Scientific Committee

Mitchell I. Cohen, USA, Chair

Sub-Specialty Tracks

ACHD

Track Chairs

  • Craig Broberg, USA

  • Luke Burchill, Australia

  • Geetha Kandavello, Malaysia

  • Adrienne Kovacs, USA

  • Erwin Oechslin, Canada

Committee Members

  • Jamil Aboulhosn, USA

  • Maria Elizari, Argentina

  • Sue Fernandes, USA

  • Edward Hickey, USA

  • Anitha John, USA

  • Paul Khairy, Canada

  • Leila Ladak, Pakistan

  • Clare O'Donnell, New Zealand

  • Jolien Roos-Hesselink, Netherlands

  • Christopher Talluto, USA

  • Daniel Tobler, Switzerland

Administration

Track Chairs

  • Patricia Hickey, USA

  • Kay Stewart-Huey, USA

  • David Wessel, USA

Committee Members

  • Stuart Berger, USA

  • Robert Crone, USA

  • Martin Elliott, UK

  • Allain Fraise, UK

  • Allan Goldman, UK

  • Jim Kirklin, USA 

  • Tom Lee, USA 

  • Stephen Roth, USA 

  • Robert Shaddy, USA 

Advocacy

Track Chairs

  • Stacey Lihn, USA

  • Jodi Smith, USA 

  • Amy Verstappen, USA 

Artificial Intelligence,
New Technology
& Big Data

Track Chairs

  • David Axelrod, USA

  • Anthony Chang, USA

  • Kevin Maher, USA

  • Sara Pasquali, USA

Committee Members

  • Eichanan Bruckheimer, Israel

  • Rodney Franklin, UK

  • Michael Gaies, USA

  • Kimberly Gauvreau, USA

  • Joao Lima, USA

  • Mjaye Mazwi, Canada

  • Ryan Moore, USA

  • Spyro Mousses, USA

  • Jai Nahar, USA 

  • Jennifer Silva, USA

Anesthesia

Track Chairs

  • Valid Habre, Switzerland

  • Viviane Nasr, USA

  • Mark Twite, USA

Committee Members

  • Rosemberg Albores Figueroa, Mexico

  • Philip Arnold, UK

  • Nina Deutsch, USA

  • David Faraoni, Canada

  • Mariane Maroun, Lebanon

  • Justin Skowno, Australia

  • James Spaeth, USA

  • David Vener, USA

  • Rosanna Zanai, Italy

Basic Science

Track Chairs

  • Martina Brueckner, USA

  • Barry Byrne, USA

Committee Members

  • Allen Everett, USA

  • Bruce Gelb, USA

  • Marc Hitz, Germany

  • Seema Mital, Canada

  • James Priest, USA

  • Sushma Reddy, USA

  • Isao Shiraishi, Japan

  • Deepak Srivastava, USA

  • Hiroyuki Yamagishi, Japan

Cardiac Intensive Care

Track Chairs

  • Nikhil Chanani, USA

  • Bruna Cury, Brazil

  • Melissa Jones, USA

Committee Members

  • Qalab Abbas, Pakistan

  • Kiona Allen, USA

  • Ritu Asija, USA

  • Jason Buckley, USA

  • David Cooper, USA

  • Christin Diller, USA

  • Robin Horak, USA

  • Jeannie Koo, USA

  • Graeme McClaren, Australia

  • Guillermo Moreno, USA

  • Peter Roeleveld, Netherlands

  • Joshua Salvin, USA

  • Deanna Tzanetos, USA

  • Marin Záhorec, Slovakia

  • Jill Zender, USA

Cardiac Surgery

Track Chairs

  • Jim Kirklin, USA

  • Giovani Stellin, Italy

  • Christo Tchervenkov, Canada

Committee Members

  • Zohair Al-Halees, Saudi Arabia

  • Emile Bacha, USA

  • Drissi Boumzebra, Morocco

  • John Calhoon, USA

  • Jorge Cervantes, Mexico

  • Sertaç Çiçek, Turkey

  • Yves D'Udekem, USA

  • Joseph Dearani, USA

  • Frank Edwin, Ghana

  • Adel Eigamal, Egypt

  • Sitaram Emani, USA

  • Kirsten Finucane, New Zealand

  • Joe Forbess, USA

  • Jose Fragata, Portugal

  • Hani Hajm, USA

  • Jürgen Hörer, Germany

  • Krishna Iyer, India

  • Jeffrey Jacobs, USA

  • Marcelo Jatene, Brazil

  • Christian Kreutzer, Argentina

  • Bret Mettler, USA

  • Jennifer Romano, USA

  • Kisaburo Sakamoto, Japan

  • Nestor Sandoval, Colombia

  • George Sarris, Greece

  • James Tweddell, USA

  • Susan Vosloo, South Africa

  • Hao Zhang, China

Cardiovascular
Disease in
the Neonate

Track Chairs

  • Amir Ashrafi, USA

  • John Cleary, USA

  • Victor Levy, USA

Committee Members

  • Zohra Banooo, South Africa

  • Silvia Fernandez Jonusas, Argentina

  • Martin Kluckow, Australia

  • Masaki Osaki, Japan

  • Felipe Santelices, Chile

  • Istvan Seri, Hungary

Catheterization

Track Chairs

  • Ziyad Hijazi, Qatar

  • Ralf Holzer, USA

  • Damien Kenny, Ireland

Committee Members

  • Felix Berger, Germany

  • Allison Cabalka, USA

  • John Cheatham, USA

  • Maiy El Sayed, Egypt

  • Tom Jones, USA

  • Jacqueline Kreutzer, USA

  • Carlos Pedra, Brazil

  • Jou-Kou Wang, Taiwan

  • Evan Zahn, USA

Echocardiography

Track Chairs

  • Meryl Cohen, USA

  • Leo Lopez, USA

  • Jan Marek, UK

Committee Members

  • Carrie Altman, USA

  • Piers Barker, USA

  • Yiu-Fai Cheung, Hong Kong

  • George Comitis, South Africa

  • Folkert Meijboom, Netherlands

  • Luc Mertens, Canada

  • Nelangi Pinto, USA

  • Megan Sherwood, Australia

  • John Simpson, UK

  • Adressa Soars, Brazil

  • Satochi Yasukochi, Japan

  • Luciana Young, USA

Electrophysiology

Track Chairs

  • Bryan Cannon, USA

  • Joachim Hebe, Germany

  • Gabrielle Hessling, Germany

  • Elizabeth Stephenson, Canada

Committee Members

  • Charles Berul, USA

  • Nico Blom, Netherlands

  • Alpay Çeliker, Turkey

  • Mitchell Cohen, USA

  • Susan Etheridge, USA

  • Rami Fogelman, Israel

  • Roman Gebauer, Germany

  • Adele Greyling, South Africa

  • Tevfik Karagöz, Turkey

  • Laszlo Korynei, Hungary

  • Aya Miyazaki, Japan

  • Jose Moltedo, Argentina

  • Ferrán Rosés Noguer, Spain

  • Maully Shah , USA

  • Jon Skinner, New Zealand

  • Sabrina Tsao, Hong Kong

  • George Van Hare, USA

  • Katja Zeppenfeld, Netherlands

Fetal

Track Chairs

  • Mary Donofrio, USA

  • Anita Moon-Grady, USA

  • Jack Rychik, USA

Committee Members

  • Alfred Abuhamad, USA

  • Sarah Chambers-Gurson, USA

  • Jim Cnota, USA

  • Ulrike Herberg, Germany 

  • Christopher Lindblade, USA

  • Gurleen Sharland, UK

  • Gary Shollere, Australia

  • Gerald Tulzer, Austria

  • Paulo Zielinsky, Brazil

Global Cardiac Health/Rheumatic
Heart Disease

Track Chairs

  • Christopher Hugo-Hamman, South Africa

  • David Overman, USA

  • Craig Sable, USA

  • Bistra Zheleva, USA

Committee Members

  • Armando Alfaro, Costa Rica

  • Andra Beaton, USA

  • Marcello Cardarelli, USA

  • Josie Everett, USA

  • Sherard Little, Jamaica

  • Frank Molloy, UK

  • Jeremiah Mwangi, UK

  • William Novick, USA

  • Rob Raylman, USA 

  • Nestor Sandoval, Colombia

  • Anita Saxena, India

  • Emma Scanlon, UK

  • Liesl Zühlke, South Africa

Heart Failure,
Transplant, VAD

Track Chairs

  • Daphne Hsu, USA

  • William Mahle, USA

  • David Morales, USA

  • Joseph Rossano, USA

Committee Members

  • Antonio Amodeo, Italy

  • Estela Azeka, Brazil

  • Wendy Book, USA

  • Michael Burch, UK

  • Michiel Dalinghaus, Netherlands

  • Shripasad Deshpande, USA

  • Robert Jacquiss, USA

  • Aamir Jeewa, Canada

  • Johnathan Johnson, USA

  • Shigetoyo Kogake, Japan

  • Shelley Miyamoto, USA

  • Robert Weintraub, Australia

  • Steven Zangwill, USA

Members at Large

Committee Members

  • Mark Bleiweis, USA

  • Jonathan Chen, USA

  • Lucas Collazo, USA

  • Yves D'Udekem, USA

  • Joe Forbess, USA

  • Elizabeth Goldmuntz, USA

  • Tom Karl, Australia

  • Roxanne Kirsch, USA

  • Ron Lacro, USA

  • Bret Mettler, USA

  • Laura Olivieri, USA

  • Steven Paridon, USA

  • Andrew Redington, USA

  • Elizabeth Stephens, USA

  • Sarah Teele, USA

Multimodal Imaging

Track Chairs

  • Shelby Kutty, USA

  • Andrew Taylor, UK

  • Israel Valverde, Spain

Committee Members

  • Haifa Abdul Latiff, Malaysia

  • Sonya Babu-Narayan, UK

  • Timothy Cohen, Canada

  • David Danford, USA

  • Mark Fogel, USA

  • Tal Geva, USA

  • Hopewell Nitsinjana, South Africa

  • Sergio Uribe, Chile

  • Alistair Young, New Zealand

Neurodevelopment

Track Chairs

  • Frank Casey, Ireland

  • Bradley Marino, USA

  • Jacqueline Sanz, USA

Committee Members

  • Jon Beca, New Zealand

  • Adam Cassidy, USA

  • J. William Gaynor, USA

  • Bea Latal, Switzerland

  • Daniel Licht, USA

  • Amy Jo Lisanti, USA

  • Keila Lopez, USA

  • Shabnam Peyvandi, USA

  • Florencia Ricci, Canada

  • Mike Seed, Canada

  • Erica Sood, USA

  • Gil Wernovsky, USA

  • Jo Wray, UK

Nursing

Track Chairs

  • Kathryn Dodds, USA

  • Cecilia St. George Hyslop, Canada

  • Sandra Staveski, USA

Committee Members

  • YangJing Bai, China

  • Derek Best, Australia

  • Louise Callow, USA

  • Jean Connor, USA

  • Anida Elias, Malaysia

  • Britt Elin Fredriksen, Norway

  • Philip Moons, Belgium

  • Nancy Pike, USA

  • Diana Robertshaw, UK

  • Unnikrishnan Vs, India

Outpatient Cardiology

Committee Members

  • Carissa Baker Smith, USA

  • Stafford Grady, USA

  • Jane Newburger, USA

  • Geoff Rosenthal, USA

Perfusion

Track Chairs

  • Molly Oldeen, USA

  • Jim Reagor, USA

  • Tami Rosenthal, USA

Committee Members

  • Ashley Hodge, USA

  • Bradley Kulat, USA

  • Alex Robertson, UK

  • Joseph Timpa, USA

Pulmonary Hypertension

Track Chairs

  • Jeffrey Fineman, USA

  • Dunbar Ivy, USA

Committee Members

  • Antonio Augusto Lopes, Brazil

  • Rolf Berger, Netherlands

  • John Berger, USA

  • Prashant Bobhate, India

  • Maria Del Cerro, Spain

  • Hong Gu, China

  • Yoshihide Mitani, Japan

  • Erika Rosenzweig, USA

Quality Improvement

Track Chairs

  • Jeffrey Anderson, USA

  • Katie Bates, USA

  • Krishna Kumar, India

Committee Members

  • Kate Brown, UK

  • Eva Goossens, Belgium

  • Babar Hassan, Pakistan

  • Mashall Jacobs, USA

  • Kathy Jenkins, USA

  • Tara Karamlou, USA

  • Alex Palacios, Mexico

  • Ronn Tanel, USA

  • Dongnan Truong, USA

  • Karen Uzark, USA