Faculty
Activity Directors
Hani Najm, MD, MSc
Chair, Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Bradley S. Marino, MD, MPP, MSCE, MBA
Ronald and Helen Ross Distinguished Chair of Pediatric Cardiology
Chair, Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Cleveland, OH
Planning Committee
Munir Ahmad, MD
Catherine Allan, MD
Shahnawaz Amdani, MD
Peter Aziz, MD
Francine Erenberg, MD
William Hanna, MD
Katherine Hoercher, RN, FACC, FAHA
Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc
John Lane, MD
Ramzi Souki, MD
Patcharapong Suntharos, MD
Animesh Tandon, MD
Justin Tretter, MD
Malek Yaman, MD
Guest Faculty
Emile Bacha, MD
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York/Columbia University
New York, NY
David Barron, MD
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Christian Brizard, MD
Royal Childrens Hospital
Parkville, Australia
Yiu-Fai (Ringo) Cheung, MD
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
José da Silva, MD
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Pittsburgh, PA
Pedro del Nido, MD
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, MA
Gul Dadlani, MD
Nemours Children's Hospital
Orlando, FL
Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD, PhD
Mount Sinai
New York, NY
Shelby Kutty, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins Medicines
Baltimore, MD
Mary Hunt Martin, MD
University of Utah Health
Salt Lake City, UT
James Quintessenza, MD
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
St. Petersburg, FL
Hans-Joachim Schäfers, MD
Saarland University Medical Center
Homburg, Germany
Diane Spicer, BS, PA
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
St. Petersburg, FL
Wayne Tworetzky, MD
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, MA
Shi-Joon Yoo, MD, PhD
The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Cleveland Clinic Faculty
Catherine Allan, MD
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Shahnawaz Amdani, MD
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Nelson Burbano-Vera, MD
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Iqbal El Assaad, MD
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Francine Erenberg, MD
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Joanna Ghobrial, MD, MS
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Debkalpa Goswami, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc
Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Rukmini Komarlu, MD
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Akash Patel, MD
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Patchapong (Petch) Suntharos
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Nicholas Szugye, MD
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Justin Tretter, MD
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
Cleveland Clinic Children’s
Cleveland Clinic Resident/Fellows Case Presenters
Brendan Burke, DO
Ashlee Christmas, DO
Michael Jiang, MD
Brooke Prince, MD
Daniel Schwab, MD
Melissa Yildirim, MD