Organizer

Wellington Hospital, New Zealand
Professor Harding is an Interventional Cardiologist and the Director of Cardiology Research at Wellington Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand. He is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University, Wellington and a past chairman of the New Zealand Interventional Working Group. Professor Harding undertook cardiology training in Wellington Hospital, New Zealand and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, United Kingdom before undertaking an Interventional Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. His major interventional interests are treatment of chronic total coronary occlusions, treatment of complex coronary lesions and intravascular imaging. Professor Harding has lectured on and proctored CTO and complex PCI internationally and has expertise in anterograde wiring, retrograde and anterograde dissection re-entry techniques. Current research interests include CTO PCI, intravascular imaging, acute coronary syndromes, coronary intervention, platelet biology and antiplatelet agents.

Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, China
Pengcheng He, MD, PhD, graduated from the Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Science in 2001 and have been working at Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital since then. Dr. He also obtained a PCI fellowship in Royal Alexandra Hospital in Canada and currently work as a consultant cardiologist in Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital/Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute in the subspecialty in percutaneous intervention for coronary and aortic diseases. Dr. He has presented challenging cases in TCT, EuroPCR and other major interventional cardiology conferences. Dr. He is open to communicate with peers and has been active in many conference organized by different societies. He is now Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC), Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) and Fellow of the Asian Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology (APSIC) and Youth Member of Chinese College of Cardiology Physicians (CCCP).

Promed Hospital, Chennai, India
Arun Kalyanasundaram MD is a recognized leader in the field of Chronic Total Occlusion Interventions in the US and globally. He served as the head of the CTO PCI program at Swedish Medical center, Seattle, US. He is a consultant to many companies in the field of CTOs and is one of the most widely sought out proctors for teaching this procedure within the US and internationally. He is extensively published in the field of cardiology, especially in the area of CTOs. Besides holding an academic appointment at the University of Washington, Seattle, he most recently has been a full time proctor for CTOs in the Asia-Pacific region and has helped disseminate the “Hybrid CTO” approach. Presently, he serves as a Director, Interventional cardiology at Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, and heads the CTO PCI program there.

Asan Medical Center, South Korea
Dr Pil-Hyung LEE graduated from school of medicine in Kyung Pook National University and spent his residency and fellowship in Asan Medical Center, a tertiary referral hospital in Seoul, Korea. As an assistant professor at AMC, he is engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of coronary or peripheral arterial obstructive disease, structural heart disease, and aortic disease. With the experience of endovascular interventions of peripheral arterial CTOs, he has expanded his practices and researches to coronary CTOs.
Collaborating with Dr. Seung-Whan Lee, they have established a practical strategy for coronary CTOs in their center, involving pre-PCI evaluation (CT, planning strategies), peri-PCI complication managements, dual operator concept, and appropriate stenting strategies, etc. Their CTO researches focus on the indications and outcomes of CTO-PCI. The representative work would be the DECISION CTO trial. They are focusing on the ways to effectively do the PCI using the AP CTO club algorithm, and establish an appropriate stenting strategy to maximize the patency of stent.

National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) U.S.A.
Adjunct Associate Professor Lim Soo Teik is Deputy Medical Director, National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS), and Director of the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory and Senior Consultant with the Department of Cardiology at NHCS. He is also the Deputy Academic Vice Chair, Training & Education in the Cardiovascular Sciences Academic Clinical Programme.
Adj Assoc Prof Lim’s subspecialty interest is in interventional cardiology. He specialises in coronary angioplasty and stenting, as well as peripheral vascular intervention and is the program lead for the CTEPH service. The team provides both the balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) and pulmonary endarterectomy for CTEPH patients.

Liverpool Hospital, Australia
Chair-Elect, Interventional Council
Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand
Dr Sidney Lo is an Australian-based health professional. Dr Lo is trained as a Cardiologist (Heart Specialist) and has practices located in Liverpool, Liverpool.