Columbia Faculty at TCT 2024

Columbia is set to play a leading role once again at this year’s Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) Conference, taking place October 27th–30th in Washington, D.C. TCT remains the Cardiovascular Research Foundation's (CRF) flagship annual scientific symposium and continues to be a global platform on the latest advancements in interventional cardiovascular treatments, bringing together experts from around the world - including our team at Columbia.

Columbia’s Presence at TCT 2024

Columbia will participate in multiple late-breaking clinical trials and scientific sessions, with team members serving as presenters, lecturers, moderators, and discussants throughout the conference.

Top Highlights:

Columbia Participants

Coronary Team

Christopher Irobunda, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • Invasive and Non-invasive Imaging in CAD (Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • Novel Percutaneous Techniques (Moderator)

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Ajay Kirtane, MD

Sunday, October 27th:

  • CathLab of the Future: A Seamless & Innovative Environment for Quality Care (Moderator)

Monday, October 28th:

  • Transforming Coronary Interventions: The Role of Sirolimus Coated Balloons in the US Market (Satellite Presenter)
  • CathWorks FFRangio: Coronary Physiology Redefined - How FFRangio Works and the Evolving AI Behind It (Satellite Presenter)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Transforming Coronary Interventions: The Role of Sirolimus Coated Balloons in the US Market (Satellite Faculty)
  • ACS/STEMI, Beyond the PCI: From Intervention To Prevention (Discussant)
  • Late-Breaking Clinical Trials in Collaboration with The Lancet: ECLIPSE - A Large-scale, Randomized Trial of Orbital Atherectomy vs. Conventional Balloon Angioplasty in Severely Calcified Coronary Arteries Prior to DES Implantation (Late-Breaking Trial Presenter)
  • Renal Denervation for Hypertension: What Comes Next? (Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • Great Debates in Coronary Intervention: What’s Hot and What’s Not (Moderator)
  • Late-Breaking Clinical Science in Collaboration with Circulation (Moderator)
  • Live-Case Presentation: Complex Coronary - St Georges University Hospitals, London, UK (Moderator)

Please note: Dr. Kirtane is also on the Endovascular Team.

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Margeret McEntegart, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • Live-Case Presenstation: Complex Coronary - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Strategies in Coronary Revascularization (Heart Team Session): After REVIVED: When and How Should I Revascularize Patients With Cardiomyopathy and Coronary Artery Disease? (Lecturer)
  • Innovations in Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices (Moderator)
  • New Strategies in Modern PCI around the World (Engagement Hub Faculty)
  • Live-Case Presentation: Calcified Lesions (Two Cases) - The Mount Sinai Hospital (Live Case Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • Drug-Coated Balloons in Coronary Intervention - A Mainstream Therapy?: DCB’s Are the Technology that I Miss the Most After Leaving EU: Case-Based Examples (Lecturer)

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Jeffrey Moses, MD

Sunday, October 27th:

  • Coronary Complications: Calcium Management - Trapped Hardware (Moderator)​​​​​​

Monday, October 28th:

  • TCT Opening Session and Awards Ceremony: Master Operator Award (Award Recipient)
  • Live-Case Presentation: Complex Coronary - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Moderator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Live-Case Presentation: Complex DCB - Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy (Live Case Discussant)

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Megha Prasad, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • Live-Case Presentation: Complex Coronary - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • A Guide to Left Main Bifurcation Revascularization: A Calcified LM Stenosis Treated With IV Imaging-Guided Plaque Modification and Stent Implantation or Surgery (Case Presenter)
  • Complex Cangrelor Case Presentation Symposium (Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • Beyond Obstructive Coronary Disease: Misunderstood and Undertreated (Discussant)

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Giora Weisz, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • A Case-Based Primer on TAVR Complications (Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • Coronary: Myocardial Infarction Involving Left Main (Discussant)
  • Controversies in the Future of Coronary Intervention (Discussant)

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Inpatient Team

Nellie Kalcheva, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • Moderated Abstracts: CAD and PCI Outcomes (Discussant)

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Intravascular Imaging Team

Khady Fall, MD

Sunday, October 27th: 

  • Cardiovascular Nurse and Technologist Symposium: Focus on Coronary (Discussant)

Monday, October 28th:

  • Imaging Interpretation Training: Left Main/ Bifurcation (Training Faculty)
  • Imaging Interpretation Training: ISR (Training Faculty)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Imaging Interpretation Training: Calcium (Training Faculty)
  • Imaging Interpretation Training: ACS (Training Faculty)
  • Imaging Interpretation Training: CTO (Training Faculty)
  • Coronary Anatomy vs Physiology (Moderator)

Akiko Maehara, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • Imaging Interpretation Training: Left Main/ Bifurcation (Training Faculty)
  • Live-Case Presentation: Complex Coronary - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Imaging Interpretation Training: Calcium (Training Faculty)
  • Imaging Interpretation Training: ACS (Training Faculty)
  • Imaging Interpretation Training: CTO (Training Faculty)
  • Utilizing Coronary CTA & HeartFlow AI to Non-Invasively Assess Anatomy, Physiology and Plaque: Evaluating AI-enabled Technologies for Clinical Adoption
    (Satellite Presenter)
  • Imaging Interpretation Training: ISR (Training Faculty)
  • Imaging Interpretation Training: Left Main / Bifurcation (Training Faculty)
  • Live-Case Presentation: - Calcified Lesions (Two Cases) - The Mount Sinai Hospital (Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • Beyond Obstructive Coronary Disease: Misunderstood and Undertreated (Discussant)
  • Intravascular Imaging and Physiology – In Whom, When, and How: AI In Intravascular Imaging and Physiology in the Modern Cath Lab (Lecturer)
  • Late-Breaking Clinical Trials in Collaboration with the Journal of the American Medical Association (Discussant)

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Endovascular Team

Ari Jody Mintz, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • Moderated Abstracts: Pulmonary Embolism and Pulmonary Hypertension Studies (Discussant)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Intervention to Prevention: Medical Therapy and Lifestyle for PAD (Discussant)

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Sahil Parikh, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • Hot Topics in PAD Intervention with Live Case: Drug Delivery Technologies for the SFA: Where are We Now After the Paclitaxel Scare? (Lecturer)
  • EndoMasters at TCT: Esprit BTK Real-World Case Reviews & Escalation (Satellite Faculty)
  • Featured Clinical Science: Cost Effectiveness of Drug-Eluting Resorbable Scaffold Versus Angioplasty for Infrapopliteal Artery Disease From the LIFE-BTK Trial (Presenter)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Intervention to Prevention: Medical Therapy and Lifestyle for PAD (Moderator)
  • Complementary Device and Drug Therapies and Threading the Reimbursement Needle: A Hot Regulatory & Coverage Topic - Drug-Coated Balloons (Discussant)
  • Late-Breaking Clinical Trials in Collaboration with The Lancet (Moderator)
  • Real-World Study of IVL in Challenging BTK Lesions: Acute Results of the Disrupt BTK II Study (Lecturer)
  • MagicTouch for PAD treatment: Current Data (OUS) and the way forward (IDE Trials) (Satellite Presenter and Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th: 

  • Endovascular Innovation: Insights and Innovations in Scaffold Technologies for Peripheral Intervention - Bioresorbable and Metal Scaffolds Are The Answer (Lecturer and Discussant)
  • Hot Topics in Pulmonary Embolism (Moderator)

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Sonal Pruthi, MBBS

Monday, October 28th:

  • Moderated Abstracts: Robotics in the Cath Lab (Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • Best of Endovascular Cases with Live Case from Mount Sinai - Complex PAD Case (Lecturer)
  • PE and New Technology with Live Case from University Hospitals (Discussant)

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Sanjum Sethi, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • ACUTE DVT Management: State of the Art (Discussant)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Moderated Abstracts: Peripheral Arterial and Venous Disease and Intervention (Discussant)
  • Deep Dive on Pulmonary Embolism Trials (Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th: 

  • Complex Venous Disease - Post-Thrombotic Iliac Vein Obstruction: Tips and Tricks (Lecturer)
  • Late-Breaking Clinical Science: Outcomes of Percutaneous Mechanical Aspiration in Right-Sided Infective Endocarditis: The CLEAR IE Multicenter Registry (Co-PI and Senior Author)
  • PE and New Technology with Live Case from University Hospitals Cleveland: Other Disease Entities Treated With PE Technologies: Vegetations And Masses (Lecturer and Moderator)
  • Hot Topics in Pulmonary Embolism - PE is a R Heart Disease: How Can We Integrate Hemodynamics Into Current Risk Stratification Paradigms? (Lecturer)

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Structural Heart and Valve Team

Vratika Agarwal, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • LAAO II: It’s Not Always as Simples as it Looks - Complex Case Scenarios in LAAO (Discussant)
  • Moderated Abstracts: Robotics in the Cath Lab (Discussant)
  • Live Case 2 + Live Case 3 - New TAVR Systems - Instituto do Coracao (InCor), Sao Paulo, Brazil & UPMC (Live Case Discussant)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Deep Dive I: Mitral TEER (From A to Z) With Case Examples (Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th: 

  • Late-Breaking Clinical Science in Collaboration with Circulation (Discussant)

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Russell Brandwein, PA-C

Sunday, October 27th:

  • Cardiovascular Nurse and Technologist Symposium: Focus on Clinicians - The Soft Skills are the Hard Skills (Moderator and Lecturer)
  • Cardiovascular Nurse and Technologist Symposium: Focus on Interventional Heart Failure (Moderator)
  • Cardiovascular Nurse and Technologist Symposium: Focus on Structural (Discussant)

Michael Brener, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • HFrEF Reborn: Modern Era GDMT and LV Remodeling Therapies: What Is "Reverse Remodeling" and How Can It Best Be Achieved? (Lecturer)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Tricuspid Regurgitation: Fundamentals and Updates – ‘What to Remember About the Once Forgotten Valve’ (Moderator)
  • Between Pressure and Volume: Right Heart Physiology in TR (Lecturer)
  • TR in the Setting of Advanced LV Dysfunction – Finding the Sweet Spot (Case Presenter)

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Isaac George, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • Live Case 1 - Redo TAVR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)
  • Live Case 4: TAVR in AR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Innovations in Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement Technologies - Novel Early Stage Orthotopic TTVR Systems: The Trisol TTVR System -Technology Differentiation and Early Clinical Experience (Lecturer)
  • Disease-Based Management of Mitral Annular Calcification (Discussant)
  • The Surgeon’s Perspective: Therapeutic Options and Outcomes (Lecturer)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • Live Case 8: TMVR - Mayo Clinic (Moderator)
  • Live Case 9 - TTVR and Tricuspid Valve Interventions: From Clinical Trials to Clinical Practice (Live Case Moderator)
  • Live Case 9 - Cedars Sinai Medical Center (Discussant)

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Rebecca Hahn, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • Live Case 1 - Redo TAVR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)
  • Live Case 4: TAVR in AR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Deep Dive: Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement - TTVR – Avoiding Jail Time – The Issue of RV Leads and Conduction Disorders (Lecturer)
  • Lunch Symposium: From Artificial Intelligence to Miniaturization: A Golden Age of Innovation in Echocardiography (Engagement Faculty Hub)
  • Late-Breaking Clinical Science in Collaboration with the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Lead Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • Late-Breaking Clinical Trials in Collaboration with the Journal of the American Medical Association: TRISCEND II Trial: Transcatheter Valve Replacement vs. Optimal Medical Therapy for Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation
  • Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Intervention (TTVI): Trial Design Considerations Post TRILUMINATE and TRISCEND II (Discussant)
  • Optimizing TR Treatment: Latest Data and Key Insights on Repair vs. Replacement (Discussant)
  • How to Treat With TTVI? (TEER vs. TTVR vs. surgery vs. OMT): Imaging Considerations (Satellite Presenter)
  • Heart Team Discourses 2: Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Disease (Discussant)
  • Characterizing Atrial FMR: From Diagnosis to Management Pathway (Lecturer)

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Susheel Kodali, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis: Results of the EARLY TAVR Trial (Study PI)
  • Live Case 1 - Redo TAVR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)
  • Live Case 4: TAVR in AR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Deep Dive: Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement (Moderator)
  • Tricuspid Valve Interventions: Complications and Controversies (Discussant)
  • Innovations in Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair Technologies: Role of Advanced Imaging Guidance by AI-Based Device Intelligence (Lecturer)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • Late-Breaking Clinical Trials in Collaboration with the Journal of the American Medical Association: TRISCEND II Trial: Transcatheter Valve Replacement vs. Optimal Medical Therapy for Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation (Late-Breaking Trial Presenter)
  • Live Case 9 - TTVR and Tricuspid Valve Interventions: From Clinical Trials to Clinical Practice (Live Case Moderator)
  • Optimizing TR Treatment: Latest Data and Key Insights on Repair vs. Replacement (Discussant)
  • Dilemmas in Coronary Revascularization in Patients with Concomitant Valve Disease (Moderator)

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Lauren LaMura, PA-C

Sunday, October 27th:

  • Moderated Abstracts: TAVR Outcomes – 1 (Discussant)
  • Moderated Abstracts: TAVR Outcomes - 2 (Moderator)​​​​​​

Mark Lebehn, MD

Sunday, October 27th:

  • Moderated Abstracts: LAA Occlusion – 1 (Moderator)

Monday, October 28th:

  • Disruptive Imaging Concepts in Valvular Heart Disease: Video Game or Interventional Echo? Augmented Reality and Holography in Imaging for Structural Heart Disease (Lecturer)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Live Case 4 - Emory University Hospital (Live Case Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  •  Heart Team Discourses 2 - Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Disease: THE Tricuspid RV Failure Conundrum: Severe TR With RV Dysfunction and Refractory Right Heart Failure (Case Presenter)

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Martin Leon, MD

Sunday, October 27th:

  • Welcome to TCT MedTech Innovation Forum (Moderator)

Monday, October 28th:

  • Global Regulatory Harmonization and Health-Related Mis-information: Health Related Misinformation – Role of the Clinical Community (Moderator)
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Asymptomatic Severe Aortic Stenosis: Results of the EARLY TAVR Trial (Study Chairman)
  • Transforming Coronary Interventions: The Role of Sirolimus Coated Balloons in the US Market (Satellite Moderator)
  • CathWorks FFRangio: Coronary Physiology Redefined (Satellite Moderator)
  • Treatment of Severe Aortic Stenosis: Why Wait for Symptoms? - Perspectives on the "Modern Era" of Aortic Stenosis Therapy (Satellite Moderator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Next Generation TAVR Planning with DASI Simulations: Artificial Intelligence and Prediction Based Algorithms (Satellite Faculty)
  • Late-Breaking Clinical Science in Collaboration with the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Moderator)
  • Sirolimus Coated Balloon for CAD & PAD Treatment: The MagicTouch Phenomenon (Satellite Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • "Pre-emptive" Treatment of Aortic Stenosis: An Emerging Strategy (Discussant)
  • Drug-Coated Balloons in Coronary Intervention: A Mainstream Therapy? (Discussant)

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Mahesh Madhavan, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • A Case-Based Primer on TAVR Complications -Transcatheter Valve Thrombosis – Clinical and Subclinical: Rising Gradients Soon After TAVR (Case Presenter)
  • Heart Team Discourses 1: Aortic Valve Disease - Heavily Calcified Severe AS With Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease in a 65 yo Patient (Case Presenter)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Moderated Abstracts: Tricuspid Regurgitation and Outcomes - Real World Outcomes of Patients With Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation Stratified by Clinical Sequelae (Abstractor Presenter)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • Coronary Stent Technology - Still Relevant and Evolving: Are Metallic Drug Eluting Stents As Good As it Gets? (Lecturer)
  • Hemodynamic Controversies After TAVR - The Small Annulus, Bioprosthetic Valve Durability, and Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch: Late Clinical Outcomes in Small Annulus Patients in the PARTNER Trials (Lecturer)
  • Case-Based Learning: Complicated TAVR Scenarios I (Discussant)
  • Case-Based Learning - Complicated TAVR Scenarios II: Between a Rock and a Hard Place – The Ultimate Bicuspid! (Case Presenter)

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Tamim Nazif, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • Live Case 1 - Redo TAVR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)​​​​​​
  • Heart Team Discourses 1: Aortic Valve Disease (Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • Valve Leaflet Modification and Ancillary Tools in TAVR: Novel Technologies in CEP During TAVR - Emboliner, ProTembo, Emblok, Filterex, and Others (Lecturer)
  • Live Case 10 BAV and Management of Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease: Updates, Controversies, and Evidence Gaps - Cedars Sinai Medical Center (Live Case Moderators)
  • Case-Based Learning: Complicated TAVR Scenarios II (Moderator)

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Vivian Ng, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • LAAO II: It’s Not Always as Simples as it Looks - Complex Case Scenarios in LAAO (Discussant)
  • LAAO III: Evidence Gaps, Expanded Use Trends, and Future Directions (Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • Live Case 5 - LAAO - CardioVascular Center Frankfurt (Live Case Discussant)
  • Case-Based Learning: Complicated TAVR Scenarios II (Discussant)

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Carolina Pinheiro Rezende, PA-C

Sunday, October 27th:

  • Cardiovascular Nurse and Technologist Symposium: Focus on Structural (Discussant)
  • Cardiovascular Nurse and Technologist Symposium: Focus on Structural - Here We Grow! What Do Teams Need to Know about the Current and Future State of Tricuspid Therapies? (Lecturer)

Luigi Pirelli, MD

Sunday, October 27th:

  • Moderated Abstracts: AI in Structural Heart Disease – 2 (Moderator)

Monday, October 28th:

  • Moderated Abstracts: TAVR Techniques – 3 (Moderator)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Structural: Aortic - Pure Regurgitation (Discussant)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • "Pre-emptive" Treatment of Aortic Stenosis: An Emerging Strategy (Discussant)

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Robert Sommer, MD

Monday, October 28th: 

  • LAAO I: All about Patient Selection, Imaging, and Procedural Considerations (Discussant)

Tuesday, October 29th:

  • Structural: Pulmonary Malformations (Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • Live Case 5 - LAAO - CardioVascular Center Frankfurt (Live Case Moderator)

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Torsten Vahl, MD

Monday, October 28th:

  • Live Case 4: TAVR in AR - New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (Live Case Operator)

Tuesday, October 29th: 

  • Innovations in Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement Technologies: InnovHeart (Lecturer)
  • Late-Breaking Clinical Science in Collaboration with the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: The ALIGN-AR Trial: Two-Year Outcomes of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement With JenaValve TrilogyTM in High Surgical Risk Patients With Moderate-to-Severe or Severe Native Aortic Regurgitation (Late-Breaking Science Presenter)
  • Live Case 4 - Emory University Hospital Midtown (Live Case Moderator)

Wednesday, October 30th:

  • Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward - Lessons Learned From Screen Failures in TMVR Trials: Implications for Future Device Innovation (Lecturer)

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About TCT

Founded by Columbia cardiologist Dr. Martin B. Leon, TCT is a global conference where heart doctors and researchers gather to learn about the latest ways to treat heart disease. It’s a space for sharing new ideas and breakthroughs in heart care.

About CRF

For over 30 years, the Cardiovascular Research Foundation has focused on improving treatments for heart and blood vessel diseases through research and education. Their mission is to bring new treatments to patients faster, improving their health and quality of life.