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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

Yale University/ Yale New Haven Hospital

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

Memorial Bahcelievler Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Omer Goktekin, MD, FESC, FSCAI

St. Luke's Mid America Heart Institute,

Kansas City, MO

J. Aaron Grantham, MD

Carolina East Heart Center, New Bern, NC

Matt Grove, MD

Acibadem Kocaeli Hospital, Izmit,

Turkey

Sevket Gorgulu, MD

Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Medicine, Konya, Turkey

Ahmet Seyfeddin Gürbüz, MD

Massachussetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Farouc Jaffer, MD, PhD

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Tristar Centennial Medical Center,

Nashville, TN

Brian Jefferson, MD

Saint Thomas Heart Hospital, Nashville, TN

Elias V Haddad, MD

Yasser Jamil, MD

Yale University/ Yale New Haven Hospital

Emory University Hospital Midtown,

Atlanta, GA

Wissam Jaber, MD

Nihat Kalay, MD

Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey

St. George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

Fadi Abou Jaoudeh, MD

David E. Kandzari, MD

Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, GA

Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands

J. Wouter Jukema, MD, PhD

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Ismail Dogu Kilic, MD

Pammukale University, Denizli, Turkey

University of Vermont Medical Center,
Burlington, VT

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Saint Thomas Heart Hospital, Nashville, TN

Jimmy L. Kerrigan, MD

Kathleen E. Kearney, MD

University of Washington, Seattle

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

Jaikirshan Khatri, MD

Kadriye Orta Kilickesmez, MD

Prof Dr Cemil Tascioglu City Hospital,
Istanbul, Turkey

Georges Khoueiry, MD

North Oaks Health System, Hammond, LA

Dmitrii Khelimskii, MD

Meshalkin Novosibirsk Research Institute,

Novosibirsk, Russia

Ajay J. Kirtane, MD

Columbia University, New York, NY

Alex R. Kirby, MD

Carolina East Heart Center, New Bern, NC

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The Christ Hospital - Ohio Heart & Vascular,

Cincinnati, OH

James A. Kong, MD

Henry Dunant Hospital Center, Athens, Greece

Athanasios Kolyviras, MD, PhD

The Promed Hospital, Chennai, India

Arun Kalyanasundaram, MD, MPH

St Vincent Hospital,

Indianapolis, IN

Michael J Kourany, MD

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Biruni University, Istanbul, Turkey

Cuneyt Kocas, MD

Meshalkin Novosibirsk Research Institute,

Novosibirsk, Russia

Oleg Krestyaninov, MD

Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, FL, USA

Anton Lishmanov, MD, PhD

Red Cross Hospital of Athens, Athens,

Greece

Zenon S. Kyriakides, MD

Nicholas Lembo, MD

Columbia Univerity, New York, NY

Oklahoma City VA Medical Center,

Oklahoma City, OK

Faisal Latif, MD

Assaad Maalouf, MD

St. George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

University of Washington Medical Center,

Seattle, WA

William L. Lombardi, MD

Trinity Medical WNY, Buffalo, NY

Henry Meltser, MD

UCSD, La Jolla, CA

Ehtisham Mahmud, MD

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Belal Al Khiami, MBBS

University of California San Diego (UCSD)/

San Diego VA Medical Center (SDVA)

St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg,

Manitoba, Canada

Michael P. Love, MD

Asaad Nakhle, MD

Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

Tulane Heart and Vascular Institute,

New Orleans, LA

Owen Mogabgab, MD

Leiden University Medical Center,
Netherlands

Jose M. Montero Cabezas, MD

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Husam Noor, MD

Mohammed Bin Khalifa
Specialist Cardiac Centre (MKCC)

Can Nguyen, MD

Quebec Heart and Lung Institute,
Quebec City, Canada

Charles Orr, MD

St Vincent Hospital,

Indianapolis, IN

Jeffrey W. Moses, MD

Columbia University, New York, NY

Bezmialem Vakif University,

Istanbul, Turkey

Ramazan Ozdemir, MD

Jean-Michel Paradis, MD

Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Quebec City, Canada

Manish A. Parikh, MD

Columbia University, New York, NY

Ashish Pershad, MD

Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center,

Phoenix, AZ

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The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, Plano, TX

Srinivasa Potluri, MD

Tristar Centennial Medical Center,

Nashville, TN

Taral Patel, MD

Maine Health Cardiology /

Maine Medical Center, ME

Colin T. Phillips, MD

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Paul Poommipanit, MD

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center,

Nashville, TN

Leah M. Raj, MD

North Oaks Health System,

Hammond, LA

Nidal Abi Rafeh, MD

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The Christ Hospital - Ohio Heart & Vascular,

Cincinnati, OH

Joel P. Reginelli, MD

Kettering Medical Center, Dayton, OH

Niranjan Reddy, MD

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Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX

Alpesh R. Shah, MD

Overlake Medical Center, WA

Robert Riley, MD

Habib Samady, MD

Northeast Georgia Medical Center,

Gainesville, GA

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

Daniel R Schimmel, Jr, MD, MS

Yasser Sadek, MD

National Heart Institute, Cairo, Egypt

Ahmad Samir, MD, MSc

Aswan Heart Centre, Magdi Yacoub

Foundation, Egypt

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Raouf Mahmoud Shaaban, MD, MSc

Dar Al Fouad Hospital, Cairo, Egypt

Providence Health Center, Waco, TX

Charles A. Shoultz Jr., MD

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

Michaella Alexandrou, MD

Sens Senior Research Scholar, Database Manager

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Dimitrios Strepkos, MD

Research Scholar, Database Manager

Research Scholar, Database Manager

Deniz Mutlu, MD

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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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Eleni Kladou, MD

Research Scholar, Database Manager

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