Adult Cardiac
Trainees
Early Career Surgeons
Steven Bolling, MD (he/him/his)
University of Michigan Hospital
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Stephanie Mick, MD (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor of CT Surgery, Director of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell
New York, New York, United States
Michael Acker, MD
Julian Johnson Professor of Surgery
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Pavan Atluri, MD
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Vinay Badhwar, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
Joanna Chikwe, MD, FRCS
Editor-in-Chief, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery; Professor & Chairman
Cedars-Sinai
Los Angeles, California, United States
Ralph Damiano, Jr., MD (he/him/his)
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Dominic Emerson, MD, FACS
Associate Professor
Cedars Sinai
Los Angeles, California, United States
Arnar Geirsson, MD (he/him/his)
Professor of Surgery
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York, United States
T. Sloane Guy, MD
Director of Minimally Invasive & Robotic Cardiac Surgery
Georgia Heart Institute
Gainesville, Georgia, United States
Michael Halkos, MD
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Gerald Lawrie, MD (he/him/his)
DeBakey Distingushed Chair of Cardiac Surgery
Houston Methodist Hospital Specialty Physician Group
Houston, Texas, United States
Tom Nguyen, MD
Professor of Surgery | Chief Medical Executive
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute
Miami, Florida, United States
Danny Ramzy, MD PhD (he/him/his)
Professor and Chief of Cardiac Surgery
UT Health Houston McGovern School of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
Matthew Romano, MD
University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Ahmad Sheikh, MD (he/him/his)
Senior Physician Partner
Kaiser Permanente
San Francisco, California, United States
Moritz Wyler von Ballmoos, MD, PhD, MPH
Professor & Chairman, Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
Texas Health Resources
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Sabet Hashim, MD
Chairman of Cardiac Surgery, Hartford Hospital|Co-Physician-in-Cheif, Heart & Vascular Institute|Senior Vice President
Hartford HealthCare
Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Alexander Brescia, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Cardiac Surgery
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Barbara C. Hamilton, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Adult Cardiac Surgery
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Tessa Watt, MD, MSc (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Jeff Schneider, PA-C
University of Michigan /Michigan Medicine, Michigan, United States
Thuy Le, PA-C
APP Cardiac Surgery OR Manager
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, United States
Lindsay Nitsche, BS
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Sarah Bond, MS, PA-C
Physician Assistant
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States