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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

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
Director, Post-Graduate Education in Heart Failure and Transplantation
Professor of Medicine
Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai
Los Angeles, CA

Nichelle Megowan, MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Harbor UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, CA

Ronald Oudiz, MD, FACC, FCCP
Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Chief, Division of Cardiology
Director, Liu Center for Pulmonary Hypertension
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, CA

Joseph Rahman, MD*
Director, Heart Failure Program
PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital
Los Angeles, CA

Ravi Sureddi, MD*
Co-Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology
PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital
Los Angeles, 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
Erika J. Glazer Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Research, Education and Innovation
Associate Professor of Cardiology and Biomedical Sciences
Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA

Katrine Zhiroff, MD, FACC, FSCAI*
Section Lead,
PIH Health Physicians 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.