Precision Diagnostics in LM Bifurcation Disease – Imaging and Optimization Guidance

Prof Jose M de la Torre is an interventional cardiologist and Head of the Hemodynamics and Interventional Department of the Marques de Valdecilla University of Santander, ES.

Prof Jose M de la Torre is member of the scientific committee of the Spanish Society of Cardiology and is fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. Former associate director of the Trans Catheter Therapeutics Meeting in US. Faculty of ESC, PCR, ACC and TCT meetings. Coordinator of the ESTROFA, XIMA and LITRO study groups. 

Dr Nattawut Wongpraparut is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at The Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University in Thailand.

He received medical degree from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand in 1995. He then completed internal medicine residency (1996-1999) and cardiology fellowship (1999-2002) at Albert Einstein Medical Center, PA, USA before pursuing an interventional cardiology fellowship and peripheral vascular interventions training (2002-2004) at University of Louisville, KY, USA. 

He is a fellow of several international medical societies, including the American College of Cardiology, American College of Physicians, European Society of Cardiology and Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, as well a member of local societies, such as the Thai Medical Association. He has authored over 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented several abstracts at professional meetings. He is a course director for ASEAN rotablator workshop, SEA OCT imaging interpretation course and a proctor for Edward Sapiens TAVR.

His research interests include coronary physiology, intracoronary imaging, and biomarkers.

Associate Professor Nigel Jepson is Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at the Eastern Heart Clinic and Director of the Clinical Trials Unit at the Prince of Wales Public Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He holds the position of Conjoint Professor at the University of New South Wales. Associate Professor Jepson trained in Tasmania and completed clinical and cardiac interventional training at Harefield Hospital in London and the Eastern Heart Clinic in Sydney. He is a high volume interventionalist, practicing over the last 20 years with a specific interest in bifurcation and left main-stem disease, new stent technology and intra-coronary imaging. He has performed more than 10,000 coronary procedures and heads a transcatheter aortic valve replacement program.

Associate Professor Jepson is a regular invited speaker, faculty member and live-case operator for interventional forums and meetings in USA, Europe, Asia and Australasia (including EuroPCR, TCTAP, C3, AICT, ANZET, Nanjing CBS, Malaysia Live, SCAI and the European Bifurcation Club). He is an author or co-author of more than 80 published papers and principal investigator on 30 major international, multicentre trials.

Dr Virag Kushwaha is an interventional cardiologist with special interest in the management of structural heart disease and coronary artery disease. He graduated in medicine and surgery at the University of Sydney in 2005.He completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine and cardiology at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney and the Leeds General Infirmary in the UK.

Dr Kushwaha is a Senior Staff Specialist at the Prince of Wales Hospital and a visiting Medical Officer at the Prince of Wales Private Hospital, Eastern Heart Clinic, Sutherland Heart Clinic and Port Macquarie Base Hospital.

Prof Andrew Sharp is a Professor of Cardiology at the University College Dublin and The Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin, IE. Andrew qualified from Edinburgh Medical School in 1998. He was appointed as a Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in 2011 and Honorary Associate Professor by the University of Exeter in 2018 before moving to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff in the summer of 2019.

Andrew conducted his early training at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, before moving to London for his senior clinical training, completing the prestigious Milan-Imperial Interventional Cardiology Fellowship programme. Dr Sharp was awarded an MD postgraduate research degree from the University of Edinburgh for his work on the hypertensive heart and his current research interests include device-based treatments for hypertension, pulmonary embolism, intracoronary imaging and coronary physiology.

Andrew's specialist interests include the pharmacological and interventional treatment of resistant hypertension (including renal denervation); intra-coronary physiology to assess the causes of chest pain; complex angioplasty and stenting of coronary artery disease and CT coronary angiography.

Dr Andrew Sharp is Deputy Editor (Development) of Interventional Cardiology: Reviews, Research, Resources (ICR3)

Dr Sean Gallagher is an interventional cardiologist. His interventional training was at The London Chest Hospital before undertaking an overseas fellowship at the Ottawa Heart Institute.

He was appointed as a consultant in 2014 and now works as the Director of Interventional Cardiology at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK.

Dr Gallagher’s clinical interest is the interventional management of complex coronary disease, especially chronic total occlusion PCI.

Dr Tamara García Camarero obtained her medical degree at the University of Cantabria, Spain. She completed her training as Cardiologist and later on as an Interventional Cardiologist at the Marques de Valdecilla Hospital in Santander, Spain where she is currently part of the department of Interventional cardiology since 2010.

She obtained a medical research degree in 2007 and participates actively in many research studies, being her main research interests the intravascular imaging and the coronary artery disease where she is co-author of more than 30 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals.

She is now working on her PhD based on patients with clinically accelerated atherosclerosis.

She is also involved in teaching through simulation and is a certified instructor by the institute for Medical Simulation in Boston.