Superheroes:
Anelchi Anyanwu, MD
Director of the Heart Transplant
Cardiac Assistant Device Program
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Emile Bacha, MD
Professor of Surgery,
Congential and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Columbia University Medical Center
Dan Cain
Co-Founder
Cain Brothers
Larry Chinitz, MD
Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology,
Invasive Cardiology
NYU Langone Medical Center
Nick Colucci
Chief Executive Officer
Publicis Healthcare Communications
Mitchell S. V. Elkind, MD, MS, FAAN, FAHA
Associate Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology
Fellowships Director, Department of Neurology
Columbia University
Leonard Girardi, MD
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Weill Cornell Medical College
Ralph Mosca, MD
George E. Reed Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Vice Chairman of Clinical Affair
Division Chief of Pediatric & Adult Congenital Cardiac Surgery Departments
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
NYU Langone Medical Center
Gary Roubin, MD
Director and Physician in Chief
Continuum Cardiovascular Centers of New York
St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospital Centers
Beth Israel Medical Center
Sam Weinstein, MD, MBA
Director of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Associate Professor of Surgery
The Children’s Hospital at Monteifiore
Medical Center
Joe Zakrzewski
Chairman and CEO
Amarin Corporation
Circle of Champions:
Gil Bashe, APR
Executive Vice President
Director of Health Practice
Makovsky & Company
Glenn I. Fishman, MD
Director, Leon H.Charney Division of Cardiology
Director, Cardiovascular Research Program
William Goldring Professor of Medicine
NYU School of Medicine
Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD
Physician-in-Chief
Director, Mount Sinai Heart
Director, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute
Director, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health
Richard Gorlin, M.D. Heart Research Foundation Professor of Cardiology
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Jonathan Halperin, MD
Director, Clinical Cardiology Services, Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute
Robert and Harriet Heilbrunn Professor of Medicine
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Fred Hassan
Partner
Warburg Pincus
Richard Hodosh, MD
Medical Director
Atlantic Brain & Spine Institute
Patti Kenner & Bert Askwith
President & CEO
Campus Coach Lines
Jeffrey LeSage
U.S. National Managing Partner-Tax
KPMG LLP
Steven C. Mendelsohn
President, Tax and Accounting Knowledge Solutions
Thomson Reuters
Lori Mosca, MD, MPH, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Columbia University Medical Center
Director, Preventative Cardiology
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Richard Pasternak, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
Michael Rosella, Esq.
Open Your Heart Chair
Partner, Corporate Department
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
Ralph Sacco, MD, MS
Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurology
Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
Chief of Neurology Service
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Elliott Sigal, MD, PhD
Executive Vice President
Chief Scientific Officer
President, R&D
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Craig Smith, MD
Chairman, Department of Surgery
Columbia University Medical Center
Morgan Stark
Chairman, Alternative Investments
Head of Macro Strategies
Ramius Capital
Philip E. Stieg, PhD, MD
Professor and Chairman, Neurological Surgery
Weill Cornell Medical College
Neurosurgeon-in-Chief
Weill Cornell Medical Center
Michael Weamer, CAE
Executive Vice President, Founder’s Affiliate
American Heart Association
