Section Leadership

Marc P. Bonaca MD, MPH, FAHA, FACC

Chair, ACC Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council

Title/Institution: Executive Director of CPC Clinical Research and CPC Community Health

Director of Vascular Research and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the inaugural holder of the William R. Hiatt Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Research.

Email: marc.bonaca@cpcmed.org

Clinical/Research Interests: Research focus incudes ischemic risk in patients with atherosclerotic vascular disease, risk prediction, and risk modification through the use of pharmacologic and biologic therapies.

Key areas of interest include patients with peripheral artery disease, polyvascular disease and diabetes with a focus on the breadth of risk including ischemic limb outcomes, microvascular complications and major adverse cardiovascular events. In addition, he is actively investigating the cardiac, vascular and thrombotic complications associated with novel oncologic therapies.

Hussein Abu Daya, MD, FACC

Member, ACC Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council

Title/Institution: Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Email: habudaya@uabmc.edu

Twitter: @Dr_AbuDaya

Clinical/Research Interests: Clinical and research interests focus on atherosclerotic vascular disease management and intervention including coronary artery disease, peripheral arterial disease involving claudication and critical limb ischemia, renovascular disease, and venous disease and thrombosis.

Subhash Banerjee, MD, FACC

Member, ACC Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council

Title/Institution: Professor, UT Southwestern Department of Internal Medicine

Chief of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, VA North Texas Health Care System in Dallas

Email: subhash.banerjee@utsouthwestern.edu

Clinical/Research Interests: Anti-platelet and anti-thrombotic therapies; Complex coronary and peripheral vascular interventions (special emphasis: chronic total occlusion); Endothelial progenitor stem cell research in cardiovascular medicine

Kevin Patrick Cohoon, DO, MSc, FACC

Member, ACC Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council

Title/Institution: Assistant Professor; Director of Heart and Vascular Wellness Program; Medical College of Wisconsin

Email: kcohoon@mcw.edu

Twitter: @KCohoonDO

Clinical/Research Interests: Vascular Medicine, Cardiology, Sports Cardiology, Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Research.

Robert T. Eberhardt. MD, FACC

Member, ACC Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council

Title/Institution: Director of Vascular Medical Services at Boston Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine

Email: robert.eberhardt@bmc.org

Clinical/Research Interests: Peripheral artery disease (including supervised exercise programs), chronic venous disease, venous thromboembolic disease, antithrombotic management, vascular laboratory testing, and vascular disease outcomes

Kamal Gupta, MD, FACC, FSCAI, RPVI

Member, ACC Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council

Title/Institution: Professor and Vice Chair (Academics and Research)
Director, Cardiovascular Medicine Program
Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program
Director, Vascular Medicine Program
University of Kansas Medical Center

Clinical/Research Interests: Clinical Interests include Vascular Diseases (including aortic and carotid); Peripheral Artery Disease; Peripheral Vascular Intervention; Coronary artery disease and interventions; Venous diseases.

Research Interests include Vascular Biology and Inflammation; Cocaine and cardiovascular Toxicity; Peripheral Vascular and coronary artery Interventional research; Vascular Doppler ultrasound.

Antonio Gutierrez, MD

Member, ACC Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council

Title/Institution: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine

Email: antonio.gutierrez@duke.edu

Twitter: @JAGutierrezMD

Clinical/Research Interests: Clinical interests include interventional cardiology and vascular medicine. Research interests include peripheral artery disease, polyvascular disease, and peripheral vascular intervention quality and outcomes.

Connie N. Hess, MD, MHS, FACC

Member, ACC Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council

Title/Institution: Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, as well as a faculty member of CPC Clinical Research, an Academic Research Organization affiliated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Clinical/Research Interests: Modification of ischemic cardiac and limb-related risk in patients with atherosclerotic vascular disease through medical therapies, including antithrombotic and lipid-lowering strategies
Device-based therapies and optimization of peri-procedural care for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary and peripheral vascular interventions

Osama A. Ibrahim, MD, FACC

Member, ACC Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council

Title/Institution: Director of Endovascular Services, Ashchi Heart and Vascular Institute

Email: oaibrahim@gmail.com; oa_ibrahim@yahoo.com

Clinical/Research Interests: Critical Limb Threatening Ischemia (CLTI), Deep Venous Interventions, Catheter based therapies for VTE (DVT/PE), CV Service Line Development, and Healthcare Policy.

Demetria M. McNeal, MBA, PhD

Member, ACC Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council

Title/Institution: University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Email: demetria.mcneal@cuanschutz.edu

Clinical/Research Interests: Health disparities in CVD outcomes; doctor-patient communication; dissemination and implementation of interventions to deliver equitable cardiovascular care

Carlos Mena-Hurtado, MD

Member, ACC Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council

Title/Institution: Associate Professor of Medicine, Cardiology
Director Vascular Medicine
Co-Director Vascular Medicine Outcomes Program (VAMOS)
Yale New Haven Hospital
Yale University

Honorary Clinical Reader In the William Harvey Research Institute
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

Email: carlos.mena-hurtado@yale.edu

Twitter: @CarlosMenaYale, @yaleVAMOS

Clinical/Research Interests: PAD, CLI, Outcomes research

Maya Serhal, MD

Member, ACC Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council

Clinical/Research Interests: Vascular Disease, Interventional

Sanjum S. Sethi, MD, MPH, FACC

Member, ACC Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council

Title/Institution: Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center
Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy

Clinical/Research Interests: Research interests focus on investigating catheter based therapies for pulmonary embolism and peripheral arterial disease.