Faculty
Cleveland Clinic Miller Family Heart and Vascular Institute Activity Directors
Francis Caputo, MD
Vascular Surgery Director, Aorta Center
Milind Desai, MD, MBA
Director of Clinical Operations, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Medical Director, Aorta Center
Sagar Kalahasti, MD
Director, Marfan Syndrome & Connective Tissue Disorder Clinic
Venu Menon, MD
Section Head, Clinical Cardiology
Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Eric E. Roselli, MD
Surgical Director, Aorta Center
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Cleveland Clinic Planning Committee and Reviewers
Angelia Nadiak, NP
James Schrader, PA
Invited Guest Faculty
Toronto University Health Network
Sean Crawford, MD
University of Texas
Anthony L. Estrera, MD
Siddharth K. Prakash, MD, PhD
Naveed U. Saqib, MD
Patient, Family and Provider Education and Advocacy Session
Heart-Valve-Surgery.com: Adam Pick
John Ritter Foundation: Ellen Hostetler
Marfan Foundation: Eileen Novins
Invited Cleveland Clinic Faculty
Ravi Ambani, MD
Suneel Apte, PhD
Krishna Aragam, MD
Faisal Bakaeen, MD
Andrew Bauer, MD
Thomas Beers, MPA
Jeffrey Bennett, MD, PhD
Frank Birchfield, RN
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
Andrew Higgins, MD
Karen Hurley, PhD
M. Shazam Hussain, MD
Christine Jellis, MD, PhD
Sagar Kalahasti, MD
Kim Karl, RN
Marta Kelava, MD
Ali Khalifeh, MD
Matthew Kostura, MD
Bryan Kolar, RT (R)(VI)
Marijan Koprivanac, MD
Benjamin Kramer, DO, PhD
David Laczynski, MD
Ran Lee, MD
Xiaoying Lou, MD
Sean Lyden, MD
Donn Marciniak, MD
Anand Mehta, MD
Christopher Nguyen, PhD
Gary Parizher, MD
Gosta Pettersson, MD, PhD
Jon Quatromoni, MD
Neha Quatromoni, MD
Jay Ramchand, MD, PhD
Grant Reed, MD
Christine Rigelsky, MS
Nick Ruthmann, MD
Iliana Santiago, MSN, RN
Paul Schoenhagen, MD
Nabin Shrestha, MD
Jeanna Sigmund, RN, CNS
Robert Simon, MD
Nick Skubas, MD
Edward Soltesz, MD, MPH
Lars G. Svensson, MD, PhD
Carmela Tan, MD
Justin Tretter, MD
Shinya Unai, MD
Patrick Vargo, MD

