2024 Faculty

COURSE DIRECTOR
Paul S. Teirstein, MD, DNBPAS,
FACC, MSCAI
Professor of Medicine
Senior Consultant
Chief of Cardiology, Scripps Clinic
Medical Director Scripps Prebys
Cardiovascular Institute
La Jolla, CA

COURSE CO-DIRECTOR
Matthew J. Price, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
Scripps Clinic
La Jolla, CA

Karim Al-Azizi, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FESC
Medical Director, Cardiac
Catheterization Laboratories
Associate Program Director,
Cardiology Fellowship
The Heart Hospital – Baylor Scott & White Health
Clinical Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University College of Medicine
Plano, TX

Ziad Ali, MD, DPhil
Director, DeMatteis Cardiovascular Institute
St. Francis Hospital
& Heart Center
Roslyn, NY
Director, Angiographic Core Laboratory
Cardiovascular Research Foundation
New York, NY

Aditya Bharadwaj, MD,
FACC, FSCAI
Associate Professor of Medicine
Interventional Cardiology
Director of Complex Coronary Interventions
Chair of CV Research and Outreach Program
ACC Early Career Leadership Council
Loma Linda University Health Care
Loma Linda, CA

Christopher L. Brown, MD
Director of Complex Coronary Therapeutics
Swedish Heart & Vascular Institute
Seattle, WA

Edward Chau, MD
Structural Echocardiography
Scripps Clinic
La Jolla, CA

Darshan Doshi, MD, MS
Director of Complex Coronary Artery Disease
Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA

James Hermiller, MD, FACC, MSCAI
Director, Structural Intervention and Interventional Cardiology Fellowship
Ascension St Vincent Heart Center of Indiana
Indianapolis, IN

Amir Kaki, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Associate Professor, Wayne State SOM
Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support
Director, High-Risk Complex Coronary Interventions
Associate Director, Interventional Cardiology Section
Ascension St John Hospital
Detroit, MI

Kate Kearney, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle, WA

Morton Kern, MD, FACC, MSCAI
Professor of Medicine
University of California, Irvine
Chief of Cardiology
VA Long Beach
Long Beach, CA

Ajay J. Kirtane, MD, SM, FACC, FSCAI
Professor of Medicine
Columbia University Medical Center
Director, Columbia Interventional Cardiovascular Care
Chief Academic Officer, Division of Cardiology
New York, NY

William Lombardi, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Clinical Professor, Medicine
Director, Complex Coronary Artery Disease Therapies
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Ehtisham Mahmud, MD, FACC, MSCAI
Edith and William Perlman Chair in Cardiology
Professor and Division Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine
Executive Director, UCSD Cardiovascular Institute-Medicine
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA

James McCabe, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI
Professor, Medicine
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Section Chief, Interventional Cardiology
University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle, WA

Jeffrey Moses, MD, FACC
John and Myrna Daniels Professor of Cardiology
Director, Interventional Cardiovascular
Therapeutics
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY

Mitul P. Patel, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Minister of Culture
Interventional Cardiology
Intermountain Heart Institute
Murray, UT

David Rizik, MD, MSCAI, FACC
Chief Scientific Officer
Director of Structural and Coronary Interventions
Interventional Cardiovascular Fellowship Director
HonorHealth
Medical Director, Cardiovascular Research Division
Honor Health Research Institute
Scottsdale, AZ

Bruce Samuels, MD
Interventional Cardiology
Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute
Los Angeles, CA

Evan Shlofmitz, DO
Director of Intravascular Imaging
St. Francis Hospital – The Heart Center
Roslyn, NY

Richard Shlofmitz, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Chairman of Cardiology
St. Francis Hospital
Roslyn, NY

Jonathan M. Tobis, MD, FACC, MSCAI
Professor, Medicine
Research Director,
Interventional Cardiology
University of California,
Los Angeles, CA

Jennifer Tremmel, MD,
MS, FACC
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular)
Susan P. and Riley P. Bechtel Medical Director, Women’s Heart Health Program
Director, Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) Program
Stanford University Med Ctr
Stanford, CA

Jeffrey Tyler, MD
Orange County Heart Institute and Research Center
Orange, CA

Robert W. Yeh, MD, MBA
Director,
Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research
Section Chief, Interventional Cardiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr
Katz-Silver Family Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA