PICS~AICS

FACULTY Information

Course Directors

• Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD, M.P.H, FPICS
  

  Chair, Department of Pediatrics Chair, CEMC Director
  Sidra Cardiovascular Center of Excellence
  Sidra Medical and Research Center
  Doha, Qatar
  

  John P. Cheatham, MD, FPICS 
  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