2012 WCBIP WCBE
Congress Committee Organization

Organizers

Vice Presidents:

Thomas Gildea, MD
Michael Machuzak, MD

Advisory Committee

Muzaffar Ahmad, MD – Cleveland, Ohio USA
Gyorgy Baktai, MD – Budapest, Hungary
J. Patrick Barron, MD – Tokyo, Japan
John Beamis, MD – Honolulu, Hawaii USA
Heinrich Becker, MD – Heidelberg, Germany
Jose Pablo Diaz-Jimenez, MD, PhD – Barcelona, Spain
Hugo Esteva, MD – Buenos Aires, Argentina
Paul Kvale, MD – Detroit, Michigan USA
Hiroaki Osada, MD – Kawasaki, Japan
Zsolt Papai-Szekely, MD – Budapest, Hungary
Vlasis Polychronopoulos, MD – Athens, Greece
Udaya B. S. Prakash, MD – Rochester, Minnesota USA
Feza Remzi, MD – Cleveland, Ohio USA
Nadja Triller, MD – Golnik, Slovenia
Ko Pen Wang, MD – Baltimore, Maryland USA
Herbert Wiedemann, MD – Cleveland, Ohio USA
Hirokuni Yoshimura, MD – Tokyo, Japan
Mauro Zamboni, MD – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Committee of Chairs

Basem Abdelmalak, MD – Cleveland, Ohio USA
Luis Angel, MD – San Antonio, Texas USA
Gyorgy Baktai, MD – Budapest, Hungary
Chris Bollinger, MD – Cape Town, South Africa
Mario Castro, MD, MPH – St. Louis,
    Missouri   USA
Henri Colt, MD – Irvine, California   USA
Gerard Cox, MD – Hamilton, Ontario Canada
Ben P. DeBoisblanc, MD – New Orleans,
    Louisiana USA
Malcolm DeCamp, MD – Boston,    Massachusetts   USA
Herve Dutau, MD – Marseille, France
Eric Edell, MD – Rochester, Minnesota USA
Yasar El Sameed, MD – Providence,
    Rhode Island USA
Lutz Freitag, MD – Essen, Germany
Stefano Gasparini, MD – Ancona, Italy
Thomas Gildea, MD – Cleveland, Ohio USA
Edward Haponik, MD – Winston-Salem,
    North Carolina USA
Andrew Haas, MD, PhD – Philadelphia,
    Pennsylvania USA
Felix Herth, MD, PhD – Heidelberg, Germany
Prasoon Jain, MD – Clarksburg,
    West Virginia USA
Jeffrey Kanne, MD – Madison, Wisconsin   USA
Kevin Kovitz, MD – Chicago, Illinois USA
Noriaki Kurimoto, MD, PhD – Kawasaki, Japan
Steven Lam, MD – Vancouver, BC Canada
Pyng Lee, MD – Singapore
Y C Gary Lee, MD, PhD – Perth, Australia
Michael Machuzak, MD – Cleveland, Ohio USA

Praveen Mathur, MD – Indianapolis,
   Indiana USA
Teruomi Miyazawa, MD, PhD – Kawasaki, Japan
Rodolfo Morice, MD – Houston, Texas USA
Sudish Murthy, MD, PhD – Cleveland, Ohio USA
Ali Musani, MD – Denver, Colorado USA
David Naidich, MD – New York, New York USA
David Ost, MD – Houston, Texas USA
Ramon Rami-Porta, MD – Barcelona, Spain
Thomas Rice, MD – Cleveland, Ohio USA
Mona Sarkiss, MD – Houston, Texas USA
Frank Sciurba, MD – Pittsburgh,
   Pennsylvania USA
Gerard Silvestri, MD – Charleston,
   South Carolina USA
Michael Simoff, MD – Detroit, Michigan USA
Daniel Sterman, MD – Philadelphia,    Pennsylvania USA
Karen Swanson, DO – Rochester,
   Minnesota USA
Luc Thiberville, MD – Rouen, France
Alain Tremblay, MD – Calgary, Alberta Canada
J. Francis Turner, Jr., MD – Las Vegas,
   Nevada   USA
Jean-Michel Vergnon, MD, PhD – Saint-Etienne,    France
Momen Wahidi, MD – Durham,
   North Carolina USA
Robert Wood, MD, PhD – Cincinnati, Ohio USA
Kazuhiro Yasufuku, MD, PhD – Toronto,
   Ontario Canada
Rex Yung, MD – Baltimore, Maryland USA

Scientific Committee

Mohamed Al-Hajjaj, MD – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Prashant Chhajed, MD – Basel, Switzerland
Henri Colt, MD – Irvine, California USA
Jose Duro da Costa, MD Lisbon, Portugal
Turhan Ece, MD – Istanbul, Turkey
Eric Edell, MD – Rochester, Minnesota USA
David Feller-Kopman, MD – Baltimore,
Maryland USA
Thomas Gildea, MD – Cleveland, Ohio USA
Antoni Rosell Gratacos, MD – Barcelona, Spain
Harubumi Kato, MD, PhD – Tokyo, Japan
Amir Khoja, MD – Pune, India

Mordechai Kramer, MD - Tikva, Israel
Atul C. Mehta, MBBS – Cleveland, Ohio USA
Mohammed Munavvar, MD England
Sudish Murthy, MD, PhD – Cleveland, Ohio USA
Hiroaki Osada, MD, PhD – Kawasaki, Japan
Silvia Quadrelli, MD – Buenos Aires, Argentina
Terek Safwat, MD – Cairo, Egypt
Pallav L. Shah, MD – London, England
Tom Sutedja, MD, PhD – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Carlos Disdier Vicente, MD – Caceres, Spain
Yoichi Watanabe, MD - Okayama, Japan

Abstract Review Committee
Rabih Bechara, MD – Atlanta, Georgia USA Joseph Cicenia, MD – Cleveland, Ohio USA David Feller-Kopman, MD – Baltimore, Maryland USA Jed Gorden, MD – Seattle, Washington USA Shaheen Islam, MD, MPH – Columbus, Ohio USA	Michael Jantz, MD – Gainesville, Florida USA Carla Lamb, MD – Burlington, Massachusetts USA Wes Shepherd, MD – Richmond, Virginia USA Arthur Sung, MD – New York, New York USA

Organizing Committee
Claretha Bradford – Cleveland, Ohio USA John George – Cleveland, Ohio USA Thomas Gildea, MD – Cleveland, Ohio USA Donna Jackman – Cleveland, Ohio USA Viveca Kimble – Cleveland, Ohio USA Georgian Krizmanich, RN – Cleveland, Ohio USA Dan Laskowki, BS, RPFT, CCRC – Cleveland, Ohio USA	Aura Lopez – Cleveland, Ohio USA Michael Machuzak, MD – Cleveland, Ohio USA Atul C. Mehta, MBBS – Cleveland, Ohio USA Sudish Murthy, MD, PhD – Cleveland, Ohio USA Feza Remzi, MD – Cleveland, Ohio USA Thomas Rice, MD – Cleveland, Ohio USA Herbert Wiedemann, MD – Cleveland, Ohio USA

2012 WCBIP WCBE Congress Committee Organization