Thank You ACC.org 2019 Contributors

Cardiology Magazine Image

The College is grateful to have worked with the following individuals who have shared their knowledge and expertise to help ensure ACC.org reflects the latest scientific advances and expert perspectives:

Zaid M. Abdelsattar, MD, MS
Ahmed Abuzaid, MBBS, FACC
Nazanin Aghel, MD
Hitesh Agrawal, MD
Rexford Ahima
Syed A Ahsan, MD
Sophia Elizabeth Airhart, MD, FACC
Chandra Kanth Ala, MD
Mirvat A. Alasnag, MB, BCH
Jad Al Danaf, MD
John H. Alexander, MD, FACC
Karen P. Alexander, MD, FACC
Abdulhamied Alfaddagh, MD
Shadi Al Halabi, MD
Mohamad Adnan Alkhouli, MD, FACC
Mohamed Faher Almahmoud, MD
Christina Al Malouf, MD
Hossein Almassi, MD
Mahmoud Al Rifai, MD, MPH
Khaled F. Al-Shaibi, CHB, MB, FACC
Laith Alshawabkeh, MD, FACC
Doaa Aly, MBBCh
Nivee P Amin, MD
Nicholas S. Amoroso, MD, FACC
Jeffrey B. Anderson, MD, FACC
Charalambos A. Antoniades
Jane Margaret Armitage, MBBS
Ehrin J. Armstrong, MD, FACC
Kelly Arps, MD
Aarti Asnani, MD
Varunsiri Atti, MD
Aaron L. Baggish, MD, FACC
Aaron Jacob Bagnola, PharmD
Faisal Bakaeen, MD
Cindy M. Baker, MD, FACC
Dinu Valentin Balanescu, MD
Lauren Anne Baldassarre, MD, FACC
Adrian P. Banning, MD
Stefano Barco, MD
Kelly Bartsch, PharmD, BCPS, CLS
Suzanne Baron, MD
Wayne B. Batchelor, MD, FACC
Maher Bazzi, MD
Ricardo J. Benenstein, MD, FACC
Raymond L. Benza, MD, FACC
Justin Berk, MD
Daniel S. Berman, MD, FACC
Jarrod Betz, MD
Nirmanmoh Bhatia, MBBS, FACC
Kim K. Birtcher, PharmD, AACC
Minakshi Biswas, MD
John A. Bittl, MD, FACC
Michael Blaha, MD, MPH
Ron Blankstein, MD, FACC
Peter C. Block, MD, FACC
Alexander Blood, MD
Roger S. Blumenthal, MD, FACC
Michael Bolen, MD
Laurie Bossory, MD
Wendy Bottinor, MD, FACC
Nadia Bouabdallaoui, MD
James C. Bower, MD, FACC
Louise Bowman, MBBS, MD
Elisa A. Bradley, MD, FACC
Katia Bravo, MD
David Felipe Briceno, MD
Matthew J. Budoff, MD, FACC
Renee Bullock-Palmer, MBBS, FACC
Robert A Byrne, PhD
Miguel Cainzos-Achirica, MD, MPH
Hector R Cajigas, MD
Courtney Campbell, MD, PhD
Rhanderson Cardoso, MD
Quinn Capers IV, MD, FACC
Anna Bramley Catino, MD, FACC
Rafael Cavalcanti, MD
Anwar Chahal, MB ChB
Johnny Chahine, MD
Sherwin Chan, MD
Jessica E. Chasler, PharmD
Pei Chen, MD
Richard Cheng, MD, FACC
Richard Kar-Hang Cheng, MD, FACC
Christopher Cheung, MD
Michael Chetrit, MD
Erin Chew, MD
George Chiampas, DO
Alyssa Marie Chionglo, PharmD
Aalap Dilip Chokshi, MD, FACC
Eugene H. Chung, MD, FACC
Michael Chung, MD
Sarah B. Clauss, MD, FACC
Paul Francis Clift, MBBS, MD
Jeremy Close, MD
David J. Cohen, MD
Mauricio G. Cohen, MD, FACC
Robin Condliffe, MD
Andrew Constantine, MBBS
Jafna L. Cox, MD, FACC
Juan A. Crestanello, MD
Phillip S. Cuculich, MD
Nick Curzen, PhD
Matthew J Czarny, MD, FACC
Audrey Darville, APRN, PhD
Geetanjali Dang, MD
George D. Dangas, MD, PhD, FACC
Rajesh M. Dave, BMBS, FACC
Austin De La Cruz, PharmD
Gregory J. Dehmer, MD, MACC
Diego Delgado, MD, MSc, FACC
Kara Denby, MD
Robert Derenbecker, MD
Shashank S. Desai, MD, FACC
Bishnu P Dhakal, MD
Devinder Dhindsa, MD
Luigi Di Biase, MD, PhD, FACC
Albert C. Dimeo, MD
Konstantinos Dimopoulos, MD, PhD
Tam Doan, MD
Katherine Dodd, DO
Teodora Donisan, MD
Mhairi Katrina Doris, MB ChB
Ghislaine Douflé, MD
Ramzi Dudum, MD, MPH
Thao Duong, MD
Omar Dzaye, MD, PhD
Sarah Eapen, MD
J. James Edelman, MBBS
Ayman Mohamed Elbadawi, MBBS
Samer H. Ellahham, MD, FACC
Sammy Elmariah, MD, MPH, FACC
Carlos O. Encarnacion, MD
Jose E. Exaire, MD, FACC
Michael D. Faulx, MD, FACC
Timothy Fernandes, MD
Valerian L. Fernandes, MBBS, FACC
Antonio Benicio Fernandez, MD, FACC
Richard A Ferraro, MD
Abigail Ferry, PA-C
Michael S. Firstenberg, MD, FACC
Kelsey M Flint, MD, FACC

Peter Flueckiger, MD, FACC
Beth Foreman, DO
Daniel E. Forman, MD, FACC
Nolan Fox
Nicholas Fox
Veronica Franco, MD
Robin S. Freedberg, MD, FACC
Daniel J Friedman, MD, FACC
Joy Fulbright, MD
Stephanie Fuller, MD, FACC
Muhammad Furqan, MBBS
Lavinia Gabara
Michael Gaies, MD
Henning Gall
Andrew Galmer, DO
Hector Manuel Garcia Garcia, MD, PhD
Jalaj Garg, MBBS, FACC
Zachary Garrett, MD
Antonios P. Gasparis, MD
Mario F.L. Gaudino, MD, PhD, FACC
Michael Gavalas, MD
Monika Gawor, PhD
J. Michael Gaziano, MD, FACC
James L Gentry, III, M D, FACC
Marie D. Gerhard-Herman, MD, FACC
Zachary Gertz, MD, FACC
Ardeschir Ghofrani, MD
Spyridon Giannopoulos
Ivan J Nunez Gil, MD, PhD
Richard J. Glassock, MD
Kashish Goel, MD, FACC
James A. Goldstein, MD, FACC
Jason Goodman, MD
Eiran Z. Gorodeski, MD, MPH, FACC
Parag Goyal, MD, FAC
John T. Granton, MD
Cindy L. Grines, MD, FACC
Elliott Groves, MD, MS, FACC
Wenfang Gui, MD
Pritha P. Gupta, MD, FACC
Dakota Gustafson
Toufik Mahfood Haddad, MD
Ellen J. Hahn, PhD, RN
Sarah Hanigan, PharmD
Jennifer M. Hanna, MBA, MD, FACC
Lillian Hansen, APRN
Ashraf Harahsheh, MD, FACC
Serge C. Harb, MD, FACC
Thura T. Harfi, MD
Anais Hausvater, MD
Salim S. Hayek, MD, FACC
Richard Haynes
Jeffrey Hedley, MD
Tarek Helmy, MD, FACC
Michael J. Hermelin, MD
Joerg Herrmann, MD
Richard R. Heuser, MD, FACC
Andrew Higgins, MD
Elizabeth Hill, DO
Pranoti Hiremath, MD
Diana Hla
Karlee K. Hoffman, MD
Seth Adam Hollander, MD
Steven M. Hollenberg, MD, FACC
Jason Hopper, MD
Benjamin Davies Horne, PhD, MPH, FACC
Sam Houmes, PharmD, BACP
Mahmoud Houmsse, MD, FACC
Jonathan Chong Hsu, MD, FACC
Jiun-Ruey Hu, MD, MPH
Hans Huang, MD
Chetan Huded, MD
Jeffrey J Hsu, MD, PhD
Cezar Iliescu, MD, FACC
Ignacio Inglessis, MD
Adam Ingram, PharmD
Alexander Iribarne, MD, MS, FACC
Omar M Issa, DO, FACC
Alan Jacobsen, MB
Jason T. Jacobson, MD, FACC
Eiman Jahangir, MD, FACC
Christine Louise Jellis, MBBS, PhD, FACC
Allen Jeremias, MD, FACC
Maeve Jones-O'Connor, MBBCH
Ion S. Jovin, MD, FACC
Stephen Paul Juraschek, MD, PhD
Madhavi Kadiyala, MD, FACC
Jaya Kanduri, MD
Manreet Kanwar, MBBS, FACC
Karan Kapoor, MD
Elona Rrapo Kaso, MD
Akash Katauruka, MD
Nahoko Kato, MD
Joe Kelly
Ari R. Keramati, MD
Karl B. Kern, MD, FACC
Asra Khan, MD
Mohamed Khayata, MD
Sinan S. Khayyayt, MD
Fahimeh Khesali
Shireen Khoury, MD
Sina Kianoush, MD, MPH
David Kim, MD
Jonathan H. Kim, MD, FACC
Samuel Kim, MD
Scott Kinlay, MBBS, PhD, FACC
Allan L. Klein, MD, CM, FACC
Nancy J. Kline, APRN, CNP, MSN
Thomas Knickelbine, MD, FACC
Bradley P. Knight, MD, FACC
Susheel K. Kodali, MD, FACC
Payal Kohli, MD, FACC
Michalis Kolentinis, PhD
Stavros V. Konstantinides, MD, PhD
Michael C. Kontos, MD, FACC
Stephen L. Kopecky, MD, FACC
Jacob S. Koruth, MD
Matthew J. Koster, MD
Rafail Angelos Kotronias, MD
Lara Kovell, MD
Guru Kowlgi, MBBS
Christopher Kramer, MD, FACC
Anna Krawisz, MD
Sheela Krishnan, MD
Ashok Krishnaswami, MBBS, FACC
Sebastian Kufner, DR
Anirudh Kumar, MD
Raymond Y. Kwong, MD, FACC
Arthur J. Labovitz, MD, FACC
Adetola Ladejobi, MD
Dhanunjaya R. Lakkireddy, MBBS, FACC
Irene Marthe Lang, MD
Roberto M. Lang, MD, FACC
Mareike Lankeit, MD
M. Regina Lantin-Hermoso, MD, FACC
Gina LaRocca, MD, FACC
Sophia Larson, MD
Jacqueline Latina, MD
Barbara D. Lawson, MD
Byron Kwock Lee, MD, FACC
Daniel J. Lenihan, MD, FACC
Tobias Lenz, MD

Stamatios Lerakis, MD, FACC
Jeff Leya, MD
Song Li, MD
Yuman Li, MD, PhD
Randy A. Lieberman, MD, FACC
Scott Lilly, MD, PhD
D. Scott Lim, MD
Michael J. Lim, MD, FACC
Brian R. Lindman, MD, FACC
Michael J. Lipinski, MD
Jeffrey Lipton, MD
Jim X. Liu, MD, FACC
Renato D. Lopes, MD, PhD, FACC
Juan C. Lopez-Mattei, MD, FACC
Kapildeo Lotun, MD, FACC
Akiko Maehara, MD, FACC
Marion Mafham, MB ChB
Kameswari Maganti, MD, FACC
S. Chris Malaisrie, MD, FACC
Judy R. Mangion, MD, FACC
Preethi Mani, MD
James A. Mann, MD
Jessica Mao, MD
Rachel R. Marcus, MD, FACC
Joseph E. Marine, MD, FACC
Lila Martin, MD
Seth Shay Martin, MD, MHS, FACC
Matthew W. Martinez, MD, FACC
Mathew S. Maurer, MD, FACC
Francoise A. Marvel, MD
Ahmad Munir Masri, MD, FACC
Sofia C. Masri, MD
Wilson Mathias, Jr., MD, PhD, FACC
Jason Matos, MD
Mitsuaki Matsumura, BS
Constantine D. Mavroudis, MD
Patrick M. McCarthy, MD, FACC
Jock N. McCullough, MD, FACC
John W. McEvoy, MB, BCh, BAO, MHS
Ryan McMahan, BS
Laxmi S. Mehta, MD, FACC
Reena Mehra
Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC
Wouter C. Meijers, MD
Rodrigo Mendirichaga, MD
Perwaiz M. Meraj, MD, FACC
Joseph Meyer, MD
Erin D. Michos, MD, FACC
Michael D. Miedema, MD
Michele Mietus-Snyder, MD
M. Wesley Milks, MD, FACC
Wanda C. Miller-Hance, MD, FACC
William Miranda, MD
Joshua Mitchell, MD, FACC
Divyanshu Mohananey, MD
Silvana Molossi, MD, PhD, FACC
Pratik Mondal, MD
Rohinton J. Morris, MD
Deepthi R. Mosali, MBBS, FACC
Emmanuel Moss, MD,
Joseph Muhlestein
Nader D. Nader, MD, PhD, FACC
Faisal Nabi, MD, FACC
Eike C. Nagel, MD, FACC
Srihari S. Naidu, MD, FACC
Rine Nakanishi, MD, PhD, FACC
Michael Nanna, MD
Akhil Narang, MD, FACC
Pradeep Natarajan, MD
Adam J Nelson, MBBS
David Nemer, MD
Vivian G. Ng, MD, FACC
James Nguyen, MD
Vidang P. Nguyen, MD, FACC
Vinh Q. Nguyen, MD, FACC
Johny Nicolas, MD
Marin Nishimura, MD
Vuyisile Tlhopane Nkomo, MD, FACC
Caroline Holm Noergaard, MD
Annunziata Nusca, MD
Michael L. O'Byrne, MD
Christopher M. O'Connor, MD, MACC
Evangelos Oikonomou, MD
Tochi M. Okwuosa, DO, FACC
Brian Olshansky, MD, FACC
Jad Omran, MD
Afiachukwu Onuegbu, MD
Ohad Oren, MD
Ariela R. Orkaby, MD, MPH
Olusola Orimoloye, MBBS, MPH
Ariela R. Orkaby, MD, MPH
Albert Osei, MD
Ratnasari Padang, MBBS
Nicolas L. Palaskas, MD, FACC
Vincent Pallazola, MD
Andrew Panakos, MD
Ankitkumar K. Patel, MD, FACC
Hena Patel, MD
Nainesh C. Patel, MD, FACC
Rajan Patel, MD, FACC
Roshni Patel
Viren Patel, MD, FACC
Tilak Pasala, MD
Sara K. Pasquali, MD
Andre Rodrigues De Mattos Paixao, MD, FACC
Spyridon Peppas, MD
David C. Peritz, MD
Christopher Phelan, MD
Dermot M. J. Phelan, BAO, MB BCh, PhD, FACC
Jonathan P. Piccini, Sr., MD, FACC
Sorin Pislaru, MD, FACC
David C. Peritz, MD
Nana Pogosova, MD
Thomas Richard Porter, MD, FACC
Leili Pourafkari, MD, FACC
David Preiss, MB ChB, PhD
Kurt Prins, MD
Leili Pourafkari, MD, FACC;
Sasha Prisco, MD
Francesca Pugliese, MD, PhD
Valentina Puntmann, MD, PhD
Renato Quispe, MD
Syed Tanveer Rab, MBBS, FACC
Riaz Rahman, MD
Saurabh Rajpal, MD, FACC
C. Venkata S. Ram, MBBS, FACC
Harish Ramakrishna, MD, FACC
Jamal S Rana, MD, FACC
Maria Octavia Rangel, MD
Prashant Rao, MBBS
Elizabeth V. Ratchford, MD
Vivek Yerrapu Reddy, MD
Susan Redline, MD, MPH
Marwan Refaat, MD, FACC
Karim Abdur Rehman, MD
Cara Reiter-Brennan
Alex Reyentovich, MD
Harmony R. Reynolds, MD, FACC
Matthew R. Reynolds, MD, FACC
Nosheen Reza, MD
Jonathan Rich, MD
Michael W. Rich, MD, FACC

Manuel Jonas Richter
Lloyd Ridley, MBBS
Christina Rigelsky, MS, CGC
Jennifer Riggs, MD
Franz Rischard, DO
Alina M. Robert, MD, FACC
Cliff Robinson, MD
Matthew Roby, DO
Robert Kevin Rogers, MD
Jorge Enrique Romero, MD, FACC
Hannah Rosenblum, MD
Carolyn Marie Rosner, FNP
Thomas D. Ryan, MD, FACC
Manuel Jonas Richter
Roela Sadushi-Kolici, MD
Anum Saeed, MD
Lucy M. Safi, DO, FACC
Aparna Sajja, BS
Angel Javier Sanz Salvo, MD, FACC
Pasquale Santangeli, MD
Muhamed Saric, MD, PhD, FACC
Sudipa Sarkar, MD, MSCI
Vasanth Sathiyakumar, MD
Naveed Sattar, MD
Michael P. Savage, MD, FACC
Nazir Savji, MD
Jacqueline W. L. Saw, MD, FACC
Fadi Sawaya, MD, FACC
Amer Sayed, MD
Paul Scheel, MD
Eric Alexander Secemsky, MD, FACC
Werner Seeger
Christian Charles Shults, MD
William Schultz, MD
Aakash Shah, MD
Dipan J. Shah, MD, FACC
Gopi A. Shah, MBBS
Sanket S. Shah
Adhir Ramesh Shroff, MD, MPH, FACC
Steven Sears, DO
Grant Senyei, MD
Maya Serhal, MD
Birva Shah
Neeraj N. Shah, MBBS, FACC
Michael D. Shapiro, DO, FACC
Korosh Sharain, MD
Garima Sharma, MBBS, FACC
Kavita Sharma, MD
Mary Shields, MD
David M. Shipon, MD, FACC
Poojita Shivamurthy, MBBS
Scott W. Shurmur, MD, FACC
Steven Simon, MD
Eli Simsolo, MD
Jarmanjeet Singh, MD
Tamanna Singh, MD, FACC
Shashank S Sinha, MD, FACC
Albert J. Sinusas, MD, FACC
James N. Slater, MD, FACC
Ahmad M. Slim, MD
Nathaniel Rosso Smilowitz, MD, FACC
Nick Smith, MD
Natascha Sommer, MD
Mohamad Khaled Soufi, MD
Nikolaos Spilias, MD
Maxine Stachel, MD
Kevin E. Steel, DO, FACC
Thomas Stocker, MD
Jordan B Strom, MD, MSC, FACC
Steven Stroud, MD
Rebecca Sudore, MD
Elisabeth Sulaica, PharmD
Natalie Szpakowski, MD
Carmela D. Tan, MD
Jean Claude Tardif, MD, FACC
Angela Taylor, MD, MS
James E. Tcheng, MD, FACC
Justin B. Echouffo Tcheugui, MD, PhD
Behnam Nonahal Tehrani, MD
Khodr Tello
Amr Telmesani, MBBS
Dimitrios Terentes-Printzios, MD
Ritu Thamman, MD, FACC
Joseph Thibodeau, MD
Anjan Tibrewala, MD
Paul D. Thompson, MD, FACC
Vinod H. Thourani, MD, FACC
Jasleen Tiwana, MD
Jennifer Tjia, MD
Calvin Ka Wing Tong, MD
Professor Robert Tulloh, MD
Jason Tso, MD
Thao Tran, PharmD
Amar Trivedi, MD
Alexander George Truesdell, MD, FACC
John Trujillo, MD
Jeane Tsutsui, MD
Mohit Turagam, MD
Andreas Tzoumas
Surav Uppal, MD
Barry F. Uretsky, MD, FACC
Anezi Uzendu, MD
Muthiah Vaduganathan, MD
Joban Vaishnav, MD
Tina Varghese, MD
Aishnie Nath Varma
Alan Vainrib, MD
Rachit M Vakil, MD, MPH
Jeremy Van't Hof, MD
Bibin Varghese, MD
Beni Rai Verma, MD
George W. Vetrovec, MD, MACC
Eleftherios Vidalakis, MD
Mladen I. Vidovich, MD, FACC
Salim S. Virani, MD, FACC
Amit N Vora, MD, MPH, FACC
Grant M. Wallace, MD
Matthew A Wanat, PharmD
Kenneth J. Warrington, MD
Ido Weinberg, MD, MSc, FACC
Bonnie H. Weiner, MD, FACC
Max Weiss, MD
Paul Welsh, PhD
Jens Wiebe, MD
Christopher J. White, MACC, MD
John Wilkins, MD
Mathew Williams, MD, FACC
Chun Pong Wong
Nathan D. Wong, PhD, FACC
Jedrek Wosik, MD
Mingxing Xie, MD, PhD
Srikanth Yandrapalli, MD
Sushan Yang, MD
Dmitry M. Yaranov, MD, FACC
Eugene Yang, MD, FACC
Jing Yang, MD
Kenneth G. Zahka, MD, FACC
Yang Zhan, MD
Yanglu Zhao, MD
Allison R Zielinski, MD, FACC
Sokratis Nikolaos Zisis
Sarah Zukkoor, PharmD