Ioana Dumitru

United States

Ioana Dumitru is a heart failure and transplant cardiologist, professor of medicine with University of South Florida and currently the Medical Director of MCS Program and Co-Director of Heart Failure Center of Excellence at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Florida.  Dumitru has founded and directed two prior successful heart failure, MCS and heart transplant programs in her career with University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha Nebraska as well as Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood Florida

Dumitru has been involved in national landmark trials and has had multiple presentations and publications in the field of heart failure, MCS and cardiac transplantation.

Eros Gian Alessandro Pasero

Italy

Eros Pasero is Professor of Electronic System Engineering at Politecnico of Turin, Italy. He is IEEE life senior member, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE I&M society, president of SIREN, the Italian Society for Neural Networks. He was Professor of Electronics at Tongji University of Shanghai, China, Professor of Electronics at TTPU, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He published more than 180 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of some journals. He was also Principal Investigator of several international research projects. The last project “Risk Stratiification in Brugada Syndrome through AI-Enhanced Electrocardiograms (BRS-AI-ECG)” was funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the other participants were from Tel Aviv University, Turin University (Medicine Faculty).

Himani V. Bhatt

United States

Himani V. Bhatt received her undergraduate and master’s degrees from Rutgers University and graduate medical education at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.  She went on the finish her residency at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital-Columbia University and cardiothoracic fellowship at Duke Heart Center.  She is currently an associate professor of Anesthesiology and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and serves as the Director of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology at Mount Sinai Morningside Medical Center.  As a full-time cardiac anesthesiologist, her clinical interests are the care of high-risk cardiac patients and surgical outcomes.  She is currently studying Enhanced Recovery Pathways and multimodal analgesia and is involved in multiple projects looking at the implementation of these regional techniques in the setting of a multimodal regimen for cardiothoracic surgical patients. As Director of the division, Dr. Bhatt has had an integral role in developing ERACS and CABG care pathways focused on multimodal analgesia, glycemic control, fast-tracking, preoperative anemia management, and postoperative pain control strategies. She also has a strong interest in patient blood management (PBM) and serves as the clinical liaison for Mount Sinai Systems PBM program and Chair of the PBM-Transfusion Committee at Mount Sinai Morningside Medical Center in addition to multiple committees in the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, American Society of Anesthesiologists and American Society of Echocardiography.  She is also an enthusiastic teacher for her residents and fellows and has taken part in multiple educational projects and publications.   In addition to her clinical focus, her research interest includes topics related to use of TEE in the anesthetic management of cardiac surgical cases, evaluating outcomes in cardiac patients and anesthetic concerns in innovative fields such as electrophysiology (EP) and use of Regional Anesthesia in cardiac and cardiac-related procedures.   

Amir Kazory

United States

Amir Kazory is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Nephrology, Hypertension, and Renal Transplantation at the University of Florida. His main academic interests are the nephrologic aspects of heart failure, contemporary and futuristic decongestive strategies, and cardiorenal syndrome. In addition to holding several editorial roles, Dr. Kazory has published extensively on topics mainly related to collaborative approaches in the field of cardiorenal medicine and is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences around the world.

Julia Gorelik

United Kingdom

Julia Gorelik is Professor of Cellular Biophysics, within the Cardiovascular Science Division at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. She is working in the interface between biophysics and cardiovascular research, developing a new high resolution microscopic technique that is suitable for studying living cells - Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy (SICM) for cardio biology. Professor Gorelik has a long-standing interest in the heart, which led her to develop the SICM to measure contraction, rhythm and calcium dynamics of cardiomyocytes simultaneously, allowing the study arrhythmias and heart failure conditions on cultured heart cells. She built a SICM microscope combined it with fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) technique for study spatial distribution of beta-adrenoreceptors on the surface of the cardiomyocytes. She is perfecting ion channel recordings from defined nanodomains on the surface of cardiomyocytes. She studies local translation of key proteins in cardiomyocytes. Another of her passions is mechanobiology, as SICM can measure mechanical parameters such as Young's modulus. Professor Gorelik is a scientist with an extensive network of collaborators. She has published more than 150 papers in high impact factors Journals including Science, Circulation, Circulation Research and others.

Randas JV Batista

Brazil

Randas José Vilela Batista is a Brazilian cardiac surgeon and medical researcher best known for developing the controversial but widely discussed “Batista procedure” (also called partial left ventriculectomy). He graduated in medicine from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in 1972 and later completed medical training and residencies in several countries, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and France. After returning to Brazil, he worked in cardiac surgery centers in Paraná, where he began developing innovative approaches to end-stage heart disease. Beyond his surgical innovations, he is also associated with the Vilela Batista Heart Foundation (Fundação Vilela Batista) in Brazil, an organization dedicated to advancing cardiac care, medical training, and hospital projects.