TCTAP & AP VALVES 2020

Works at San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Lombardia, Italy. Features in 6 videos on Wondr Medical. Alaide Chieffo generally speaks on Bifurcation, Left Main Stem (LMS), Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Coronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), and Covid-19.

A consultant cadiologist at San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy. Features in 9 videos on Wondr Medical. Antonio Colombo generally speaks on Multi Vessel Disease, Intervention, Interventional Cardiology Review, Rotational Atherectomy, and Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).

Dr. AK does his best to treat patients on the basis of appositeness of the procedure and not technical intricacy. He strongly thinks that the focus is on the interventional cardiologist to be reliably trained so that the right patients (irrespective of the intricacy of the procedure) could be treated, and not only the ones the cardiologist is able to do due to his/her limited competences. This central philosophy has allowed Dr. AK to not just be a distinguished operator but also train thousands of cardiologists worldwide in intricate coronary interventions, such as chronic total occlusion PCI (believed to be the most intricate angioplasty process), over the past six years. He has carried out several extremely intricate procedures in Asia and the United States with great success and a flawless safety record. Furthermore, he has been trained in structural interventions and peripheral angioplasties at the Cleveland Clinic. After completing his MBBS from Madras Medical College in India, he became a part of several renowned institutes like the Geisinger Medical Center, University of Maryland, and Cleveland Clinic (all in the United States). Moreover, he is a member of the American College of Cardiology and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. Today, Arun Kalyanasundaram is a renowned leader in the domain of Chronic Total Occlusion Interventions in the United States and rest of the world. He has served in many leadership roles such as Chief of Cardiology and Cath Lab Director at Highline Medical Centre and Head of the CTO PCI programme at Swedish Medical Centre (both in the United States). He acts as a consultant to many firms in the domain of CTOs and is one of the most popular proctors for teaching this process in the United States and globally. Apart from holding an academic position at the University of Washington, Seattle, he has also been a full-time proctor for CTOs in Asia Pacific and has assisted in propagating the “Hybrid CTO” methodology. He also has several publications in the domain and has carried out chaired sessions and live cases. He is a revered speaker in this domain. Currently, he is the chief of Cardiology at Chennai’s Promed Hospital. He is also an Honorary Director, Interventional Cardiology at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute (New Delhi), and the Head of the CTO PCI program as well, which is the first of its kind in the country. He has established the CHIP-CTO INDIA [COMPLEX HIGH RISK INDICATED PATIENTS (CHIP) – CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION (CTO)] conference, along with some other leaders in interventional cardiology in India, to teach cardiologists how to tackle intricate coronary interventions, which are high-risk and chronic total occlusions.

Dr. Bon-kwon Koo is a professor of Seoul National University, director of cardiovascular center and chair in Cardiology Division of Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea. Dr. Koo graduated Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea and was a visiting scholar at Stanford University previously and worked with Professor Peter J Fitzgerald and Professor William Fearon. Dr. Koo is an interventional cardiologist and his main research interest is imaging and physiology of coronary artery disease. Dr. Koo is a principal investigator of many domestic and international studies. He has published more than 400 papers in major journals. He was a course director of TCT-AP and is a course co-director of ENCORE course. He has performed series of studies on bifurcation lesions and coronary physiology/imaging which provided important insights in this field. His recent researches on non-invasive hemodynamic assessment using coronary CT angiography and computational fluid dynamics enables the assessment of FFR without invasive procedures and has started a new chapter in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. This innovation has now been expanded to non-invasive treatment planner and non-invasive assessment for the risk of ACS.

A professor of cardiovascular surgery at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. Features in 2 videos on Wondr Medical. David Paul Taggart generally speaks on Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG), Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Coronary Interventions, Interventional Cardiology Review, and Interventional Cardiology - Other.

Works at Ferrarotto Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Sicilia, Italy. Features in 8 videos on Wondr Medical. Davide Capodanno generally speaks on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, Cardiac Valves, Covid-19, Covid19 Managing Covid, and Dobutamine Stress Echo (DSE).

A consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Features in 1 video on Wondr Medical. Domenico Pagano generally speaks on Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) and Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).

An interventional cardiologist at Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea. Features in 20 videos on Wondr Medical. Duk-Woo Park generally speaks on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, Left Main Stem (LMS), Bifurcation, Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI).

Prof. Grube is Professor of Medicine, Head, Center of Innovative Interventions in Cardiology (CIIC) University Hospital Bonn, Germany and Consulting Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, at Stanford University School of Medicine. He received his first degree in Medicine at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-University in Bonn. His cardiology training was completed at University of Wisconsin, Medical School and University of Bonn, Medical School. He received his Board Certification in Internal Medicine, in Cardiology and in Angiology from the North Rhine Chamber of Medical Doctors and his post-doctoral lecturing qualification “Internal Medicine“ from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelm-University in Bonn. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Angiology and the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions. His research interest includes drug eluting stents, distal protection devices, debulking devices, restenosis and in-stent restenosis.

Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI is Director of the Center for Complex Coronary Interventions at the Minneapolis Heart Institute and Chairman of the Center for Coronary Artery Disease at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. After graduating from Lycee Leonin de Patissia, Dr. Brilakis received his medical degree from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He trained in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology at the Mayo Clinic. He also completed a Masters in Clinical Research at the Mayo Clinic and a PhD in Clinical Research at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He served as director of the cardiac catheterization laboratories at VA North Texas Health Care System from 2004-2016. He was on the faculty of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School from 2004-2018. Dr. Brilakis leads a large clinical trial group investigating treatment of chronic total occlusions, prevention and treatment of saphenous vein graft disease, prevention and management of complications, intracoronary imaging, antiplatelet treatment optimization post coronary stenting, radiation safety in the catheterization laboratory, and implementation of novel technologies in healthcare. Dr. Brilakis has authored or co-authored over 600 manuscripts and has written the Manual of CTO Interventions, now in its second edition. He directs the Complex Coronary Interventions Webcast series and is on the Board of the Cardiovascular Innovations Foundation. He is an associate editor for Circulation and an editorial board member and reviewer for several journals and grant agencies. He is lecturing and proctoring at several institutions in the United States and abroad.

Gregg W. Stone, MD, FACC, MSCAI is an interventional cardiologist and Director of Academic Affairs for the Mount Sinai Heart Health System and Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Population Health Sciences and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, NY. Dr. Stone has served as the national or international principal investigator for more than 120 national and international multicenter randomized trials (many of which have led to new device approval or indications in the US), has authored more than 2000 manuscripts and abstracts published in the peer-reviewed literature, and has delivered thousands of invited lectures around the world. With a 2018 H-factor of 152, Dr. Stone was recently listed in Nature Medicine as one of the most prolific authors in science. Dr. Stone's areas of expertise include interventional therapies of acute coronary syndromes, myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock; drug-eluting stents and bioresorbable scaffolds; left main and complex coronary artery disease intervention; antiplatelet and antithrombotic pharmacotherapies; transcatheter valve repair and replacement; interventional hypertension and heart failure therapies; left atrial appendage closure; intravascular imaging (IVUS, OCT and NIRS); vulnerable plaque diagnosis and treatment; adjunctive interventional devices including atherectomy, distal embolic protection, thrombectomy, covered stents, chronic total occlusion devices, and brachytherapy; saphenous vein graft therapies; contrast nephropathy; clinical trial design; and regulatory issues. Dr. Stone is the director of TCT, the world's largest symposium devoted to interventional cardiology and vascular medicine. Dr. Stone founded the annual National Interventional Cardiology Fellow's Course and Transcatheter Valve Therapies TVT), the Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Summit, and co-directs multiple other meetings in the US, China, Russia, Europe, S. Korea and elsewhere.

A hematology oncologist at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA. Features in 1 video on Wondr Medical. In-Cheol Kim generally speaks on Covid-19 and Covid19 Managing Covid.

An associate professor of interventional cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Illinois, USA. Features in 6 videos on Wondr Medical. James Flaherty generally speaks on Cardiac Valves, Covid-19, Live Cases, Bifurcation, and Drug coated balloons (DCB).

A cardiac surgeon at University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Features in 1 video on Wondr Medical. Jian (James) Ye generally speaks on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI).

An infectious disease specialist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Features in 1 video on Wondr Medical. Jonathan Grein generally speaks on Covid-19.

A cardiologist at University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Namgu, South Korea. Features in 10 videos on Wondr Medical. Jung-Min Ahn generally speaks on Imaging, Left Main Stem (LMS), Bifurcation, Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI).

Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad is Director for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.

An interventional cardiologist at Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Features in 5 videos on Wondr Medical. Kentaro Hayashida generally speaks on MitraClip, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI), Congenital Heart Disease (CHD), Cardiac Valves, and Cardiovascular Surgery – Valves.

An interventional cardiologist at Toyohashi Heart Center, Toyohashi, Japan. Features in 3 videos on Wondr Medical. Kenya Nasu generally speaks on Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO), Cardiac Valves, Cardiovascular Surgery – Valves, Imaging, and Orbital Atherectomy .

A professor of cardiology at Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom. Features in 3 videos on Wondr Medical. Mamas Mamas generally speaks on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, Covid-19, Covid19 Managing Covid, Drug coated balloons (DCB), and Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI).

A cardiac surgeon at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Features in 3 videos on Wondr Medical. Mario Fl Gaudino generally speaks on Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG), Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Coronary Interventions, Interventional Cardiology Review, and Interventional Cardiology - Other.

A cardiologist at Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea. Features in 4 videos on Wondr Medical. Myeong-Ki Hong generally speaks on Imaging, Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Coronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR), and Instantaneous wave-Free Ratio (iFR).

Nils Johnson, MD, MS, is a Professor of Medicine and holds the Weatherhead Distinguished Chair of Heart Disease at the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth (Houston). After his undergraduate degree in Vancouver, he completed medical school at Columbia University in Manhattan and trained at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is an "interventional physiologist" and his research and clinical interests span both invasive (mentored by Dr. Nico Pijls in Eindhoven) and non-invasive (mentored by Dr. Lance Gould in Houston) methods. He has served as the principal investigator for international trials like CONTRAST (NCT02184117) and DEFINE-FLOW (NCT02328820).

Prof Patrick W. Serruys with respected h-index – 183 is a professor of Interventional Cardiology at the Interuniversity Cardiological Institute of the Netherlands (1988-1998) and Erasmus MC. Since 1980 he was a Director of the Clinical Research Program of the Catheterization Laboratory, Thorax Center at Erasmus University, and till April 1, 2014 (retirement date) the Head of the Interventional Department, Thorax Center, Erasmus MC (University Medical Center Rotterdam), Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Since April 2013, he holds the position of Professor of Cardiology in the Cardiovascular Science Division of the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) at the Faculty of Medicine, within the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London.He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and scientific council of the International College of Angiology.In 1996, he received the TCT Career Achievement Award and in 1997 he was awarded the Wenkebach Prize of the Dutch Heart Foundation. In 2000, he was awarded the Gruentzig Award of the European Society of Cardiology. In 2001, he held the Paul Dudley White Lecture at the American Heart Association in the USA. In 2004, he received the Andreas Gruentzig Award of the Swiss Society of Cardiology. In 2005, he held the 4th International Lecture at the AHA and Mikamo Lecture at the Japanese heart Association. In 2006, he received the highest award of the Clinical Council of the American Heart Association: the James Herrick Award. In 2007, he received the Arrigo Recordati International Prize (Italy) and the ICI Achievement Award (bestowed by the President of Israel – Shimon Perez). In 2008, he received the Einthoven Penning (Leiden). In 2009, he became Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Athens. In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award, bestowed by the American College of Cardiology, in recognition of many years of service and invaluable contributions to the ACC. At the end of 2011, Prof Serruys received the Ray C. Fish Award, bestowed by the Texas Heart Institute, for outstanding achievement and contribution to cardiovascular medicine. In 2012, he received a Golden Medal of the European Society of Cardiology. In 2013, he became Doctor Honoris Causa from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2016, he became Doctor Honoris Causa of the Melbourne University, Australia. Currently he is established Professor of Interventional Medicine and Innovation at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

An interventional cardiologist at National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Features in 4 videos on Wondr Medical. Paul Hsien-Li Kao generally speaks on Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO), Cardiac Valves, Cardiovascular Surgery – Valves, Coronary Interventions, and Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).

An assistant professor of cardiology at Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea. Features in 7 videos on Wondr Medical. Pil Hyung Lee generally speaks on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO), Cardiac Valves, Cardiovascular Surgery – Valves, and Live Cases.

A consultant cardiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA. Features in 13 videos on Wondr Medical. Roxana Mehran generally speaks on Anti-Platelet Drugs , Coronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, and Cardiac Valves.

Works at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Features in 3 videos on Wondr Medical. Saibal Kar generally speaks on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI), Cardiac Valves, MitraClip, Cardiovascular Surgery – Valves, and TAVR Access Sites.

A pediatric cardiologist at Wellington Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand. Features in 4 videos on Wondr Medical. Scott Harding generally speaks on Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO), Cardiac Valves, Cardiovascular Surgery – Valves, Coronary Interventions, and Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).

A chairman , heart institute at Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea. Features in 18 videos on Wondr Medical. Seung-Jung Park generally speaks on Imaging, Left Main Stem (LMS), Bifurcation, Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI).

Works at Cardiovascular Center Bern, Bern Universität Hospital, Bern, Switzerland. Features in 1 video on Wondr Medical. Stephan Windecker generally speaks on Cardiac Valves.

An associate professor of medicine at Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea. Features in 1 video on Wondr Medical. Sung-Han Kim generally speaks on Covid-19.

Prof. Thierry Lefèvre is Head of the Interventional Cardiology Department and Head of Research at the Cardiovascular Institute Paris-Sud (ICPS), Massy (France), France. His expertise include Interventional Cardiology and Valvular Heart Disease. He has a major interest in clinical research, having published over 726 scientific publications, and is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and a Fellow of the Society for Angiography and Interventions.

A chief director of cardiovascular intervention at Tokyo General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. Features in 4 videos on Wondr Medical. Toshiya Muramatsu generally speaks on Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO), Cardiac Valves, Cardiovascular Surgery – Valves, Coronary Interventions, and Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).

A consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Guys and St Thomas's NHS Trust, London, UK. Features in 5 videos on Wondr Medical. Vinayak Bapat generally speaks on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI), Valvular heart disease, Live Cases, Cardiac Valves, and MitraClip.

An interventional cardiologist at Tokeidai Memorial Hospital, Sapporo, Japan. Features in 3 videos on Wondr Medical. Yasumi Igarashi generally speaks on Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO), Cardiac Valves, Cardiovascular Surgery – Valves, Imaging, and Orbital Atherectomy .

Works at Cardialysis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Features in 3 videos on Wondr Medical. Yoshinobu Onuma generally speaks on Imaging, Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Coronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR), and Instantaneous wave-Free Ratio (iFR).

A director of cardiology at Gyeongsang National University Changwon Hospital, cardiology. Features in 1 video on Wondr Medical. Young-Hoon Jeong generally speaks on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy.

Ziad Ali is the Director of the DeMatteis Cardiovascular Institute, Director of Investigational Interventional Cardiology, and Director of Cardio-nephrology at St Francis Hospital & Heart Center in New York. He is also Director of the Angiographic Core Laboratory at Cardiovascular Research Foundation and Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. His clinical research interests focus on the use of intravascular imaging and physiology technologies such as optical coherence tomography, intravascular ultrasound, and flow wire assessment to optimize coronary interventions, for which he has served as a Global principal investigator on a number of trials. Dr. Ali is also a recognized innovator, playing an integral role in the development of the Resting Full-Cycle Ratio (RFR) and Shockwave intravascular lithotripsy. Clinically Dr. Ali developed pioneering techniques to perform vascular interventions without contrast administration, including IVUS-guided zero-contrast PCI and OCT using saline flush media, protecting patients with advanced kidney disease from acute kidney injury and the need for dialysis.