Faculty
John B. Gordon, MD, FACC
Interventional Cardiology (Retired)
Sharp Memorial Hospital
San Diego, CA
Richard Wright, MD, FACC
Chairman, Pacific Heart Institute
Santa Monica, CA
Co-Chair, Heart Failure Clinical Specialty Committee
Providence Health & Services
Robert Adamson, MD, FACS
Director, Cardiac Transplantation
Sharp Memorial Hospital
San Diego, CA
Charles Athill, MD, FACC, FHRS
Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology, Sharp Memorial Hospital
San Diego Cardiac Center Medical Group
San Diego, CA
Dipanjan Banerjee, MD, MS, FACC
Professor, University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI
Ralph G. Brindis, MD, MPH, MACC
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Matthew Budoff, MD, FACC
Professor of Medicine, UCLA
Endowed Chair of Preventive Cardiology
Lundquist Institute
Torrance, CA
Jane C. Burns, MD
Macklin Foundation Professor and Director
Kawasaki Disease Research Center
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA
Bryan Dieffenbach, MD
Scripps Health, San Diego
San Diego, CA
Shephal Doshi, MD, FACC
Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology
Pacific Heart Institute and Providence St. John’s Health Center
Executive Director, Pacific Heart Institute
Santa Monica, CA
Christyn Edmundson
Director, Neuromuscular Medicine
Swedish Neuroscience Institute
Seattle, WA
Jill Gelow, MD, MPH
Cardiology, Heart Failure, Transplantation Cardiology
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center
Portland, OR
Ty J. Gluckman, MD, MHA
Medical Director, Center for Cardiovascular Analytics, Research, and Data Science (CARDS)
Providence Heart Institute, Providence Health System
Portland, OR
Christopher B. Granger, MD
Fred Cobb, MD Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
Yehuda Handelsman, MD, FACP, FNLA, FASPC, FAHA, MACE
Medical Director and Principal Investigator
Metabolic Institute of America
Tarzana, CA
Dipti Itchhaporia, MD, MACC, FESC, FAHA, FRCP
Eric & Sheila Samson Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Health
Clinical Professor, University of California Irvine
Irvine, CA
Jenna Kay, MD
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center
Portland, OR
Jacob Kelly, MD MHS FACC
Cardiologist
Medical Director, Heart Failure
Alaska Heart & Vascular Institute
Providence Alaska Medical Center
Anchorage, AK
Rola Khedraki, MD, FACC
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Cardiologist
Scripps Clinic
La Jolla, CA
Carol Ko, MS, LCGC
Genetic Counselor Supervisor
Regional Cardiovascular Genetics Program Lead
Providence Orange County–High Desert
Orange, CA
Jason T. Lee, MD
Professor of Surgery
Director of Endovascular Surgery
Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
Christian W. Mende, MD, FACP, FACN, FASN, FAHA
Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA
C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, FACC, FAHA, FESC
Director, Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center
Director, Linda Joy Pollin Women’s Heart Health Program
Director, Preventive & Rehabilitative Cardiac Center, Smidt Heart Institute
Professor of Medicine
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
John L. Mignone, MD, PhD
Medical Director, Advanced Cardiac Support
Robert M. and Patricia Arnold Endowed Medical Director for Heart Failure
John L. Locke, Jr. Advanced Cardiac Support Program
Co-Executive Medical Director, Swedish Heart & Vascular Institute
Swedish Medical Center
Seattle, WA
James O. Mudd, MD
Cardiology, Heart Failure and Transplantation Cardiology
Providence Center for Advanced Heart Disease and Transplantation
Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center
Spokane, WA
Mitul Patel, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Interventional Cardiologist
Intermountain Healthcare
San Diego, CA
Vivek Reddy, MD
Director, Electrophysiology
Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital
New York, NY
John Ryan, MD
Professor of Medicine
Cardiovascular Fellowship Director
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Jacqueline Saw, MD, FSCAI
Clinical Professor
Vancouver General Hospital
Vancouver, British Columbia
David Singh, MD
Cardiac Electrophysiology
Cardiovascular Disease
The Queens Medical Center
Honolulu, HI
Chenpang (John) Soong, MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Pacific Heart Institute
Santa Monica, CA
Christian Spies, MD
Interventional Cardiologist
California Pacific Medical Center
San Francisco, CA
Rigved Tadwalkar, MD, MS, FACC, FACP
Director, Digital Transformation
Consultative Cardiologist
Pacific Heart Institute
Santa Monica, CA
Stephen Tang, MD, FACC, FHRS
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Pacific Heart Institute
Santa Monica, CA
Roderick Tung, MD
Tenured Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Cardiology
Director, Banner Heart Institute
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix and Banner –
University Medical Center Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ