Meet the Directors

Mark Galantowicz, MD FSCAI Co-Director, The Heart Center Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nationwide Children’s Hospital Associate Professor of Surgery, The Ohio State University College of Medicine Murray D. Lincoln Endowed Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery	John P. Cheatham, MD FSCAI Co-Director, The Heart Center Director, Cardiac Catheterization & Interventions, Nationwide Children’s Hospital Professor - Pediatrics & Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University College of Medicine George H. Dunlap Endowed Chair in Interventional Cardiology

Keynote Speakers

• Steve Allen, MD   - Chief Executive Officer  Nationwide Children’s Hospital
• Valerie K. Bergdall, DVM   -  University Laboratory Animal Resources  Columbus, OH
• Philipp Bonhoeffer, MD, FSCAI* - University College  London, United Kingdom
• John G. Byrne, MD*  - Vanderbilt Heart Nashville, TN
• Christopher Caldarone, MD - University of Toronto Toronto, ON 
• Mario Carminati, MD, FSCAI - San Donato Milanese Milan, Italy
• John P. Cheatham, MD, FSCAI - Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus, OH
• Curt Daniels, MD - Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus, OH
• Timothy F. Feltes, MD - Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus, OH
• Mark E. Galantowicz, MD, FSCAI - Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus, OH
• Daniel Gomez, CCP - Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus, OH
• Daniel Gruenstein, MD - University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital Minneapolis, MN
• Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD, FSCAI - Rush University Medical Center Chicago, IL
• Sharon L. Hill, MSN, ACNP-BC - Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus, OH
• Ralf J. Holzer, MD, FSCAI - Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus, OH
• Shengshou Hu, MD - Cardiovascular Institute & Fuwai Hospital Bejing, China
• John Kovalchin, MD -  Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus, OH
• Pamela A. Lucchesi, PhD - Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus, OH
• William T. Mahle, MD - Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Atlanta, GA
• Doff McElhinney, MD, FSCAI - Children’s Hospital Boston Boston, MA 
• Charles E. Mullins, MD - Texas Children's Hospital Houston, TX
• Richard G. Ohye, MD -University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
• Vincent Olshove, CCP - Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus, OH
• Carlos Pedra, MD - Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia  Sao Paulo, Brazil 
• Simone Fontes Pedra, MD - Instituto  Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia Sao Paulo,  Brazil
• Alistair Phillips, MD - Nationwide Children's Hospital Columbus, OH
• Thomas J. Preston, CCP - Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH
• Mark D. Rodefeld, MD - Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, IN
• Carlos Ruiz, MD, PhD, FSCAI - Lenox Hill Hospital New York, NY 
• Dietmar Schranz, MD - Universitatsklinikum Giessen Giessen, Germany
• Nikolay V. Vasilyev, MD - Children’s Hospital Boston Boston, MA
• Abigail Wexner - Chairman, Board of Trustees Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus, OH
• Zhen Xu, PhD -University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI
• Evan Zahn, MD, FSCAI - Miami Children's Hospital Miami, FL
• David Zhao, MD - Vanderbilt Heart Nashville, TN