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 and Endovascular Therapy
Tenet Healthcare
Professor of Surgery
Program Director, Vascular Surgery Fellowship
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL
Program Committee
Ali Azizzadeh, MD
Professor & Director, Division of Vascular Surgery
Vice Chair, Department of Surgery
Associate Director, Smidt Heart Institute
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
James H. Black, III, MD
David Goldfarb Professor of Surgery Professor of Surgery
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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, with tenure
Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
James F. McKinsey, MD
The Mount Sinai Endowed Professor of Vascular Surgery and Interventional Radiology
Vice Chairman Department of Surgery MSW
Systems Chief of Aortic Intervention for Mount Sinai Health Care System
Surgical Director of the Jacobson Aortic Center Mount Sinai Medical System
New York, NY
Darren B. Schneider, MD
Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
2025 Invited Faculty
Cherrie Z. Abraham, MD
Professor of Surgery; Director, Aortic Program, Knight Cardiovascular Institute
Professor of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, School of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR
Philip Batista, MD
Cooper University Health Care
Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon
Program Director, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Residency
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Camden, NJ
Adam Beck, MD
Professor
Director, Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
Holt A. McDowell, Jr., M.D. Endowed Chair of Vascular Surgery
Director of Quality and Associate Chief Medical Quality Officer, CVI
Birmingham, AL
Francis Caputo, MD
Program Director, Vascular Surgery Training Programs
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Neal Cayne, MD
Professor of Surgery
New York University School of Medicine
Director of Endovascular Surgery
New York University 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. PARIS
Vascular Surgeon, Pitie-Salpetriere University Hospital
Paris, France
Dan Clair, MD
Professor and Chair Department of Vascular Surgery
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
Nimesh Desai, MD, PhD
Co-Director, Penn Aorta Center
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Matthew Eagleton, MD
Chief, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Co-Director, Fireman Vascular Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Sharif Ellozy, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY
Franco Grego, MD
Full Professor
University of Padua
Director
Vascular and Endovascular Department
Padua, Italy
Sean Lyden, MD
Vascular Surgeon
Department Chairman
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Thomas Maldonado, MD
Schwartz-Buckley Endowed Professor of Surgery in the Vascular Division
New York University Langone Medical Center
Director of the Venous Thromboembolic Center and the Aortic Center at NYU Langone Health
New York, NY
Dana McCloskey, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery
AtlantiCare
Cape May, NJ
Prof. Germano Melilssano
Full Professor of Surgery
Director of the Residency Program in Vascular Surgery
Director of the Master Course in Aortic Surgery
San Raffaele University
San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
Erica Mitchell, MD, EdM
Professor (Tenured) of Surgery and Chief of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Department of Surgery Vice-Chair for Academic Affairs
University of Tennessee Health and Sciences Center
Memphis, TN
Jean M. Panneton, MD
Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery
Director, Vascular Surgery Fellowship & Integrated Residency Programs
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Norfolk, VA
Danielle Pineda, MD
Vascular Surgery
AtlantiCare
Egg Harbor Township, NJ
Timur Sarac, MD
Professor of Surgery
The Ohio State University School of Medicine
Chief, Vascular Surgery, Director of the Aortic Center
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Sunita Srivastava, MD
Director of Quality, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Radiation Safety Officer, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Gianluca Torregrossa, MD
Cardiac Surgery, Heart and Vascular Care
Maine Line Health
Wynnewood, PA
Shahab TourSavadkohi, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Co-Director of Aortic Center
Quality Improvement Officer
Division of Vascular Surgery
University of Maryland Medical Center & School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Eanas Yassa, MD
Section Chief, Vascular Surgery
Associate Program Director, Integrated Vascular Surgery Residency
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Frederik Meijer Heart and Vascular Institute
Spectrum Health Medical Group
Grand Rapids, MI
