Faculty

John Winscott

MD
Professor of Medicine and Surgery
The University of Mississippi Medical Center

Dr. Winscott is Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, with a dual appointment in the divisions of interventional cardiology and vascular surgery. He serves as the director of the adult cardiac catheterization laboratory and is the program director for both the interventional cardiology and the endovascular portion of the vascular surgery fellowship programs. He specializes in critical limb ischemia, limb salvage, CTO, alternative access, directional atherectomy, and anti-restenotic therapy. He serves as the vascular director for 5 wound care centers throughout the state of Mississippi.

2026 Sessions

Setting the Bar: Long‑Term Efficacy Outcomes with Paclitaxel DCBs from RCTs and Registries

Speaker

Thursday, August 06 9:08–9:15 AM
Room Picasso 1-3
Faculty

John Winscott

MD
Professor of Medicine and Surgery
The University of Mississippi Medical Center

Dr. Winscott is Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, with a dual appointment in the divisions of interventional cardiology and vascular surgery. He serves as the director of the adult cardiac catheterization laboratory and is the program director for both the interventional cardiology and the endovascular portion of the vascular surgery fellowship programs. He specializes in critical limb ischemia, limb salvage, CTO, alternative access, directional atherectomy, and anti-restenotic therapy. He serves as the vascular director for 5 wound care centers throughout the state of Mississippi.

Expert Case Review: Directional Atherectomy Followed by Drug-Coated Balloon Therapy for Femoropopliteal Artery Disease (non-accredited)

Sponsored by Medtronic.

Discussant

Live Case Operator

Moderator

Thursday, August 06 12:15–1:15 PM
Room Picasso 1-3
Course Director

Eric Scott

MD
Vascular Surgeon
The Iowa Clinic

Eric Scott, MD is a board-certified vascular surgeon at the Iowa Clinic in Des Moines, Iowa where he began practice in 2008. He performs both arterial and venous procedures and has special interest in endovascular therapies for PAD and treatment of critical limb ischemia. Outside of the hospital, he enjoys spending time with his wife and three sons biking, skiing, travleing, and playing tennis.

Faculty

Eric Secemsky

MD, MSc, RPVI, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, FSVM
Director of Vascular Interventon
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

Eric A. Secemsky, MD, MSc, RPVI, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, FSVM is the Director of Vascular Intervention and an interventional cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is also Section Head of Interventional Cardiology and Vascular Research at the Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Clinically, Dr. Secemsky splits his time attending in the cardiac catheterization lab, and the inpatient and outpatient vascular medicine services. Dr. Secemsky is the primary vascular interventionalist within the BIDMC catheterization lab, where he does complex venous and arterial procedures, with a focus on peripheral artery disease.

Dr. Secemsky leads the vascular and interventional research program at the Smith Center. His research involves utilizing real-world data to perform comparative effectiveness and outcomes research, with a focus on peripheral vascular disorders. Dr. Secemsky is involved in clinical trial design and implementation, and has served as an investigator on more than a dozen trials. Dr. Secemsky’s research program is funded by the National Institutes of Health, Harvard Medical School, extramural grants and philanthropy. Dr. Secemsky has authored more than 300 publications. He is an Associate Editor at Vascular Medicine and is on the Editorial Board at Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions and Journal of SCAI. He is on the Board of Directors for the VIVA Foundation, PERT Consortium and the Society for Vascular Medicine, and is the co-chair of the Vascular Disease Council for SCAI.

Faculty

Bobby Mendes

MD
Chief of Vascular Surgery
UNC Rex Hospital
Faculty

John Winscott

MD
Professor of Medicine and Surgery
The University of Mississippi Medical Center

Dr. Winscott is Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, with a dual appointment in the divisions of interventional cardiology and vascular surgery. He serves as the director of the adult cardiac catheterization laboratory and is the program director for both the interventional cardiology and the endovascular portion of the vascular surgery fellowship programs. He specializes in critical limb ischemia, limb salvage, CTO, alternative access, directional atherectomy, and anti-restenotic therapy. He serves as the vascular director for 5 wound care centers throughout the state of Mississippi.

CLTI Complication #1

Speaker

Thursday, August 06 2:50–2:57 PM
Room Picasso 4-6
Faculty

John Winscott

MD
Professor of Medicine and Surgery
The University of Mississippi Medical Center

Dr. Winscott is Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, with a dual appointment in the divisions of interventional cardiology and vascular surgery. He serves as the director of the adult cardiac catheterization laboratory and is the program director for both the interventional cardiology and the endovascular portion of the vascular surgery fellowship programs. He specializes in critical limb ischemia, limb salvage, CTO, alternative access, directional atherectomy, and anti-restenotic therapy. He serves as the vascular director for 5 wound care centers throughout the state of Mississippi.

Discussion

Discussant

Moderator

Thursday, August 06 3:49–4:10 PM
Room Picasso 4-6
Course Director

Yolanda Bryce

MD
Assistant Attending
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Yolanda Bryce, MD, RPVI completed her Medical School training at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 2009, followed by a Diagnostic Radiology Residency at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2014, a subspecialty training in Breast Imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in 2015, and a Fellowship in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute in 2016. She joined the faculty at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in August 2016 where she pioneers minimally invasive cryoablation technique to treat locoregional disease in patients that are poor surgical candidates or refuse surgery and works in a multidisciplinary team to expand treatment options for patients with metastatic breast cancer through interventional oncology. She also specializes in vascular disease in oncologic patients, boarded through the American Board of Vascular Medicine and holding a Registered Physician Vascular Interpretation (RPVI) certification. In 2018, she became the founding director of MSKCC’s Noninvasive Vascular Imaging Center and started the institution’s PAD program improving mobility and quality of life of some of the most vulnerable patients – those with both cancer and life-limiting PAD. Her PAD screening trial examines the prevalence and disparities of PAD in at-risk cancer patients.

Faculty

Pradeep Nair

MD, FACC, FSCAI
Interventional Cardiologist
Cardiovascular Institute of the South

Dr. Pradeep K. Nair, an interventional cardiologist, is Vice-Chairman of New Cardiovascular Horizons Conference in New Orleans, LA. He joined the Cardiovascular Institute of the South (CIS) in 2015. A native of Somerset Pennsylvania, he graduated with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University and earned his medical doctorate at Drexel University College of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowships in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian Campus where he was recognized with several awards of distinction for his cardiovascular research. He went on to complete a year of an advanced endovascular interventional fellowship under the mentorship of Craig Walker at the CIS in Houma, LA.

Dr. Nair is licensed by the State Board of Medicine in Pennsylvania and Louisiana. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, nuclear cardiology and echocardiography. He currently practices in Houma, Gray and Zachary, Louisiana where he specializes in peripheral arterial/venous disease and interventions. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions. He serves Horizon's International Peripheral Group, Board of OEIS, ACC Vascular Disease Section Leadership Council, and CLI Global Society Publication Committee. He has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and presented and performed Live Endovascular Cases at several cardiovascular meetings. Having a keen clinical research interest of novel interventional devices and therapies, he is dedicated to supporting the advancement of our field.

Faculty

Constantino Peña

MD, FSIR
Medical Director of Vascular Imaging
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute

Constantino S. Peña, M.D., serves as the Section Head of interventional radiology. He is the medical director of vascular imaging at Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute.
Dr. Peña earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford University, and his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in diagnostic radiology and a vascular and interventional fellowship in Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr. Peña is a clinical associate professor of radiology at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. He has presented in numerous national and international meetings as well as participated in multiple clinical trials.
He has served for many professional organizations. He serves as the chair for the Cardiovascular Radiology & Intervention Council of the American Heart Association. He presently serves on the executive council of the Society of Interventional Radiology and was a past Annual Meeting Chair. He has served on several committee on the American Board of radiology and is a Board examiner. He also served on the Radiology Info Committee of the American College of Radiology and Radiological Society of North America and the Society of Interventional Radiology Oncology Service Line.
Dr. Peña is a fellow of the Society of Interventional Radiology, American Heart Association and the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (CT). He is also a member of the Radiological Society of North America, American College of Radiology, Society of Cardiovascular CT, Iberoamerican Society of Interventional Radiology and the North American Society for Cardiac Imaging.

Course Director

Fadi Saab

MD
Medical Director of Endovascular Therapy and Director of Cardiovascular Research
Michigan Outpatient Vascular Institute

Fadi A. Saab, M.D., is an interventional cardiologist specializing in endovascular revascularization of peripheral vascular disease, with a particular interest in critical limb ischemia (CLI). He also specializes in treating venous insufficiency and cardiac issues, including high blood pressure and carotid artery disease. Dr. Saab earned his medical degree from the Damascus University School of Medicine, Syria, and completed an internal medicine residency at Detroit Medical Center-Sinai Grace Hospital, affiliated with Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. He then completed a cardiology outcome research fellowship at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; a noninvasive cardiology fellowship at St. John Hospital & Medical Center, Detroit, MI; and fellowships in cardiovascular medicine and interventional cardiology at Baystate Medical Center, affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine, Springfield, MA. Dr. Saab is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions, and the American Society of Echocardiography.. Saab is currently Medical Director of Endovascular Therapy and Director of Cardiovascular Research at Michigan Outpatient Vascular Institute in Dearborn, MI. Dr. Saab actively participates in clinical research and has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications. He is an active member of the CLI Global Society and chairs the Society's Publication Committee.

Faculty

Mike Watts

MD FSIR
Interventional Radiologist
Atlantic Medical Imaging

Dr. Mike Watts attended the University of Buffalo for his medical training, earning his MD in 2006, completed surgical internship and radiology residency at the Cleveland Clinic in 2011 and his fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. He was the fellowship director for interventional radiology at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of interventional radiology at the Philadelphia VA until 2016. Since then he has been committed to limb preservation, treating CLI on a full-time basis in an outpatient setting. He currently practices at the Vascular Institute of Atlantic Medical Imaging.

Faculty

John Winscott

MD
Professor of Medicine and Surgery
The University of Mississippi Medical Center

Dr. Winscott is Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, with a dual appointment in the divisions of interventional cardiology and vascular surgery. He serves as the director of the adult cardiac catheterization laboratory and is the program director for both the interventional cardiology and the endovascular portion of the vascular surgery fellowship programs. He specializes in critical limb ischemia, limb salvage, CTO, alternative access, directional atherectomy, and anti-restenotic therapy. He serves as the vascular director for 5 wound care centers throughout the state of Mississippi.

Course Director

John Phillips

MD
Medical Director, Endovascular Therapies
Riverside Methodist Hospital

Dr. John A. Phillips, MD is a cardiology and peripheral vascular interventionalist in Columbus, Ohio. He is affiliated with OhioHealth, Riverside Methodist Hospital and has been in practice there for 15 years. Dr. Phillips is the medical director for endovascular medicine and the clinical operations council chief for the heart and vascular service line at Riverside Methodist.

Case Based Strategies for Treating Peripheral Arterial Calcification Across Multiple Vessel Beds (non-accredited)

This interactive symposium will explore how intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) can be applied across a variety of peripheral vessel beds using Shockwave’s expanding portfolio of technologies. Through two prerecorded case presentations, faculty will demonstrate treatment strategies in complex calcified disease, highlighting the use of different IVL platforms in distinct clinical scenarios. The cases will serve as the foundation for an expert panel discussion focused on patient selection, procedural planning, device selection, and practical considerations for treating calcified peripheral arterial disease across diverse anatomies. Attendees will gain insights into how a comprehensive IVL portfolio can support tailored treatment approaches throughout the peripheral vasculature.

Sponsored by Shockwave

Speaker

Friday, August 07 12:45–1:45 PM
Room Picasso 1-3
Faculty

Michael Siah

MD
Assistant Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Michael Siah, M.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He is a board-certified vascular surgeon and has been practicing at UT Southwestern since 2019.

Dr. Siah earned his medical degree at the University of Hawaii’s John A. Burns School of Medicine and completed a residency in vascular surgery at Georgetown University Hospital/Washington Hospital Center. He has delivered a number of presentations and published several academic articles and book chapters.

Additionally, he is Director of the Limb Salvage Program in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at UT Southwestern. His primary clinical focus is on therapies for peripheral vascular disease, diabetic limb salvage, complex deep venous disease, and carotid disease.

Faculty

Mike Watts

MD FSIR
Interventional Radiologist
Atlantic Medical Imaging

Dr. Mike Watts attended the University of Buffalo for his medical training, earning his MD in 2006, completed surgical internship and radiology residency at the Cleveland Clinic in 2011 and his fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in 2012. He was the fellowship director for interventional radiology at the University of Pennsylvania and the director of interventional radiology at the Philadelphia VA until 2016. Since then he has been committed to limb preservation, treating CLI on a full-time basis in an outpatient setting. He currently practices at the Vascular Institute of Atlantic Medical Imaging.

Faculty

John Winscott

MD
Professor of Medicine and Surgery
The University of Mississippi Medical Center

Dr. Winscott is Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, with a dual appointment in the divisions of interventional cardiology and vascular surgery. He serves as the director of the adult cardiac catheterization laboratory and is the program director for both the interventional cardiology and the endovascular portion of the vascular surgery fellowship programs. He specializes in critical limb ischemia, limb salvage, CTO, alternative access, directional atherectomy, and anti-restenotic therapy. He serves as the vascular director for 5 wound care centers throughout the state of Mississippi.

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