Steering Committee and Speaker Biographies

Deepak Bhatt, MD, FACC, FAHA

Director of Integrated Interventional Cardiovascular Program
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA

Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, FACC, FAHA is Chief of Cardiology of the VA Boston Healthcare System and Director of the Integrated Interventional Cardiovascular Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the VA Boston Healthcare System. He is also a Senior Investigator in the TIMI Study Group and is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School.

After graduating as valedictorian from the Boston Latin School, Dr. Bhatt obtained his undergraduate science degree as a National Merit Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while also serving as a research associate at Harvard Medical School. He received his medical doctorate from Cornell University. His internship and residency in internal medicine were performed at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and his cardiovascular training was completed at the Cleveland Clinic. He also completed fellowships in interventional cardiology and cerebral and peripheral vascular intervention, as well as serving as chief interventional fellow at the Cleveland Clinic, where he went on to spend several years as an interventional cardiologist and an Associate Professor of Medicine. He served for many years as the Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship and as Associate Director of the Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship. He also served as the Associate Director of the Cleveland Clinic Cardiovascular Coordinating Center. Dr. Bhatt has been listed in Best Doctors in America every year since 2005.

Dr Bhatt's research interests include preventive cardiology, as well as the optimal management of patients with acute coronary syndromes. He also has research interests in advanced techniques in cardiac, cerebral, and peripheral intervention. He has authored or co-authored over 250 articles, he is on several editorial boards and is the editor of Essential Concepts in Cardiovascular Intervention and Guide to Peripheral and Cerebrovascular Intervention, as well as co-editor of the Handbook of Acute Coronary Syndromes. He is the international principal investigator for the CHARISMA and CRESCENDO trials and co-principal investigator of the CHAMPION and LANCELOT trials. He serves as the co-chair of the REACH registry, and he is also on the steering committees of several trials. Dr. Bhatt has been a visiting lecturer at a number of institutions throughout the world. He has been interviewed extensively by news agencies on topics ranging from premature coronary artery disease to the role of inflammation and genetics in heart attacks.

Sandeep Nathan, MD

Director of Cardiovascular Intervention
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Rush Medical College
Chicago, IL

Sandeep Nathan, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and is on the Interventional Cardiology staff at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Dr. Nathan earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from Boston University and completed his Internal Medicine residency training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

He completed his fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at Rush University Medical Center, where he also served as Chief Cardiology Fellow and subsequently received training in cardiovascular and peripheral vascular intervention. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology as well as the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. He currently serves as an investigator for a number of industry and NIH-sponsored studies and registries. He has coauthored numerous abstracts, original scientific manuscripts, and textbook chapters in the areas of acute coronary syndromes, platelet inhibition, percutaneous coronary intervention, and cardiogenic shock.