Invited Faculty

Aleksandar Nikolikj

• Specialist in General Surgery Subspecialist in Cardiovascular Surgery Head of Cardiac Surgery Department, Acıbadem Sistina

Alfred Kocher

• Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
• Head of the Heart Valve Surgery Program
• Specialist in the Surgical Treatment of Aortic and Mitral Valve Diseases, the Ross Procedure, and Valve-Sparing Surgery
• Awarded the EACTS Leonardo da Vinci Prize in 2011 in recognition of his educational and scientific contributions to cardiac surgery

Amanda Khoury

• Pediatric Pulmonologist, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, D.C., USA
• Works in the Advanced Lung Disease Program and Aerodigestive Clinic
• Specialist in Pediatric Pulmonology, Respiratory Diseases, and the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Disorders in Children

Andrea Quarti

• Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital
• Assistant Professor of Clinical Cardiovascular Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College

Andreas Martens

• Professor of Cardiac Surgery
• Director of the University Clinic for Cardiac Surgery
• Klinikum Oldenburg
• Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany

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

Aybala Tongut

• Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon
• Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Surgery
• Children’s National Hospital & George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA

Can Yerebakan

• Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, USA
• Specialist in Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
• Researcher in the Surgical Management of Complex Congenital Heart Diseases and Heart Failure in Children

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

Farhin Holia

• Emergency Medicine Physician and Clinical Researcher, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
• Specialist in Acute Aortic Syndromes and the Early Diagnosis of Aortic Dissection
• Researcher in Improving Diagnostic Pathways for Aortic Dissection and Promoting International Clinical Collaboration

Giacomo Murana

• Cardiovascular Surgeon, Sant’Orsola Hospital, University of Bologna, Italy
• Specialist in Aortic and Vascular Surgery, Endovascular and Hybrid Surgical Techniques
• Researcher in the Surgical Management of Aortic Arch and Thoracoabdominal Aortic Diseases

Hakan Akintürk

• Professor of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
• Head of the Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
• Pediatric Heart Center Giessen
• University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Germany

Igor Suchkov

• Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery, I. P. Pavlov Ryazan State Medical University, Russia
• Vice-Rector for Research and Innovative Development
• Specialist in Vascular Surgery, Endovascular Surgery, and Phlebology
• Researcher in Venous Thromboembolism and Peripheral Arterial Diseases

Igor Zolotukhin

• Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery, N. I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia
• Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Specialist in Phlebology and Chronic Venous Diseases
• Researcher in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Varicose Veins, Venous Thrombosis, and Endovascular Treatment Techniques

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

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

Nina Mzhavanadze

• Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery, I. P. Pavlov Ryazan State Medical University, Russia
• Specialist in Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery
• Researcher in Vascular Diseases, Atherosclerosis, and Endothelial Dysfunction
• Conducts scientific research on the treatment of Peripheral Vascular Diseases and Venous Insufficiency

Parla Astarcı

• Head of the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
• Citadelle Hospital, Liège, Belgium

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

Semih Buz

• Senior Consultant
• Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Head of Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center at Charité

Serdar Akansel

• Cardiac Surgeon, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center at Charité

Tornike Sologashvili

• Head of the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Unit
• Associate Professor of Surgery
• Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) and University of Geneva, Switzerland

Yves d'Udekem

• Cardiovascular Surgeon, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, D.C., USA
• Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Director of the Children’s National Heart Research Institute
• Specialist in Congenital Heart Disease, Single-Ventricle Physiology, and Fontan Surgery
• International Scientific Researcher in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Ziyab Khan Sarfaraz

• Clinical Associate, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and Structural Heart Interventions, DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital