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

