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PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Uri Elkayam, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHFSA
Professor of Medicine
Director Maternal Cardiology
University of Southern California
Keck School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA

PROGRAM CO-DIRECTOR

Anil K. Bhandari, MD, FACC, FHRS
Director of Cardiology
PIH - Good Samaritan Hospital
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Keck USC School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA


GUEST FACULTY

Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD, FHFSA, FACC, FAHA, FACP
The Mary and Gordon Cain Chair in Cardiology and Professor of Medicine
Senior Dean of Faculty, Baylor College of Medicine
Director, Winters Center for Heart Failure Research
Assoc. Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute
Vice-Chair of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine
Editor-in-Chief, JACC: Heart Failure
Houston, TX

Christina Economides, MD, MM, FSCAI
Interventional Cardiology
Director, STEMI Receiving Center
Director, Women’s Cardiovascular Health Program
Associate Program Director,
Harbor UCLA Medical Center/PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Training Program
Los Angeles, CA

John Elefteriades, MD, FHRS
Emeritus Director of the Aortic Institute at Yale New Haven
William W.L. Glenn Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
New Haven, CT

Gregg Fonarow, MD, FACC
Eliot Corday Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science
Director, Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center
Co-Director, UCLA Preventative Cardiology Program
Co-Chief, UCLA Division of Cardiology (Interim)
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Yehuda Handelsman, MD, FACP, FNLA, FASPC, MACE
Medical Director & Principal Investigator, Metabolic Institute of America
Chair Scientific Advisory board, DCMi- Diabetes, CardioRenal & Metabolism Institute
Chair & Program Director World Congress on IR, DM & CVD & Heart in Diabetes
Past- President: American College Endocrinology, American Association Clinical Endocrinologists, Pacific Lipids Association
Tarzana, CA

Mazen Hanna, MD
Director, Heart Failure Intensive Care Unit
Co-Director, Amyloid Program
Section of Heart Failure and
Cardiac Transplant Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH

Michelle Kittleson, MD, PHD
Director of Education in Heart Failure and Transplantation
Professor of Medicine
Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai
Los Angeles, CA

Anil Mehra, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of Southern California
Director Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
LAC/USC Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

Ronald J. Oudiz, MD
Professor of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Chief of Cardiology
Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

Ileana L. Piña, MD, MPH, FAHA, FACC
Professor of Medicine,
Thomas Jefferson University
Quality Chief for the CV Line
Philadelphia, PA

Joseph L. Thomas, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Kouichi R. Tanaka Chair, Department of Medicine
Program Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship
Associate Health Sciences Clinical Professor
Harbor-UCILA Medical Center
Torrance, CA

Nir Uriel, MD, MSc, FACC
Professor of Medicine
Director of NYP Heart Failure, Cardiac Transplant & Mechanical Circulatory Support Programs
Columbia University Irving Medical Center 
New York, NY

Eric H. Yang, MD, FACC, FASE, FAHA
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Director, UCLA-Cardio-Oncology Program
UCLA Cardiovascular Center
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA