OUR Faculty

Mark Anderson, MD

Hackensack University Medical Center

USA

Chair, Department
of Cardiac Surgery

Daniel Burkhoff, MD PhD

Cardiovascular Research Foundation

USA

Director, Heart Failure, Hemodynamics
and MCS Research

Mir Babar Basir, DO

Henry Ford Hospital

USA

Interventional Cardiology; National Cardiogenic Shock Initiative

Elazer Edelman, MD PhD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

USA

Professor of Medical Engineering
and Science, MIT

Robert Dowling, MD

PennState Health

USA

Professor of Surgery, Director of Research
in Cardiac Transplantation and MCS,

Steven Keller, MD, PhD, MPhil

Johns Hopkins Medicine

USA

Pulmonary Medicine; Critical Care; Biomedical Engineering

Prof. Dr. Med. Patrick Hunziker

University Hospital Basel

Switzerland

Deputy Head of the Clinic for
Intensive Care Medicine

Kiyotake Ishikawa, MD PhD

Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai Hospital

USA

Assistant Professor

Manreet Kanwar, MD

Cardiovascular Institute, Allegheny Health Network

USA

Co-Director, Division of Heart Failure
and Pulmonary Hypertension

Navin K. Kapur, MD

Tufts University School of Medicine

USA

Executive Director, The CardioVascular Center for Research and Innovation (CVCRI); Director, Acute Mechanical Circulatory Support Program; Director, Interventional Research Laboratories; Director of Cardiac Biology Research Center, Molecular Cardiology Research Institute (MCRI); Associate Professor

Robert Kloner, MD, PhD

Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California

USA

Chief Science Officer and Director of Cardiovascular Research at Huntington Medical Research Institutes
Professor of Medicine (Clinical Scholar)

Claudius Mahr, D.O.

University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA

USA

Director of Clinical Integration, University of Washington Regional Heart Center, and Medical Director, Mechanical Circulatory Support

Prof. Dr. Med. Bart Meyns

Leuven University Hospital; Catholic University Leuven

Belgium

Head of the Department
of Cardiac Surgery

Prof. Jacob E. Møller, MD PhD

Odense University Hospital

Denmark

Head of Research unit of the Department of
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Unit

Jeffrey Moses, MD

Columbia University Medical Center, St Francis Hospital and Heart Center

USA

Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Therapeutics,
Director of Advanced Cardiac Interventions

L. Christian Napp, MD

Hannover Medical School

Germany

Executive Senior Consultant Department
of Cardiology and Angiology

William W. O’Neill, MD

Henry Ford Hospital

USA

Medical Director, Center for
Structural Heart Disease

Prof. Hermann Reichenspurner, MD PhD

University Heart Center, Hamburg

Germany

Deputy Medical
Director

Prof. Dr. Med. Andreas Schäfer

Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School

Germany

Deputy Director

Kenji Sunagawa, MD PhD

Disruptive Cardiovascular Medicine (CDiC) at Kyushu University, Fukuoka

Japan

Founder and Professor
of the Center

Benedikt Schrage, MD

University Hopsital of Hamburg Eppendorf

Germany

Critical Care; Interventional Cardiology

Ryan J. Tedford, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA

Medical University of South Carolina

USA

Dr. C. Gazes Endowed Chair in Heart Failure; Professor of Medicine/Cardiology; Section Chief, Heart Failure; Medical Director, Cardiac Transplantation

Prof. Dr. Med. Carsten Tschöpe

Berlin Institute of Health(BIH); Charité Berlin

Germany

Head of Advanced Theranotics

Nir Uriel, MD

Columbia University; Weill Cornell Medicine

USA

Director of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant, NewYork-Presbyterian Professor of medicine

George W. Vetrovec, MD

VCU Pauley Heart Center; Virginia Commonwealth University

USA

Emeritus Professor of Medicine

Prof. Dr. med. Ralf Westenfeld

University of Düsseldorf

Germany

Associate Professor, Department of
Cardiology, Pulmonology & Vascular Diseases

Jane Wilcox, MD, MSc

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

USA

Chief of the Section of Heart Failure Treatment
and Recovery Associate Professor of Medicine