Faculty
SUMMIT DIRECTOR
Allan L. Klein, MD
President-elect, National Board of Echocardiography
Director, Pericardial Disease Center
Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
SUMMIT CO-DIRECTORS
Mauricio G. Cohen, MD
Staff Physician, Interventional Cardiology
Director, Structural Heart Interventions
Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston
Christine Jellis, MD, PhD, MBA
Imaging Cardiologist, Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Vice Chair, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Samir Kapadia, MD
Chair, Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
L. Leonardo Rodriguez, MD
Program Director, Advanced Imaging Fellowship
Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
PLANNING COMMITTEE
Amy Dillenbeck, MS, RDCS
Program Director, School of Cardiac Imaging
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Katherine J. Hoercher, RN
Senior Director
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute Administration
Cleveland Clinic
Debra Kangisser, PA-C
Director of Education of PA Services
OPSA and Clinical Affairs
Cleveland Clinic
GUEST FACULTY
Jared D. Klein, MD, MPH
Pediatric Imaging, Cardiology
Pediatric Cardiology
Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital
Linda D. Gillam, MD
Dorothy and Lloyd Huck Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine
Morristown Medical Center, Atlantic Health System
Sidney Kimmel Medical College
Thomas Jefferson University
Morristown, NJ
Stephen H. Little, MD
Department of Cardiology
Weill Cornell Medical College
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, TX
G. Burkhard Mackensen, MD, PhD
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
University of Washington
Seatle, WA
Partho Sengupta, MD
Division of Cardiology
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ
CLEVELAND CLINIC
Ben Alencherry, MD
Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute
Jennifer Borowski, RDCS
Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute
Milind Desai, MD
Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute
A. Marc Gillinov
Chair, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute
Neil Greenberg, PhD
Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute
Serge Harb, MD
Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute
Mohamed Kanj, MD
Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute
Rhonda Miyasaka, MD
Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute
Michael Zhen-Yu Tong, MD
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston
Craig Asher, MD
Cardiovascular Medicine
Jose Baez-Escudero, MD
Cardiovascular Medicine
Jerry Estep, MD
Cardiovascular Medicine
Jose Navia, MD
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Jenny Placido Disla, MD
Cardiovascular Medicine
Diego Sadler, MD
Cardiovascular Medicine
Juan Pablo Umana, MD
Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute