MEET THE

SPEAKERS

Ziad Ali, MD, DPhil

St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center (Catholic Health)

Director, DeMatteis Cardiovascular Institute; Director, Investigational Interventional Cardiology

Carlos Collet, MD, PhD

Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF)

Director, Cardiovascular Imaging, Physiology and Translational Therapeutics


Matthew D. Elias, MD

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Penn

Attending Cardiologist, Cardiac Center; Medical Director, Kawasaki Disease Program

Daniel B. Ennis, PhD

Stanford University School of Medicine

Professor of Radiology and Bioengineering; Division Chief, Radiological Sciences Laboratory; Director of Radiology Research, Palo Alto VA

Michael P Goldsmith, MD

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia / Penn

Director of Cardiac Informatics; Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care

David M. Hoganson, MD

Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon; Director, Computational 3D Visualization Program; Assistant Professor of Surgery

Daniel Howsmon, PhD

Tulane University

Chief Intelligence and Innovation Officer (CIIO); Medical Director, Heart Failure Program; Director, Mi4 Institute

Christopher M. Kramer, MD, FACC

University of Virginia

President, American College of Cardiology (2025–2026); Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine; George A. Beller Distinguished Professor

Bruce Xuefeng Ling, PhD

Stanford University

Assistant Professor (Research) of Surgery (Pediatric Surgery); Principal Investigator, AI in Pediatric Medicine

Alison L. Marsden, PhD

Stanford University

Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases; Professor of Pediatrics and Bioengineering; Director, Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Lab

Josh Mayourian, MD, PhD

Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Founding Director, CHAI Lab; Pediatric Advanced Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellow

Peter P. Monteleone, MD, FACC, FSCAI

UT Health Austin / Ascension Seton / Dell Medical School

Director of Cardiovascular Research, Ascension Healthcare; Director, Cardiac Catheterization Labs; Assoc. Professor & Assoc. Program Director, CV Disease Fellowship

Rahul H. Rathod, MD, MBA, FSCMR

Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Director, Single Ventricle Program; Founder & Executive Director, FORCE; Associate Chair for Finance & Business Operations; Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Michael S. Sacks, PhD

University of Texas at Austin (Oden Institute)

Moncrief Chair in Computational Cardiology; Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Director, Willerson Center for Cardiovascular Modeling and Simulation

Daniel Stromberg, MD

Dell Medical School and Dell Children's Medical Center/ University of Texas at Austin

Chief, Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care, Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease; Professor, Depts. of Pediatrics and Surgery and Perioperative Care

Charley Taylor, PhD

UT Austin / Oden Institute

Moncrief Endowed Chair in Computational Medicine; Director, Center for Computational Medicine; Professor, Dell Medical School; Board Member, HeartFlow Inc.

Vijay Vedula, PhD

Columbia University

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering