Course Director
 
Anthony Yim  
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery 
Department of Surgery 
The Chinese University of Hong Kong 
HONG KONG
 
 
Course Co-Directors
 
Stephen Hazelrigg  
Professor and Chairman 
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery 
Southern Illinois School of Medicine 
Springfield, Illinois 
USA
Mohammad Bashar Izzat  
Section Head, Cardiac Surgery 
Department of Surgery 
The Chinese University of Hong Kong 
HONG KONG 
 
Rodney Landreneau  
Section Head, Thoracic Surgery 
Allegheny General Hospital 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
USA 
 
Hani Shennib 
Associate Professor 
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery 
McGill University 
Montreal, Quebec 
CANADA
 
 
 
Faculty
 
Zohair Al-Halees 
Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases 
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre 
Riyadh 
SAUDI ARABIA 
Hui-Ping Liu 
Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital 
Taipei 
TAIWAN
Gianni Angelini 
Professor of Cardiac Surgery 
Bristol Heart Institute 
University of Bristol 
UK
James Luketich  
Head, Section of Thoracic Surgery
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
USA
Kit Arom 
Cardiac Surgical Associates, P.A. 
Minneapolis, Minnesota 
USA 
 
Tsuguo Naruke 
Chairman, Department of Surgery 
National Cancer Center Hospital 
Chuo-Ku, Tokyo 
JAPAN 
John Benfield  
Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery 
University of California, Davis, Medical Center 
School of Medicine 
Sacramento, California 
USA
Keith Naunheim  
Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery 
St. Louis University Health Sciences Center 
St. Louis, MO 
USA
 
Antonio Calafiore 
Professor, Division of Cardiac Surgery 
D.G. Annunzio University 
Chieti 
ITALY
Peter Pairolero  
Chairman, Department of Surgery 
Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation 
Rochester, Minnesota 
USA
Randolph Chitwood 
Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery 
East Carolina University School of Medicine 
Greenville, North Carolina 
USA
 
Ugo Pastorino  
Direttore Dott. 
Divisione di Chirugia Toracica 
Instituto Europeo di Oncologia 
Milano 
ITALY
Sydney Chung  
Professor of Surgery 
Department of Surgery 
The Chinese University of Hong Kong 
HONG KONG
 
Griffith Pearson  
Professor, Division of Thoracic Surgery 
Department of Surgery 
Toronto General Hospital 
Toronto, Ontario 
CANADA 
Robert Emery  
Cardiac Surgical Associates, P.A. 
Minneapolis, Minnesota 
USA
 
John Sanderson
Head, Division of Cardiology
Department of Medicine
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
HONG KONG
Thomas Ferguson  
Emeritus Professor of Surgery 
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery 
Washington University School of Medicine 
St. Louis, Missouri 
USA
Eugene Sim  
Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery 
Department of Surgery 
National University Hospital 
SINGAPORE
 
Manson Fok  
Pedder Medical Partners 
Pedder Building 
Central 
HONG KONG
Joshua Sonett 
Division of General Thoracic Surgery 
The University of Maryland School of Medicine 
Baltimore, Maryland 
USA 
Sami Kabbani 
Professor and Chief 
Damascus University Cardiovascular Surgical Center 
Damascus 
SYRIA 
 
Valavanur Subramanian 
Director 
Department of Surgery 
Lenox Hill Hospital 
New York 
USA
Robert Keenan  
Vice Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery 
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center 
University Hospital 
Pittsburg, PA 
USA
Thomas Todd 
Head, Division of Thoracic Surgery 
Department of Surgery 
The Toronto Hospital 
Toronto, Ontario 
CANADA 
Mark Krasna 
Associate Professor of Surgery 
Director, General Thoracic Surgery 
The University of Maryland School of Medicine 
Baltimore, Maryland 
USA
William Walker 
Consultant, Cardiothoracic Surgeon 
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery 
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh 
Edinburgh, Scotland 
UK
Tak-Wai Lee 
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery 
Department of Surgery 
The Chinese University of Hong Kong 
HONG KONG
Song Wan 
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery 
Department of Surgery 
The Chinese University of Hong Kong 
HONG KONG
Toni Lerut  
Professor of Surgery 
Division of General Thoracic Surgery 
U.Z. Gasthuisberg, Leuven 
BELGIUM
Randall Wolf 
Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgeons 
Cincinnati, OH 
USA 
 
Ralph Lewis  
The Cardio-Thoracic Surgical Group 
New Brunswick, NJ 
USA 
Joseph Zwischenberger 
Professor, Surgery, Medicine and Radiology 
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery 
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston 
Galveston, Texas 
USA 
Pyng-Jing Lin 
Chief, Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital 
Taipei 
TAIWAN