Guest Faculty

Director of the Heart Failure Program, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Dr. Elkayam is a past member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and is presently a member of many national and international committee's and advisory boards. Dr. Elkayam has been the recipient of a number of awards. Dr. Elkayam has the distinction of being listed in Best Doctors in America (2000-2008) and America's Top Doctors (2001-2008).

University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester,UK Tony Gershlick is Consultant Cardiologist and Honora ry Senior Lecturer at the University Hospitals of Leicester. Dr Gershlick maintains a significant research interest, publishing extensively in the area of vessel wall/blood interactions, especially those that occur following percutaneous coronary intervention. He is an interventional cardiologist undertaking more than 350 procedures per year. He has an international reputation evidenced by requests to sit as faculty member on up to five international meetings per year. He is a council member of the British Cardiac Society (BCS), Chairman of a BCS working group and is Chairman of the Local Cardiovascular Programme Board.

Dr. Ashit Jain graduated from the College of Medical Sciences, University of Delhi, India in the year 1981. He practices Cardiology, Internal Medicine and Interventional Cardiology in Fremont, Hayward, Milpitas, and San Leandro, California, U.S.A. He is a very good orator. He has hospital affiliations with Washington Hospital, St. Rose Hospital etc. in U.S.A. He has done many clinical research trials and many of them are ongoing. He is pioneer in Carotid Interventional Program in the Bay area.

Director, Cardiovascular Laboratories, Duke Medical University, Durham VA Medical Center, Acting Chief, Cardiology Division, Durham VA Medical Center when Dr. Morris in absentia, Director, eECG Core Laboratory, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Director, Interventional Devices Clinical Trials, DCRI, Director, The Heart Knows No Borders Project, Director, The MANTRA Study Project. He is an excellent teacher. He has been to India many times & is a key opinion leader in various cardiovascular diseases.

Frank van Leeuwen, M.D. got interested in cardiovascular clinical studies during his study medicine at the University of Leyden, the Netherlands. After his graduation, he worked as a resident cardiology after which he decided to continue in clinical research and he joined a pharmaceutical company. Since 1992, Frank has been working at the Bakken Research Center, Medtronic's European research facility located in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Frank has been involved in numerous coronary stent studies as well as studies with endovascular stent grafts. Most recently, the Protect study, a global project that will randomize 8800 patients comparing two drug eluting stents focusing specifically on safety.

Louvard, Yves
Yves Louvard has worked in interventional cardiology at the Institut Cardiovasculaire Paris-Sud since 1992. Dr Louvard is a Fellow of both the French Society of Cardiology and the French College of Interventional Cardiology and is a member of the pedagogic board and Co-Director of the Inter-university Degree of Interventional Cardiology. Dr Louvard has made over 70 presentations, presented 60 posters, given almost 40 lectures, is author and co-author of 86 articles and 18 book chapters and has participated in various multicentre studies as an investigator. Dr Louvard gained an MD and a PhD from Paris VI University St Antoine in 1982.