2026 Faculty – Aortic Bootcamp

Prakash Krishnan, MD

Director, Endovascular Services
Mount Sinai Health System
The Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, New York

Kelsey Berger, MD

Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery
The Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, New York

Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD

Randall B. Griepp Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery
System Director of Aortic Surgery
The Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, New York

Justin George, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery
The Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, New York

Daniel K. Han, MD

Professor of Surgery and Radiology
Mount Sinai Division of Vascular Surgery
Associate Program Director
The Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, New York

James F. McKinsey, MD

Mount Sinai Endowed Professor of Vascular Surgery and Interventional Radiology
Vice Chairman; System Chief of Aortic Interventions
Surgical Director of The Jacobson Aortic Center
Mount Sinai Health System
New York, New York

John Phair, MD

Assistant Professor of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
The Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, New York

Ajit G. Rao, MD

Associate Professor
Director of Vascular Surgery Research and
Vascular Surgery Simulation Center
The Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, New York

Christopher J. Smolock, MD

Associate Professor and Chief of Vascular Surgery at Mount Sinai Queens
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York, New York

Rami O. Tadros, MD

Site Director of Endovascular Aortic Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital
Senior Associate Program Director of the Vascular Surgery Residency and Fellowship
Professor of Surgery and Radiology
Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery
The Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, New York

William Beckerman, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Alfio Carroccio, MD

Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery
Lenox Hill Hospital
New York, New York

Daniel Clair, MD

Chairman, Department of Vascular Surgery
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee

Sharif Ellozy, MD

Program Director, Vascular Surgery Fellowship
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
New York, New York

Yana Etkin, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery
Associate Chief of Vascular Surgery
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
New Hyde Park, New York

Karan Garg, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, New York

Mallika Gopal, MD

Vascular Surgery
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, New Jersey

Shivani Kumar, MD

Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery
Program Director, Vascular Surgery Fellowship
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts

Nathan Liang, MD

Vascular Surgeon and Associate Professor of Surgery and Bioengineering
UMPC Heart and Vascular Institue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Kenneth R. Nakazawa, MD

Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery
Lenox Hill Hospital / Northwell Health
New York, New York

Thomas O'Donnell, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery
New York Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center
New York, New York

J. Westley Ohman, MD

Vascular Surgeon
WashU Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri

Prashanth Palvannan, MD

Assistant Professor
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts

Ezequiel Parodi, MD

Associate Professor
UNC School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Lucyna Z. Price, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery
Vascular Surgery Fellowship Director
Stony Brook University Hospital
Stony Brook, New York

Reid A. Ravin, MD

Vascular Surgeon
Christiana Care
Newark, Delaware

Darren B. Schneider, MD

Professor and Chief, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Therapy
University of Pennsylvania
Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Nicholas J. Stafford, MD

Attending Surgeon
Assistant Professor
WMCHealth Physicians Vascular
Carmel, New York

Jordan R. Stern, MD

Vascular Surgeon
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York

William Yoon, MD, PhD

Director of the Complex Aortic Center
MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute
Washington DC