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Physician Leadership
Martin B. Leon, MD, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Cardiovascular Research Foundation and Co-Director, Medical Research and Education Division. Dr. Leon is also a Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Associate Director of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Leon is also the Founder and Director of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT)—the largest meeting in the world dedicated to interventional vascular therapy.
An internationally renowned interventional cardiologist, Dr. Leon has made significant contributions to almost every major development in the field of interventional vascular therapy over the past 20 years. He has performed more than 7,000 interventional procedures and has coauthored over 1,100 publications.
Dr. Leon has been a national principal investigator of more than 20 major clinical interventional trials in the United States. He is a featured lecturer at international symposia, most recently focusing on drug-eluting stents and transcatheter valve therapy. Dr. Leon has also received 6 international career achievement awards and was recently awarded an honorary degree from the University of Athens, Greece.
Dr. Leon was previously the Director of Cardiovascular Research and Education at the Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute in New York. He also has served as Director of Cardiovascular Research at the Washington Cardiology Center of the Washington Hospital Center and as Clinical Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, both in Washington, DC. He was a Clinical Associate, Senior Investigator, and Director of the Catheterization Laboratories in the Cardiology Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. He was a founder of both the Washington Cardiology Center and the Cardiology Research Foundation, both in Washington, DC.
Dr. Leon received his medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, and completed his internship, residency in internal medicine, and fellowship training in cardiology at the Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Gregg W. Stone, MD, FACC, FSCAI, is Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Medical Center, Director of Cardiovascular Research and Education at the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapies at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York, NY. Dr. Stone has served as the national or international principal investigator for more than 50 national and international multicenter randomized trials, has authored more than 1000 book chapters, manuscripts and abstracts published in the peer-reviewed literature, and has delivered thousands of invited lectures around the world.
Dr. Stone's areas of expertise include interventional therapies of acute coronary syndromes and myocardial infarction; drug eluting stents; adjunct pharmacology; percutaneous heart valves, new device angioplasty including distal embolic protection, thrombectomy, vascular brachytherapy and stent grafts; intravascular ultrasound imaging; saphenous vein graft therapies; chronic total occlusions; vulnerable plaque; contrast nephropathy; clinical trial design; and regulatory issues.
Dr. Stone, along with Dr. Martin B. Leon, is the director of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), the world's largest symposium devoted to interventional cardiology and vascular medicine, directs the annual National Interventional Cardiology Fellow's Course, and co-directs several other annual courses, including Optimizing PCI Outcomes: Evolving Paradigms, The Chronic Total Occlusion Summit, and Transcatheter Valve Therapies. Dr. Stone's medical practice is devoted to interventional cardiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.
Dr. Stone previously held similar positions at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York and the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. Previously he was the Director of Interventional Cardiology at the Cardiovascular Institute at El Camino Hospital and Stanford University Medical Center in California.
Dr. Stone completed medical school at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, in Baltimore, MD, and his internship and residency at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City. He completed his general cardiology fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA, under Dr. Jeremy Swan, and subsequently a dedicated fellowship in advanced coronary angioplasty with Dr. Geoffrey Hartzler in Kansas City, MO.
Jeffrey W. Moses, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, both in New York, NY. He is also Director of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab, both at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.
Dr. Moses has made important contributions in the areas of clinical research and educational activities in interventional vascular therapy. He is also a pioneer in developing approaches involving minimally invasive surgery, angioplasty, gene therapy, and various support devices that allow for wider application of interventional cardiovascular procedures.
Dr. Moses, an internationally-recognized interventional cardiologist, has performed more than 12,000 interventional procedures, authored over 600 publications, and served as lead investigator for numerous national and international clinical studies demonstrating the effectiveness and safety of coronary stent placement. In 2002, Dr. Moses was the lead investigator on a large clinical trial that was the first in the US to demonstrate the enormous benefit of the first drug-coated stent, leading to its approval by the Food and Drug Administration. That stent is now used in the majority of interventional procedures in the US.
Dr. Moses, who previously held a professorship in Clinical Medicine at New York University School of Medicine, also served in various positions at the New York Hospital (now NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center), where he became Associate Director of the Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Director of Clinical Electrophysiology. He is a fellow in multiple professional societies and serves on the editorial board as a reviewer for numerous peer review journals.
Dr. Moses completed medical school at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, and finished his internship, residency and fellowship in cardiology at the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Gary S. Mintz, MD, is Chief Medical Officer of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Chief Scientific Officer of the Core Laboratories, Editor-in-Chief of TCTMD.com, and a Co-Director of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT). Dr. Mintz has extensive experience in both interventional cardiology and cardiac ultrasound and is an expert in the area of cardiovascular imaging. He joined the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in 1991 as Director of the Coronary Ultrasound Program, which has studied over 30,000 patients using intravascular ultrasound and has made fundamental observations about the pathology, pathogenesis, and mechanisms of coronary atherosclerosis, catheter-based interventions, and restenosis.
He is the author of over 575 articles, 50 book chapters, and 550 abstracts concerning various aspects of clinical cardiology, cardiac ultrasound, hemodynamics, cardiac radiology and coronary arteriography, interventional cardiology, and intravascular ultrasound. In 2005, Dr. Mintz published the single-authored textbook Intracoronary Ultrasound, the definitive work in the field.
Dr. Mintz completed his undergraduate education at the University of Pennsylvania in 1970 and received his medical degree from Hahnemann University, in 1974, both in Philadelphia, PA. He finished his internship in 1975, residency in 1976, and cardiology fellowship in 1978, each at Hahnemann University. He joined the Hahnemann University Department of Medicine faculty (with a joint appointment in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology) in 1978 and was ultimately promoted to Professor of Medicine in 1987. His administrative appointments there included Director of the Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory, Director of the Coronary Care Unit, and Director of the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program. He received teaching awards from both the Department of Medicine Residency and Cardiology Fellowship Training Programs.
Juan F. Granada, MD, is the Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer of The Jack H. Skirball Center for Cardiovascular Research at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Dr. Granada is also Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. At the Skirball Center, Dr. Granada leads a multidisciplinary research group which aims to accelerate the validation process of promising technologies before undergoing human testing in areas such as cardiac imaging, emerging endovascular therapy and tissue regeneration.
Dr. Granada is a leading investigator in the field of animal models of atherosclerosis, advanced endovascular imaging and emerging cardiovascular therapies in which he holds numerous publications, book chapters, patents and awards (Young Investigator Award; American College of Cardiology (finalist in 2000 and 2008) and American Heart Association (VP award first place in 2002). Additionally, he has participated in the development and successful validation of several medical technologies in the areas of endovascular imaging and endovascular devices. Dr. Granada collaborates with scientists and centers around the world supporting the development of innovative concepts to diagnose and treat cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Granada is an active interventional cardiologist specializing in advanced interventional procedures. Dr. Granada completed medical studies at the Institute of Health Sciences in Medellin, Colombia. He finished his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Marshfield Clinic, Wisconsin where he also served as a chief medical resident. He completed his cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology fellowships at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. He has been certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and interventional cardiology.
George D. Dangas, MD, PhD, is the Director of Academic Affairs and Investigational Pharmacology at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Dr. Dangas is also Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as Director of Postgraduate Training at the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy and Program Director for the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, both at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.
Dr. Dangas is a leading authority in the performance of nonsurgical cardiac and vascular interventions (eg, stent, angioplasty, atherectomy) using both established and novel techniques to prevent and dissolve thrombosis in the coronary and peripheral arteries, as well as an authority in advanced imaging of the heart and blood vessels. He is currently serving as the American College of Cardiology-appointed co-chair of the American College of Cardiology Interventional Cardiology Symposium and is a trustee for the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI). He has been a codirector of the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics symposium since 1999.
Dr. Dangas completed medical and postgraduate studies at the National Kapodistrian University in Athens, Greece. He finished his internship and residency in internal medicine at Miriam Hospital and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology fellowships at The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY. He has been certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, and interventional cardiology, and has been elected Fellow of 6 national and international societies (American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, American College of Chest Physicians, European Society of Cardiology, SCAI, American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine).
Greg L. Kaluza MD, PhD, is the Director of Research at The Jack H. Skirball Center for Cardiovascular Research, part of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, in Orangeburg, NY.
Dr. Kaluza has presented at multiple national and international meetings and has published over 50 original and review papers in numerous scientific journals including Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Journal, and American Journal of Cardiology. He also coauthored several book chapters and multimedia, including the Catheterization Self-Assessment Program by the American College of Cardiology (ACC). He became an ACC fellow in 2005.
Prior to coming to the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Dr. Kaluza served as Scientific Director of the Center for Research in Cardiovascular Interventions and as Codirector of the Core Angiographic Laboratory at the Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston, TX.
Dr. Kaluza received his medical degree in 1992 from the Nicolas Copernicus Academy of Medicine in Kraków, Poland. He completed his postgraduate fellowship at the Laboratory of Physiology, University of Antwerp, Belgium, and his residency in internal medicine at the Jagiellonian University College of Medicine, Kraków, Poland. He became board certified in Poland in 1997 and received his doctoral degree in the biomedical sciences from the Jagiellonian University College of Medicine, Kraków, Poland, in 1998.
Akiko Maehara, MD, is the Director of the Intravascular Ultrasound Core Laboratory at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, NY.
Dr. Maehara has authored numerous papers related to cardiovascular interventions and the use of intravascular ultrasound.
Dr. Maehara is board certified in internal medicine and cardiology by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine and Japanese Society of Cardiology, respectively. She received her medical degree in 1993 from Yamaguchi University School of Medicine in Yamaguchi, Japan. Dr. Maehara completed her clinical fellowship in the Toranomon Hospital in Tokyo, Japan, and a cardiovascular fellowship at the Cardiovascular Center in Toranomon Hospital, also in Tokyo. In 2000, Dr. Maehara finished a research fellowship in cardiovascular interventions at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, CA, with an additional year of fellowship in the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC.
Roxana Mehran, MD, is Chief Scientific Officer of the Data Center at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. She is also Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, as well as Director of Outcomes Research, Data Coordination and Analysis at the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.
Dr. Mehran is a practicing interventional cardiologist specializing in nonsurgical cardiac procedures (eg, stenting, angioplasty, atherectomy) that use both established and novel techniques to prevent recurrence and dissolve thrombosis in the coronary arteries, as well as in advanced imaging of the heart and blood vessels. She currently serves as a member of the American Heart Association Cardiac Catheterization Committee and has been a course co-director for the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference since 1997.
Dr. Mehran has a long-standing research interest in cardiovascular topics, including intravascular ultrasound, renal failure, women’s health, angioplasty, and coronary stenting. She has written over 300 publications on these topics in addition to multiple book chapters in several textbooks on interventional cardiology.
Dr. Mehran completed her training in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, where she was also Chief Medical Resident. She completed her fellowships in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology at The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. Dr. Mehran is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, and interventional cardiology and is an elected fellow of 6 major societies: American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, American College of Physicians, American College of Chest Physicians, European Society of Cardiology, and Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions.
