Barry T. Katzen, MD, is the founder and chief medical executive of the Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, which has served as a national model of success in multidisciplinary cooperation. He is clinical professor of radiology and surgery, Associate Dean Clinical Affairs Baptist Health, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University; as well as at University of Miami, School of Medicine and University of South Florida, Morsani College of Medicine.

Dr. Katzen graduated from the University of Miami, School of Medicine in 1970, completed his internship at Jackson Memorial Hospital, residency at the New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, and a fellowship in cardiovascular radiology at St. Vincent’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Rome.

Dr. Katzen is one of the pioneers of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, peripheral thrombolysis for less invasive treatment of vascular disease and was part of the investigative team that lead to the approval of the first intravascular stent. He performed the first renal angioplasty in the United States and is considered one of the founders of interventional radiology as a specialty of medicine.  He is credited with being the first to use “live patient demonstrations” in the USA, which became the benchmark for procedural education in endovascular.

Among his awards, Dr. Katzen received the Society of Interventional Radiology’s (SIR) Gold Medal; the Annual Gold Medal award from the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE); and the Career Achievement Award from Trans-Catheter Therapeutics (TCT).

Dr. Eldessoki graduated in 1982 from Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, where he set 1 year as a house officer & 3 years of residency. In 1986, he had his Master degree in 1991 and had his M.D. degree. He has been appointed as a lecturer of vascular surgery till 1997. In 1997, he has been appointed as an assistant professor & in 2001 he has been appointed as a professor of vascular surgery.

From 1995-1996, he has worked as a registrare in Matter Mesricordiae Hospital in Dublin.

Hicham Kobeiter, have been working as an Interventional Radiologist in University Hospital CHU Henri Mondor Crétei, France for the past 15 years. Since the last 6 years he is the Chief of the Vascular and Oncology Interventional Unit in the Radiology Department.

Dr. Kobeiter’s clinical and research topics are: Aortic and Aneurismal Pathology and Multimodality Image Guided Therapy. He was a dedicated Professor in Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France in 2007 till 2013. Dr. Kobeiter is also President of the French Society of Cardio-Vascular and Interventional Radiology SFICV.