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Biography: Michael Argenziano, MD, FACS, is Associate Chief of the Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He also serves as the director of the Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and Surgical Arrhythmia programs, director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Laboratory and Clinical Research Program, and program director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency program. Dr. Argenziano received his medical degree from Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed his postgraduate training at Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Argenziano is board certified in Surgery and Thoracic Surgery. He is the immediate past president of the New York Society for Thoracic Surgery. He has authored more than 100 publications, presented at numerous scientific conferences, and received several grants and awards for his research. He has led two national trials of robotic surgery, and his atrial fibrillation research has been supported by the TSFRE's Career Development Award. He currently serves as Columbia's principal investigator in the NIH/NHLBI Network for Cardiothoracic Surgical Investigations.

Biography: Dr. Icilma Fergus, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. She is 61 years old and has been practicing for 33 years. Dr. Icilma Fergus, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Dr. Stern was born in Chicago Illinois but came to NYC a few months later and was raised in Greenwich village, New York. She graduated from the University of Chicago with an AB in 1986. She attended Medical school at NYU School of Medicine graduating in 1990. Internship, Residency and an additional year of Chief Residency were completed in 1994 at NYU Langone Medical Center/ Bellevue Hospital. She remained at NYU Langone Health to complete a fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases in 1997 with a concentration in Echocardiography. She has been in clinical practice for the last twenty seven years at Murray Hill Medical Group PC/CareMount Medical Group/Optum. She has been taking care of patients in the primary care and hospital settings in a multi specialty group affiliated with NYU Langone Health. Since 1997 she had been on the faculty at NYU Langone Health as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine. In addition to her clinical responsibilities she was the Medical Director of the ICAEL accredited non invasive testing suite at MHMG/CareMount/Optum. She is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and Echocardiography.

Biography: Dr. Nenad Trubelja, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 64 years old and has been practicing for 39 years. Dr. Nenad Trubelja, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Dr. Andrew J. Kaufman, an expert in advanced minimally invasive thoracic surgery and thoracic surgical oncology, is the Director of The Thoracic Surgery Airway Program and The Asian Thoracic Surgery Program at Mount Sinai, as well as the Associate Program Director for the Thoracic Surgery Residency Program. He attended New York University School of Medicine for medical school and general surgery training. He completed a two year research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and was awarded a national TSFRE Research Fellowship Grant and the Chairman's Award for Excellence in Basic Science Research. Dr. Kaufman went on to complete his residency on the Thoracic Surgery track in cardiothoracic surgery, specializing in thoracic surgery, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center/New York Hospital Weill-Cornell Medical Center as the Memorial Fellow in General Thoracic Surgery where he received the Alumni Foundation Award for All-Around Clinical Excellence. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Kaufman especially enjoys spending time with and getting to know the people he meets in the office and hospital. He is dedicated to the compassionate care of people and their families across all social, economic, and cultural backgrounds. Having lived and studied in China for two years, Dr. Kaufman is fluent in Mandarin and conversational in Cantonese. His background in Asian language and culture inspired the development of the Asian Thoracic Surgery Program at the Mount Sinai. The program focuses on providing the most advanced multidisciplinary care for the Asian community with the goal of integrating community outreach, patient education, and scientific research to provide comprehensive care in this important New York City population. Dr. Kaufman is clinically focused on advanced minimally invasive and lung sparing surgery for thoracic malignancies. These specialized cancer operations conserve lung tissue and preserve respiratory function with faster recovery times. Andrew has published and presented widely on his lung sparing techniques of Video Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) segmentectomy for early lung cancers as well as pleurectomy and decortication for malignant pleural mesothelioma. His research interests are focused on combining clinical, pathologic, and genetic data to better understand lung cancer in smokers and non-smokers. Dr. Kaufman works closely with the Interventional Pulmonary Division to locate and mark small early cancers with Navigational Bronchoscopy in order to facilitate VATS lung sparing segmentectomy. This collaboration is also essential to The Thoracic Surgery Airway Program, which focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of benign and malignant diseases of the trachea and airways, such as tracheobronchomalacia and tracheal stenosis, utilizing both surgical and interventional techniques. In his spare time, Dr. Kaufman enjoys spending time with his wife and two terrific daughters. He is an avid cook, guitarist, and tennis player.

Care Philosophy: The center specializes in advanced systolic and diastolic heart failure, left ventricular assist device implantation, evaluation for cardiac transplantation, vavular disease and evaluation and treatment of pulmonary hypertension. My area of clinical as well as research interest is in evaluation and management of diastolic heart failure or heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and its effects on pulmonary vasculature.

Biography: Dr. Joseph Sweeny, MD is an Interventional Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 56 years old and has been practicing for 24 years. Dr. Joseph Sweeny, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Dr. Kevin Dunsky, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 57 years old and has been practicing for 31 years. Dr. Kevin Dunsky, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Christopher Irobunda, MD, is an Associate Professor at CUMC and an interventionalist. He is also Vice Chair of the Faculty Development focusing on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion within the Department of Medicine. He trained as a general and interventional cardiologist. Dr. Irobunda has been a full-time faculty since 2003. He obtained his MD/PhD in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. His PhD was in Molecular Pharmacology, specifically on the cyclic Adenosine MonoPhosphate/beta-adrenergic signal transduction system. He subsequently completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at New York University Medical Center, followed by his General and Interventional Cardiology Fellowship here at Columbia University Medical Center. After completing his medical training and research study, he shifted his concentration to patient care and the education of aspiring young physicians. Dr. Irobunda is ardently dedicated to uncompromised patient care and teaching. His primary focus is individualized patient care and patient advocacy. Given his training as a medical scientist, it is hardly surprising that he is a keen diagnostician. He has a penchant for complex cardiac issues and other medical problems that can sometimes mask or aggravate the cardiac disease. His aptitude for unraveling these medical conundrums has led to medical diagnoses for patients who have come to him for second and even third opinions. However, above all else, his true genius is his ability to relate to his patients with intelligence, curiosity, patience, compassion, and humor. His ability to waylay even the most apprehensive of patients with his aura of reassurance and understanding has garnered him a continually growing medical practice. Again and again, individuals will refer family members and friends because of the empathy and level of care constantly provided. Indeed, his unceasing diligence has led him to become a physician member of Columbia University Medical Centers Patient Facilitated Services, an organization directed at patient satisfaction and outreach. Dr. Irobunda has also been the primary cardiologist for patients undergoing liver transplant evaluations at New York Presbyterian since 2004. When not in his private practice, he takes great pleasure in helping train the new influx of physicians in the only ethical way to practice medicinepatient-centered care. Dr. Irobunda has been a Supervisor and Attending Faculty for the Fundamentals of Clinical Medicine for First Year Medical Students at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons since 2011, a program that endeavors to instill exceptional patient-doctor communication and trust. He encourages future medical practitioners to listen to the patient and learn to interpret and analyze the information being imported; to realize that the seemingly insignificant details sometimes lead to the culprit of an individual's illness. He has been a lecturer with International Postgraduate Organization for Knowledgetransfer, Research, and Teaching Excellent Students (IPOKRaTES) in Europe. IPOKRaTES offers opportunities for physicians from a plethora of countries to observe and gain instruction regarding differing methods in patient care practices. Since the summer of 2012, Dr. Irobunda has become involved in New York Presbyterian Hospital's Lange Youth Program, which seeks to prepare and enumerate the rigors of medical school for high school students. Dr. Irobunda is active in numerous community outreach organizations-Abyssian Baptist Church (NY), JP Morgan Chase Employee Education Program, Riverside Church Seniors, and Sister to Sister: The Women's Heart Health Foundation, to name a few. He seeks to educate the public on cardiovascular issues and ways to make everyday lifestyle modifications to help reduce these risks. In addition to being an interventional cardiologist who can perform angioplasties and stent placements, he emphasizes the prevention and treatment of heart disease through diet, exercise, and medical therapy.

Biography: Dr. Jonathan Halperin, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 76 years old and has been practicing for 50 years. Dr. Jonathan Halperin, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Dr. Evelyn Horn is the Director of the Perkin Heart Failure Center of Weill Cornell, specializing in Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension, and Mechanical Circulatory Support.Patients referred to the Center include those with diagnoses of systolic heart failure, valvular heart disease, preserved EF heart failure; pulmonary vascular disease - idiopathic, associated and secondary.Evelyn M. Horn, M.D. is a graduate of Brown University, Mount Sinai Medical School where she also was a medical intern and resident. She completed cardiology at the Cedars Sinai/UCLA program and thereafter spent 2 years as a research fellow at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons understanding the beta adrenergic G protein complex in heart failure, the denervated heart and models of arrhythmias. She remained at Columbia University Medical Center in the Divisions of Circulatory Physiology and Cardiology Center for Advanced Cardiac Care where she was at various times, Director of the Circulatory Physiology fellowship program, Director of Clinical Services for Heart Failure, Associate Director of the combined Pediatric & Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Center and Director of the Pulmonary Vascular program of the Center for Advanced Cardiac Care. She also was the director of the High Risk Cardiac Obstetrical program. She received numerous awards as clinician educator, continues to participate in clinical research in the areas of cardiac and vascular remodeling in heart failure and pulmonary hypertension.The Heart Failure program provides management of advanced heart failure (both systolic and diastolic), congenital heart disease, perioperative management of conventional cardiac surgical patients (high risk patients and high risk valve surgery), and ventricular assist devices. The center also offers rare expertise in the management of pulmonary hypertension, including idiopathic pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary hypertension associated with diseases such as connective tissue disease, congenital heart disease as well as a huge number of patients who have it in association with left heart disease and others have it associated with lung disease, certain hematological diseases or liver disease. Pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure complicates the management of about 1/3 of the patients with heart failure. In many, right heart failure follows left heart failure but management of difficult "cases" may require a special expertise and understanding of the interdependence of the right and the left ventricles. If cases become complicated by secondary pulmonary hypertension or right heart failure, most of Dr. Horn's colleagues seek out the "right heart doctor," as she has sometimes been called or the combined left and right heart doc.The phenotype of heart failure has multiple etiologies, and not all heart failure behaves the same way. Because of the nuances and subtleties involved in advanced heart failure, she stresses the importance of the multidisciplinary, collaborative center. Moreover, Dr. Horn points to the center's expertise in identifying the appropriateness and the optimal timing of therapeutic interventions. "We have fantastic technologies and therapies available, but these may not be in every patient's best interest," she explains. "It is essential to understand when therapies will or will not work, and when one has to move beyond them, perhaps to mechanical assist devices or heart transplantation for heart failure and lung transplantation for pulmonary hypertension. If we wait too long, we may have missed the opportunity to treat a patient, but no one wants to resort to devices or transplantation before a patient absolutely needs it."Dr. Horn's clinical research interests have been in ventricular and vascular remodeling in pulmonary hypertension and heart failure. Specific areas have included RV imaging, pulmonary hypertension outcome studies, use of vasopressin in pulmonary hypertension, endothelial dysfunction in pulmonary hypertension, RV dysfunction in the perioperative patient population, complications of pulmonary hypertension therapy, and assessment of the non PAH pulmonary hypertension patient population. She has been actively involved in the care of patients with valvular heart disease and in particular comorbidities of ventricular dysfunction and/or pulmonary vascular disease. She has been actively involved in the care of patients needing ventricular assist device therapies as a bridging or destination device. Along with colleagues, she has authored papers in the field of newer therapies for pulmonary hypertension, epidemiological assessments of patients with pulmonary hypertension, genetics of pulmonary hypertension, and markers of vascular dysfunction. She has been involved in industry sponsored heart failure and pulmonary hypertension studies, industry sponsored investigator initiated studies and collaborative NIH studies in Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension. She has also been the liaison to high risk cardiac OB programs for the care of the complicated cardiac OB patient.Research and invited lectures have been presented at major National and International meetings. She is a fellow of the International Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute, helping to establish ISLHT Pulmonary Hypertension Committee and has been the recipient of teaching awards at Columbia University. Dr. Horn has created a NY Pulmonary Hypertension consortium, a network of a dozen specialists from the tri-state area, to encourage ongoing collaborative studies in pulmonary hypertension.

Biography: Dr. Eric Stern, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 73 years old and has been practicing for 49 years. Dr. Eric Stern, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Dr. Noah Moss, MD is an Advanced Heart Failure /amp Transplant Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 42 years old and has been practicing for 16 years. Dr. Noah Moss, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Dr. Bruce Darrow, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 57 years old and has been practicing for 28 years. Dr. Bruce Darrow, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital.

Biography: Dr. Johanna Contreras, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. She is 50 years old and has been practicing for 27 years. Dr. Johanna Contreras, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Morningside.

Biography: Dr. Arthur Kennish, MD is a Cardiology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. He is 75 years old and has been practicing for 48 years. Dr. Arthur Kennish, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital.