Scientific Leadership

Chairs, Scientific Program Board

Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD
Director, The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute
Director, The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health
Richard Gorlin MD/Heart Research Foundation Professor
Mount Sinai School of Medicine; New York, New York

Erling Falk, MD, PhD
Professor of Cardiovascular Research
Aarhus University Hospital; Denmark, Aarhus

Members, Scientific Program Board

Juan José Badimon, PhD
Director of the Cardiovascular Biology Research Laboratory at the Cardiovascular Institute
Professor of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine; New York, New York

René M Botnar, PhD
Professor and Chair of Cardiovascular Imaging
King's College London; London, United Kingdom

Mat Daemen, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
University of Maastricht; Maastricht, The Netherlands

Zahi A. Fayad, PhD
Director, Sinai Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute
Professor of Radiology and Medicine (Cardiology)
Mount Sinai School of Medicine; New York, New York

Mario Garcia, MD
Director of Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging
Professor of Radiology and Medicine (Cardiology)
Mount Sinai Hospital; New York, New York

Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD
Director of the Center for Genomic Medicine
Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Duke University; Durham, North Carolina

Eilseo Guallar, MD, DrPH
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine
Johns Hopkins University; Baltimore, Maryland

Stanley L. Hazen, MD, PhD
Section Head, Preventive Cardiology & Rehabilitation
Professor of Molecular Medicine, Cell Biology, and Cardiovascular Medicine
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, Ohio

Spencer B. King, III, MD
Executive Director, Academic Affairs
Interim President, Saint Joseph's Heart and Vascular Institute
Saint Joseph's Health System; Atlanta, Georgia

Pedro R. Moreno, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Mount Sinai Medical Center; New York, New York

Børge G. Nordestgaard, MD, DMSc
Professor and Chief Physican
Herlev University Hospital; Herlev, Denmark

James Rudd, MD, PhD
British Heart Foundation Clinical Lecturer
University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine; Cambridge, United Kingdom

Prediman K. Shah, MD
Director of the Division of Cardiology and the Atherosclerosis Research Center
Webb Family Endowed Chair in Cardiology and Professor of Medicine
Cedars Sinai Medical Center; Los Angeles, California

Henrik Sillesen, MD, DMSc
Chairman of the Department of Vascular Surgery RK
University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen, Denmark

Anton van der Steen, PhD
Head Biomedical Engineering of the Thorax Centre Professor in Biomedical Engineering in Cardiology
ErasmusMC; Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Sir Magdi H. Yacoub, MD
Founder and Director of Research at The Magdi Yacoub Institute, Heart Science Centre Harefield
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Imperial College School of Medicine; London, UK

Chun Yuan, PhD
Director of the Vascular Imaging Lab and the Biomedical Imaging Center
Professor of Radiology
University of Washington; Seattle, Washington