Chair

Chair: Howaida El-Said, MD, PhD, FSCAI (2019–2022)
Co-chair: Dennis W. Kim, MD, PhD, FSCAI (2017–2022)
Board Liaison: Frank F. Ing, MD, MSCAI
Staff Liaison: Francesca Dea (fdea@scai.org), Justin Zielke (jzielke@scai.org)

Mission

To further the education, advocacy, and information exchange within the pediatric interventionalist community.

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Chair

Chair: Mauricio G. Cohen, MD, FSCAI (2018–2022)
Co-Chair: James M. McCabe, MD, FSCAI (2018–2022)
Board Liaison: George D. Dangas, MD, MSCAI
Staff Liaison: Curtis Rooney (crooney@scai.org)

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Chairs

Chair: James Hermiller, MD, MSCAI (2019–2021)
Co-chair: Steven Yakubov, MD, MSCAI (2019–2021)
Board Liaison: Ramesh Daggubati, MD, FSCAI
Staff Liaison: Eric Grammer (egrammer@scai.org), Kristyn Sylvia (ksylvia@scai.org)

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Mission

To provide an interactive forum to address unique issues facing the evolution of less-invasive, catheter-based and hybrid surgical techniques for treating congenital and structural heart disease. In particular, relevant issues pertaining to; physician training and credentialing, reimbursement, and the formation of meaningful relationships with industry and other societies will be emphasized in order to foster innovative research, enhance patient access, and achieve optimal patient care and safety. The Structural Heart Disease Council will coordinate activities with the other SCAI standing committees and will be the final common pathway for establishing and promulgating SCAI policies regarding all matters related to Structural Heart Disease.

Goals

• Development of policies regarding allocation of limited resources for structural heart disease procedures.
• Support the development of guidelines for training at the fellowship level and beyond, as well as, minimum standards for continued certification for the performance of structural heart disease interventions.
• Assist in developing quality assurance tools for multidisciplinary structural heart disease programs.
  • Provide guidance in establishing a multidisciplinary heart team
  • Defining requirements for a valve center of excellence
• Play a major role in interactions with the Advocacy Committee in negotiating with third-party payers and Medicare, as well as other professional societies, the FDA, CMS and industry garnering fair and adequate reimbursement and coverage to ensure patient access to structural heart disease procedures.
  • Establish plan to ensure reimbursement and patient access to percutaneous mitral valve repair technologies, left atrial appendage closure procedures and PFO closure procedures.
  • Optimizing patient selection, as well as pre and post care of TAVR patients.
  • Creating a position statement addressing patient selection for percutaneous pulmonic valve
  • To work closely with surgical societies to guarantee patients are properly educated regarding newer, transformational, less-invasive treatment options for structural heart disease.
• Assist the Congenital Heart Disease Council by directing SCAI experts and resources to support achieving their identified goals.
• Consider partnering with industry to establish regional training courses sponsored by SCAI focusing on advanced structural heart disease procedures.

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Chairs

Chair: Subhash Banerjee, MD, FSCAI (2019–2022)
Co-chair: Herbert D. Aronow, MD, MPH, FSCAI  (2015–2023)
Immediate Past Chair: Mehdi Shishehbor, DO, FSCAI  (2019–2023)
Board Liaison: Binita Shah, MD, FSCAI
Staff Liaison: Robert C. Bartel, MSc, FACEHP (rbartel@scai.org)

Mission

To ensure proper communication among all Society activities related to peripheral vascular disease, in collaboration with other professional organizations.

Goals

• Evaluate and develop federal regulations specific to the peripheral vascular disease interventional cardiology community
• Participate in the PAD coalition in order to advance legislation that improves patient care

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Chairs

Chair: Jeff Marshall, MD, MSCAI (2019–2021)
Co-chair: James C. Blankenship, MD, MHCM, MSCAI (2019–2021)
Board Liaison: Ehtisham Mahmud, MD, FSCAI
Staff Liaison: Francesca Dea (fdea@scai.org)

Mission

To develop, update, and oversee enforcement of the Society’s code of ethics and related policies.

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Chairs

Chair: Patricia J. Best, MD, FSCAI (2020–2023)
Co-hair: William F. Penny, MD, FSCAI (2019–2022)
Board Liaison: John C. Messenger, MD, FSCAI 
Staff Liaison: Laura Daigle Porter, CMP (lporter@scai.org)

Mission

To maintain SCAI’s ACCME accreditation, review proposed educational programs for approval, and advise the Board of Trustees on all matters concerning CME within the Society.

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Chairs

Chair: Kirk N. Garratt, MD, MSc, MSCAI (2019–2021)
Co-Chair: David Cox, MD, MSCAI (2020–2021)
Board Liaison: Cindy Grines MD, MSCAI
CCI Liaison: Steven R. Bailey, MD, MSCAI
Staff Liaisons: Kimberly Brown (kbrown@scai.org), Chris Trimmer (ctrimmer@scai.org)

Mission

To inform and educate media, the public, and non-interventional healthcare providers about the important role of invasive/interventional cardiology in optimal cardiovascular care and outcomes; and to expand SCAI’s visibility and credibility among these audiences.

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Chairs

Chair: Srihari S. Naidu, MD, FSCAI  (2016–2021)
Co-Chair: Chandan Devireddy, MD, FSCAI  (2015–2021)
Co-Chair: James B. Hermiller, MD, MSCAI (2020–2022)
Board Liaison: James B. Hermiller, MD, MSCAI (2020–2022)
Finance Liaison: Robert N. Vincent, MD, MSCAI
Annual Meeting Liaison: Daniel M. Kolansky, MD, FSCAI 
Staff Liaisons: Eric Grammer (egrammer@scai.org); Sandy Hung (shung@scai.org)

Mission

To develop and maintain relationships with industry partners in order to promote the Society's educational objectives and generate support for SCAI meetings and programs.

Goals

• Identify and develop new revenue opportunities through joint partnerships, programs, and meetings
• Maintain and comply with the SCAI Industry Transparency Policy and ensure it is publicly available on SCAI's website

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Chairs

Chair: Joaquin E. Cigarroa, MD, FSCAI (2020-2023)
Co-Chair: Binita Shah, MD, FSCAI (2020-2023)
Staff Liaisons: Francesca Dea (fdea@scai.org), Kimberly Powell (kpowell@scai.org), Meredith Vining (mvining@scai.org)

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Chair

Chair: Sahil A. Parikh, MD, FSCAI (2012–2022)
Co-Chair: Poonam Velagapudi, MD, FSCAI (2017–2022)
Board Liaison: Sunil Rao, MD, FSCAI
Staff Liaison: Laura Daigle Porter, CMP (lporter@scai.org), Robert Bartel, MSc, FACEHP (rbartel@scai.org)

Mission

To advise the SCAI Board of Trustees on SCAI’s strategic educational direction commensurate with SCAI’s overall strategic goals, and to review and develop educational products* related to the clinical practice of interventional cardiologists and interventional cardiology fellows in training.

*Those SCAI programs which contain educational components but are not related to the output of educational products around clinical practice should be sent to the Education Committee on a “review and respond” basis.

Goals

• Review all proposals for educational products for quality of content, impact on target audiences and financial performance.
• Develop and maintain a 5-year strategic educational plan in collaboration with the Executive Committee and the Board of Trustees.
• Coordinate assessment of educational products of SCAI committees into annual educational programming agenda and priority focus areas.
• Collect, review, and communicate the educational needs of SCAI membership.
• Maintain SCAI's ACCME accreditation.

Voting Members

Chairs

Chair: Robert N. Vincent, MD, MSCAI (2017–2022)
Co-Chair: Arnold H. Seto, MD, FSCAI (2017–2021)
Co-Chair: Erika Smoyer, BSN, MBA (2019–2022)
Board Liaison: Peter L. Duffy, MD, MMM, FSCAI
Staff Liaison: Kathie Cleary (kcleary@scai.org)

Mission

To monitor the financial affairs of the Society, recommend the budget, and provide opinions concerning budget requests to the Board of Trustees.

Goals

• Regularly monitor the financial affairs of SCAI.
• Maintain a balanced budget and optimal finances.
• Advise the Board of Trustees on financial issues.

Voting Members

Chair

Chair: Lyndon Box MD, FSCAI (2019–2021)
Co-Chair: Joaquin E. Cigarroa, MD, FSCAI (2012–2021)
Board Liaison: Peter L. Duffy, MD, MMM, FSCAI
Quality Initiative Liaison: Faisal Latif, MD, FSCAI
Congenital Heart Disease Liaison: Sergio Bartakian, MD, FSCAI
Structural Heart Disease Liaison: Andrew Goldsweig, MD, RPVI, FSCAI
Vascular Heart Disease Liaison: Subhash Banerjee, MD, FSCAI
Staff Liaison: Curtis Rooney (crooney@scai.org)

Mission

To educate our members, ourselves, and key stakeholders (legislators and their staffs, government agencies, patients and the general public) about policies and positions that directly and indirectly affect all aspects of interventional cardiology and to advocate for those positions as directed by the Executive Committee of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions.

Goals

• Evaluate proposed legislation to understand its impact on interventional cardiologists and our patients.
• Ongoing outreach to federal agencies (evaluate and develop comment letters in response to proposed FDA, CMS, NIH, AHRQ federal regulations, getting to know agencies/outreach to federal agencies, assess existing relationships with agencies).
• Support select new interventional cardiology technologies by advocating for coverage and reimbursement of those technologies, when appropriate to support patient-centered decision making.
• Engage in federal and state-level legislative and regulatory proposals to positively influence the outcome.
• Identifying members who have strong contacts with key members of Congress.

Voting Members

Chairs

Chair: David X. Zhao, MD, FSCAI (2016–2021)
Co-chair: Ramesh Daggubati, MD, FSCAI (2019–2021)
Board Liaison: Shao-Liang Chen, MD, PhD, FSCAI
Staff Liaison: Eric Grammer (egrammer@scai.org), Elizabeth Burke (eburke@scai.org)

Mission

To develop and foster SCAI's close, productive and respectful partnerships with interventional organizations and working groups worldwide on issues in interventional cardiology of global interest including, but not limited to, professional education, guidelines, and leadership.

Goal

• Assist in the promotion of SCAI membership and programming to international societies and working groups
• Work in partnership with international societies to develop new collaborations and opportunities
• Participate in meetings and programs with international partners
• Provide perspectives and knowledge regarding new joint opportunities with international societies.

Voting Members

Chairs

Chair: Ronald P. Caputo, MD, FSCAI (2019–May 2021)
Co-Chair: Beau M. Hawkins, MD, FSCAI (2019–2022)
Board Liaison: Ronald P. Caputo, MD, FSCAI
Staff Liaisons: Chris Trimmer (ctrimmer@scai.org), Luke Lu-LaLiberte (llaliberte@scai.org), and Chido Makoni (cmakoni@scai.org)

Mission

To recruit, engage, and retain SCAI members and to ensure the Society creates and maintains member value.

Goals

• Increase member retention.
• Increase SCAI membership.

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2021 Scientific Sessions

Mission

To plan the scientific program for the SCAI Annual Scientific Sessions and present these plans to the Board of Trustees, and to maintain documentation for continuing medical education.
 

Interventional Cardiology Program

Chair: Daniel M. Kolansky, MD, FSCAI
Associate Chair: Dmitriy N. Feldman, MD, FSCAI
Assistant Chair: John C. Messenger, MD, FSCAI

Congenital Heart Disease Program

Chair: Daniel H. Gruenstein, MD, FSCAI
Associate Chair: Damien Kenny, MD, FSCAI
Assistant Chair: Aimee K. Armstrong, MD, FSCAI

Cath Lab Leadership Boot Camp Track

Track Director: Konstantinos Dean Boudoulas, MD, FSCAI
Committee Member: Rajesh V. Swaminathan, MD, FSCAI
Committee Member: Kalon K.L. Ho, MD, FSCAI 

Coronary Track

Track Director: Binita Shah, MD, FSCAI
Committee Member: Jayant Bagai, MD, FSCAI
Committee Member: Anbukarasi Maran, MD

Peripheral Track

Track Director: Andrew J. Klein, MD, FSCAI
Committee Member: Eric Secemsky, MD, FSCAI
Committee Member: Faisal Latif, MD, FSCAI

Structural Track

Track Director: John M. Lasala, MD, MSCAI
Committee Member: Megan Coylewright, MD, FSCAI
Committee Member: Chad Kliger, MD, FSCAI

Live Cases

Track Director: David G. Rizik, MD, MSCAI
Committee Member: Mitul P. Patel, MD, FSCAI
Committee Member: Nadia Sutton, MD
Committee Member: Wayne Batchelor, MD, MHS, FSCAI

Fellows Summit for Complex Cases

Chair: Molly Szerlip, MD, FSCAI
Associate Chair: Mauricio G. Cohen, MD, FSCAI
Assistant Chair: Andrew J. Klein, MD, FSCAI

Staff Liaisons: Robert Bartel (rbartel@scai.org),  Rachel Pham, CMP (rpham@scai.org)

Chairs

Chair: Molly Szerlip, MD, FSCAI (2016–2022)
Co-Chair: John C. Messenger, MD, FSCAI (2016–2022)
Board Liaison: Timothy Henry, MD, MSCAI
Staff Liaisons: Robert C. Bartel, MSc, FACEHP (rbartel@scai.org), Emily Senerth (esenerth@scai.org)

Mission

To promote optimal patient care through educational, policy, and clinical/scientific documents that reflect the current state-of-the-science in interventional cardiology.

Voting Members

Chairs

Chair: Faisal Latif, MD, FSCAI (2018–2022)
Co-chair: Roxana Mehran, MD, MSCAI (2019–2022)
Immediate Past Chair: Rajesh Swaminathan, MD, FSCAI (2016–2021)
Board Liaison: Howard Herrmann, MD, MSCAI
Staff Liaisons: Emily Senerth (esenerth@scai.org)

Mission

To provide guidance and recommendations for development of the Society's policies and positions related to healthcare quality improvement initiatives (SCAI QIT), with emphasis on quality measures, public reporting of quality measures, pay-for-performance initiatives, interventional cardiology standards development, and radiation issues.

Voting Members

Chairs

Chair: Lyndon Box, MD, FSCAI (2019–2021)
Co-Chair: Joaquin E. Cigarroa, MD, FSCAI (2012–2021)
Board Liaison: Dmitriy Feldman, MD, FSCAI
Staff Liaison: Curtis Rooney (crooney@scai.org)

Mission

To increase Congressional interest in and support of legislative proposal favored by SCAI. Policy positions are set by SCAI's Advocacy Committee (with the oversight of the Executive Committee) by raising funds to support the campaigns of sympathetic politicians. Our focus is on Congress, not state, local or presidential elections.

Goals

• Raise the profile of interventional cardiology and its concerns on Capitol Hill.
• Develop strong fundraising campaigns.
• Develop grassroots program linking key Members of Congress with SCAI members in their district.

Voting Members

Chairs

Chair: Alexandra J. Lansky, MD, FSCAI (2020–2023)
Co-Chair: Patricia Best, MD, FSCAI (2020–2023)
Board/SHD Liason: Binita Shah, MD, MS, FSCAI
Staff Liason: Megan Kavy (mkavy@scai.org)

Mission

To foster professional development, education, collaboration, and research by and on behalf of women in interventional cardiology and their patients.

Goals

• Participate as a global ambassador on behalf of WIN—engaging new members, sharing information and ideas, and actively communicating within your community to progress WIN goals and initiatives.
• Participate in various WIN projects as called upon—writing groups, research studies, surveys, educational events, etc.

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