FACULTY Information
Course Directors
- Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD, MPH, FPICS
Sidra Medical
John P. Cheatham, MD, MSCAI
Doha, Qatar
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- Evan Michael Zahn, MD
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute
Los Angeles, CA, 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, FPIC
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
Alejandro R Peirone, MD
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
Wilhelmina Kinderziekenhuis UMC Utrecht
Utrecht, Netherlands
Director Emeritus
William E. Hellenbrand, MD, FPICS
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
Vivian Dimas, MD, FPICS
Medical City Children’s Hospital
Dallas, TX, USA
Gareth Morgan, MD, FPICS
University of Colorado Hospital and Children's Hospital of Colorado
Aurora, CO, USA
Shabana Shahanavaz, MD, MBBS
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH, USA