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PROGRAM DIRECTOR

Christina Economides, MD, MM, FSCAI
Director, STEMI Receiving Center
Director, Women's Cardiovascular Health Program
Associate Program Director,
Harbor UCLA Medical Center/PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program
PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital
Los Angeles, CA


GUEST FACULTY

Ulrika Birgersdotter-Green, MD
Director, Pacemaker and ICD Services
Professor of Medicine
UC San Diego Health
La Jolla, CA

Steven Burstein, MD, FACC*
Director, Interventional Cardiology
Director, Structural Heart Program
PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital
Los Angeles, CA

Uri Elkayam, MD, FACC
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
University of Southern California
Keck School of Medicine
Los Angeles, CA

Michelle Kittleson, MD, PhD, FACC
Professor of Medicine
Director of Post Graduate Medical Education in Heart Failure and Transplantation
Director of Heart Failure Research
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

Guy Mayeda, MD, FACC, FSCAI*
Chief, Vascular Disease Program
PIH Health Physicians
President, Los Angeles Cardiology Associates
Los Angeles, CA

Margo B. Minissian, PhD, ACNP, FAHA, AACC
Executive Director, Geri and Richard Brawerman Nursing Institute
Simms/Mann Family Foundation
Endowed Chair in Nurse Education,
Innovation and Research
Assistant Professor, Cardiology
Director, Postpartum Heart Health Program
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

Priya Pillutla, MD, FACC
Associate Clinical Professor
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, CA

Karol Watson, MD, PhD, FACC
Professor of Medicine/Cardiology
Co-director, UCLA Program in Preventive Cardiology
Director, UCLA Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Health Program
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
John Mazziotta, MD, PhD Term Chair in Medicine
Los Angeles, CA

Janet Wei, MD, FACC
Assistant Professor, Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute
Associate Director, Cedars-Sinai Cardiology Fellowship Training Program
Associate Medical Director, Biomedical Imaging Research Institute
Co-Director, Stress Echocardiography, Noninvasive Cardiac Laboratory
Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center
Los Angeles, CA

Katrine Zhiroff, MD, FACC, FSCAI*
Interventional Cardiologist
Director, Cardiology Services
PIH Health Downey Hospital
Downey, CA

*Los Angeles Cardiology Associates


FACULTY DISCLOSURE

It is our policy to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor. All persons involved in the selection, development and presentation of content are required to disclose any real or apparent conflicts of interest. All conflicts of interest will be resolved prior to an educational activity being delivered to learners through one of the following mechanisms 1) altering the financial relationship with the commercial interest, 2) altering the individual’s control over CME content about the products or services of the commercial interest, and/or 3) validating the activity content through independent peer review. All persons are also required to disclose any discussions of off label/unapproved uses of drugs or devices. Persons who refuse or fail to disclose are disqualified from participating in the CME activity. Participants will be asked to evaluate whether the speaker’s outside interests reflect a possible bias in the planning or presentation of the activity. This information is used to plan future activities.