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Members
Dr. Banbury is the W. Samuel Carpenter III Distinguished Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery and Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Christiana Care’s Center for Heart & Vascular Health.
Dr. Carabello is the Medical Careline Executive at the Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center and Vice Chairman of Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas. Bio Summary.
Dr. Calafiore is the director of the Prince Sultan Cardiac Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Bio summary.
Dr. Cochran is Director of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Maui Memorial Medical Center. Pat Cochran has more than 25 years experience in clinical surgery and medical research, including surgical technique development, medical product evaluation, and clinical program development. Bio summary.
Walter Randolph Chitwood, Jr., M.D., FACS, FRCS is the Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Distinguished Professor of Surgery at East Carolina University, Founder and Director of the East Carolina Heart Institute and Senior Associate Vice Chancellor of Health Sciences. Bio summary.
Dr. Tirone David is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Toronto General Hospital and the holder of the Melanie Munk Chair at Cardiac Centre.
Dr. Mack is Director of Cardiovascular Research and Cardiovascular Medicine of the Heart Hospital Baylor Plano and Director of Cardiovascular Surgery for the Baylor Healthcare System. He is considered to be the most noted authority on the emerging field of transcatheter valves. Bio Summary.
Dr. Ruiz is the Director of Cardiac Intervention for Structural Heart Disease at Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute of New York. Bio Summary.
Dr. Sabik is Chairman of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Director of the Cardiothoracic Residency Training Program in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Heart & Vascular Institute of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Bio Summary.
Dr. Svensson is Director for the Aortic Surgery Center and Marfan Syndrome and Connective Tissue Disorder Clinic at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Bio summary.
Special Advisor
Dr. Gerard Guiraudon is Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. He is a Scientist at Canadian Surgical Technology and Advances Robotics (CSTAR), Department of Surgery and Associated Scientist at the Robarts Research Institute (RRI), Cardiac Imaging and Image guidance for off pump intracardiac surgery, Department of Biophysics. He is an expert in Surgery of Cardiac Arrhythmias and Off-pump Beating Intracardiac Surgery. Bio summary. ____________________ MAB Bios Dr. Banbury is the W. Samuel Carpenter III Distinguished Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery at Christiana Care’s Center for Heart & Vascular Health. As the chief cardiovascular surgeon at Christiana Care, Dr. Banbury leads a team of highly skilled and experienced heart surgeons who perform approximately 700 open heart procedures each year. Before joining the Center for Heart & Vascular Health in April 2006, he was a distinguished clinician and researcher for nine years at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Dr. Banbury has a special interest in valve repair and replacement, coronary artery bypass, minimally invasive valve surgery and ventricular remodeling. He and his associates at the Cleveland Clinic over the past several years have investigated and performed surgical ventricular remodeling operations, including the Dor procedure, an innovative heart reconstruction procedure used when an aneurysm forms in the left ventricle, or pumping chamber, following a major heart attack. He has broad surgical experience in heart valve repairs and replacements and minimally invasive heart valve surgery, as well as with coronary artery bypass surgery. Dr. Banbury has been primary investigator or co-investigator involved in numerous research projects and clinical studies. He has been an invited lecturer at numerous national and international symposia and he is the author or co-author of more than 60 scientific articles, abstracts and book chapters on topics related to his specialty interests. Dr. Banbury received a bachelor’s degree at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and earned his medical degree at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington. He trained in general surgery at the New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center and completed his cardiothoracic surgery training at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 1997. At the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Banbury received the 1997 Annual Research Award and the 1998 Dr. Charles H. Bryan Annual Clinical Excellence Award. He is a member of many professional and specialty related organizations and associations including the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons, the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, the American Heart Association – Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia Scientific Council, the Heart Valve Society of America, and the American Association of Blood Banks – Blood Bank/Transfusion Service Standards Program Unit. He is an inventor with several medical device patents. Dr. Carabello is listed as one of the best doctors in the nation in the field of cardiovascular disease. He received his medical degree from Temple University in 1973 and completed his internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Harvard Medical School in 1978. Since 2001, Carabello has served as a member of the Cardio/Renal Advisory Committee for the Food and Drug Administration in Washington, D.C. He is a member of American Society for Clinical Investigation. He is on the editorial board and serves as an editorial consultant of a number of peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology the Journal of Heart Valve Disease, Journal of Cardiac Failure, and Current Cardiology Reports. Dr. Carabello is the author of more than 350 peer-reviewed and invited publications and the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in teaching. Most recently, he received the 2003 Alumnus of the Year Award from Temple University and served as the president of the Society for Heart Valve Disease and of the Association of University Cardiologists, completing his term in January of 2009. In the spring of 2010, he was selected to receive the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the college’s most prestigious research honor. He has served as an author of the 1998 and 2006 AHA/ACC Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Valvular Heart Disease. He is currently the Medical Careline Executive at the Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center and Vice Chairman of Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston Texas. Dr. Carabello has been acting as an informal advisor to ValveXchange since 2006, and has recently formalized his relationship with VXi. Antonio Calafiore, M.D. Calafiore was Professor of Cardiac Surgery, as Associate Professor from 1985 and as Full Professor from 2001, at the University of Chieti until 2003. He was full Professor at the University of Torino from 2003 to 2005 and at the University of Catania from 2006 to 2009. He was Chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Chieti from 1987 to 2003, at the University of Torino from 2003 to 2005, at the European Hospital in Rome from 2005 to 2006 and at University of Catania (2006-2009). Since May 2009 he has been the Head of the Department of Adult Cardiac Surgery at Prince Sultan Cardiac Center in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Prof. Calafiore is internationally recognized as an extremely talented and creative surgeon. He pioneered (i) off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting, (ii) the LIMA to LAD via a left anterior small thoracotomy (LAST operation), (iii) the use of intermittent antegrade warm blood cardioplegia for myocardial preservation which is now referred to as “Calafiore technique”, (iv) strategies for using all the arterial conduits (internal mammary arteries, radial artery, epigastric artery and gastroepiploic artery) in single or composite grafting, (v) multiple vessel revascularization on a beating heart, (vi) left ventricular surgical remodeling, and (vii) surgery for functional mitral and tricuspid valve regurgitation. After a productive career at the Universities of Chieti, Torino and Catania, all in Italy, Prof. Calafiore has recently moved to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as the director of the Prince Sultan Cardiac Center. He is Vice President of the Italian Society of Cardiac Surgery and Member of the European Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Society of Thoracic Surgeons and American Association of Thoracic Surgeons. Richard “Pat” Cochran, M.D. A long-time collaborator with ValveXchange, Dr. Cochran is Director of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Maui Memorial Medical Center. Pat Cochran has more than 25 years experience in clinical surgery and medical research, including surgical technique development, medical product evaluation, and clinical program development. During his long career as a practicing surgeon and heart valve researcher, Dr. Cochran has pioneered a number of technically challenging surgical procedures, such as aortic valve sparing in cases of a dilated aortic root, and is well-recognized for his expertise in reconstructive cardiac valve surgery. His collaborative work in applying engineering techniques to assess cardiac valve function in normal, diseased, and surgically-repaired states is at the cutting edge of applied technology. Dr. Cochran has held leadership positions in both academic and private sectors. Previously, he developed a new program at Central Maine Medical Center, and before that was the Chairman of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Wisconsin. His M.D. is from Emory and he trained in surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery at University of Utah. Dr. Cochran is Board Certified in Cardiothoracic Surgery, General Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care. He has held faculty positions at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, and University of Maine. He holds fellowship status with the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, the American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Cardiology, and American College of Surgeons. Randolph Chitwood, M.D. Walter Randolph Chitwood, Jr., M.D., FACS, FRCS is a leading international pioneer in minimally invasive and robotic heart surgery. Dr. Chitwood is the Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Distinguished Professor of Surgery at East Carolina University, Founder and Director of the East Carolina Heart Institute and Senior Associate Vice Chancellor of Health Sciences. He was born in Virginia and educated at Hampden-Sydney College, the University of Virginia and Duke University. Immediately after finishing his residency at Duke, he joined the faculty as a full professor and Chief of the newly formed Cardiac Surgery Program at East Carolina University. The Robotic Surgical Center at East Carolina University has trained over 350 surgeons worldwide and Dr. Chitwood has personally performed the first robotic heart operations in ten countries. Currently, Dr. Chitwood’s research activities relate to myocardial preservation, surgical simulation, and endoscopic and robotic cardiac surgery. He was the principal investigator of the FDA robotic mitral valve trials that led to approval for this use in the United States. Dr. Chitwood is a member of 25 professional societies and has been on many of the most important committees in each of these societies. He is the immediate Past President of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the largest cardiothoracic surgery professional organization in the world. He is Past-President and a founding member of the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery as well as past-president of the Society for Heart Valve Disease, the North Carolina Chapter of the American Heart Association, and past Vice President of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association. He has served on the editorial boards of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, the Journal of Cardiac Surgery, the Journal of Heart Valve Disease, the Asian Annals of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, CTS Net, the Heart Surgery Forum, Chest, the American Heart Journal, and the Journal of Robotic Surgery. Currently, he is on the editorial board of the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery. He reviews manuscripts for Circulation, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. In the past, he has authored over 175 peer reviewed scientific and clinical articles, as well as many book chapters and several monographs. In 2003, he was elected to Fellowship in the prestigious Royal College of Surgeons of England, an honor to which few Americans are selected. In 2004, he received the O. Max Gardner Award from the University of North Carolina Board of Governors that recognizes a faculty member of the 16 system institutions, who during the scholastic year, made the greatest contribution to the “welfare of the human race.” It is the only statewide honor given to faculty members by the UNC Board of Governors. In 2005 he received the national Mended Hearts - Harken Award, which recognizes excellence in the field of cardiovascular medicine. In the same year he received the National Phi Kappa Phi Scholar Award for outstanding teaching, research, practice, and service. In May 2009, he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He continually writes and lectures internationally on innovative techniques in minimally invasive and robotic cardiac surgery. He has given over 60 visiting professor and invited lectures. He is the world’s leader in robotic mitral valve surgery, and is in the process of writing a book entitled, Atlas of Robotic Cardiothoracic Surgery. Tirone David, M.D. Dr. David is recognized world-wide for his pioneering work in valve sparing surgery, his remarkable surgical skills and his commitment to clinical research and education. Doctor David is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Toronto, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Toronto General Hospital, and the holder of the Melanie Munk Chair at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre. He was born in Brazil and educated in his native country and in North America. His postgraduate training in surgery was at the State University of New York, The Cleveland Clinic, and the University of Toronto. He joined the academic staff of the University of Toronto and Toronto General Hospital in 1978, and has become one of the leading cardiac surgeons in the world. Hundreds of heart surgeons from around the globe visit his operating theatre every year. Doctor David has published more than 250 peer-reviewed scientific papers, tens of chapters in medical textbooks as well as five surgical textbooks. He has developed numerous operative procedures to treat patients with heart valve disease, complications of myocardial infarction, and thoracic aneurysms. One of these operations, a procedure designed to preserve the aortic valve in patients with aortic root aneurysms, is known the David Procedure. He is the developer of a stentless bioprosthetic heart valve and co-developer of a stented valve. He has been a member of the editorial board of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Journal of Heart Valve Disease, Journal of Cardiac Surgery and the Asia Pacific Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He was President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery in 2004-2005. Doctor David is a member of numerous surgical and medical societies and honorary member of the European Cardio-Thoracic Association, the Brazilian Cardiovascular Society, Italian Society for Cardiac Surgery, German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, and the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association of the United States, and the Society of Cardiac Surgeons. He received the Order of Ontario in 1993 and the Order of Canada in 1996. He was elected University Professor in 2004, the highest honor the University of Toronto bestows to its professors. He received the Humanitarian Award of the Brotherhood of Beth Sholom Synagogue in 2005. Gerard Guiraudon, M.D. Dr. Gerard Guiraudon had a long and successful career in cardiac surgery because of a rare combination of pioneer spirit, creative thinking to problems, dedication to science and a true passion for the field. At the beginning of his career, Dr. Guiraudon contributed to the understanding of arrhythmia mechanisms, documented the concept of arrhythmogenic substrate and described new surgical approaches for every cardiac arrhythmia. Dr. Guiraudon was the first to perform a wide range of procedures: (i) First guided surgery for the mapping of ventricular tachycardia after myocardial infarction in 1975 or associated with cardiomyopathy in 1973. (ii) Description of the right ventricular disconnection for arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia in 1981, a disease that he was the first to identify in the operating room in 1973. (iii) First operation for atrial flutter in 1985 and atrial fibrillation (Corridor operation) in 1986 paved the way to the current development of surgery for atrial fibrillation. (iv) With the description of the epicardial approach to the Wolf Parkinson White syndrome in 1983, he was the first surgeon to replace an open heart technique by a routine beating-heart off-pump technique with remarkable success, setting the gold standard for arrhythmia surgery and describing along the way new techniques for exposure and dislocation of the beating heart that are routinely used today for off pump coronary artery bypass surgery. Besides his contributions to arrhythmias, Dr. Guiraudon performed the first heart transplantation in Europe in 1968 and described an original approach to the mitral valve in 1990. His guiding principles in science were observation and experimentation. Astute observation in the operating room allowed him to identify unrecognized pathology, such as the arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, the coronary sinus diverticulum, and many other pathological entities. He strived to make surgical technique both an experiment and optimal therapy - surgery being an experiment to evaluate the mechanisms of success, and failure the necessary condition for progress in understanding pathophysiology and improving surgical technique in the best interest of patient. The career of Doctor Guiraudon spans over three decades and two continents: in Paris France, London Canada, Buffalo New York, Ottawa Canada and now back home in London to meet his latest challenge - replacing conventional open cardiac surgery by a more patient friendly surgical technique using off-pump, beating-heart, intra-cardiac surgery. This requires the design and development of entirely new technologies and the use of robotics, haptics and imaging in a dramatic different way. Doctor Guiraudon has already materialized his vision by designing and testing a number of new concepts and devices to make his new project a success. The first of these is the application of the Guiraudon Universal Cardiac Introducer (GUCI) to the ValveXchange technology. Doctor Guiraudon received The Research Achievement Award from the Canadian cardiology Society in 1998, the Distinguished Scientific Award for the North America Society for Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE) in 1996, the Outstanding Achievement Award from the European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society in 2007 and the Knighthood in the Order of the Netherlands Lion from her Highness the Queen of the Netherlands in 2005 for his contribution to the development of surgery for cardiac arrhythmias in the Netherlands Michael Mack, M.D. Dr. Mack, was born in 1947 in Syracuse, New York. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Boston College in 1969 and his Medical Degree from St. Louis University in 1973. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Minnesota in 1976, and completed his training in General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas in 1982. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, General Surgery, and Thoracic Surgery. He began practice in cardiothoracic surgery in 1982 in Dallas, Texas, being a founding member of Cardiothoracic Surgery Associates of North Texas (CSANT). The practice currently has 60 physicians in the fields of cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, cardiology, and vascular surgery. He also co-founded the Cardiopulmonary Research Science and Technology Institute (CRSTI), a not for profit research organization in 1996. He currently holds the position of Director of Cardiovascular Research and Cardiovascular Medicine of the Heart Hospital Baylor Plano. He is Director of Cardiovascular Surgery for the Baylor Healthcare System. Dr. Mack has over 250 peer reviewed medical publications. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and is a reviewer for over 10 medical journals. His current areas of interest include minimally invasive surgery and percutaneous heart valve therapy. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Northwestern University, Emory University, and the University of Virginia. He has performed surgery in over 10 foreign countries including China, Egypt, Taiwan, Sweden, Germany, and Brazil. Dr. Mack holds a number of positions in national organizations. He is the President of the Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education (TSFRE) and is currently the President of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association (STSA). He is Second Vice President (President–elect 2011) of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and is Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Joint Committee for Thoracic Surgical Education (JCTSE). He is also the Co-Chairman of the Industry Alliance Committee of the STS/AATS. Dr. Mack is a founding organizer of the Dallas-Leipzig International Valve Conference and is considered today to be the most noted authority on the emerging field of transcatheter valves. Dr. Ruiz was born and raised in Barcelona, Spain. He obtained his Masters of Science from La Salle Bonanova in 1968, and his Medical Degree from the University of Barcelona in 1972. He completed a residency in Pediatrics and Medicine, as well as his training in Cardiology at the University of Barcelona. He earned a PhD from the Mayo Clinic and completed a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease. He is a founding member of the Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Committee of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions. In 1991 Dr. Ruiz was named the Director of the Pediatric and Adult Catheterization Labs at Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children’s Hospital. In 1999 he moved to Chicago where he was Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Illinois, Chicago until 2006. He currently holds the position of Director of Cardiac Intervention for Structural Heart Disease at Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute of New York. Dr. Ruiz has authored over 200 peer reviewed medical publications, and holds patents for multiple medical devices. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the European Heart Journal, Circulation, JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions and several other prestigious journals. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Madrid, the University of Pittsburgh, in Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Venezuela, Chile, and Spain. Dr. Ruiz holds a number of different positions in national and international professional organizations including the American College of Cardiology, the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, the American Heart Association, the Society for Heart Valve Disease, and the New York State Cardiac Advisory Committee among others. Dr. Ruiz is a leading authority on structural and congenital cardiovascular interventions. Joseph Sabik, M.D. Joseph F. Sabik III, MD, is Chairman of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Director of the Cardiothoracic Residency Training Program in the Sydell and Arnold Miller Heart & Vascular Institute of The Cleveland Clinic. He is board-certified in surgery and thoracic surgery and has specialty interests in adult cardiac surgery, valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease, surgery of the thoracic aorta, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery. A Massachusetts native, Dr. Sabik earned a BS in Life Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed his surgical internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was named Chief Resident in Surgery. During his surgical training, Dr. Sabik was appointed a Clinical Fellow and a Research Fellow in Surgery at Harvard Medical School and a Research Fellow in Cardiovascular Surgery at Children’s Hospital, Boston. Following his general surgery training, Dr. Sabik completed a residency in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at Cleveland Clinic, and during his final year of training was the Chief Resident in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. In 1996, he was appointed to the Cleveland Clinic Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery as a staff physician. He was named department chair in 2008. Dr. Sabik is widely published in leading professional journals, including Surgery, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Annals of Thoracic Surgery, and he is the author of many chapters on cardiac surgery for medical textbooks. He is a frequent lecturer at national an international conferences, speaking on the latest innovations in heart disease management and cardiac surgery, such as minimally invasive techniques. His international speaking engagements have included the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Coronary Disease Association (Kyoto, Japan), the World Congress of Cardiology 2008 Annual Meeting (Buenos Aires, Argentina), New Horizons in Cardiovascular Treatment (Shanghai, China) and the 7th Gulf Heart Association Meeting 2009 (Dubai, UAE). In 2004, Dr. Sabik was inducted into the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Cardiology and is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Massachusetts General Hospital Alumni Society and the Ohio State Medical Association. He has in the past, or continues to serve on the Program Committees of the American Association for Thoracic Surgeons, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. In his leisure time, Dr. Sabik enjoys running and skiing Lars Svensson, M.D., Ph.D. |
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Michael Banbury, M.D.
Carabello, M.D.
Antonio Calafiore, M.D.
Richard “Pat” Cochran, M.D.
Randolph Chitwood, M.D.
Tirone David, M.D.
Carlos Ruiz, M.D.
Joseph Sabik, M.D.
Lars Svensson, M.D., Ph.D.
Gerard Guiraudon, M.D.
