Speakers & Faculty
Course Directors
Joseph V. Lombardi, MD, MBA, FACS
Chief Physician Executive, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center · Chair, The Heart and Vascular Institute · Atlantic City, NJ
Joseph J. Ricotta, MD, MS, DFSVS, FACS
National Medical Director, Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy, Tenet Healthcare · Professor of Surgery & Program Director, Florida Atlantic University · Boca Raton, FL
The Planning Faculty
Ali Azizzadeh, MD
Professor & Director, Division of Vascular Surgery; Vice Chair, Dept. of Surgery; Assoc. Director, Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Los Angeles, CA
James H. Black, III, MD
David Goldfarb Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University SOM; Chief & Regional Director, Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy · Baltimore, MD
G. Chad Hughes, MD
Director, Duke Center for Aortic Disease; Surgical Director, Duke Center for Structural Heart Disease; Professor of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center · Durham, NC
James F. McKinsey, MD
Mount Sinai Endowed Professor of Vascular Surgery & Interventional Radiology; Systems Chief of Aortic Intervention, Mount Sinai Health System · New York, NY
Darren B. Schneider, MD
Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy, Perelman SOM, University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA
2025 Invited Faculty
Michele Antonello, MD, PhD
Assoc. Professor of Vascular Surgery; Chief, Endovascular Surgery, University Hospital of Padua · Padua, Italy
Philip Batista, MD
Chief of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery; PD Vascular Surgery Residency, Cooper University Healthcare · Camden, NJ
Carlos Bechara, MD
Professor & Chief of Vascular Surgery, Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL
Neal Cayne, MD
Professor of Surgery; Director of Endovascular Surgery, NYU Medical Center · New York, NY
Venita Chandra, MD
Professor of Surgery, Stanford Medicine · Stanford, CA
Laurent Chiche, MD, FEBVS
Professor of Vascular Surgery, Sorbonne Universités; Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital · Paris, France
Nimesh Desai, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Penn Aorta Center, University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA
Sharif Ellozy, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College · New York, NY
Joshua Grimm, MD
Director of Cardiothoracic Education, Institute for Cardiovascular Health · Austin, TX
Andrea Kahlberg, MD
Assoc. Professor of Vascular Surgery, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University SOM · Milan, Italy
Thomas Maldonado, MD
Schwartz-Buckley Endowed Professor of Surgery; Director, Aortic Center, NYU Langone Health · New York, NY
Ross Milner, MD
Professor of Surgery; Chief, Section of Vascular Surgery & Endovascular Therapy, University of Chicago · Chicago, IL
Erica Mitchell, MD, EdM
Professor of Surgery; Chief of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, University of Tennessee Health & Sciences Center · Memphis, TN
Jean M. Panneton, MD
Professor of Surgery; Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School · Norfolk, VA
Danielle Pineda, MD
Vascular Surgery, AtlantiCare · Egg Harbor Township, NJ
Timur Sarac, MD
Professor of Surgery; Chief, Vascular Surgery & Director, Aortic Center, The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH
Michael J. Singh, MD, MBA
Chief of Surgical Services & Chief, Vascular Surgery; Co-Director Aortic Center, UPMC Heart & Vascular Institute · Pittsburgh, PA
Shahab TourSavadkohi, MD
Assoc. Professor of Surgery; Co-Director, Aortic Center, University of Maryland Medical Center & SOM · Baltimore, MD
Grace Wang, MD
Professor of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA
Eanas Yassa, MD
Section Chief, Vascular Surgery; Assoc. PD, Integrated Vascular Surgery Residency, Michigan State University / Spectrum Health · Grand Rapids, MI
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