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, FACC
Leiden University Medical Centre
Leiden, Netherlands

Tina Baykaner, MD, MPH
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

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

Robert Califf, MD, MACC
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC

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

David Ouyang, MD
Kaiser Permanente Northern California

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, Ireland

Rahul Sharma, MBBS, FACC
Stanford Healthcare
Stanford, CA

Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD, FACC
UCLA Health System
Los Angeles, 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

CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER & SMIDT HEART INSTITUTE FACULTY

Eric Braunstein, MD, Pedro Catarino, MD, Tarun Chakravarty, MD, Yufei Chen, MD, Damini Dey, PhD, Laura DiChiacchio, MD, FACC,
Suhail Dohad, MD, FACC, Joseph Ebinger, MD, Dominic Emerson, MD, Fardad Esmailian, MD, Michael Farkouh, MD, MSc, FACC,
John Friedman, MD, Oren Friedman, MD, Martha Gulati, MD, MPH, FACC, Tyler Gunn, MD, Aakriti Gupta, MD, FACC,
Michele Hamilton, MD, FACC, Sanjay Kaul, MD, MPH, FACC, Alan Kwan, MD, Eduardo Marbán, MD, PhD, FACC, Jamie Moriguchi, MD,
Mamoo Nakamura, MD, Dhairya Patel, MD, Florian Rader, MD, FACC, Archana Ramireddy, MD, Bruce Samuels, MD,
Michael Shehata, MD, FACC, Robert Siegel, MD, FACC, Sabah Skaf, MD, FACC, Piotr Slomka, MD, PhD, FACC, Janet Wei, MD, FACC,
Asher Weisberg, MD

LUNCH PANEL FACULTY

Thursday, January 30th Lunch Panel:

Lunch Panel on Innovation
Moderators:
Gregory P. Fontana, MD, FACC, National Director, HCA Healthcare
Nirdesh K. Gupta, PhD, Managing Partner, Cedars-Sinai Technology Ventures
Frank Litvack, MD, FACC, Serial Innovator, Formerly Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Intervention Ctr, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Panelists:
William E. Cohn, MD, CMO, BiVACOR Inc
Neal Eigler, MD, CEO, V-Wave
Jason Fontana, PhD, Vice President of Global Marketing, Coronary and Renal Denervation General Manager, Medtronic
Nadim Geloo, MD, Senior Director Medical Affairs, Abbott
Benno Lansdorp, PhD, Director of Product Management, Philips IGT Devices, Coronary
Arshad Quadri, MBBS, Founder, inQB8
Larry Wood, MBA, Corporate Vice President and Group President, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement and Surgical Structural Heart, Edwards Lifesciences

Friday, January 31st Lunch Panel:

Lunch Panel: Medical AI – The Healthcare Industry Perspective
Moderators:
Sumeet Chugh, MD, FACC, Director, EP, Director, Division of AI in Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Nirdesh K. Gupta, PhD, Managing Partner, Cedars-Sinai Technology Ventures
John G. Harold, MD, MACC, Past President, American College of Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Panelists:
Lakshmi Prasad Dasi, PhD, Founder & CTO, DASI Simulations
David Formisano, MBA, Sr Digital Transformation Director, Coronary & Renal Denervation, Medtronic
Moleen Madziva Taitt, PhD, VP, Global Clinical Affairs, Viz.ai
Joseph Sokol, CEO & Founder, iCardio.ai
Charles Taylor, PhD, Founder, Board Member, HeartFlow