ALEXANDRE ABIZAID

• He specializes in Interventional Cardiology

• Director of Interventional Cardiology at the Heart Institute of the FMUSP Hospital das Clínicas (InCor).

• Master’s and PhD from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP)

• Visiting Professor at the Columbia University Department of Medicine (CUDM) in the United States, as well as Chairman of the Cardiovascular Research Center.

ANIBAL DAMONTE

• Chief of the Hemodynamics and Interventional Cardiology Service of the Cardiovascular Institute of Rosario.

  • President of the Latin American Society of Interventional Cardiology (SOLACI).

  • Former President of the Argentine College of Interventional Cardiologists (CACI)

DIMYTRI A. SIQUEIRA

• MD, PhD
• Director, Interventions in Acquired Valvular Heart Diseases – Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia – São Paulo, Brazil

FÁBIO SÂNDOLI DE BRITO JR

• Director Structural Heart Interventions; InCor, University of São Paulo Medical School, Brazil

• Director Interventional Cardiology; Hospital Sírio-Libanês, São Paulo, Brazil

JUAN GRANADA

• Medical degree from the Institute of Health Sciences in Medellin, Colombia
• Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiology Fellowships at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas
• President and Chief Executive Officer of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF)
• Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

MARTIN LEON

• Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving
• Medical Center (CUIMC)
• Director of Columbia Interventional Cardiovascular Care
  Interventional cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian
• Hospital in New York City
• Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation
• Director and Founder of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT)

RICARDO ALVES DA COSTA

• Interventional Cardiologist at the Dante Pazzanese
• Institute of Cardiology
• Postgraduate studies at Columbia University, New York, USA
• PhD from the University of São Paulo (USP)
• Post-doctorate from the Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology
• President of the Brazilian Society of Hemodynamics and Interventional Cardiology (SBHCI), 2022 / 2023

ROGÉRIO SARMENTO LEITE

• Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul Structural
• Heart Unit Coordinator
• Intervention Cardiology Staff Member of Hospital Moinhos de Vento
• Professor of Medicine at Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre Porto Alegre, RS – Brazil

ADAM GREENBAUM

• MD from New York University
• BS from University at Albany, State University of New York
• Associate Professor of Medicine, Internal Medicine, Emory University
• Co-director of the Emory Structural Heart and Valve Center

BRENO FALCÃO

• Messejana Hospital and Monte Klinikum Hospital, Director of Interventional Cardiology (Fortaleza-CE)
• PhD in Medical Science at São Paulo University
• Brazilian Society of Hemodynamics and Interventional Cardiology, Scientific Director

EBERHARD GRUBE

• Head, Center of Innovative Interventions in Cardiology (CIIC) University Hospital Bonn, Germany
• Consulting Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, at Stanford University School of Medicine
• Consulting Professor of the INCOR Heart Institute of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

EDUARDO PESSOA DE MELO

• SBHCI Full Member
• Specialist in Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology at InCor/FMUSP
• Interventional Cardiologist at Rede D’Or (Esperança Recife, Esperança Olinda and São Marcos Hospitals) and Procape/University of Pernambuco

FERNANDA MARINHO MANGIONE

• Director of incorporation of new technologies at SBHCI
• Specialization in Clinical Research – Harvard University
• Interventional cardiologist at Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo and Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cru

JOÃO CAVALCANTE

• Medical degree the Universidade Federal do Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil
• Internal medicine residency, chief residency and cardiology fellowship training at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan
• Fellowship in Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging at Cleveland Clinic
• Director of Cardiac MRI and Structural CT Labs of Minneapolis Heart Institute at the Abbott Northwestern Hospital, the largest cardiology practice in the Twin Cities
• Scientific Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center and Core Lab

JOSÉ AIRTON DE ARRUDA

• Head of the Structural Heart Disease Division at Rede Meridional
• Interventional Cardiologist at Rede Meridional, UNIMED Vitória and HEVV – ES Hospitals
• Associate Director of the Brazil Structural Summit
• President of SBC – ES (2022 / 2023)

NICHOLAS VAN MIEGHEM

• Interventional cardiologist at Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL
• Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC)
• Medical Director of the Department of Interventional Cardiology at the Thorax Centre.