Invited Faculty
Alan B. Lumsden
- Walter W. Fondren III Presidential Distinguished Chair, Chair, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Director, Bookout Center, DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital
- Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery, Member, Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College
Aleksandar Nikolikj
- Specialist in General Surgery Subspecialist in Cardiovascular Surgery Head of Cardiac Surgery Department, Acıbadem Sistina
Andrea Quarti
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Cardiovascular Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College
Aung Ye Oo
- Clinical Lead for Aortovascular Surgery
- Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery
- The Barts Heart Centre
- Barts Health NHS Trust and Barts Biomedical Research Centre
- William Harvey Research Institute
- Queen Mary University of London
- St Bartholomew’s Hospital
Davide Pacini
- Director of Cardiac Surgery Residency Program
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC)
- Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Chief of Cardiac Surgery
Farhad Bakhtiary
- Director, Department and Outpatient Clinic of Cardiac Surgery, Professor of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Bonn
Jürg Schmidli
- Chairman, Aortic Association
- Professor em.
- Senior Consultant, Vascular and Cardiac Surgery
- Dept. of Vascular Surgery
- Bern University Hospital
Konstantinos Tsagakis
- University Hospital Cologne, Section Head of Aortic Surgery
Luca Bertoglio
- Division of Vascular Surgery
- Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences (DSCS)
- University and ASST Spedali Civili Hospital of Brescia
Marco Di Eusanio
- Director, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Marche University Hospital
Martin Czerny
- Professor and Chairman - Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, Department University Heart Center Freiburg
- Clinical Practice Guidelines Chair of EACTS
- Vice-Chair, Aortic Association
- Past Chair of the WG of Cardiovascular Surgery of ESC
- Past Chair of the Vascular Domain of EACTS
Mateo Marin – Cuartas
- Cardiac Surgeon, Leipzig Heart Center
Mehmet Hakan Akay
- Surgical Director, Department of Advanced Heart Failure, Surgical Director, Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support Systems, DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital
- Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College
Michael Reardon
- Allison Family Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Research, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital
- Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery, Member, Research Institute, Department of Cardiology, Weill Cornell Medical College
Milan Milojevic
- Department of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiovascular Research, Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Director of Clinical Practice Guidelines Program, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
Mustafa Çıkırıkçıoğlu
- Head of the Adult Cardiac Surgery Program, Specialist in Adult Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, Associate Attending Physician (Associate Professor), Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University Hospitals of Geneva
Patrick O. Myers
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
- University of Geneva, Faculty / Lecturer
- European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), Secretary General
Prakash P. Punjabi
- Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Professor of Practice in Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Serdar Akansel
- Cardiac Surgeon, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center at Charité
Ziyab Khan Sarfaraz
- Clinical Associate, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and Structural Heart Interventions, DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital