Dr. Pyo serves as the Director of Interventional Cardiology at Stony Brook University Hospital. His clinical practice includes performing both coronary and structural interventions. During the last 4 years at Stony Brook, he has expanded the breadth of interventional services to include the care of patients with complex coronary and structural diseases. He has used his relationship with members of the American College of Cardiology and publications from the College as resources to set up programs that are aligned with the latest guidelines and best practices. He has seen firsthand the value of close collaboration with the College at a local level.

Dr. Pyo would also like an opportunity to influence the evolution and improvement of the field of interventional cardiology on a broader scale. Participation at scientific meetings of the College have often left him wishing to become more directly involved in committees that would steer the practice of interventional cardiology at a national and perhaps at an international level. Specific duties may include directing the formation of committees to formulate new guidelines in the rapidly evolving new fields and deciding how these fields would or should intersect and interact with existing more established fields.  Other duties may require actual participation in committees. The "skillsets" that might be needed would include specific knowledge and insight of a busy practicing clinician and managerial skills. He believes that he has both. As the System Director of Stony Brook Interventional Cardiology, he oversees the day-to-day operations of the Stony Brook University Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and delegates that responsibility to two other Directors at two satellite laboratories.

Dr. Pyo has led the Interventional Program through the multiple COVID "surges." His responsibility during these times included managing staffing of physicians and non-physicians during challenging times. Other responsibilities included directing the formation of strategies to appropriately triage patients arriving to the cath lab and guiding the establishment of processes that would ensure safe and effective care of patients without unduly increasing the risk of exposure to hospital personnel and other patients. He believes that the general managerial skills that he is learning through his enrollment in the Masters of Health Administration (MHA) program at Stony Brook University and the practice of those skills during the challenging times of the COVID crises he has honed leadership skills that prove valuable to this Council.