Faculty
Cleveland Clinic Activity Co-Directors
Lars Svensson, MD, PhD
Chairman,
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Joanna Ghobrial, MD, MS
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc
Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Hani Najm, MD, MSc
Chair, Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Katherine Hoercher, RN, FAHA, AACC
Senior Director
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Planning Committee
Margaret Fuchs, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Debra Kangisser, PA-C
Clinical Affairs
PA Services
Guest Faculty
Amy Basken, MS
Executive Director, Conquering CHD
Madison, WI
Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD, PhD
Mount Sinai Health System
New York, NY
Edward John Hickey, MD
Texas Children's Hospital
Houston, TX
David Highfill, LCSW
UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
Amber Khanna, MD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center
Aurora, CO
Keila Lopez, MD, MPH
Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, TX
Jeremy Moore, MD
UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
Mark Roeder
President & CEO, Adult Congenital Heart Association
Media, PA
Vaughn Starnes, MD
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Karen Stout, MD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Natalia Trayanova, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
Cleveland Clinic Faculty
Sanjeeb (Sean) Bhattacharya, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Michael Emery, MD
Sports Cardiology Center
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Margaret Fuchs, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Koji Hashimoto, MD, PhD
Director of Living Donor Liver Transplantation, Director of Pediatric Liver Transplantation
Department of General Surgery
Digestive Disease & Surgery Institute
Miriam Jacob, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Mohamed Kanj, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Rukmini Komarlu, MD
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Joseph Liu, MS, CGC
Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare
Genomic Medicine Institute
Justin Lappen, MD
Section Head, Maternal Fetal Medicine
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ob/Gyn & Women's Health Institute
Akash Patel, MD
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Nicole Rush, NP
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Edward Soltesz, MD, MPH
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Animesh (Aashoo) Tandon, MD
Director of Cardiovascular Innovation
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Justin Tretter, MD
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Shinya Unai, MD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic Fellows
Beka Bakhtadze, MD
Thomas Das, MD
William Frankel, MD
Nandini Mehra, MD
Patient Experience Panelists
Robin Davis
Terese Quarino
Jane McMaster Thornton