Program Directors

S. Hinan Ahmed, MD, FACC
Director, Methodist Vascular Center
Methodist Hospital
San Antonio, Texas

Chandra Kunavarapu, MD, FACC
Medical Director, Heart Failure and Transplant Program
Adult ECMO Program, Methodist Hospital
Clinical Associate Professor, UTHSCSA
San Antonio, Texas
Associate Course Directors

Craig Ainsworth, MD
Critical Care Medicine
Texas IPS

Jorge Alvarez, MD
Interventional Cardiology
Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio

Allen Baum, MD
Cardiology
Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio

Jeffrey DellaVolpe, MD
Critical Care Medicine
Texas IPS

Jordana Goldman, MD
Pediatric Critical Care
Pediatrix Critical Care of San Antonio

Michael Kwan, MD
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
Methodist Healthcare

Jairo Melo, MD
Pulmonary Disease
Texas IPS

R. Brent New, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Methodist Healthcare

Keith Nguyen, MD
Interventional Cardiology
Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio

Devang Patel, MD
Interventional Cardiology
Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio

David Pederson, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio

Rene Quiroz, MD
Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio

Mahesh S. Sharma, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery/Congenital Heart Disease
Methodist Children’s Hospital

Colin Son, MD
Neurosurgery
Neurosurgical Associates of San Antonio

Nandish Thukral, MD
Interventional Cardiology
Cardiac Clinic of San Antonio

Fernando Triana, MD
Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio

Andrew Unzeitig, MD
Vascular Surgery
Methodist Vascular Center

Randal White, MD
Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiology Clinic of San Antonio
2023 Guest Faculty

Shamim Badruddin-Mawji, MD, FACC
Coastal Cardiology Association

Alison L. Bailey, MD
Centennial Heart at Parkridge

Jason Bartos, MD, PhD
University of Minnesota Medical School

Jean-Bernard Durand, MD, FACC, FACP, FCCP
University of Texas – MD Anderson Cancer Center

Jerry Blackwell, MD
MedAxiom

Perenlei Enkhbaatar, MD, PhD
UTMB Health

Gregory Fontana, MD
HCA Healthcare

Alan Gass, MD
Westchester Medical Center

Gerardo Gonzalez-Guardiola, MD
UT Southwestern Medical Center

K. Lance Gould, MD
UT Health Houston

Wissam Jaber, MD
Emory University

Marwan Jumean, MD
UT Health Houston

Thomas McLaren, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Andrea Natale, MD, FHRS, FACC, FESC
Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David’s Medical Center

Jeffrey Popma, MD
Medtronic

Michael Reardon, MD
Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center

V. Seenu Reddy, MD, MBA, FACS
TriStar Cardiovascular Surgery

Shameen Salam, MD
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Gary Schwartz, MD
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center

Parikshit Sharma, MD
Rush University

Michael Siah, MD
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Jasvindar Singh, MD
Washington University

Craig M. Walker, MD, FACC, FACP, FACA
Cardiovascular Institute of the South

Lorraine Ware, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Elias A. Zias, MD
NYU Longone Health