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PROGRESS-CTO

Prospective Global Registry for the Study of Chronic Total Occlusion Intervention

Investigators

Dallas VA Medical Center,

Dallas, TX

Shuaib Abdullah, MD

Saglik Bilimleri University, Istanbul, Turkey

Sakir Arslan, MD

Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

Khaldoon Alaswad, MD

Karim Al-Azizi, MD, FACC, FSCAI, FESC

Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, TX

Bulent Behlul Altunkeser, MD

Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey

Ziad A. Ali, MD, DPhil

St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center,

Roslyn, NY

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Waqar Ahmed, MD

King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands

Ibtihal Al Amri, MD

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Yousif Ahmad, BMedSci, BMBS, PhD

UCSF, San Francisco, CA

Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey

Nazif Aygul, MD

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Salman A. Arain

UT Health Houston, Houston, TX

Lorenzo Azzalini, MD, PhD, Msc

University of Washington, Seattle

Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, TX

Subhash Banerjee, MD

University of Illinois at Chicago,
Chicago, IL

Joaquim Spadoni Barboza, MD

Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD

Minneapolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis, MN

Northwestern Memorial Hospital,

Chicago, IL

Keith H. Benzuly, MD

WellSpan York Hospital, York, PA

Stewart Benton Jr.

Mir B. Basir, DO

Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

Marouane Boukhris

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Limoges, Limoges, France

Minneapolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis, MN

M. Nicholas Burke, MD

UC Health Memorial Hospital,
Colorado Springs, CO

Cihan Cevik, MD

Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas Hospital, Dallas, TX

James W. Choi, MD

Oklahoma Heart Institute, Tulsa, OK

Raj H. Chandwaney, MD

Jaidip Chakravartti, MD

Maine Health Cardiology / Maine Medical Center, ME

Altug Cincin, MD

Marmara University School of Medicine Pendik

Training and Research Hospital,

Kaynarca, Turkey

Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, FL, USA

Larry Van-Thomas Crisco, MD

University Hospitals

Case Western Reserve University, OH

Bernardo Cortese, MD

Medical Center of the Rockies, Loveland, CO

Anthony H. Doing, MD

Medical Center of the Rockies, Loveland, CO

Phil Dattilo, MD

Rhian Davies, DO, MS, FACC

WellSpan York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania

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St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg,

Manitoba, Canada

Basem Elbarouni, MD

Alexandria University, Egypt

Moustafa Dawood, MD, PhD

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Al Zahra Hospital University Medical Center,

Beirut, Lebanon

Ali Amine El Sayed, MD

Aswan Heart Center, Magdi Yacoub Foundation,

Egypt

Ahmed M. ElGuindy, MD

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

James D. Flaherty, MD

University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve

University, Cleveland, OH

Farshad Forouzandeh, MD, PhD

Yale University/ Yale New Haven Hospital

Jennifer Frampton, DO, MPH

The Christ Hospital - Ohio Heart & Vascular,

Cincinnati, OH

Jarrod Frizzell, MD, MS, FACC

Alexandria University, Egypt

Hamed Gaber, MBBCh

David Garcia-Labbe, MD

Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Quebec City, Canada

Minneapolis Heart Institute, Minneapolis, MN

Santiago Garcia, MD

Tzaneio General Hospital,
Pireaus, Greece

Gerasimos Gavrielatos, MD, MSc

St. Luke's Mid America Heart Institute,

Kansas City, MO

J. Aaron Grantham, MD

Memorial Bahcelievler Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Omer Goktekin, MD, FESC, FSCAI

Carolina East Heart Center, New Bern, NC

Matt Grove, MD

Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Turkey

Ahmet Seyfeddin Gürbüz, MD

Tristar Centennial Medical Center,

Nashville, TN

Brian Jefferson, MD

Yasser Jamil, MD

Yale University/ Yale New Haven Hospital

Acibadem Kocaeli Hospital, Izmit,

Turkey

Sevket Gorgulu, MD

Massachussetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Farouc Jaffer, MD, PhD

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Saint Thomas Heart Hospital, Nashville, TN

Elias V Haddad, MD

Emory University Hospital Midtown,

Atlanta, GA

Wissam Jaber, MD

Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey

Nihat Kalay, MD

David E. Kandzari, MD

Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, GA

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Ismail Dogu Kilic, MD

Pammukale University, Denizli, Turkey

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Saint Thomas Heart Hospital, Nashville, TN

Jimmy L. Kerrigan, MD

St. George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Fadi Abou Jaoudeh, MD

Leiden University Medical Center,
Netherlands

J. Wouter Jukema, MD, PhD

University of Vermont Medical Center,
Burlington, VT

Kathleen E. Kearney, MD

University of Washington, Seattle

Kadriye Orta Kilickesmez, MD

Prof Dr Cemil Tascioglu City Hospital,
Istanbul, Turkey

New York-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY

Jaikirshan Khatri, MD

Georges Khoueiry, MD

North Oaks Health System, Hammond, LA

Ajay J. Kirtane, MD

Columbia University, New York, NY

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The Christ Hospital - Ohio Heart & Vascular,

Cincinnati, OH

James A. Kong, MD

The Promed Hospital, Chennai, India

Arun Kalyanasundaram, MD, MPH

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Biruni University, Istanbul, Turkey

Cuneyt Kocas, MD

Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, FL, USA

Anton Lishmanov, MD, PhD

Nicholas Lembo, MD

Columbia Univerity, New York, NY

Dmitrii Khelimskii, MD

Meshalkin Novosibirsk Research Institute,

Novosibirsk, Russia

Alex R. Kirby, MD

Carolina East Heart Center, New Bern, NC

Henry Dunant Hospital Center, Athens, Greece

Athanasios Kolyviras, MD, PhD

St Vincent Hospital,

Indianapolis, IN

Michael J Kourany, MD

Meshalkin Novosibirsk Research Institute,

Novosibirsk, Russia

Oleg Krestyaninov, MD

Red Cross Hospital of Athens, Athens,

Greece

Zenon S. Kyriakides, MD

Oklahoma City VA Medical Center,

Oklahoma City, OK

Faisal Latif, MD

Assaad Maalouf, MD

St. George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Trinity Medical WNY, Buffalo, NY

Henry Meltser, MD

Belal Al Khiami, MBBS

University of California San Diego (UCSD)/

San Diego VA Medical Center (SDVA)

Asaad Nakhle, MD

Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

Leiden University Medical Center,
Netherlands

Jose M. Montero Cabezas, MD

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Husam Noor, MD

Mohammed Bin Khalifa
Specialist Cardiac Centre (MKCC)

Charles Orr, MD

St Vincent Hospital,

Indianapolis, IN

Bezmialem Vakif University,

Istanbul, Turkey

Ramazan Ozdemir, MD

Manish A. Parikh, MD

Columbia University, New York, NY

University of Washington Medical Center,

Seattle, WA

William L. Lombardi, MD

UCSD, La Jolla, CA

Ehtisham Mahmud, MD

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St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg,

Manitoba, Canada

Michael P. Love, MD

Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

Tulane Heart and Vascular Institute,

New Orleans, LA

Owen Mogabgab, MD

Can Nguyen, MD

Quebec Heart and Lung Institute,
Quebec City, Canada

Jeffrey W. Moses, MD

Columbia University, New York, NY

Jean-Michel Paradis, MD

Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Quebec City, Canada

Ashish Pershad, MD

Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center,

Phoenix, AZ

Jayakumar Sreenivasan, MD

Yale University/ Yale New Haven Hospital

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,

Boston, MA

Hector Tamez, MD, MPH

Yiannis Tsiafoutis, MD

Red Cross Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

Henry Dunant Hospital Center, Athens, Greece

Vaios Tzifos, MD, PhD

Albert Einstein Montefiore Medical Center
New York, NY

Louis Verreault-Julien

R. Michael Wyman, MD

Torrance Memorial Medical Center,

Torrance, CA

Providence Heart institute, Portland, OR

Jason R. Wollmuth, MD

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Ondokuz Mayis University Medical Faculty,

Samsun, Turkey

Ufuk Yildirim, MD

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The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, Plano, TX

Srinivasa Potluri, MD

Colin T. Phillips, MD

Maine Health Cardiology /

Maine Medical Center, ME

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center,

Nashville, TN

Leah M. Raj, MD

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The Christ Hospital - Ohio Heart & Vascular,

Cincinnati, OH

Joel P. Reginelli, MD

Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

Alpesh R. Shah, MD

Habib Samady, MD

Northeast Georgia Medical Center,

Gainesville, GA

Yasser Sadek, MD

National Heart Institute, Cairo, Egypt

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Raouf Mahmoud Shaaban, MD, MSc

Dar Al Fouad Hospital, Cairo, Egypt

Korhan Soylu, MD

Ondokuz Mayis University Medical Faculty,

Samsun, Turkey

UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA

AJ Conrad Smith, MD

Tristar Centennial Medical Center,

Nashville, TN

Taral Patel, MD

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Paul Poommipanit, MD

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North Oaks Health System,

Hammond, LA

Nidal Abi Rafeh, MD

Kettering Medical Center, Dayton, OH

Niranjan Reddy, MD

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Overlake Medical Center, WA

Robert Riley, MD

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

Daniel R Schimmel, Jr, MD, MS

Ahmad Samir, MD, MSc

Aswan Heart Centre, Magdi Yacoub

Foundation, Egypt

Charles A. Shoultz Jr., MD

Providence Health Center, Waco, TX

Providence Heart institute, Portland, OR

Richard H. Sohn, MD

Wellstar Health System, Marietta, GA

Abdul M Sheikh, MD

Medicalpark Hospital, Mersin, Turkey

UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA

Catalin Toma, MD

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Marmara University School of Medicine Pendik

Training and Research Hospital,

Kaynarca, Turkey

Mustafa Kürşat Tigen, MD

Central Arkansas Veterans Health System, and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR

Barry Uretsky, MD

Bezmialem Vakif University

Istanbul, Turkey

Mahmut Uluganyan, MD

Providence Heart institute, Portland, OR

Michael A. Wilson,MD

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Robert W. Yeh, MD, MBA

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Laura Young, MD

Operations Team

Global Director

Bavana V. Rangan, BDS, MPH

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Pedro Carvalho, MD

Raymond Ames and Barbara Thorndike Research Scholar, Database Manager

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Research Associate

Olga Mastrodemos, BA

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Ahmet Akyel, MD

Senior Research Scholar,

Database Manager

Sophie Macy, BS

Research Associate

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Marios Tsourous, MD

Research Scholar,

Database Manager

Theodoros Vichos, MD

Fleishhacker Family Research Scholar,

Database Manager

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