2025 Faculty
Scientific Committee
PAUL S. TEIRSTEIN, MD,
DNBPAS, FACC, MSCAI
COURSE DIRECTOR
Chief of Cardiology
Director, Interventional Cardiology
Scripps Clinic
Director, Scripps Prebys Cardiovascular Institute
Scripps Health
La Jolla, CA
MATTHEW J. PRICE, MD,
FACC, FSCAI
SCRIPPS COURSE CO-COURSE DIRECTOR
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
Scripps Clinic
La Jolla, CA
CURTISS T. STINIS, MD,
FACC, FSCAI
SCRIPPS COURSE CO-COURSE DIRECTOR
Director, Peripheral Interventions
Director, Interventional
Cardiology Fellowship
Division of Cardiology
Scripps Clinic
La Jolla, CA
Faculty Speakers
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
EMMANOUIL S. BRILAKIS, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, FSCAI
Director, Center for Complex
Coronary Interventions
Chairman, Ctr for Coronary Artery Disease
Minneapolis Heart Institute
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation
Minneapolis, MN
EDWARD CHAU, MD
Structural Echocardiography
Scripps Clinic
La Jolla, CA
SUHAIL DOHAD, MD, FACC
Director of Complex PCI and
Endovascular Fellowship
Medical Director of Aortic and
Ischemic Limb Disease
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
JARROD D. FRIZZELL, MD, MS, FACC, FSCAI
Interventional Cardiologist
The Christ Hospital
Cincinnati, OH
JAMES HERMILLER, MD, FACC, MSCAI
Director, Structural Intervention and
Interventional Cardiology Fellowship
Ascension St. Vincent Heart Center
of Indiana
Carmel, IN
AMIR KAKI, MD,
FACC, FSCAI
Clinical Professor Wayne State SOM
Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support
Director, High-Risk Complex Coronary Interventions
Associate Director, Interventional Cardiology Section
Henry Ford St John Hospital
Detroit, MI
KATE KEARNEY, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Associate Professor, Medicine
Medical Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle, WA
MORTON KERN, MD,
FACC, MSCAI, FAHA
Professor of Medicine
University of California, Irvine
Interventional Cardiologist
VA Long Beach
Long Beach, CA
ROLA KHEDRAKI, MD, FACC
Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure and
Transplant Cardiology
Mechanical Circulatory Support Program
Cardiac Amyloidosis Program
Scripps Clinic
La Jolla, 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
Section Head, Structural Heart Therapies
Director, Cardiac Technology and Technique Innovation Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
MARGARET B. MCENTEGART, MD, PHD
Associate Professor of Medicine at CUMC
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Director, Complex PCI & CTO Programs
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY
JEFFREY MOSES, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Chairman of Cardiology
St. Francis Heart Center
Good Samaritan University Hospital
West Islip, NY
SAROJ NEUPANE, MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Banner Health
Phoenix, AZ
DAVID RIZIK, MD,
FACC, MSCAI
Physician Executive
Banner Cardiovascular Service Line
Community Cardiovascular Research
Banner University
Scottsdale, AZ
STEVEN C. ROMERO, MD, FACC, FASE
Clinical Associate Professor
of Medicine, USUHS
Cardiologist, Director of
Procedural Imaging
Scripps Clinic
La Jolla, CA
BRUCE SAMUELS, MD, FACC
Interventional Cardiology
Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute
Los Angeles, CA
EVAN SHLOFMITZ, DO, FACC
Director of Intravascular Imaging
St. Francis Hospital – The Heart Center
Roslyn, NY
RICHARD SHLOFMITZ, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Chairman of Cardiology
St. Francis Hospital – The Heart Center
Roslyn, NY
ERIC J. TOPOL, MD
Executive Vice-President
Scripps Research Institute
Director & Founder
Scripps Research Translational Institute
La Jolla, CA
JENNIFER A. TREMMEL, MD, MS, FACC, FSCAI
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 Medical Center
Stanford, CA
JASON WOLLMUTH,
MD, FACC
Director, Complex Coronary Interventions
Providence Heart and Vascular Institute
Portland, OR
CHRISTINE S. WONG, MD
Interventional & Structural Cardiologist
Southern California Heart Centers
San Gabriel, CA
ROBERT W. YEH, MD, MBA
Director, Richard A. and Susan F.
Smith Center for Outcomes Research
Section Chief, Interventional Cardiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Katz-Silver Family Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA