Roxana Mehran, MD, an internationally renowned researcher in interventional cardiovascular disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, will be awarded the 2018 Wenger Award for Excellence in Medical Leadership from WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease at the 2018 Wenger Awards in Washington on May 7. The annual Wenger Awards recognize individuals and organizations for their extraordinary contributions to women's heart health. They were named after Nanette Kass Wenger, MD, a pioneer in women’s cardiology. “Dr. Roxana Mehran has helped transform interventional cardiology and advanced gender-based understanding and opportunities in medicine—two of the hallmarks of a worthy recipient of this award," said Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Physician-in-Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital and Director of Mount Sinai Heart.

Roxana Mehran, MD, an internationally renowned researcher in interventional cardiovascular disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, will be awarded the 2018 Wenger Award for Excellence in Medical Leadership from WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease at the 2018 Wenger Awards in Washington on May 7. The annual Wenger Awards recognize individuals and organizations for their extraordinary contributions to women's heart health. They were named after Nanette Kass Wenger, MD, a pioneer in women’s cardiology. “Dr. Roxana Mehran has helped transform interventional cardiology and advanced gender-based understanding and opportunities in medicine—two of the hallmarks of a worthy recipient of this award," said Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Physician-in-Chief of The Mount Sinai Hospital and Director of Mount Sinai Heart.

Dr. Ovidio A. Garcia – Villarreal is a cardiac surgeon dedicated to the private practice, retired from the social medicine. Surgery. He has been working on the mitral, aortic and tricuspid reconstruction for more than 25 years. He has been spearheading in the field of Cardiac arrhythmia surgery, particularly in atrial fibrillation surgery (Cox-maze procedure) as well as in aortic valve sparing operations in Mexico. He has executed national surgical models for valvular heart reconstruction and maze procedure. He has been also dedicated to clinical research, with more than 50 international publications in PubMed. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cirugia Cardiaca en Mexico, and analyst in more than 15 international journals . He is active member of the Mexican Society of Cardiac Surgery, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery, amongst others.

Cardio Vascular and Thoracic Surgery

Professor Buszman is a specialist in cardiology and internal medicine. He got his PhD degree with honors in 1991, and in 2002 at the Medical University of Silesia he obtained Postdoctoral Degree in Medicine (habilitation). In 2009 he was awarded the title of Professor by the President of the Republic of Poland.

Cardiovascular diseases

Born and raised in the Southern Caribbean.Graduating high school top honors.Attended the University of the West Indies Medical school class of 1978.Residency in Pediatrics at UMMC 1989,and Pediatric cardiology at MUSC,South Carolina 1992.On faculty at UMC 1992 to present. Outstanding resident 1989 and outstanding pediatric faculty 1995.Currently professor of Pediatrics.Former Division chief of pediatric cardiology.

pediatric cardiology.

Dr Berman provides the full range of cardiac surgical procedures in adult patients, including off pump coronary surgery. He is also a member of the heart and lung transplant team at Papworth Hospital, and has extensive experience in the use of mechanical circulatory and respiratory support. In particular, he has used a large number of different artificial pumps to support the heart, both in the short and long term. He is the clinical lead for organ retrieval, recently involved in the world’s largest program of heart donation and resuscitation after circulatory death. Dr Berman is the lead for patient safety in surgery and transplantation; he is involved in numerous programs developed to enhance patient safety and their experience of cardiac surgery. Recently he has been leading the workforce regarding frailty and cardiac surgery, looking into pathways to optimise care.

His research focuses on pulmonary hypertension and endarterectomy, improvement of outcomes for transplantation and organ donation and improving patient safety.

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CARDIOLOGY

Xiao-Hua Wang has completed her PhD majored in immunology from Soochow University. She is the director of research center, school of nursing, Soochow university. She has focused on exploring the management of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases and published more than 30 papers in impact journals and has been serving as a reviewer of some journals.

Cardiovascular and other Chronic Diseases

Osama A Tolba El Razaky had completed MD Pediatrics from Tanta University. He has obtained Post-doctoral studies in cardiac deformation. He is a Head of Egyptian Pediatric Cardiology Association and a member of Egyptian Universities promotion committee (Professor of Pediatrics). He is currently a Professor of Pediatric (Cardiology Unit) in Tanta University. He has published 20 papers in international journals and has been serving as a Reviewer for Acta Pediatric. He was a supervisor of 100 MS and 25 MD theses in Pediatrics. He is working as echographer in Pediatrics since 25 years.

His main interest is TDI, STI and 3D Strain.

Issam Mikati graduated from the American University of Beirut Medical School. He did Cardiology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. He complaeted imaging fellowship at the same institution. He is the associate director of the Echocardiography lab at NorthwesternMemorial hospital in Chicago Illinois. He has published numerous papers in reputed journals and has served as a reviewer of premier journals.

Cardiovascular Disease

Salah A. Mohamed, Laboratory and Group Leader in Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck in Germany, the group dedicated research interests to aortic and aortic valve diseases, Atrial fibrillation, aging, and biomarker. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Cardiovascular disease (e.g. genetic etiology and molecular), Epidemiology of aortic and aortic valve disease, Evaluation and validation of drugs and biomarkers, Aging of the heart.

Part time at Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Professor in Cardiology-teach both under and post graduate students 3] Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and European Society of Heart Failure.Secretary of the South African Heart Failure Society and a member of the steering committee of the South African Hypertension Society. 5] On numerous advisory boards and editorial boards of many international journals and a member of various international cardiac societies.

Cardiovascular Diseases

Born and raised in the Southern Caribbean.Graduating high school top honors.Attended the University of the West Indies Medical school class of 1978.Residency in Pediatrics at UMMC 1989,and Pediatric cardiology at MUSC,South Carolina 1992.On faculty at UMC 1992 to present. Outstanding resident 1989 and outstanding pediatric faculty 1995.Currently professor of Pediatrics.Former Division chief of pediatric cardiology.

pediatric cardiology.

Dr. M Reza Movahed received his MD from Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany. He completed his medical residency at the University of Rochester, New York and his cardiology training at the University of South Caroline, Columbia. His final training in interventional cardiology was completed at Yale University Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut in 2000. After his training, he joined University of California Irvine as Assistant Clinical Professor and later joined University of Arizona College of Medicine in 2006 as Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology.

Coronary intervention, non-invasive cardiology and cardiovascular epidemiology

Professor Buszman is a specialist in cardiology and internal medicine. He got his PhD degree with honors in 1991, and in 2002 at the Medical University of Silesia he obtained Postdoctoral Degree in Medicine (habilitation). In 2009 he was awarded the title of Professor by the President of the Republic of Poland.

Cardiovascular diseases

Dr Berman provides the full range of cardiac surgical procedures in adult patients, including off pump coronary surgery. He is also a member of the heart and lung transplant team at Papworth Hospital, and has extensive experience in the use of mechanical circulatory and respiratory support. In particular, he has used a large number of different artificial pumps to support the heart, both in the short and long term. He is the clinical lead for organ retrieval, recently involved in the world’s largest program of heart donation and resuscitation after circulatory death. Dr Berman is the lead for patient safety in surgery and transplantation; he is involved in numerous programs developed to enhance patient safety and their experience of cardiac surgery. Recently he has been leading the workforce regarding frailty and cardiac surgery, looking into pathways to optimise care.

His research focuses on pulmonary hypertension and endarterectomy, improvement of outcomes for transplantation and organ donation and improving patient safety.

Dr. Ovidio A. Garcia-Villarreal is a cardiac surgeon dedicated to the private practice, retired from the social medicine. He is the past president of the Mexican society of cardiac surgery, and the Current President of the Mexican college of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. He has been working on the mitral, aortic and tricuspid reconstruction for more than 25 years. He has been pioneer in the field of cardiac arrhythmia surgery, especially in atrial fibrillation surgery (Cox-maze procedure) as well as in aortic valve sparing operations in Mexico. He has implemented national surgical models for valvular heart reconstruction and maze procedure. He has been also dedicated to clinical research, with more than 50 international publications in PubMed. Editor-in -chief of the journal Cirugia Cardiaca en Mexico, and reviewer in more than 15 international journals. He is active member of the Mexican Society of cardiac Surgery, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery, amongst others.

Aortic Arch surgery, Aortic valve surgery, Mini-invasive surgery, Aortic valve-sparing operations, Left atrial reduction CAB, surgery ,Surgery for atrial fibrillation (Cox-Maze III , Cox-Maze IV), Mitral valve reconstruction, Mitral valve surgery

Liutsiia Feiskhanova is an Associate Professor of department of hospital therapy of Kazan State Medical University, Russia. She has published more than 25 articles in reputed journals. Her interests: cardiology, arrhythmology, rheumatology.

Cardiology, Arrhythmology, Rheumatology.