Panel Discussion | LVADS

Sunday, March 8, 2026

9:26 AM - 9:46 AM EST

Location: Georgetown

Moderator(s)

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Keki Balsara, MD MBA FACS FACC

Surgical Director, Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support
Medstar Health

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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
Farooq Sheikh, MD

Medical Director, Advanced Heart Failure Program
MedStar Health, Georgetown University School of Medicine
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Panel Discussant(s)

Itsik Ben-Dor, MD

WHC
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Jonathan Grinstein, MD

Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Cardiac Transplantation Physician
University of Chicago
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Bethesda, MD, United States

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Robert J. Lederman, MD

Senior Investigator, Chief, Laboratory of Cardiovascular Intervention
National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Disclosure(s): National Institutes of Health: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing), I am co-inventor on patent applications assigned to NIH (my employer) (Ongoing)
Michael M. Madani, MD

Chief, Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
UC San Diego Health
La Jolla, California, United States

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Mandeep R. Mehra, MD, MSc, FRCP

William Harvey Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Needham, Minnesota, United States

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Ileana L. Pina, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University
Cleveland hts, Ohio, United States

Disclosure information not submitted.

Disclosure(s):

Melana Yuzefpolskaya, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Itsik Ben-Dor, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Robert J. Lederman, MD: National Institutes of Health: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing), I am co-inventor on patent applications assigned to NIH (my employer) (Ongoing)