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Biography: Dr. Ignacio Zepeda is a Heart Failure Cardiologist. He received his medical degree from the Autonomous University of Baja California in Mexico. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He went on to complete his Cardiology fellowship at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson and completed his fellowship in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant cardiology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill-Cornell Medical Center.

Biography: Dr. Michael Fremed, MD is a Pediatric Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He has been practicing for 10 years. Dr. Michael Fremed, MD is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

Biography: Dr. Ellis Rochelson, MD is a Pediatric Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 38 years old and has been practicing for 11 years. Dr. Ellis Rochelson, MD is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

Biography: I began my academic career following cardiology fellowship as junior faculty at Columbia University Medical Center where I helped start the Nuclear Cardiology laboratory which was one of the first laboratories to perform perfusion imaging and gated blood pool scintigraphy in NYC. I remained at CU for 18 years doing clinical research, involved in phase II and phase III trials of perfusion imaging agents such as sestamibi as well as early radiolabeled antibody clinical trials targeting myocardial necrosis in patients with acute MI. I also helped develop radiotracers using relevant animal models of ischemic heart disease, atherosclerosis, and cardiac transplantation. I left CU to go to University of Alabama at Birmingham as Director of Nuclear Cardiology and stayed for 2 years where I also did some work with the cardiac MRI program. From UAB I moved to Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital as Director of Nuclear Cardiology where I stayed for 10 years having the opportunity to also direct their preclinical imaging laboratory. In 2005 I returned to a faculty position at CU. I have had a long interest to develop and apply novel imaging probes targeting sites in vasculature and myocardium that are important in clinical disease. I have performed preclinical experimental studies imaging myocardial tissue hypoxia, apoptosis, angiogenesis and RAGE expression. I have had a particular interest in imaging the vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque using radionuclide labeled probes in mouse and pig models of atherosclerosis, investigating uptake of tracers targeting apoptosis, metalloproteinase activation, expression of Receptor for Advanced Glycated Endproducts (RAGE), and selective VEGF receptor expression. With institutional support from the Department of Medicine and Division of Cardiology I set up a preclinical molecular imaging core laboratory that offers micro-CT, micro-SPECT/CT, and optical imaging resources for investigators with animals outside the barrier at Columbia University Health Sciences. I have had continuous NIH funding for about 20 years. I am currently PI (or co-PI) on two R01s: to using imaging to detect therapeutic effect of a novel antibody blocking RAGE to improve hind limb blood flow in a diabetic pig model of PAD, and in collaboration with the laboratory of Dr. Jeanine D'Armiento, to perform a phase II clinical trial of 99mTc rhAnnexin-128 (Advanced Accelerator Applications, France) to image lung apoptosis in patients with COPD under an individual IND (L Johnson). I have published over 100 papers.

Biography: Dr. Shimbo received a B.S. from the Johns Hopkins University in Biomedical Engineering and a M.D. from Albany Medical College. He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, and was selected as Chief Resident. He subsequently completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine, also at the Mount Sinai Hospital, before joining the faculty at Columbia University in September 2003. Currently, Dr. Shimbo is a board-certified cardiologist and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He co-directs the Columbia Hypertension Center, a multi-disciplinary center of excellence that provides high quality care and state-of-the-art diagnostic testing for patients with hypertension. Dr. Shimbo's clinical interests include the accurate diagnosis and treatment of hypertension, and evaluating the cardiovascular manifestations of hypertension. Dr. Shimbo conducts rigorous, innovative, interdisciplinary research that increases the understanding of the behavioral, psychosocial and biological processes in the pathogenesis of the increased cardiovascular disease risk associated with hypertension.

Biography: Steven O. Marx, M.D., is the Director of the Cardiovascular Fellowship Program at Columbia University Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and is director of the cardiology component of a NIH training grant for cardiology fellows and surgery residents. His research program in cardiovascular diseases at Columbia has been focused in two major areas: molecular cardiology, particularly the regulation of ion channels in normal and pathological conditions in the heart, and vascular biology, particularly the molecular mechanisms of vascular smooth muscle proliferation, migration and contractility. Working with others at Columbia, Dr. Marx has identified rapamycin (sirolimus) as a therapeutic agent for preventing restenosis after angioplasty/stent implantation. He also characterized the dysfunction of the ryanodine receptor in heart failure. A major focus of Dr. Marx's current research is the regulation of arterial contractility and blood pressure by the ion channels. Dr. Marx received his B.S. in Biology from Union College and M.D. from Albany Medical College as part of a six-year program. Following a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in ion channel research at Johns Hopkins, he completed an internship and residency at the University of Rochester-Strong Memorial Hospital followed by a Cardiology Fellowship and a Clinical Electrophysiology Fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. He is also the principal investigator of several NIH R01 grants and a T32 grant. Dr. Marx has served on NIH and AHA peer review committees, is a member of the AHA Founders Affiliate Research Committee, and serves on the New York Academy of Medicine Glorney-Raisbeck Selection Committee.

Biography: Dr. Shames has completed her training in Cardiology at McGill University, Montreal, Canada followed by a research fellowship under the supervision of Dr. Linda Gillam at CUMC. She is board certified in Adult Cardiology and Adult Echocardiography. Her main area of expertise and research interest is adult echocardiography including transthoracic, transesophageal, and stress echocardiography. She is actively engaged in teaching cardiology fellows rotating through the echo lab.

Biography: Dr. Jayant Raikhelkar, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. Dr. Jayant Raikhelkar, MD is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

Biography: Siqin Ye, MD, MS, FACC is a general cardiologist and the Director of Cardiology Inpatient Consultation Service, the Heart Institute Inpatient Service, and the Ambulatory Cardiology Fellowship Program. He has previously served as the Associate Chief Medical Officer for ColumbiaDoctors, the faculty practice of Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), in which role he directed key population health and telemedicine programs, including the conversion of all outpatient practices to telemedicine during the Covid-19 pandemic. He has conducted NIH-funded research examining informatics approaches to improve shared decision-making for statin therapy, as well as outcomes research on the implementation and evaluation of telemedicine for ambulatory care. His clinical practice is focused on providing hospital based cardiac care at CUIMC.

Biography: Ari "Jody" Mintz, DO, is an interventional cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, specializing in vascular and endovascular intervention. He is board-certified in internal medicine, vascular medicine, cardiovascular medicine, and non-invasive vascular interpretation.Dr. Mintz, also known as "Jody" by his colleagues, graduated from A.T. Still University - Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Missouri. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, after which he completed subspecialty training in vascular medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. He returned to Lahey Hospital and Medical Center to complete further specialized fellowships in cardiovascular medicine and interventional cardiology, where he was appointed Chief fellow. After completing training in interventional cardiology, he pursued additional subspecialty training at The Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals of Brown University in Endovascular and Vascular Medicine, where he was trained in the most advanced techniques of minimally invasive vascular procedures.

Biography: Nellie I. Kalcheva, MD, serves as a critical care cardiologist and the Director of Clinical and Consultative Services for Columbia's Interventional Cardiovascular Care program at Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Kalcheva is a full-time faculty member, assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Kalcheva received her medical degree from Medical Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria. She completed her internal medicine residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and her clinical cardiology fellowship at New York University Medical Center. Furthermore, she completed an advanced echocardiography fellowship at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Biography: Dr. Emily Slater, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. She is 40 years old and has been practicing for 14 years. Dr. Emily Slater, MD is affiliated with Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.