Akif Ündar, PhD
Founder of the Conference

Ross M. Ungerleider, MD
Local Chair

Educational Grants:

• Bayer Healthcare
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• Office of Rare Diseases at the National Institutes of Health

Conference Exhibitors:

• Baxter Healthcare Corp
• Berlin Heart
• CorMatrix Cardiovascular
  
• CryoLife, Inc.
• Levitronix, LLC
• Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
  
• Luna Innovations, Inc.
• MAQUET
• MEDOS Medizintechnik AG
  
• Medtronic Cardiac Surgery
• MicroMed Cardiovascular, Inc
• Somanetics Corporation
• Sorin Group USA, Inc.
  
• St. Jude Medical
• SynCardia Systems, Inc

Honorary Chairs:

• William S. Pierce, MD
• John A. Waldhausen, MD

Program Co-chairs:

• Brian W. Duncan, MD
• Carmen Giacomuzzi, BSN, CCP
• John L. Myers, MD
• Gerson Rosenberg, PhD
• Akif Ündar, PhD
• Ross M. Ungerleider, MD