family of journals. He is the President-Elect for The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and serves on the program committees of the ACC Scientific Sessions, the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference, and the SCAI Scientific Sessions. He was the chairman of the 2017 ACC-i2 Summit and was the chair of the SCAI 2019 Annual Scientific Session. In addition, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the ACC CathSAP 5 program and is currently the co-chair of the ACC Collaborative Management Pathway for Interventional Cardiology. His main research interests are pharmacological and interventional therapies for acute coronary syndromes, as well as bleeding and blood transfusion complications among patients with ischemic heart disease. Dr. Rao has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers, and is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the seminal textbook on transradial procedures titled “Best Practices for Transradial Approach in Diagnostic Angiography and Intervention.” Read more Show less

Schuyler Jones, MD is an interventional cardiologist and Associate Professor of Medicine in the... Schuyler Jones, MD is an interventional cardiologist and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Duke University Medical Center, and his clinical interests include peripheral artery disease, coronary artery disease, and percutaneous coronary intervention. He currently serves as the Medical Director of the Duke Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and the medical director of the Duke Heart Center Clinical Research Unit (that oversees site-based research within the Heart Center). Since joining the Duke Faculty in 2010, Dr. Jones has worked as an investigator at the Duke Clinical Research Institute where he has been part of the leadership team for several clinical trials across a broad spectrum of cardiovascular care, including CAD, PAD, PCI, and CABG. He serves as the Co-Medical Director of the Clinical Endpoints Committee (CEC) at the DCRI, and has been an active participant in the angiographic core laboratory at DCRI. Recently, he has joined the Duke CTSA Recruitment Innovation Center as a co-Director. He has also been funded by the American Heart Association and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to investigate factors associated with the use and outcomes of patients with peripheral artery disease and peripheral vascular intervention. Currently, he is a co-principal investigator of the PCORI-funded demonstration project called Aspirin Dosing: A Patient-Centric Trial Assessing Benefits and Long-Term Effectiveness (ADAPTABLE) study which is enrolling 15,000 patients with established cardiovascular disease at 40 clinical sites within PCORnet. Read more Show less