COMMITTEES

COMMITTEES

PICS/IPC Istanbul Course Directors

Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD, MPH, FPICS
Sidra Medicine Doha, Qatar

Damien Kenny, MD, FPICS
Our Lady’s Hospital Dublin, Ireland

Mario Carminati, MD, FESC, FGISE, FSCAI
Director of Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiology Centre at IRCCS Policlinico San Donato University Hospital, Milan, Italy

Ahmet Çelebi, MD, FPICS
Dr. Siyami Ersek Thoracic And Cardiovascular Surgery Education Research Hospital, İstanbul, Türkiye


PROGRAM DIRECTORS

Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD, MPH, FPICS
Sidra Medicine
Doha, Qatar


John P. Cheatham, MD, FPICS
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, OH, USA


Damien Kenny, MD, FPICS
Our Lady’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
Sao Paulo, Brazil


Evan Zahn, MD, FPICS
Cedar Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA, USA

PROGRAM CO-DIRECTORS

Darren Berman, MD, FPICS
Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles, CA, USA


Gianfranco Butera, MD, PhD, FPICS
Bambino Gesu Hospital
Rome, Italy


Allison K. Cabalka, MD, FPICS
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, MN, USA


Vivan Dimas, MD, FPICS
Medical City Children’s Hospital
Dallas, TX, USA


Matt Gillespie, MD, FPICS
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA


Ralf Holder, 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, FPICS
Children’s Hospital of Cordoba &
Private University Hospital of
Cordoba, Argentina


Gejun Zhang, MD
National Cardiovascular Center of China
Beijing, China

3DI3

Aimee Armstrong, MD, FPICS
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, OH, USA


Gregor Krings, MD, PhD, FPICS
Wilhelmina Kinderziekenhuis UMC
Utrecht, Netherlands

DIRECTOR EMERITUS

William Hellenbrand, MD, FPICS
Yale University Medical Center
New Haven, CT, USA


Thomas K. Jones, MD, FPICS
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Seattle, WA, USA

PICS/IPC ISTANBUL COURSE CO-DİRECTORS

Aimee K. Armstrong, MD, FPICS
The Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, OH


Ömer Göktekin, MD
Memorial Bahcelievler Hospital,
Adult Interventional Cardiology, İstanbul, Türkiye


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


Clifford J. Kavinsky, MD, PhD, FPICS
Professor of Internal Medicine
Rush Center for Congenital & Structural Heart Disease
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL


Gregor Krings, MD
Head Pediatric CathLab
Wilhelmina Kinderziekenhuis UMC Utrecht
Utrecht, Netherlands


Ercan Tutar, MD
Ankara University School of Medicine,
Department of Child Health and Diseases, Ankara, Türkiye


Teoman Kilic, MD
Kocaeli University Hospital,
Adult Interventional Cardiology, Kocaeli, Türkiye


Wail Alkashkari, MD
President, Saudi Arabian Cardiac
Interventional Society (SACIS), Saudi Arabia


Mani Vannan, MD
Cardiac Imaging, Cardiology
Piedmont Heart Institute
1968 Peachtree Road Northwest
Atlanta, USA


Abdullah Erdem, MD
Medipol University Hospital,
Pediatric Cardiology, İstanbul, Türkiye

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