Class 1 - The Challenges of Calcium & Unmet Needs in Coronary Calcium

Prof James C Spratt has global experience in training physicians in complex and CTO PCI. He is the Director of Optima CTO and the author of the Retrograde iBook and co-author of the antegrade iBook.

Dr. Riley is an Interventional Cardiologist specializing in the care of patients with complex and high-risk coronary artery disease and cardiogenic shock. He focuses on the treatment of coronary chronic total occlusions, multivessel coronary artery disease (including patients turned down for CABG surgery), atherectomy, and those in need of mechanical circulatory support. He was born in Knoxville, TN and completed his undergraduate education at Furman University with a degree in Chemistry. He attended medical school at the University of Virginia and completed residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington. He then completed his Cardiology fellowship at Wake Forest University, during which he obtained a Masters degree in Clinical and Population Translational Science. He then returned to the University of Washington to complete his Interventional Cardiology fellowship, followed by the first ever advanced fellowship in Complex, High-Risk, and Indicated PCI and Hemodynamic Support before joining the group at Christ Hospital. He is very active in clinical research, co-edits a monthly newsletter on high-risk PCI, and enjoys speaking at national and international meetings.

Robert W. Yeh, MD MSc is Associate Chief of Interventional Cardiology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Katz-Silver Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is an expert in complex coronary intervention, including chronic total occlusion PCI. He is also the founding Director the Smith Center for Outcomes Research at BIDMC.