Faculty
Cleveland Clinic Course Director
Amanda Vest, MBBS, MPH
Section Head, Heart Failure and Transplantation Cardiology
Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Additional Planners
Angelia Nadiak, NP
James Schraider, PA-C
Brad Williams, PharmD
Guest Faculty
Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD
Senior Dean of Faculty
Director, Winters Center for Heart Failure Research
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Khadijah Breathett, MD, MS
Executive Director, Krannert Cardiovascular Research Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN
Salvatore Carbone, PhD, RDN
Associate Professor and Director, Nutrition Program, EVMS School of Health Professions
EVMS Division of Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
Strelitz Diabetes Center
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA
Invited Cleveland Clinic Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute Faculty
Arianne Clare Agdamag, MD
Paulino Alvarez, MD
Krishna Aragam, MD
Pavan Bhat, MD
Sean Bhattacharya, MD
Tiffany Buda, RN, MSN
Andres Carmona Rubio, MD
Milind Desai, MD, MBA
J. Emanuel Finet, MD
Joanna Ghobrial, MD
Mazen Hanna, MD
Andrew Higgins, MD
Michael Hill, MD, MS
Karlee Hoffman, DO
Eileen Hsich, MD
Wael Jaber, MD
Miriam Jacob, MD
Karen James, MD
Yaquta Kaka, MD
Samir Kapadia, MD
David Katzianer, MD
Deborah Kwon, MD
Ran Lee, MD
Tre Martyn, MD
Tracey Matejka, PA-C
Tuoyo Mene-Afejuko, MD
Amanda Mitchell, BSN, RN
Maria Mountis, DO
Rebecca Reay, CNP
Julia Simkowski, MD
Edward Soltesz, MD, MPH
Randall Starling, MD, MPH
Tyler Taigen, MD
Ziad Taimeh, MD
W.H. Wilson Tang, MD
Michael Tong, MD, MBA
Marjorie Urban, ACNP
Jason Valent, MD
Oussama Wazni, MD
Preethi William, MD
Anthony Zaki, MD
Pei Zhao, MD
Invited Cleveland Clinic Florida Faculty
Jerry Estep, MD

