Cardiology & Heart Diseases

Ovidio A. Garcia Villarreal is a cardiac surgeon dedicated to the private practice, retired from the social medicine. Surgery. He has been working on the mitral, aortic and tricuspid reconstruction for more than 25 years. He has been spearheading in the field of Cardiac arrhythmia surgery, particularly in atrial fibrillation surgery (Cox-maze procedure) as well as in aortic valve sparing operations in Mexico. He has executed national surgical models for valvular heart reconstruction and maze procedure. He has been also dedicated to clinical research, with more than 50 international publications in PubMed. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cirugia Cardiaca en Mexico, and analyst in more than 15 international journals. He is an active member of the Mexican Society of Cardiac Surgery, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery, amongst others.

Aortic Arch Surgery, Aortic valve surgery, Mini-invasive surgery, Aortic valve-sparing operations, Left atrial reduction, CAB surgery Surgery for atrial fibrillation (Cox-Maze III, Cox-Maze IV), Mitral valve reconstruction, Mitral valve surgery.

I am Dr. Mojtaba Mafi M.D., Medical Doctor/ Physician, who graduated from Tehran University, School of Medicine with honor. I studied in the neurosurgery ward and graduated with A score with a thesis on Meningioma Brain Tumor for 6 years. With continuing my practice with special consideration on psychosomatic disorders, I completed many post-graduate courses on health psychology, addiction medicine, sexual disorders therapy successfully. I passed many post-graduate courses in Neuro, approved by Medical sciences university. As well, I have been passed postgraduate courses on Nutrition, I successfully passed more than 10 programs with certificates and membership in the Iranian. I had passed Beauty and Skincare courses in South Korea and certified from Sunghuwan co Ltd for using and working of beauty technology, RF and IPL.

Neuroscience, Brain Tumor, vascular disorder, Medical Doctor/ Physician.

Miguel Garber has over 32 years of experience in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, in addition to training, research, and development expertise in Regenerative Medicine. Over the past 12 years, he has made a significant contribution to stem cell research, specializing in the exploration and development of stem cell therapies for cardiac disorders, osteoarthritis, and neurological and autoimmune diseases. Formerly the Director of American Medical Information Group, he now serves as the Medical Director of Regenerative Medicine Madrid and the President of the Spanish Society of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy (SEMERETEC). He also teaches a Master’s degree program in Regenerative Medicine and edits a number of scholarly journals on the subject

Cardiology, Regenerative medicine

Anastasios C. Polimenakos is a Co-Director of the Childrens Hospital of Georgia Heart Center, USA and he is a Director of Congenital and Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at Childrens Hospital of Georgia. He also was appointed Associate Professor of Surgery at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University. He joined GRHealth Childrens Hospital of Georgia (CHOG) as the Chief of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery in 2014. He completed a thoracic surgery fellowship at St. Louis University School of Medicine and a clinical fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. He has 18 years of experience. His specialties include Vascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Surgery, Thoracic Surgery and General Surgery. He is affiliated with Augusta University Medical Center, Geisinger Medical Center/Danville and Shamokin Area Community Hospital. Dr. Anastasios C. Polimenakos has been published extensively and has made numerous expert presentations in a variety of areas related to his specialty. He is working on several initiatives related to heart failure in animal research models and evaluates and treats all types of congenital heart defects in both children and adults.

Vascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Cardiology

Manuela Stoicescu, Consultant Internal Medicine, Doctor (PhD in Internal Medicine), is Assistant Professor of Medical Disciplines Department, University of Oradea, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania, Internal Medicine Hospital and Office. She is Member of Romanian Society of Internal Medicine, Member of Romanian Society of Cardiology, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Member of Balcanic Society of Medicine. She was invited as a speaker at 24 International Conferences. She is editorial board member of three ISSN prestigious Journals in USA and has published 12 articles in prestigious ISSN Journals in USA. She published four books: two books for students in English and Romanian language: ”Clinical cases for students of the Faculty of Medicine”, one book in English language on Amazon at International Editor – Lambert Publishing Academic House in Germany- “Side Effects of Antiviral Hepatitis Treatment”, one monograph in Romanian language” High blood pressure in the young a ignored problem!” two chapter books – Cardiovascular disease: Causes, Risks, Management CVD1- Causes of Cardiovascular Disease 1.5,1.6, U.S.A on Amazon.

Internal Medicine, Cardiology, High blood pressure.

Christine Gasperetti is an interventional cardiologist with interests in high risk and protected coronary intervention as well as acute myocardial infarction. She has been involved in many studies of coronary artery disease and determinants of platelet function during coronary intervention. She is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania Health System and works at several of their hospitals and affiliates.

Interventional Cardiology, Cardiac Catheterization,Preventive Cardiology,Cardiovascular Disease

Salah A. Mohamed, Laboratory and Group Leader in Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Luebeck in Germany, the group dedicated research interests to aortic and aortic valve diseases, Atrial fibrillation, aging, and biomarker. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Cardiovascular disease (e.g. genetic etiology and molecular), Epidemiology of aortic and aortic valve disease, Evaluation and validation of drugs and biomarkers, Aging of the heart

Jinhu Wang is an Assistant Professor in Emory University School of Medicine. He received his PhD in Developmental Biology in Chinese Academy of Science. He got his postdoctoral research training in Dr. Kenneth Poss’s Lab at Duke University. His broad research goal is to understand how regenerative responses to injury have been optimized in non-mammalian vertebrates like zebrafish, to discover new targets that underline the regenerative deficiencies in mammals. In the past several years, his work was focused on investigating regenerative biology of two major adult cardiac tissues: the myocardium and the epicardium.

Cardiology,Developmental Biology, Medicine