Masterclass in Cardiac Amyloidosis: Disease Spectrum, Diagnosis and Management

Program Director
Saurabh Malhotra, MD, MPH, FASNC – Cardiologist, Director, Advanced Cardiac Imaging and Cardiac Stress Testing Laboratory, Cook County Health, Chicago, IL 

Faculty
Cigdem Akincioglu, MD, FASNC – Department of Medical Imaging, London Health Sciences Centre, University Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada

Kevin Alexander, MD – Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA

Katherine Lee Chuy, MD – Carondelet Health Network, Tucson, AZ

Angela Dispenzieri, MD – Professor of Medicine and of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Sharmila Dorbala, MD, MPH, MASNC – Professor of Radiology and Director of Nuclear Cardiology, MassGeneralBrigham, Boston, MA

Cesia Gallegos-Kattán, MD, MHS, FASNC – Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Wael Jaber, MD, FASNC – Section of Cardiovascular Imaging, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

Mike Lane – Founder, Amyloidosis Army, Grandview, MO

Ahmad Masri, MD, MS – Cardiomyopathy Section Head, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR

Mathew Maurer, MD – Arnold and Arlene Goldstein Professor of Cardiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY

Frederick Ruberg, MD – Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, Professor, Radiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Prem Soman, MD, PhD, MASNC – Professor of Medicine, Richard S. Caligiuri Endowed Chair in Amyloidosis and Heart Failure and, Director of the Cardiac Amyloidosis Center and, Director of Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac Imaging Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Brett Sperry, MD, FASNC – Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, MO

Andrew Staron, MD – Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA

Jonathan Wall, PhD – Professor and Assistant Dean for Research, Division of Research, Preclinical and Diagnostic Molecular Imaging Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Ashutosh Wechalekar, MBBS, MD – Professor of Medicine and Hematology, University College London, London, UK

David Wolinsky, MD, MASNC – Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic, Weston, FL

Sasha Zivkovic, MD, PhD– Academic Chief, Neuromuscular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 

Technologist Program: Saturday, March 14, 2026

Program Director: 
Saurabh Malhotra, MD, MPH, FASNC – Director, Advanced Cardiac Imaging and Cardiac Stress Testing Laboratory, Cook County Health, Chicago, IL

Program Chairs
A Sami Abuzaid, MD, FASNC – Alaska Heart & Vascular Institute, Anchorage, AK

Vasvi Singh, MD, FASNC – MidWest Heart and & Vascular Specialists, Overland Park, KS

Faculty
Mark Hyun, CNMT, NCT, RS, RT(N,R,CT), FASNC – Chief Nuclear Medicine Technologist and Technical Manager, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Maria Mackin, BS, MS, CNMT, RT (N), LNMT, FASNC – Chief Technologist, Nuclear Cardiology Laboratory Supervisor, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

Ronald G. Schwartz, MD, MS, MASNC – Professor of Medicine and Imaging Sciences, Director of Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac PET CT, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY