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CRT 2025

Evening Symposium

Breakout Group Discussion | Innovation

Monday, March 10, 2025
7:05 PM – 7:25 PM ET

    Facilitator(s)

  • Danny Dvir, MD

    MD
    SZMC, Israel

    Disclosure(s): Abbott Vascular, Medtronic, Boston Scientific: Consultant (Ongoing); Edwards Lifesciences LLC: Consultant (Ongoing); Pi-Cardia: Consultant (Ongoing)

  • Kendra J. Grubb, MD

    VP/CMO Structural Heart
    Medtronic
    Atlanta, Georgia, United States

    Disclosure(s): Medtronic: Employee (Ongoing)

  • Geoff Martha

    CEO
    Medtronic

    Disclosure information not submitted.

  • Toby Rogers, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Scientific Lead for Structural Heart Disease
    Georgetown University and MedStar Washington Hospital Center
    Washington, District of Columbia, United States

    Disclosure(s): Abbott: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing); Anteris: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing); Boston Scientific: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing); Edwards Lifesciences LLC: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing); Medtronic: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing); Transmural Systems, Inc.: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing), Stock-privately held company (Ongoing)

  • Bill Shields, MBA

    Vice President & General Manager
    Medtronic
    Mounds View, Minnesota, United States

    Disclosure(s): Medtronic: Employee (Ongoing)

    • Roundtable Participant(s)

  • Oluwaseun Akinseye, MD, MPH, FACP, FACC, FSCAI

    Director of Cardiovascular Services
    Methodist University Hospital

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Subhi J. Al'Aref, MD

    Associate Professor
    University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
    Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

    Disclosure(s): Elsevier: Textbook Royalty (Ongoing); NIH: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Shockwave Medical, Inc: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Terminated, January 13, 2024)

  • Alexandra Bastiany, MD

    Interventional Cardiologist
    Thunder Bay Regional Health Centre

    Disclosure(s): Heart and Stroke: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Terminated, January 31, 2025); Phillips: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Terminated, May 31, 2024)

  • Murtaza Bharmal, MD

    Interventional Cardiology
    Providence St Jude Medical Center

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Michael I. Brener, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine
    New York-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    New York, New York, United States

    Disclosure(s): Abbott Cardiovascular Systems: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Abiomed Inc: Grant/Research Support (Terminated, December 1, 2024)

  • Hannah Chaudry, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine
    Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
    Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Giacomo Maria Cioffi, MD

    Interventional Cardiologist Consultant
    HFR - Hôpital fribourgeois

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Zainab A. Dakhil, FIBMS Cardiol, MSc in Clinical Trials (Oxon),FIBMS Med, FABHS Med

    Interventional cardiologist, Assistant Professor
    Ibn Al-Bitar Cardiac Centre, Iraq

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Jonathan X. Fang, MBBS, MRCP, FACC, FSCAI

    Associate consultant
    National Heart Centre Singapore
    Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Hans-Josef Feistritzer, MD, PhD

    Associate Professor
    Heart Center Leipzig, Department of Cardiology

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Gennaro Giustino, MD

    Structural Interventional Cardiologist
    Atlantic Health System

    Disclosure(s): Edward Lifesciences: Consultant (Ongoing)

  • Elizabeth Grier, MD

    Structural Interventional Cardiologist
    Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Shadi Halabi, MD

    Interventional Cardiologist
    Powers Healthcare System

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Rania Hammami, MD

    Professor
    Military University Hospital of Sfax, Cardiology department, Sfax, Tunisia

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • FK

    Faraj Kargoli, MD, MPH

    Attending Interventional Cardiologist
    Cardiovascular Associates of Mesa (CVAM)
    Gilbert , Arizona, United States

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • RN

    Rutger-Jan Nuis, MD, PhD

    Interventional Cardiologist
    Erasmus University Medical Center

    Disclosure(s): Abbott Vascular, Medtronic, Boston Scientific: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Terminated); Boston Scientific, Metronic: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Terminated); Meril: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)

  • Nish Patel, MD

    Medical Director of Structural Heart Program
    Baptist Health South Florida, Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute
    Miami, Florida, United States

    Disclosure(s): Abbott Labs: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); Edward Lifesciences: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); medtronic.: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); W. L. Gore and Associates, Inc.: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing)

  • Dario Pellegrini, MD, FESC

    Interventional cardiologist
    Galeazzi-Sant’Ambrogio Hospital

    Disclosure(s): Abbott Labs: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); General Electric: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Terminated, May 25, 2024)

  • Keniel Pierre, Keniel Pierre, MD

    Interventional and Structural Cardiology
    Cardiology Physicians, PA, Florida, United States

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Hashrul Rashid, MBBS (Hons), PhD, MRCP (UK), FRACP

    Interventional, Structural and CT Cardiologist
    Monash University and Northern Health, Melbourne
    Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Karl-Philipp Rommel, MD

    Attending Cardiologist
    University Medical Center Mainz, Germany

    Disclosure(s): Recor Medical, Inc.: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing)

  • Yehia Saleh, MBBCh

    Assistant Professor
    University of Iowa

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Cristina Sanina, MD

    Assistant Professor
    Tulane University

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

  • Andrea Scotti, MD

    Structural Interventional Cardiologist, Assistant Professor
    Montefiore Medical Center | Albert Einstein College of Medicine

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Disclosure(s):
Danny Dvir, MD: Abbott Vascular, Medtronic, Boston Scientific: Consultant (Ongoing); Edwards Lifesciences LLC: Consultant (Ongoing); Pi-Cardia: Consultant (Ongoing)
Kendra J. Grubb, MD: Medtronic: Employee (Ongoing)
Toby Rogers, MD, PhD: Abbott: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing); Anteris: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing); Boston Scientific: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing); Edwards Lifesciences LLC: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing); Medtronic: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing); Transmural Systems, Inc.: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing), Stock-privately held company (Ongoing)
Bill Shields, MBA: Medtronic: Employee (Ongoing)
Oluwaseun Akinseye, MD, MPH, FACP, FACC, FSCAI: No financial relationships to disclose
Subhi J. Al'Aref, MD: Elsevier: Textbook Royalty (Ongoing); NIH: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Shockwave Medical, Inc: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Terminated, January 13, 2024)
Alexandra Bastiany, MD: Heart and Stroke: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Terminated, January 31, 2025); Phillips: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Terminated, May 31, 2024)
Murtaza Bharmal, MD: No financial relationships to disclose
Michael I. Brener, MD: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Abiomed Inc: Grant/Research Support (Terminated, December 1, 2024)
Hannah Chaudry, MD: No financial relationships to disclose
Giacomo Maria Cioffi, MD: No financial relationships to disclose
Zainab A. Dakhil, FIBMS Cardiol, MSc in Clinical Trials (Oxon),FIBMS Med, FABHS Med: No financial relationships to disclose
Jonathan X. Fang, MBBS, MRCP, FACC, FSCAI: No financial relationships to disclose
Hans-Josef Feistritzer, MD, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose
Gennaro Giustino, MD: Edward Lifesciences: Consultant (Ongoing)
Elizabeth Grier, MD: No financial relationships to disclose
Shadi Halabi, MD: No financial relationships to disclose
Rania Hammami, MD: No financial relationships to disclose
Faraj Kargoli, MD, MPH: No financial relationships to disclose
Rutger-Jan Nuis, MD, PhD: Abbott Vascular, Medtronic, Boston Scientific: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Terminated); Boston Scientific, Metronic: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Terminated); Meril: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
Nish Patel, MD: Abbott Labs: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); Edward Lifesciences: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); medtronic.: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); W. L. Gore and Associates, Inc.: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing)
Dario Pellegrini, MD, FESC: Abbott Labs: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing); General Electric: Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Terminated, May 25, 2024)
Keniel Pierre, Keniel Pierre, MD: No financial relationships to disclose
Hashrul Rashid, MBBS (Hons), PhD, MRCP (UK), FRACP: No financial relationships to disclose
Karl-Philipp Rommel, MD: Recor Medical, Inc.: Consulting Fees (e.g., advisory boards) (Ongoing), Speaker/Honoraria (includes speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness) (Ongoing)
Yehia Saleh, MBBCh: No financial relationships to disclose
Cristina Sanina, MD: No financial relationships to disclose
Andrea Scotti, MD: No financial relationships to disclose