CRT 2026

Panel Discussion | Advanced Heart Failure Therapies: Focus on Cardiac Transplantation

Moderator(s)

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  Samer Najjar, MD

  Regional Chief of Cardiology (Baltimore)
  MedStar Health
  Baltimore, Maryland, United States

  Disclosure information not submitted.
• MR

  Mark Russo, MD

  Disclosure information not submitted.
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  Matthew Sherwood, MD, MHS

  System Director of Interventional Cardiology, Director of Structural Heart Program
  Inova Schar Heart and Vascular Institute, Virginia, United States

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Panel Discussant(s)

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  Waleed Al-Darzi, MD

  Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine at Michigan State University
  Henry Ford Health
  Detroit, Michigan, United States

  Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
• KB

  Keki Balsara, MD MBA FACS FACC

  Surgical Director, Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support
  Medstar Health

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  Richa Gupta, MD

  Assistant Professor of Medicine, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
  MedStar Health

  Disclosure information not submitted.
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  Jean-Michel Paradis, MD

  Structural and Interventional Cardiologist
  Quebec Heart and Lung Institute
  Quebec, Quebec, Canada

  Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
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  Sean P. Pinney, MD

  Chief of Cardiology, Mount Sinai Morningside
  Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai Morningside/West
  New York, New York, United States

  Disclosure information not submitted.
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  Melana Yuzefpolskaya, MD

  Associate Professor of Medicine
  Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, United States

  Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose