Executive Chair
Dr. Xiaodan Mei, President of BIT Group Global Ltd.

Advisory Board Members
Dr. Akihiko Nogami, Clinical Professor, Director, Heart Rhythm Management, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Dr. Alistair G. Royse,Director Ultrasound Education Group, Dept of Surgery, Melbourne University & King Fahad Cardiac Center, Australia
Dr. Ali R. Rahimi, Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, USA
Dr. Arya Mani, Associate Professor, Yale University, USA
Dr. Asher Kimchi, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Dr. Barbara A Huibregtse, Director, Boston Scientific Corporation, USA
Dr. Biner Simon, Senior Physician, Department of Cardiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel
Dr. Brian Seamus Donahue, Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA
Dr. Bustamante Munguira, Associate Professor, Institute of Heart Sciences, University Clinic Hospital, Valladolid, Spain
Dr. Charles Andersen, Chief of Vascular/Endovascular Surgery Service, Madigan Army Medical Center, USA
Dr. Changcheng Zhou, Director, Center for Metabolic Disease Research, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, USA
Dr. Chenyang Shen, Deputy Chief Professor, Vascular Surgery Center, Fuwai Hospital, CAMS & PUMC, China
Dr. Christina Christoffersen, Associated Professor, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Dr. Christopher J. Mathias, Professor, Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK
Dr. Daniel P. Link, Professor, Chief, Interventional and Vascular Radiology, University of California Davis Medical Center, USA
Dr. Daniel Villarreal, Professor, SUNY Upstate Medical University, USA
Dr. David A. Greuner, Surgical Director, NYC Surgical Associates, USA
Dr. David G. Allen, Professor Emeritus, School of Medical Sciences, Bosch Institute, University of Sydney, Australia
Dr. David L. Wessel, Senior Vice President, Children’s National Medical Center, USA
Dr. David M. Kaye, Professor, Head, Heart Failure Research Group, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia
Dr. David M Kerins, Clinical Director, Mercy University Hospital, Ireland
Dr. David R Thompson, Professor, Cardiovascular Research Centre, Australian Catholic University, Australia
Dr. Didier Revel, Professor, University Claude Bernard Lyon1, France
Dr. Domenico Spaziani, Chief, EP Lab Magenta Hospital-Department of Cardiology, Italy
Dr. Eberhard Freiherr von Hodenberg, Professor, Chief, the Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, MediClin Heart Center Lahr/Baden, Germany
Dr. Edgar V. Lerma, Associate Professor, Section of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, USA
Dr. Edgardo Kaplinsky, Senior Cardiologist, Cardiology Unit, Medicine Department, Hospital Municipal de Badalona, Spain
Dr. Erik Thaulow, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Oslo, Norway
Dr. Fadi Shamoun, Medical Director-Anticoagulation Clinic, Medical Director NP Cardiology Fellowship, Vascular Medicine-Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic Arizona, USA
Dr. Fang G Smith, Professor, University of Birmingham, College of Medicine and Dentistry, UK
Dr. Francesco Zanon, FESC, Division of Cardiology, Rovigo General Hospital, Italy
Dr. Fumihiro Tomoda, Professor, Fukui College of Health Sciences , Japan
Dr. Gao Feng, Director, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xiangya Hai Kou Hospital of Central South University, China
Dr. Gui-Rong Li, Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Dr. Han-Gang Yu, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, West Virginia University, USA
Dr. Hans A. R. Bluyssen, Professor, Department of Human Molecular Genetics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Dr. Hari P. Chaliki, Director, Valvular Heart Disease Clinic, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, USA
Dr. Harish Ramakrishna, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Vice Chair for Research-Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, USA
Dr. Hidekazu Miyazaki, Director, Department of Cardiology, Atsugi Municipal Hospital, Atsugi, Japan
Dr. Hidetaka Suenaga, Chief of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, Director of Department of Cardiovascular Intervention, Nagasaki Harbor Medical Center, Japan
Dr. Ian M Fearon, Manager, Cardiovascular Disease, British American Tobacco GR&D, UK
Dr. Lawand Qaradaghi, Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Almaty Sema Hospital, Turkey
Dr. Ilan Kedan, Cardiology Division Chief, Cedars Sinai Heart Institute, USA
Dr. Ildiko Bock-Marquette, Associate Professor, University of Pecs, Faculty of Medicine, Hungary
Dr. Ling V. Sun, Professor, Institute of Developmental Biology and Molecular Medicine (IDM), Fudan University, China
Dr. James Michael Wyss, Professor and Director, University of Alabama, USA
Dr. Jan M. De Raet, Chairman of Cardiac Surgery, Brussels Heart Center, Belgium
Dr. Jens Frahm, Professor, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
Dr. Jia-Kan Chang, Chief and Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Cheng-Hsin General Hospital, Taiwan
Dr. Jianhua Li, Professor of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine and Hershey Medical Center, USA
Dr. Jochen Jordan, Director, Department Psychocardiology, Heart and Lung Center, Germany
Dr. John Q. Zhang, Professor, Director of Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, Health, and Nutrition University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Dr. Juan Antonio Mazzei, Professor, University of Buenos Aires, National Academy of Medicine, Argentina
Dr. Juergen Kuschyk, Director of Device Therapy, University Medical Centre, I. Medical Department, Mannheim, Germany
Dr. Juliana Torres Pacheco, Professor, Heart Institute of Natal, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Dr. J. V. (Ian) Nixon, Professor, Director of the Echocardiography Laboratories and Heart Station, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, USA
Dr. Kazuo Murakami, Director of Department of Health Care and Preventive Medicine, Matsuyama Red Cross Hospital, Japan
Dr. Keiichi Fukuda, Professor Chair, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan
Dr. Koichiro Nandate, Associate Professor, University of Washington, USA
Dr. Louis B. Louis, Chief of Cardiac Surgery, University of Cincinnati, USA
Dr. Marek Michalak, Distinguished Professor, Departments of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Marco A.M. Prado, Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Dr. Marco Di Eusanio, Director, Cardiac Surgery Unit, G. Mazzini Hospital, Italy
Dr. Marcus Ilton, Director of Cardiology, Royal Darwin Hospital, Australia
Dr. Mark E Josephson, Professor, Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA
Dr. Maria Cruz Ferrer-Gracia, Associated Professor Medicine, Interventional Cardiologist, Hospital Clínico “Lozano Blesa”, Spain
Dr. Marvin A. Sackner, Voluntary Professor, Mt Sinai at Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, USA
Dr. Masahiro Esato, Director, Department of Arrhythmia, Ijinkai Takeda General Hospital, Japan
Dr. M. Nicholas Burke, Director, Minneapolis Heart Institute, USA
Dr. Michele Nanna, Associate Clinical Professor, Medical Director, Cardiac Care and Vascular Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Dr. Ming K. Heng, Professor, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Dr. Mi-Seung Shin, Director, Heart Center, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Korea
Dr. Nazha Hamdani, Associate Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Physiology, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany
Dr. Nicolas Jaramillo, Prefessor, Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia
Dr. Patricia M. Davidson, Professor & Director, Curtin University, Australia
Dr. Paul Barach, Clinical Professor, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA
Dr. Paul Bennett, Professor in Clinical Health Psychology, Swansea University, UK
Dr. Paul J. Rosch, Professor, President, The American Institute of Stress, New York Medical College, Yonkers, USA
Dr. Philippe Henon, Professor, Director, Institute of Research in Hematology and Transplantation (IRHT), Hôpital du Hasenrain, France
Dr. Pierre R. Tibi, Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery Yavapai Regional Medical Center, USA
Dr. Qing-huaLu, Director, Department of Cardiology, The Second Hospital of Shandong University, China
Dr. Rachad M. Shoucri, Professor, Department of Math. & Comp. Sc, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada
Dr. Randy R. Richardson, Associate Dean, Phoenix Regional Campus, Dignity Health, USA
Dr. Richard Lewanczu, Senior Medical Director, Primary Health Care Alberta Health Services, and Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Robert Kalimi, Vice Chairman, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Southside Hospital, USA
Dr. Rosalie David, Professor, University of Manchester, UK
Dr. R. Scott Evans, Medical Informatics Director, Intermountain Healthcare; Professor, Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, USA
Dr. Ryuichi Morishita, Professor, Osaka University, School of Medicine, Japan
Dr. Sabahat Bokhari, Director, Nuclear Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
Dr. Salvador Borges-Neto, Professor of Radiology and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Chief Division of Nuclear Medicine, Duke University Hospital, USA
Dr. Shoji Suzuki, Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Yamanashi, University of Yamanashi, Japan
Dr. Silvana Bardelli, Senior Scientist, Adult Stem Cell Applications Unit, Swiss Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Switzerland
Dr. Steven Goldstein, Director of Noninvasive Cardiology, MedStar Heart Institute, Washington Hospital Center, USA
Dr. Tadashi Yamamoto, Director, Cardiovascular of Hokkaido Cardiovascular Hospital, Japan
Dr. Terence K. Trow, Director, Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Dr. Todd D. Miller, Professor, Director, Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, USA
Dr. TongZou, Professor, Department of Cardiology, Beijing Hospital, China
Dr. Tony Giordano, President and CEO, Sulfagenix, Inc., USA
Dr. Ulrike Hostalek, Senior Medical Director, Global Medical Affairs General Medicine & Endocrinology, Germany
Dr. Umit Yüksek, Director, Cardiology Clinic, Odemis State Hospital Cardiology Clinic, Turkey
Dr. Victor Pretorius, Surgical Director, Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support, University of California, USA
Dr. Victoria Cachofeiro, Professor, School of Medicine Universidad Complutense, Spain
Dr. Virginia M. Miller, Director, Women’s Health Research Center, Professor, Surgery and Physiology, Mayo Clinic, USA
Dr. Vito Giovanni Ruggieri, Professor, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Pontchaillou University Hospital, France
Dr. V. Shanie Budhram-Mahadeo, Principal Investigator and Lecturer, University College London, UK
Dr. William J. Strimel, President, Mercy Physician Network, Conshohocken, USA
Dr. Yanggan Wang, Professor and Director of Department of Cardiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan University, China
Dr. Yoriyasu Suzuki, Head, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nagoya Heart Center, Japan
Dr. Yun Lu, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, USA
Dr. Zhi Zheng, Associate Professor, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Dr. Fatih Yalcin, Academician, Mustafa Kemal University, Turkey Fulbright Visiting Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA

Local Committee Members
Ms. Ruby Chen