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28th Brazilian Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, Congenital Heart Diseases, Intervention and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

BISTRA ZHELEVA, VP, CHL

Minneapolis, USA

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jacqueline kreutzer, MD

Pittsburgh, USA

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JEFFREY P.JACOBS, MD

Gainesville, USA

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joseph rossano, MD

Filadélfia, USA

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Luciana Fonseca, MD

Pittsburgh, USA

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michael rigby, MD

London, England

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Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz, MD

Munich, Germany

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Shabnam Peyvandi, MD

San Francisco, USA

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wayne tworetzky, MD

Boston, USA

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Daniel garros, MD

Edmonton, Canada

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jacqueline kreutzer, MD

Pittsburgh, USA

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josé pedro silva da silva, MD

Pittsburgh, USA

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michael rigby, MD

London, England

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Mark Friedberg, MD

Toronto, Canada

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osami honjo, MD

Toronto, Canada

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ricardo muñoz, MD

Washington, USA

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Vibeke E. Hjortdal, MD

Copenhagen, Denmark

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wayne tworetzky, MD

Boston, USA

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28º Congresso Brasileiro de Cardiologia Pediatrica, Cardiopatias Congênitas, Intervenção e Cirurgia Cardiaca Pediátrica

BISTRA ZHELEVA, VP, CHL

Minneapolis, USA

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Daniel garros, MD

Edmonton, Canada

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Grace Van Leeuwen, MD

Doha, Qatar

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jacqueline kreutzer, MD

Pittsburgh, USA

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JEFFREY P.JACOBS, MD

Gainesville, USA

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josé pedro da silva, MD

Pittsburgh, USA

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joseph rossano, MD

Filadelfia, USA

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Laura Mercer-Rosa, MD

Pennsylvania, USA

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Luciana Fonseca, MD

Pittsburgh, USA

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Mark Friedberg, MD

Toronto, Canada

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michael rigby, MD

London, England

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osami honjo, MD

Toronto, Canada

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Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz, MD

Munich, Germany

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ricardo muñoz, MD

Washington, USA

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Shabnam Peyvandi, MD

San Francisco, USA

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Vibeke E. Hjortdal, MD

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Vitor Guerra, MD

Toronto, Canada

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wayne tworetzky, MD

Boston, USA

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1ST Latin American PCICS Symposium

David S. Cooper, MD

Cincinnati, USA

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adnan bhutta, MD

Indianapolis, USA

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CHRISTINE RILEY, NP

Washington, USA

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gisela ponce, NP

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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JASON MICHAEL THORNTON, MD

Boston, USA

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Lillian Su, MD

Phoenix, USA

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rené gómez gutiérrez, MD

Monterrey, Mexico

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Lindsey B. Justice, NP

Cincinnati, USA

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awais ashfaq, MD

Cincinnati, USA

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David Werho, MD

San Diego, USA

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guillermo moreno, MD

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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JILL ZENDER, NP

Dallas, USA

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Nikhil Kumar Chanani, MD

Atlanta, USA

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1ST Latin American PCICS Symposium

David S. Cooper, MD

Cincinnati, USA

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Lindsey B. Justice, NP

Cincinnati, USA

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adnan bhutta, MD

Indianápolis, USA

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awais ashfaq, MD

Cincinnati, USA

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CHRISTINE RILEY, NP

Washington, USA

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David Werho, MD

San Diego, USA

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gisela ponce, NP

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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guillermo moreno, MD

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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JASON MICHAEL THORNTON.MD

Boston, USA

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JILL ZENDER, NP

Dallas, USA

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Lillian Su, MD

Phoenix, USA

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Nikhil Kumar Chanani, MD

Atlanta, USA

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rené gómez gutiérrez, MD

Monterrey, Mexico

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Bistra Zheleva

Vice-presidente de Estratégia Global e Promoção de Direitos
Children’s HeartLink

Grace Van Leeuwen

É professora assistente na Weill Cornell Medicine e trabalha como Senior Attending na UTI cardíaca pediátrica do Sidra Medicine, no Qatar.

É também Co-Chair da Congenital Heart Academy.

Jeffrey P.Jacobs

Professor de Cirurgia, Universidade da Flórida.
Centro de Cardiologia Congênita. Divisão de Cirurgia Torácica e Cardiovascular, Departamento de Cirurgia

Joseph Rossano

Cardiologista Pediátrico
Co-diretor do Centro Cardíaco e
Chefe da Divisão de Cardiologia do Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Filadélfia, PA, E.U.A.

Luciana Fonseca

Cirurgiã cardiovascular do UPMC Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Assistant professor da Universidade de Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Especialista em Cirurgia Cardiovascular pela SBCCV.

Doutorado em Medicina pela UNIFESP.

Membro do AATS -American Association for Thoracic Surgery.

Membro do CHSS- Congenital Heart Surgeons Society.

Michael Rigby

Cardiologista pediátrico consultor sênior do Royal Brompton Hospital, em Londres. 
Autor ou editor de vários livros didáticos altamente conceituados, escreveu muitos capítulos e artigos. 
Interesse especial em cateterismo cardíaco intervencionista em bebês, crianças e adultos com doença cardíaca congênita.
Londres, Inglaterra

Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz

Professora titular e presidente de Pediatria Preventiva na Escola de Medicina e Saúde, na Universidade Técnica de Munique, Alemanha.
Cardiologista pediátrica com foco científico em Prevenção de Doenças Cardiovasculares na Infância, Medicina Desportiva Pediátrica,
Chefe da Clínica Ambulatorial de Cardiologia Fetal do Centro Cardíaco Alemão, em Munique, Alemanha

Shabnam Peyvandi

Professora de Pediatria, Epidemiologia e Bioestatística no Hospital Infantil Benioff da Universidade da Califórnia em São Francisco
Diretora do Programa de Pesquisa Cardiovascular do Pediatric Heart Center
Diretora Associado do Programa Cardiovascular Fetal.
Cardiologista pediátrica
São Francisco, Califórnia, EUA

Vitor Guerra

Médico pela Faculdade de Medicina da UFMG.

Doutorado pela Faculdade de medicina da USP.

Cardiologista Pediátrico e Fetal; Responsável pelo ambulatório de aortopatias sindromicas e não-sindromicas do Sickkids Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

University of Toronto.

Daniel Garros

Professor clínico, Divisão de Cuidado Intensivo, Dept de Pediatria da Fac de Medicina da Universidade de Alberta; Professor do “John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre”, Universidade de Alberta;
Staff intensivista da UTI Pediatrica do Stollery Children’s Hospital, em Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Diretor de comitê Qualidade da Uti Pediatrica.
Edmonton, AB, Canadá

Jacqueline Kreutzer

Chefe da Divisão de Cardiologia Pediátrica,
Professora, Departamento de Pediatria, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Pittsburgh
Cátedra Peter e Ada Rossin em Cardiologia Pediátrica
Codiretora, Instituto do Coração UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh (Hospital Infantil UPMC de Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh, PA – E.U.A.

José Pedro da Silva

Diretor Cirúrgico Fundador, Centro Da Silva para Anomalia de Ebstein
Diretor Cirúrgico, Centro de Terapia de Válvulas
Professor de Cirurgia Cardiotorácica
Divisão de Cirurgia Cardiotorácica Pediátrica
Departamento de Cirurgia Cardiotorácica
Pittsburgh, PA, EUA

Laura Mercer-Rosa

Residencia Cardiologia InCor.

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman.

School of Medicine.

Associate Director, Echocardiography.

Director, Cardiac Center Biobank.

Mark Friedberg

Cardiologista pediátrico no Hospital for Sick Children em Toronto, no Canadá.
Professor de Pediatria na Universidade de Toronto
Cientista Associado Sênior no Instituto de Pesquisa SickKids.
Toronto, Canadá

Osami Honjo

Cirurgião cardiovascular da equipe do Hospital for Sick Children.
Sua prática clínica se concentra em cirurgia cardíaca aberta em neonatos e bebês, paliação cirúrgica para pacientes com ventrículo único, suporte cardiopulmonar mecânico na população pediátrica e cirurgia para pacientes com doenças cardíacas congênitas em adultos.
Toronto, Canadá

Ricardo muñoz

Cardiologista Pediátrico
Chefe de Medicina de Cuidados Críticos Cardíacos 
Diretor Executivo de Serviços de Telemedicina do Children’s National Hospital
Co-diretor do Heart Institute
Washington, DC, E.U.A.

Vibeke E. Hjortdal

Professora de Cirurgia Cardíaca Congênita
Departamento de Cirurgia Cardiotorácica,
Rigshospitalet, Hospital Universitário de Copenhague.
Copenhague, Dinamarca

Wayne Tworetzky

Diretor do Programa de Cardiologia Fetal; 
Presidente Benderson, Boston Children’s Hospital; 
Cardiologista Associado Sênior, Departamento de Cardiologia
Professor Associado de Pediatria, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, EUA

David S. Cooper

Diretor Médico, The Heart Institute
Diretor Médico, Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Cardíaca
Diretor Médico, Unidade de Recuperação de Anestesia Cardíaca – Centro Médico do Hospital Infantil de Cincinnati
Professor de Pediatria – Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio, EUA

Adnan T.Bhutta

Professor de Pediatria Clínica
Chefe da Divisão de Medicina de Cuidados Pediátricos Intensivos na Riley Children’s Health – Indiana University Health
Indianápolis, IN, E.U.A.

CHRISTINE RILEY

Pesquisadora e profissional de enfermagem especializada em cuidados críticos cardíacos pediátricos.
Children’s National Hospital, Washington D.C. EUA

Gisela Ponce

Especialista em ECLS/ECMO – Hospital de Pediatria Juan P. Garrahan
Coordenadora do Elso Center 320
Presidente dos Congressos Elso Latam
Instrutora certificada pela ELSO
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jason Michael Thornton

Boston Children’s Hospital, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) & Cardiovascular Operating Rooms (CVOR).
Senior director of nursing and patient care operations,
Member of the leadership team for the 40-bed CICU and busy CVOR, all dedicated to the care of patient with congenital and acquired heart disease.
25 years of pediatric cardiac intensive care nursing experience.
Member of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society’s administrative SIG.

Lillian Su

Diretora médica e chefe associada da CVICU no Phoenix Children’s Hospital.
Vice-presidente da PCICS e uma das produtoras executivas do podcast da PCICS.
Phoenix, Arizona, EUA

René Goméz Gutiérrez

Presidente da ELSO, Diretor da Unidade de ECMO (Adulto e Pediátrico) no Christus Muguerza Hospital,
Cofundador/Presidente do Conselho de Administração da Genomi-k.
Monterrey, México

Lindsey B. Justice

Gerente Clínica Provedora de Prática Avançada para CICU e Cardiologia de Cuidados Intensivos
Instituto do Coração
Centro Médico do Hospital Infantil de Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH, EUA

AWAIS ASHFAQ

Cirurgião cardíaco pediátrico
Professor assistente de cirurgia no Cincinnati Childrens Hospital.
Cincinnati, Ohio, EUA

David Werho

Intensivista cardíaco pediátrico
Professor associado de Pediatria na Universidade da Califórnia em São Francisco e no Hospital Infantil Rady.
San Diego, California, EUA

Guillermo Eduardo moreno

Chefe da Unidade Clínica. Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Cardíaca (UTI 35) do Hospital de Pediatria Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan.
Presidente ELSO Latino Americana 2024-2025
Buenos Aires, Argentina,  

JILL ZENDER

Enfermeira na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Cardíaca Pediátrica do Hospital Infantil em Dallas, Texas. EUA

Nikhil Kumar Chanani

Professor associado de Pediatria – Divisão de Cardiologia na Escola de Medicina da Universidade de Emory,
Cardiologista pediátrico,
Cardiologista intensivista,
Diretor de Resultados e Qualidade na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Cardíaca,
Diretor médico de Resultados e Qualidade no Centro Cardíaco Infantil no Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta — Hospital Egleston.
Atlanta, GA, EUA

Bistra Zheleva

Vice President of Global Strategy and Advocacy
Children’s HeartLink

Grace Van Leeuwen

She is an assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medicine and works as a senior attending physician in the pediatric cardiac ICU at Sidra Medicine in Qatar.

She is also Co-Chair of the Congenital Heart Academy.

Jeffrey P.Jacobs

Professor of Surgery, University of Florida. Congenital Heart Center. Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery

Joseph Rossano

Pediatric Cardiologist
Co-Director of the Cardiac Center and
Chief of the Division of Cardiology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.

Luciana Fonseca

Cardiovascular surgeon at UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center) Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Specialist in cardiovascular surgery through the SBCCV (Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery).

PhD in Medicine from UNIFESP (Federal University of São Paulo).

Member of the AATS – American Association for Thoracic Surgery.

Member of the CHSS – Congenital Heart Surgeons Society.

Michael Rigby

Senior Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London.
The author or Editor of a number of Highly Regarded Textbooks, he has written many chapters and papers.
Special interest in Interventional Cardiac Catheterisation in infants, children and adults with congenital heart disease.
London, England

Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz

Full Professor and Chair Preventive Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Health, Technical University Munich, Germany.
Pediatric Cardiologist with scientific focus of Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Childhood, Pediatric Sport Medicine,
Head Outpatient Clinic Fetal Cardiology German Heart Center Munich, Germany

Shabnam Peyvandi

Professor of Pediatrics, Epidemiology Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital
Director of the Pediatric Heart Center Cardiovascular Research Program Associate Director of the Fetal Cardiovascular Program.
Pediatric cardiologist
San Francisco, California, USA

Vitor Guerra

Doctor from the School of Medicine of UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais).

PhD from University of São Paulo School of Medicine.

Pediatric and fetal cardiologist; Responsible for the syndromic and non-syndromic aortopathies outpatient clinic at SickKids Hospital, Toronto, Canada.

University of Toronto.

Daniel Garros

Clinical Professor, Division of Intensive Care, Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Alberta School of Medicine; Professor at the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta;
Staff intensivist in the Pediatric ICU at Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Director of the Pediatric ICU Quality Committee.
Edmonton, AB, Canada

Jacqueline Kreutzer

Division Chief, Pediatric Cardiology,
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Peter and Ada Rossin Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiology
Co-Director, Heart Institute
UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA – USA

José Pedro da Silva

Founding Surgical Director, Da Silva Center for Ebstein’s Anomaly
Surgical Director, Center for Valve Therapy
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Laura Mercer-Rosa

InCor Cardiology Residency.

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman.

School of Medicine.

Associate Director, Echocardiography.

Director, Cardiac Center Biobank.

Mark Friedberg

Paediatric Cardiologist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto,
Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto
Senior Associate Scientist with the SickKids Research Institute.
Toronto, Canada.

Osami Honjo

Staff cardiovascular surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children.
His clinical practice focuses on open heart surgery in neonates and infants, surgical palliation for single ventricle patients, mechanical cardiopulmonary support in the pediatric population, and surgery for patients with adult congenital heart diseases.
Toronto, Canada

Ricardo muñoz

Pediatric Cardiologist
Chief of Cardiac Critical Care Medicine
Executive Director of Telemedicine Services at Children’s National Hospital
Co-Director of Heart Institute
Washington, DC, U.S.A.

Vibeke E. Hjortdal

Professor of Congenital Heart Surgery
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery,
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital
Copenhagen, Denmark

David S. Cooper

Medical Director, The Heart Institute
Medical Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Medical Director, Cardiac Anesthesia Recovery Unit
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Adnan T.Bhutta

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Division Chief, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Riley Children’s Health – Indiana University Health
Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.

CHRISTINE RILEY

Researcher and nurse practitioner specializing in pediatric cardiac critical care.
Children’s National Hospital, Washington D.C. USA

Gisela Ponce

ECLS/ECMO Specialist – Hospital de Pediatria Juan P. Garrahan
Elso 320 Center Coordinator
President of Elso Latam Congresses
ELSO Certified Instructor
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Lillian Su

Medical Director and Associate Chief of the CVICU at Phoenix Children’s Hospital.
Vice President of the PCICS and one of the executive producers of the PCICS podcast.
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

René Goméz Gutiérrez

President at ELSO, ECMO Unit Director (Adult Pediatric) at Christus Muguerza Hospital,
Co-Founder /President of the Board at Genomi-k.
Monterrey, Mexico

Lindsey B. Justice

Advanced Practice Provider Clinical Manager for CICU and Acute Care Cardiology
The Heart Institute
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH, USA

AWAIS ASHFAQ

Pediatric cardiac surgeon
Assistant professor of surgery at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital.
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

David Werho

Pediatric cardiac intensivist
Associate professor of pediatrics at the University of California San Diego and Rady Children’s Hospital.
San Diego,California, USA

Guillermo Eduardo moreno

Chief of Clinic – Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (ICU 35) at Hospital de Pediatría Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan.
ELSO Latin American President 2024 – 2025
Buenos Aires, Argentina

JILL ZENDER

Nurse practitioner in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit at Children’s Health in Dallas, Texas USA

Nikhil Kumar Chanani

Associate Professor of Pediatrics – Division of Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine, pediatric cardiologist, intensivist, Director of Outcomes and Quality at the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Medical Director of Outcomes and Quality at the Children’s Heart Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta – Egleston Hospital.