International Faculty

PROF. ANTOINE LAFONT

-Professor of Cardiology HEGP
-Professor cardiology hôpital Georges Pompidou, Founder ARTERIAL REMODELLING TECHNOLOGIES
-Past President Esc Wg Of Interventional Cardiology Esc Cofounder Eapci
-Research Inserm Director For 13 Years
-Head Interventional Cardiology Hegp -Founder 2 Startups : Art (Bioresorbable Stent Ce Marquage 2015) Scarcell Therapeutics (Cell Therapy In Regenerative Medicine)

PROF. ANTONIO COLOMBO

Antonio Colombo, MD Affiliation: Director, Cardiac Cath Lab and Interventional Cardiology Unit, EMO GVM Centro Cuore, Columbus and San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy, Visiting Professor of Medicine, Columbia Medical Center Biography: Antonio Colombo MD practices Cardiovascular Medicine since 1978. Dr. Antonio Colombo is an expert interventional cardiologist with a very large experience in coronary stenting, peripheral vascular interventions and treatment of structural heart disease including TAVI and Mitral Interventions. Dr. Colombo works in Milano, Italy, as a Director of Cardiovascular Interventions in San Raffaele Scientific Institute (a major University Hospital in Italy),

in Columbus Hospital as well as in New York, USA at Columbia Medical Center as a Visiting Professor of Medicine. Dr. Colombo made seminal contributions to improve the technique and the pharmacology related to coronary stenting. Among all his peer review papers published, dr. Colombo selected the following 3 that he considers the more relevant: A. Colombo, S.L. Goldberg, Y. Almagor, L. Maiello, L. Finci. A novel strategy for stent deployment in the treatment of acute or threatened closure complicating balloon coronary angioplasty. Use of short or standard (or both) single or multiple Palmaz-Schatz stents. J Am Coll Cardiol 1993; 22: 1887-91 A. Colombo, P. Hall, S. Nakamura, Y. Almagor, L. Maiello, G. Martini,A. Gaglione, S.L. Goldberg, J.M. Tobis. Intracoronary stenting without anticoagulation accomplished with Intravascular Ultrasound Guidance. Circulation 1995; 6: 1676-1688 I. Iakovou, T. Schmidt, E. Bonizzoni, L. Ge, G. Sangiorgi, G. Stankovic, F. Airoldi, A. Chieffo, M. Montorfano, M. Carlino, I. Michev, N. Corvaja, C. Briguori, E. Grube, A. Colombo. Incidence, predictors, and outcome of thrombosis after successful implantation of drug-eluting stents. JAMA 2005

BIAO XU

Professor of Medicine, Nanjing University Medical School Professor of Medicine, Nanjing Medical University Affiliated Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Chief of Cardiovascular Department

CHENG-XING SHEN

Shanghai Jiaotong University 6th hospital Director of cardiovascular department

PROF. GARY S. MINTZ

Gary S. Mintz, MD, • is Chief Medical Officer of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) and a Co-Director of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT). • He is the author of approximately 1000 peer reviewed articles, 60 book chapters, 4 books, and 850 abstracts concerning various aspects of clinical cardiology, cardiac ultrasound, hemodynamics, cardiac radiology and coronary arteriography, interventional cardiology, and (especially) intravascular imaging and physiology.

In 2005, Dr. Mintz published the single-authored textbook Intracoronary Ultrasound that has now been translated into Chinese. In 2014, Dr. Mintz received the Master of the Masters Career Achievement Award at the TCTAP-Cardiovascular Summit in Seoul, Korea; in 2015 • Dr. Mintz received the Chien Foundation Outstanding Lectureship & Lifetime Achievement Award, also presented at TCTAP-Cardiovascular Summit in Seoul, Korea; and in 2017 Dr. Mintz received the Outstanding Achievement Award at CBS 2017, Nanjing, China.

HONGLIANG CONG

Chief physician Tianjin Chest Hospital Director of department

PROF. IMAD SHEIBAN

From 2003 he is Associate Professor of Cardiology at the University of Torino From January 2012 till now he is Director of Interventional Cardiology at Pederzoli Hospital in Peschiera del Garda . From 1989 until now, he performed approximately 12000 procedures of Interventional Cardiology including PTCAs , directional and rotational atherectomies, coronary stenting, IVUS, intracoronary pressure wire and flow wire studies both in elective and emergency settings, approximately 400 peripheral angioplasty procedures including extra-cranial carotid artery angioplasty, approximately 80 procedures of TAVI , 200 PFO closure and 10 LAA closure . He is also owner of international patents on stent delivery system and stents for bifurcation lesions .

JIANAN

Chiefphysician ShanxiCardiovascularHospital Directorofdepartment

JUN ZHANG

Chief physician Cangzhou Central Hospital Director of department

PROF. MIR BABAR BASIR

Dr. Basir received his medical degree from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM), Erie, PA. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine from the University of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana. He completed his cardiology and interventional cardiology training at Henry Ford Hospital and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. He is currently a senior staff at Henry Ford Hospital specializing in the treatment of chronic total occlusions, high risk percutaneous coronary interventions and mechanical circulatory support research. He is an investigator in the National Cardiogenic Shock Initiative a multi-center prospective single arm study evaluating the use of early hemodynamic support guided by invasive hemodynamics in the treatment of acute myocardial infarctions complicated by cardiogenic shock

PROF. OMAR GOKTEIKIN

Prof Omer Goktekin is an interventional cardiologist who works in Istanbul Memorial Hospital, Turkey. His main interests are CTO and Complex PCı. He is also doing proctorship for TAVI and peripheral interventions. He does and teaches acute stroke intervention which is new to cardiology community.

PROF. RAMESH DAGGUBATI

Dr. Ramesh Daggubati is the Associate Chief of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Cath Lab and Director of Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program at NYU Winthrop Hospital. Prior to joining Winthrop, he was the interim Chief of Cardiology and Clinical Professor at Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University. He is skilled in all structural heart and complex coronary interventions. He performs transradial interventions and has proctored many physicians across the country and world. He has developed algorithms for management of cardiogenic shock that is used at multiple institutions around the country. He was the principal investigator of the initial transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) trials and continues to participate in multiple clinical trials. He has published in multiple academic journals and lectures nationally and internationally

PROF. TAREK HELMY

Tarek Helmy, MD, FACC, FSCAI Dr. Helmy is a Professor of cardiology and director of the J. Gerard Mudd Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis Missouri. Dr. Helmy is a 1991 graduate of Cairo University, Egypt. In June 2000, he completed his Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He completed his Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at New England Medical Center Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts

He has served as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, and Professor of Medicine, Director of the interventional cardiology fellowship program, and director of the cardiac Catheterization Lab at the University Of Cincinnati, Ohio. Currently Dr. Helmy is a Professor of cardiology and director of the J. Gerard Mudd Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis Missouri. Dr. Helmy has published several peer reviewed articles and has lectured both nationally and internationally. He has been involved in Clinical Teaching of general and interventional cardiology fellows since 2002.

PROF. GERALD WERNER

Professor Gerald Werner has been Director of Cardiology and Intensive Care at the Klinikum Darmstadt which is a teaching hospital of the University of Frankfurt since 2005. He took up this post following a period of 7 years as Professor of Cardiology at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, where he was Deputy Director of the department and Head of the catheter laboratory. Prior to his role as Professor of Cardiology at Jena University, Professor Werner held other positions at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen which included that of consultant in internal medicine-cardiology and Head of the echo cardiology laboratory. He is also co-Founder and past President of the European CTO club

PROF. YUNDAI CHEN

Professor Chen has been involved in coronary interventional treatment for over 18 years, and is now renowned for the treatment Of complex coronary heart disease and as an expert in coronary cavity-imaging Technology. Besides being a faculty Of European Society Of Cardiology and American College Of Cardiology, Professor Chen is also Chairman Of Cardiovascular internal medicine committee Of PLA Deputy secretary general of Chinese Society of Cardiology of Chinese Medical Association,

A member of the Standing Committee of Chinese Society of Cardiology of Chinese Medical Association, Vice Chairman of the Asia Pacific Heart Federation Working Group. She has also led the CICI conference in recent years, been involved in many educational conferences, and received many achievement awards. She is the author Of 5 patents and 6 utility model patents. Professor Chen is now in charge Of 16 national Funding Projects. She is Deputy Editor of the Journal of Geriatric Cardiology and Chief Editor Of 6 monographs & teaching materials. She has been instrumental in spreading the influence of Chinese medicine in the area of coronary interventional treatment.