Ziyad Hijazi

Currently the Director & Chief Medical Officer (Acting), Service Chief-Pediatrics of the Sidra Cardiovascular Center of Excellence and Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine James A.Hunter, MD, University Professor, of Rush University Medical Center. Known worldwide through an illustrious career in congenital and structural cardiac interventions, Dr. Hijazi’s experience in clinical and investigational interventional cardiology has informed a prodigious collection of publications and original contributions to the field. Past Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at Tufts University, University of Chicago, and now Chief at Rush University Medical Center, he serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards and directs the PICS-AICS, the annual symposium of pediatric and adult structural heart disease. At the forefront of developments, he has pioneered a number of interventional treatments for pediatric and adult structural heart disease, including transcatheter pulmonary heart valve implantation. He served as the principal investigator for the pivotal U.S. trial of the Edwards transcatheter pulmonary valve, and his work on this procedure continues to guide its development. He has published more than 200 papers in peer reviewed journals and 5 books.