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. Jamal Hoballah received his MD from the American University of Beirut in 1981. He joined New York University (NYU) in 1982 where he completed his general surgery residency in 1987 and a trauma/critical care fellowship in 1988. He remained on the faculty at NYU for two years before moving to the University of Iowa where he completed his vascular fellowship in 1991.

Dr. Hoballah’s areas of clinical and research interest include endovascular surgery, infrainguinal revascularization, acute limb ischemia, and surgical education. He has authored and co-authored over 90 papers in peer reviewed journals and over 40 book chapters. In addition, he has been the sole author of a vascular surgery book and co-editor of six other surgical books. He also serves as a reviewer for several surgical journals.

Dr. Hoballah is a member of numerous prestigious surgical societies and has served as president of the Johnson County Medical Society and president of the Iowa Vascular Society. He served as an examiner for the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Vascular Surgery. He has received several awards including the Attending of the Year award at NYU in 1989 and the Teacher of the Year award at the University of Iowa in 1996. He has been selected to the Best Doctors in American list for several years. Dr. Hoballah is the past chair of the International Relations Committee of the American College of Surgeons.  He is the Governor of the ACS Lebanon Chapter, chair of the International Governors workgroup of the American College of Surgeons and chair of nominating committee of the ACS  Board of Governors.

Samer Koussayer serves as the section Head and Consultant in the Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Division of the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Riyad, KSA and as an Associate Professor, Teaching Faculty and Coordinator of the Undergraduate Surgical Clerkship Program at the Al Faisal University, College of Medicine.

Dr. Koussayer completed his training in General Surgery at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, and his training in Vascular Surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.  He is board certified in general and vascular surgery from the USA.

Dr. Koussayer is invited speaker in many national and international vascular conferences in Europe, Africa and USA.

He special interest is EVAR.TEVAR and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm.