Houston Aortic 2026 Program & Faculty
Scientific Committee
Anthony Estrera, MD
Symposium Chairman
Ali Azizzadeh, MD
Symposium Chairman
Hazim J. Safi, MD
Honorary Chairman
David D. McPherson, MD
Honorary Chairman
Danny Ramzy,
MD, PhD
Program Director
Akiko Tanaka,
MD, PhD
Program Director
Invited Faculty
Joseph Bavaria, MD
Professor and Chair; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
Jefferson Health
Philadelphia, PA
Christopher Burke, MD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Pedro Catarino, MD
Director of Aortic Surgery
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
Edward Chen, MD
Durham, NC
Nimesh Desai, MD, PhD
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Gabriele Di Luozzo, MD
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
Joseph DuBose, MD
Dell Medical School - University of Texas - Austin
Austin, TX
Marek Ehrlich, MD
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
John Elefteriades, MD
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, CT
Mark Farber, MD
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Fernando Fleischman, MD
Keck Hospital at USC
Los Angeles, CA
T. Sloane Guy, MD, MBA
Georgia Heart Institute at Northeast Georgia Medical Center
Gainesville, GA
Sukgu Han, MD, MS
Keck Medical Center at USC
Los Angeles, CA
Dawn Hui, MD, MSc
UTHealth San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
Dimitrios Iliopoulos, MD, PhD
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
HYGEIA Hospital
Athens, Greece
Puja Kachroo, MD
Washington University in Saint Louis
Saint Louis, MO
Steven Lansman, MD, PhD
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
HYGEIA Hospital
Athens, Greece
Bradley Leshnower, MD
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA
Michael Mack, MD
Baylor Scott & White Health
Plano, TX
Chris Malaisrie, MD,
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, IL
Tomas Martin, MD
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Christopher Mehta, MD
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, IL
Randy Moore, MD
University of Calgary
Calgary, Canada
Nupoor Narula, MD, MSc
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, NY
Tom C. Nguyen, MD
Baptist Heart and Vascular Institute
Miami, FL
Aung Oo, FRCSEd(CTh)
St Bartholomew’s Hospital
London, United Kingdom
Maral Ouzounian, MD, PhD
Toronto General Hospital
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Davide Pacini, MD, PhD
University of Bologna - IRCCS S. Orsola Hospital
Bologna, Italy
Konstadinos Plestis, MD
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA
Ourania Preventza, MD, MBA
Cardiac Surgeons of San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
T. Brett Reece, MD, MBA
University of Colorado
Aurora, CO
Evelio Rodriguez, MD
Ascension Saint Thomas
Nashville, TN
Sherene Shalhub, MD, MPH
OHSU
Portland, OR
Malakh Shrestha,
MBBS, PhD
Robert Smith II,
MD, MBA
Baylor Scott and White, The Heart Hospital Plano
Plano, TX
Matthew Solomon,
MD, PhD
Sutter Heatlth
San Francisco, CA
Wilson Szeto, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Carlos Timaran, MD
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Plano, TX
Elaine Tseng, MD
UCSF
San Francisco, CA
Sabine Wipper, MD
Medical University Innnsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria
Bo Yang, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston
& Memorial Hermann Health System Faculty
Rana Afifi, MD
Alana Cecchi,
MS, CGC
Abhijeet Dhoble, MD
Vijay Govindarajan, PhD
Daniel Hermann, MD
Dianna Milewicz, MD, PhD
Charles C. Miller III, PhD
David Murdock, MD
Firas Mussa, MD
Siddharth Prakash, MD, PhD
Naveed Saqib, MD
Aamir Shah, MD
Jiajie Zhang, PhD
