
FACULTY Information
Course Directors
- Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD, M.P.H, FPICS
Chair, Department of Pediatrics Chair, CEMC Director
John P. Cheatham, MD, FPICS
Sidra Cardiovascular Center of Excellence
Sidra Medical and Research Center
Doha, Qatar
Director, Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Therapies
Professor of Pediatrics & Internal Medicine
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH
Damien Kenny, MD, FPICS
Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin,
Dublin, Ireland
Daniel Levi, MD, FPICS
Interventional Pediatric Cardiology Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Carlos Pedra, MD, PhD, FPICS
Dante Pazzanese Instituto de Cardiologia,
Sao Paulo, Brazil- Evan Michael Zahn, MD
Director, Guerin Family Congenital Heart Program
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Course CO-Directors
Darren Berman, MD, FPICS
Director, Congenital Interventional Catheterization Attending Physician
Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles, California
Gianfranco Butera, MD, PhD, FPICS
Director of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Catheterization
Bambino Gesù Hospital - Rome - Italy
Allison K. Cabalka MD, FPICS
Consultant, Pediatric Cardiology
Professor of Pediatrics
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, MN, USA
Matt Gillespie, MD, FPICS
Professor, Pediatrics
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Interventional Cardiology
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Ralf Holzer, MD, MSC, FPICS
Chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Director of Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization
Weill Cornell Medical Center
Komansky Children's Hospital, New York, NY
Frank F. Ing, MD, FPICS
Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Codirector, UC Davis Pediatric Heart Center
Professor of Pediatrics
UC Davis Children's Hospital Pediatric Heart Center, Sacramento, CA
Clifford J. Kavinsky, MD, PhD, FPICS
Professor of Internal Medicine
Rush Center for Congenital & Structural Heart Disease
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
Alejandro R Peirone, MD
Director, Congenital Interventional Catheterization
Children's Hospital of Córdoba & Private University Hospital of Córdoba, Argentina.
Gejun Zhang, MD
Professor
Vice-director, 3rdward, Structrual Heart Disease Center
Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
National Cardiovascular Center of China
Beijing, China
Director Emeritus
William E. Hellenbrand, MD, FPICS
Yale University Medical Center
New Haven, CT
- Thomas K. Jones, MD, FPICS
Professor of Pediatrics & Medicine - University of Washington, Director of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories,
Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA

PICS-AICS/3DI3 Co-Directors
Aimee K. Armstrong, MD, FPICS
The Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, OH
Gregor Krings, MD
Head Pediatric CathLab
Wilhelmina Kinderziekenhuis UMC Utrecht
Utrecht, Netherlands
Fellows and Early Career Course Directors
Vivian Dimas, MD, FPICS
Director of the Pediatric Catheterization Laboratory
Medical Director of Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Medical City Children’s Hospital
Dallas, Texas
Gareth Morgan, MD, FPICS
Professor of Pediatrics/Cardiology
University of Colorado SOM
Director of Interventional Congenital Cardiology
University of Colorado Hospital and Children's Hospital of Colorado