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Faculty

Cleveland Clinic Activity Directors

Francis Caputo, MD
Vascular Surgery Director, Aorta Center, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart Vascular and Thoracic Institute

Milind Desai, MD, MBA
Director of Clinical Operations, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Medical Director, Aorta Center, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart Vascular and Thoracic Institute

Sagar Kalahasti, MD
Director, Marfan Syndrome & Connective Tissue Disorder Clinic, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart Vascular and Thoracic Institute

Venu Menon, MD
Section Head, Clinical Cardiology, Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart Vascular and Thoracic Institute

Eric E. Roselli, MD
Chief, Adult Cardiac Surgery Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Surgical Director, Aorta Center, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart Vascular and Thoracic Institute

Cleveland Clinic Planning Committee and Reviewers

Angelia Nadiak, NP

James Schrader, PA

Patient Advocacy & Education

Heart-Valve-Surgery.com
Adam Pick

John Ritter Foundation
Ellen Hostetler and Meredith O'Neal

Marfan Foundation
Eileen Novins

Guest Faculty & Aorta Center Teams

AtlantiCare
Joseph Lombardi, MD

Henry Ford Health
Kyle G. Miletic, MD
Khaled Abdul-Nour, MD

Toronto University Health Network
Sean Crawford, MD

Washington University
Alan Braverman, MD
Alexander A. Brescia, MD

University of Texas
Siddharth K. Prakash, MD, PhD
Naveed U. Saqib, MD
Akiko Tanaka, MD, PhD

CCF Faculty

Ravi Ambani, MD

Suneel Apte, PhD

Krishna Aragam, MD

Faisal Bakaeen, MD

Brian Baskin, MD

Andrew Bauer, MD

Jeffrey Bennett, MD, PhD

Frank Birchfield, RN

Abigail Brown, DNP, MBA

Nicole Byram, PhD

Scott Cameron, MD, PhD

Ryan Carter, RNFA

Jeffrey Claridge, MD

William Frankel, MD

Thomas Fraser, MD

Mariya Geube, MD

Joanna Ghobrial, MD

Courtney Hanak, MD

Jennifer Hargrave, DO

Christine Jellis, MD, PhD

Kim Karl, RN

Susan Keen, MD

Marta Kelava, MD

Ali Khalifeh, MD

Bryan Kolar, RT (R)(VI)

Marijan Koprivanac, MD

Benjamin Kramer, DO, PhD

David Laczynski, MD

Xiaoying Lou, MD

Donn Marciniak, MD

Christopher Nguyen, PhD

Leo Pozuelo, MD

Neha Quatromoni, MD

Jay Ramchand, MD, PhD

Grant Reed, MD

Christina Rigelsky, MS

Nick Ruthmann, MD

Iliana Santiago, MSN, RN

Paul Schoenhagen, MD

Nabin Shrestha, MD

Jeanna Sigmund, RN, CNS

Robert Simon, MD or Daniel Joyce, MD

Edward Soltesz, MD, MPH

Carmela Tan, MD

Gianluca Torregrossa, MD

Gabor Toth, MD

Justin Tretter, MD

Shinya Unai, MD

Patrick Vargo, MD

Amanda Vest, MBBS, MPH

Per Wierup, MD, PhD

Anthony Zaki, MD