Controversies 2025 Faculty

PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Raj Makkar, MD, FACC

PROGRAM CO-DIRECTORS

P.K. Shah, MD, MACC, Christine M. Albert, MD, MPH, FACC,
Alfredo Trento, MD, FACC, Joanna Chikwe, MD, FACC,
Jon Kobashigawa, MD, FACC, C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, MACC,
John G. Harold, MD, MACC, Gregory P. Fontana, MD, FACC,
Sumeet Chugh, MD, FACC, Daniel Berman, MD, FACC,
Hasan Jilaihawi, BSc (Hons), MD, MRCP (UK)

CA ACC PROGRAM
CO-DIRECTOR:

Teresa Daniele, MD, FACC

INVITED FACULTY

Nazem Akoum, MD, MS, FACC
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Rasha Al-Lamee, MBBS, PhD
Imperial College of London
London, United Kingdom

Richard Auchus, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Jeroen Bax, MD, PhD
Leiden University
Leiden, Netherlands

John Beltrame, AM, BSc, BMBS, FRACP, PhD, FACC
University of Adelaide
Adelaide, Australia

Ami Bhatt, MD, FACC
American College of Cardiology
Newton, MA

Michael Blaha, MD, MPH
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Javed Butler, MD, FACC
Baylor Scott and White Research Institute
Baylor Scott and White Health
Atlanta, GA

Jennifer Cluett, MD
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA

David Cohen, MD, MS
St. Francis Hospital
Roslyn, NY

William E. Cohn, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Sanjay Dixit, MD, FACC
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

William Fearon, MD, FACC
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Edward Gerstenfeld, MD, FACC
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Stephen Juraschek, MD, PhD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA

Navin Kapur, MD, FACC
Tufts Medical Center
Boston, MA

Martin Leon, MD, FACC
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, NY

Michael Mack, MD, FACC
Baylor Scott & White Health
Plano, TX

Ahmad Masri, MD, FACC
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR

Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, NY

Milton Packer, MD
Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas
Dallas, TX

Stuart Pocock, PhD
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, United Kingdom

Jamal S. Rana, MD, PhD, FACC
Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center
Oakland, CA

Rachel Rosovsky, MD, MPH
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA

Patrick W. Serruys, MD, PhD, FACC, eFESC
College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
National University of Ireland, Galway
Galway, Ireland

Rahul Sharma, MBBS, FACC
Stanford Healthcare
Stanford, CA

Leandro Slipczuk Bustamante, MD, PhD, FACC
Montefiore/Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, NY

Gregg Stone, MD, FACC
Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, NY

Paul S. Teirstein, MD, FACC
Scripps Clinic
La Jolla, CA

Peter Toth, MD, PhD, FACC
CGH Medical Center
Sterling, IL

Nathan Wong, PhD, FACC
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA

LOCAL FACULTY

Akbarshakh Akhmerov, MD, Eric Braunstein, MD, Pedtro Catarino, MD, Yufei Chen, MD, Laura DiChiacchio, MD, FACC, Suhail Dohad, MD, FACC, Joseph Ebinger, MD, Fardad Esmailian, MD, Michael Farkouh, MD, MSc, FACC, Oren Friedman, MD, Martha Gulati, MD, MPH, FACC, Nirdesh K. Gupta, PhD, Michele Hamilton, MD, FACC, Sanjay Kaul, MD, MPH, FACC, Alan Kwan, MD, Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD, FACC, Da “David” Ouyang, MD, FACC, Dhairya Patel, MD, Florian Rader, MD, FACC, Archana Ramireddy, MD, Michael Shehata, MD, FACC, Robert Siegel, MD, FACC, Piotr Slomka, MD, PhD, Janet Wei, MD, FACC