Dr Magdi El-Omar is a consultant interventional cardiologist at the Manchester Heart Centre and an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. He graduated from St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK, in 1988 and undertook his postgraduate general medical training in London and Oxford. He then completed his general cardiology training in Birmingham, Oxford and Wales before subspecializing in coronary intervention. The latter included a 2.5-year clinical/research fellowship in interventional cardiology at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation and the New York University Medical Centre, New York, NY, USA. During his time there, he worked closely with leaders in the field, including doctors Greg Stone, Martin Leon, Gary Roubin, Frederick Feit and Aaron Marcus. Dr El-Omar has been involved in research for over 25 years. He undertook a 2-year British Heart Foundation Junior Research Fellowship in basic science (diabetic cardiomyopathy in a rat model) in 1997–8, which led to the award of an MD degree from the University of London. He has since been actively involved in clinical research, especially in the fields of acute coronary syndromes and coronary intervention. He has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed articles, mostly in high-impact journals. He has been a local principal investigator for several landmark, international, multicentre trials (e.g. HORIZONS-AMI, INFUSE-AMI, TOTAL, TWILIGHT, etc.). He is actively involved in education and training and is a course co-director of the International Complex Cardiovascular Catheter Therapeutics Conference in the USA.

Professor Gustavo Samaja PhD is an interventional cardiologist from Argentina, with more than 25 years in the field of coronary and peripheral and structural interventions. He is the Chief of Department of Interventional Cardiology at Poba and Head of Cath Lab at Sanatorio Colegiales, in Buenos Aires Argentina. He has an extensive career as docent and active participation as faculty and member of scientific committees at the important cardiology and interventional cardiology congresses around the world. He has published in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Dr Timir Paul is a Professor of Medicine and Founding Program Director for Cardiology Fellowship at University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center at Nashville. After receiving MD, he was awarded PhD and MPH in Cardiovascular Epidemiology by Tulane University. He has served as the Founding Co-Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Risk Research at East Tennessee State University.  He has authored and coauthored more than 200 publications and book chapters.  He serves as an academic editor for PLOS ONE Journal and on the Editorial Board for several Cardiology Journals including Journal of the Society of Coronary Angiography and Intervention, Catheterization and Cardiovascular Intervention, Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine and Heart International. His research and recommendations changed the 2021 ACC/AHA 2021 and 2018 European Society of Cardiology guidelines on coronary revascularization by downgrading the use of embolic protection device in vein graft intervention from Class I to Class IIa. He received several grants including a PCORI grant and a 4.5 million dollars AHRQ grant as a co-investigator. His research interests include vein graft interventions, embolic protection devices in coronary and peripheral interventions, subclinical atherosclerosis, coronary microvascular disease, and renal artery interventions. He was recognized as SCAI-Emerging Leader Mentorship Program Circle member and Young Leader by the Cardiovascular Revascularization Technologies. He is an invitee of the 2022 and 2023 ACC Leadership Forum. He received the best teaching award given by cardiology fellows for the 4 consecutive years. He was inducted by Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society as a faculty member. He received Dean’s distinguished research award. He is an invited faculty for national and international scientific conferences including SCAI, ACC, AHA and CRT. He serves on the SCAI QI and International Committee and ACC PDGME Leadership Council.

Bryan W Kluck, DO, FACC, FSCAI is a practicing interventional cardiologist in Allentown and Harrisburg, PA, USA, for 40 years. Strong interest in both fellow and continuing education as  the 15 year Co-Director of the C3 International Cardiovascular Conference and 4 time teacher of the year at Lehigh Valley Hospital. Current clinical interests include endovenous intervention and treatment of patent foramen ovale and atrial septal defect.