PICS~AIC


FACULTY Information


Course Directors

Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD, MPH, FPICS
Sidra Medical
Doha, Qatar

John P. Cheatham, MD, MSCAI, FPICS, Emeritus 
Interventional Cardiology
Professor Emeritus, OSU

Damien Kenny, MD, FPICS
Our Lady's Children's Hospital
Dublin, Ireland

Daniel Levi, MD, FPICS
Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Carlos Pedra, MD, PhD, FPICS
Dante Pazzanese Instituto de Cardiologia, 
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Aimee K. Armstrong, MD, FPICS
The Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, OH, USA


Course CO-Directors

Darren Berman, MD, FPICS
Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles, California

Gianfranco Butera, MD, PhD, FPICS
Bambino Gesù Hospital
Rome, Italy

Allison K. Cabalka MD, FPICS
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, MN, USA

Vivian Dimas, MD, FPICS
Medical City Children’s Hospital
Dallas, TX, USA

Matt Gillespie, MD, FPICS
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Ralf Holzer, MD, MSC, FPICS
UC Davis Children's Hospital
Sacramento, CA, USA

Frank F. Ing, MD, FPICS 
UC Davis Children's Hospital
Sacramento, CA, USA

Clifford J. Kavinsky, MD, PhD, FPICS
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA, USA

Jacqueline Kreutzer, MD, FPICS, FACC, FSCAI, FAHA
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Gareth Morgan, MD, FPICS
University of Colorado Hospital and Children's Hospital of Colorado
Aurora, CO, USA

Alejandro R Peirone, MD, FPICS
Children's Hospital of Córdoba &
Private University Hospital of
Córdoba, Argentina

Gejun Zhang, MD
National Cardiovascular Center of China
Beijing, China

3DI3

Aimee K. Armstrong, MD, FPICS
The Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, OH, USA

Gregor Krings, MD, FPICS
Wilhelmina Kinderziekenhuis UMC Utrecht
Utrecht, Netherlands

Director Emeritus

William E. Hellenbrand, MD, FPICS,  Emeritus
Yale University Medical Center
New Haven, CT, USA

Thomas K. Jones, MD, FPICS
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle, WA, USA

Fellows and Early Career Course Directors

Shabana Shahanavaz, MD, MBBS, FPICS
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH, USA

Jenny E. Zablah, MD, FPICS, FSCAI, FACC, FAAP
Children’s Hospital Colorado
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus