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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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Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

James D. Flaherty, MD

Aswan Heart Center, Magdi Yacoub Foundation,

Egypt

Ahmed M. ElGuindy, MD

University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve

University, Cleveland, OH

Farshad Forouzandeh, MD, PhD

Al Zahra Hospital University Medical Center,

Beirut, Lebanon

Ali Amine El Sayed, MD

Alexandria University, Egypt

Hamed Gaber, MBBCh

The Christ Hospital - Ohio Heart & Vascular,

Cincinnati, OH

Jarrod Frizzell, MD, MS, FACC

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

Acibadem Kocaeli Hospital, Izmit,

Turkey

Sevket Gorgulu, MD

Carolina East Heart Center, New Bern, NC

Matt Grove, MD

Massachussetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Farouc Jaffer, MD, PhD

Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Turkey

Ahmet Seyfeddin Gürbüz, MD

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Saint Thomas Heart Hospital, Nashville, TN

Elias V Haddad, MD

Tristar Centennial Medical Center,

Nashville, TN

Brian Jefferson, MD

Emory University Hospital Midtown,

Atlanta, GA

Wissam Jaber, MD

Yasser Jamil, MD

Yale University/ Yale New Haven Hospital

St. George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Fadi Abou Jaoudeh, MD

Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey

Nihat Kalay, MD

Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands

J. Wouter Jukema, MD, PhD

David E. Kandzari, MD

Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, GA

University of Vermont Medical Center,
Burlington, VT

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Ismail Dogu Kilic, MD

Pammukale University, Denizli, Turkey

Kathleen E. Kearney, MD

University of Washington, Seattle

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Saint Thomas Heart Hospital, Nashville, TN

Jimmy L. Kerrigan, MD

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

Dmitrii Khelimskii, MD

Meshalkin Novosibirsk Research Institute,

Novosibirsk, Russia

Georges Khoueiry, MD

North Oaks Health System, Hammond, LA

Alex R. Kirby, MD

Carolina East Heart Center, New Bern, NC

Ajay J. Kirtane, MD

Columbia University, New York, NY

Henry Dunant Hospital Center, Athens, Greece

Athanasios Kolyviras, MD, PhD

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The Christ Hospital - Ohio Heart & Vascular,

Cincinnati, OH

James A. Kong, MD

St Vincent Hospital,

Indianapolis, IN

Michael J Kourany, MD

The Promed Hospital, Chennai, India

Arun Kalyanasundaram, MD, MPH

Meshalkin Novosibirsk Research Institute,

Novosibirsk, Russia

Oleg Krestyaninov, MD

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Biruni University, Istanbul, Turkey

Cuneyt Kocas, MD

Red Cross Hospital of Athens, Athens,

Greece

Zenon S. Kyriakides, MD

Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, FL, USA

Anton Lishmanov, MD, PhD

Oklahoma City VA Medical Center,

Oklahoma City, OK

Faisal Latif, MD

Nicholas Lembo, MD

Columbia Univerity, New York, NY

University of Washington Medical Center,

Seattle, WA

William L. Lombardi, MD

Assaad Maalouf, MD

St. George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

UCSD, La Jolla, CA

Ehtisham Mahmud, MD

Trinity Medical WNY, Buffalo, NY

Henry Meltser, MD

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St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg,

Manitoba, Canada

Michael P. Love, MD

Belal Al Khiami, MBBS

University of California San Diego (UCSD)/

San Diego VA Medical Center (SDVA)

Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

Asaad Nakhle, MD

Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

Tulane Heart and Vascular Institute,

New Orleans, LA

Owen Mogabgab, MD

Leiden University Medical Center,
Netherlands

Jose M. Montero Cabezas, MD

Can Nguyen, MD

Quebec Heart and Lung Institute,
Quebec City, Canada

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Husam Noor, MD

Mohammed Bin Khalifa
Specialist Cardiac Centre (MKCC)

Jeffrey W. Moses, MD

Columbia University, New York, NY

Charles Orr, MD

St Vincent Hospital,

Indianapolis, IN

Jean-Michel Paradis, MD

Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Quebec City, Canada

Bezmialem Vakif University,

Istanbul, Turkey

Ramazan Ozdemir, MD

Ashish Pershad, MD

Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center,

Phoenix, AZ

Manish A. Parikh, MD

Columbia University, New York, NY

Tristar Centennial Medical Center,

Nashville, TN

Taral Patel, MD

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The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, Plano, TX

Srinivasa Potluri, MD

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Paul Poommipanit, MD

Maine Health Cardiology /

Maine Medical Center, ME

Colin T. Phillips, MD

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North Oaks Health System,

Hammond, LA

Nidal Abi Rafeh, MD

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center,

Nashville, TN

Leah M. Raj, MD

Kettering Medical Center, Dayton, OH

Niranjan Reddy, MD

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The Christ Hospital - Ohio Heart & Vascular,

Cincinnati, OH

Joel P. Reginelli, MD

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Overlake Medical Center, WA

Robert Riley, MD

Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

Alpesh R. Shah, MD

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

Daniel R Schimmel, Jr, MD, MS

Habib Samady, MD

Northeast Georgia Medical Center,

Gainesville, GA

Ahmad Samir, MD, MSc

Aswan Heart Centre, Magdi Yacoub

Foundation, Egypt

Yasser Sadek, MD

National Heart Institute, Cairo, Egypt

Charles A. Shoultz Jr., MD

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Raouf Mahmoud Shaaban, MD, MSc

Dar Al Fouad Hospital, Cairo, Egypt

Providence Health Center, Waco, TX

Korhan Soylu, MD

Ondokuz Mayis University Medical Faculty,

Samsun, Turkey

Providence Heart institute, Portland, OR

Richard H. Sohn, MD

UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA

AJ Conrad Smith, MD

Wellstar Health System, Marietta, GA

Abdul M Sheikh, MD

Jayakumar Sreenivasan, MD

Yale University/ Yale New Haven Hospital

Medicalpark Hospital, Mersin, Turkey

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,

Boston, MA

Hector Tamez, MD, MPH

UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA

Catalin Toma, MD

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Yiannis Tsiafoutis, MD

Red Cross Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

Marmara University School of Medicine Pendik

Training and Research Hospital,

Kaynarca, Turkey

Mustafa Kürşat Tigen, MD

Henry Dunant Hospital Center, Athens, Greece

Vaios Tzifos, MD, PhD

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

Barry Uretsky, MD

Albert Einstein Montefiore Medical Center
New York, NY

Louis Verreault-Julien

Bezmialem Vakif University

Istanbul, Turkey

Mahmut Uluganyan, MD

R. Michael Wyman, MD

Torrance Memorial Medical Center,

Torrance, CA

Providence Heart institute, Portland, OR

Michael A. Wilson,MD

Providence Heart institute, Portland, OR

Jason R. Wollmuth, MD

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Robert W. Yeh, MD, MBA

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Ondokuz Mayis University Medical Faculty,

Samsun, Turkey

Ufuk Yildirim, MD

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Laura Young, MD

Operations Team

Global Director

Bavana V. Rangan, BDS, MPH

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Research Associate

Olga Mastrodemos, BA

Michaella Alexandrou, MD

Sens Senior Research Scholar, Database Manager

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Pedro Carvalho, MD

Raymond Ames and Barbara Thorndike Research Scholar, Database Manager

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Dimitrios Strepkos, MD

Research Scholar, Database Manager

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