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Ajay J. Kirtane, MD, SM, is a Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Kirtane is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California – San Francisco. Dr. Kirtane is a practicing Cardiologist with an interest in coronary and peripheral intervention and assumed the directorship of the NYP/Columbia cardiac catheterization laboratories in 2015. In addition to his clinical commitments at CUMC, Dr. Kirtane has a strong interest in clinical education and research, serving as Chief Academic Officer of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy. On the national and international level, he is a co-director of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting, has served as a director of several international, national, and regional educational meetings, and has participated on the program committees for the scientific sessions of both the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association. Dr. Kirtane’s research interests are in clinical trial methodology and outcomes of device-based and pharmacologic interventions in Interventional Cardiology. He has authored/co-authored >150 original manuscripts and >50 reviews and chapters including the “Coronary Stenting” chapters of the two most widely used textbooks in Interventional Cardiology.

An interventional cardiology at Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse, France. Features in 3 videos on Wondr Medical. Bruno Farah generally speaks on Live Cases, Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), and Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI).

A consultant cardiologist at Galway University Hospital, Ireland. Features in 3 videos on Wondr Medical. Darren Mylotte generally speaks on Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI), Ischemia, Infarction, Cardioprotection, Anti-Platelet Drugs , Thrombosis, Bleeding, and Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS).

A consultant cadiologist at Maasstad Ziekenhuis, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Features in 3 videos on Wondr Medical. Elvin Kedhi generally speaks on Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI), Ischemia, Infarction, Cardioprotection, Anti-Platelet Drugs , Thrombosis, Bleeding, and Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS).

Interventional Cardiologist in Interventional cardiology department of Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A.Gemelli. Professor and university researcher in cardiovascular science and thoracic department in University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. An interventional cardiologist at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy. Features in 11 videos on Wondr Medical. Francesco Burzotta generally speaks on Bifurcation, Left Main Stem (LMS), Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Coronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), and Calcified Lesions.

Prof Goran Stankovic is a Professor of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Head of the Department of Cardiology, Clinical Center of Serbia and Chief of Invasive Diagnostics and Interventional Cardiology. Prof. Stankovic was awarded Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) in 2003, and Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC) in 2005. He has been a member of European Association for Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (EAPCI) since 2007 and is currently a member of the EAPCI Nominating Committee. He has been one of the founding members and is currently the president of the European Bifurcation Club, and a member of the Asian and Indian Bifurcation Clubs. Professor Stankovic serves on the editorial boards of Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Eurointervention, European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine, Advances in Interventional Cardiology Journal, and Heart and Blood Vessels – Journal of Cardiology Society of Serbia. For the consecutive years 2005-2014 Professor Stankovic was awarded Elite Reviewer for Journal of American college of Cardiology. In 2009 he received Simon Dack Award for outstanding Scholarship from the American College of Cardiology Foundation.

A consultant cardiologist at Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse, France. Features in 3 videos on Wondr Medical. Jean Fajadet generally speaks on Live Cases, Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), and Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI).

Works at Odense University Hospital- Denmark. Features in 4 videos on Wondr Medical. Jens Flensted Lassen generally speaks on Bifurcation, Left Main Stem (LMS), Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Coronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), and Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).

Prof Jose M de la Torre is an interventional cardiologist, Head of Hemodynamics and Interventional department of the Marques de Valdecilla University of Santander, Spain. He is member of the scientific committee of the Spanish Society of Cardiology and is fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. Former associate director of the Trans Catheter Therapeutics Meeting in US. Faculty of ESC, PCR, ACC and TCT meetings. Coordinator of the ESTROFA, XIMA and LITRO study groups. Prof De La Torre is a member of the editorial committee of the Revista Español de Cardiologia,, Consultant editor of JACC Cardiovascular interventions, Section editor in Eurointervention and Editor in chief of REC: Interventional Cardiology. Research coordinator in EPIC foundation. In 2016-2017 he was a visiting scientist at Harvard-MIT biomedical engineering center. His research interests include intravascular imaging, coronary artery disease and drug eluting stents.

Dr Mirvat Alasnag was the first female interventional cardiologist in the Gulf region and represented women on multiple committees. She is currently the Chair of the International Working Group of the ACC Women in Cardiology Committee, a member of the SCAI Board of Trustees and ACC Interventional Leadership Council. She is also the chair of the Interventional Cardiology working group of the Tele-Cardiology Section of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth. She is a contributing editor & associate editor for several renowned international journals and societies including Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, ACCEL, Open Heart, Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, and PCROnline. She has served as a peer reviewer for several ACC Guideline Statements.

At present, Pedro's main fields of expertise are: -Structural heart intervention (Tavi and Mitraclip) -Coronary Bifurcation lesions -Cardiac CT -Renal denervation

Dr Tom Johnson is an interventional cardiologist and recently appointed Associate Professor at the Bristol Heart Institute & University of Bristol, UK. He is an active member of the EAPCI, currently sitting on the Education & Training, and the Scientific programme committees, with responsibilities for writing the new interventional curriculum and exam. He is a member of the European Bifurcation Club, the ESC ACCA SCAD study group, co-authoring the European position paper, and sits on the UK Societi scientific committee for Kawasaki disease. His academic interests include developing the role of intracoronary imaging in PCI, optimising bifurcation results and platelet pharmacology in acute coronary syndromes. He plays an active role in local, national, and international educational initiatives in developing PCI skills.