• Meet the Editors

  • SecondsCount Editorial Board

    SecondsCount.org is developed and maintained by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), the leading professional medical society for invasive and interventional cardiologists and cardiac cath lab teams. SCAI’s mission is to promote excellence in invasive and interventional cardiovascular medicine through education of both healthcare professionals and patients, representation, development of guidelines, and advancement of quality and safety standards.

    SCAI members who meet established performance standards and receive excellent peer recommendations can achieve the status of FSCAI, which stands for Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, or MSCAI, which stands for Master Interventionalist of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. When you see the FSCAI or MSCAI designation associated with your doctor’s name, you can be assured that he or she is committed to excellence and quality care.

    The SecondsCount Editorial Board is a team of highly accomplished SCAI members and their cath lab teams who personally oversee the content and development of this website. They invite your feedback at info@SCAI.org.

    Editors-in-Chief


     

    Dennis W. Kim, MD, Ph.D., FSCAI

    Editor-in-Chief, SecondsCount.org; Assistant Professor, Emory University School of Medicine; Sibley Heart Center Cardiology/Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia

     

    John P. Reilly, MD, FSCAI

    Associate Editor-in-Chief, SecondsCount.org; Vice-Chairman, Department of Cardiology, and Director, Cardiology Fellowship Program, Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

     

    Rena L. Silver, MSN, APN, CNP

    Associate Editor-in-Chief, SecondsCount.org; Advanced Practice Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Cardiology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston Hospital, Evanston, Illinois

       

     Editors


     

    Duraisamy Balaguru, MBBS, FSCAI

    Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric cardiology, University of Texas Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas

     

    Ian McAuley Billingsley, Bsc. MD, FRCP

    Medical Lead, Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory and Interventional Cardiology, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Ontario, Canada

     

    James C. Blankenship, MD, MHCM, FSCAI

    2015-16 President, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI); Department of Cardiology, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania

     

    Lyndon Carlos Box, MD, FSCAI

    Interventional Cardiologist, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Boise, Idaho

     

    Michael S. Chen, MD, FACC

    Interventional Cardiologist, Washington Adventist and Shady Grove Adventist Hospitals, Takoma Park, Maryland

     

    Catherine Collins RM, MSc, BSc (Hons), BA (Hons)

    Research Midwife, Reproductive Health Research Team, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom

     

    Peter L. Duffy, MD, MMM, FACC, FSCAI

    Director of Quality for the Cardiovascular Service Line, FirstHealth of the Carolinas Reid Heart Institute/Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst, North Carolina

     

    Ted E. Feldman, MD, MSCAI

    Past President, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI); Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston Hospital, Evanston, Illinois

     

    Andrew J. P. Klein, MD, FACC, FSCAI

    Staff Interventional Cardiologist, Vascular and Endovascular Medicine; Director, Cardiovascular Research; Director of Endovascular Services, John Cochran VA Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Medicine, St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

     

    Jacqueline Kreutzer, MD, FACC, FSCAI

    Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

     

    Vijay Kunadian, M.B.B.S., MD, M.R.C.P.

    Senior Lecturer, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University; Honorary Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom

     

    James A. Kuo, MD, FSCAI

    Interventional Pediatric Cardiologist, Cook Children's Medical Center, Fort Worth, Texas

     

    J. Jeffrey Marshall, MD, FSCAI, FACC

    Past President, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI); Director, Cardiac Catheterization Lab Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Gainesville, Georgia

     

    Sandeep Nathan, MD, MS, FACC, FSCAI

    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois

     

    George T. Nicholson, MD

    Pediatric Cardiology Fellow Emory University School of Medicine/Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta/Sibley Heart Center Cardiology, Atlanta, Georgia

     

    Sahil A. Parikh, MD, FSCAI, FACC

    Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director, Experimental Interventional Cardiology Laboratory, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio

     

    Lynn F. Peng, MD, FSCAI

    Clinical Assistant Professor, Associate Director of the Pediatric Catheterization Laboratory, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford Medical Center, Palo Alto, California

     

    Meredith Roman, RN, CCRN, BSN, MS, CPNP

    Cardiac Cath Lab, Sibley Heart Center Cardiology, Atlanta, Georgia

     

    Dawn E. Shaddinger, M.S.N., R.N., CCRN, CCRC

    Cardiovascular Research Manager, Yale University Department of Internal Medicine – Cardiovascular Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

     

    Howard Weber, MD, FSCAI

    Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Interventional Pediatric Cardiology, Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital, Hershey, Pennsylvania

     

    Bonnie H. Weiner, MD, MSEC, MBA, MSCAI

    Chair and Chief Medical Officer, Accreditation for Cardiovascular Excellence; Past President, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI); Director, Interventional Cardiology Research, Saint Vincent Hospital at Worcester Medical Center/Fallon Clinic, Worcester, Massachusetts; President of Imaging Core Lab Services; Medical Director, Boston Biomedical Associates, Boston, Massachusetts

     

    Derek A. Williams, D.O., FSCAI

    Associate Professor, Wake Forest Baptist Health-Brenner Children’s Hospital, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

     

    Linda Winke, MSN, APN-CNP

    Nurse Practitioner, Cardiology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois

     


    Jeffrey Zampi, MD

    Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Congenital Heart Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan