John R. Lesser, MD, FACC
SCCT Board of Directors
Dr. Lesser is an interventional cardiologist and director of cardiovascular MRI and CT at the Minneapolis Heart Institute. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Lesser is on the Society of Cardiovascular CT’s (SCCT) Board of Directors where he serves as Chairman of the Accreditation, Certification, and Guidelines Committee. He holds professional memberships as a fellow with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and as a member of the American Heart Association (AHA), The Society for Cardiac Angiography and Intervention (SCAI), and the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR). He has previously served on the Board of Directors with the Intersocietal Commission for CT Accreditation of Laboratories as well as the Credentialing and Certification Board for Cardiovascular CT.
Dr. Lesser has experience interpreting more than 4,500 MRI cardiovascular studies and more than 3,000 coronary and peripheral CT angiogram cases. He has reached Level III competency in Cardiac MRI. Dr. Lesser received his M.D. from University of Florida and his B.A. from University of Pennsylvania.
Carter Newton, MD, FACC
SCCT founding member, Assistant Clinical Professor of Cardiology and Radiology (University of Arizona School of Medicine, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine)
Dr. Carter Newton is a Cardiologist and Medical Imaging Consultant in Tucson, Arizona. He received his B.S. and B.A. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and in Biology from Stanford University. He attended UCLA Medical School and then remained at UCLA for postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and in Cardiology. He holds American Board certification in both specialties and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Cardiology and Radiology at the University of Arizona School of Medicine and the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
He operates a Telecardiology reading and peer review service for the South Carolina Heart Center, The Nebraska Heart Institute, St. Thomas Cardiology of Nashville, Little Rock Cardiology, the Catholic Health Care West Hospitals in Phoenix and numerous other imaging sites across the US. He is on the Speakers Bureau and is a Designated Luminary for TeraRecon Inc, of San Mateo, California.
Dr. Newton was for 18 years an invasive cardiologist in private practice in Santa Monica, California. In January 2000 he left patient care medicine to pursue medical computing and medical imaging full time. He is a founding member of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography and serves on the Committee for Training, Education and Credentialing.
Robert S. Schwartz, MD, FACC
Dr. Robert Schwartz is a Professor of Medicine at University of Minnesota Medical School, Medical Director at the Minnesota Cardiovascular Research Institute, and Cardiologist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute. His clinical and research interests include interventional cardiology, imaging, clinical information processing and clinical medical care.
He was previously Director at the Center for Applied Vascular Biology and Interventions, Mayo Foundation. Dr. Schwartz has also served as Professor and Associate Professor at the Mayo Medical School. He holds Board Certifications on: the National Board of Medical Examiners; American Board of Internal Medicine; and the American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases. He has published numerous articles in peer review journals, dealing with interventional cardiology.
Dr. Schwartz is the recipient of various awards, including the Andreas Gruentzig Award for Basic Research in Coronary Restenosis from the Thoraxcenter/European Society of Cardiology. He holds professional memberships as Fellow of American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions. Dr. Schwartz is also a founding member of the Society for Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. Dr. Schwartz received a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and an M.D. from the University of Colorado-Denver.
Peter S. Fail, MD, FACC
Dr. Peter Fail received his undergraduate degree at the University of South Florida in Tampa and his medical degree from American University of the Caribbean in Montserrat, British Indies.
In addition to an internship and residency in internal medicine, Dr. Fail also served as chief fellow in interventional cardiology at the Episcopal Heart Institute in Philadelphia. He later became director of the institute's cardiac catheterization laboratory. Dr. Fail was a clinical assistant professor of medicine at both Thomas Jefferson School of Medicine and the Allegheny Health Science School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Chest Physicians, the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Medical Association. He has written or co-authored numerous research papers, abstracts, book chapters and medical presentations in his specialty.
Dr. Fail is the director of cardiac catheterization laboratories, interventional research and CT imaging for Cardiovascular Institute of the South (CIS) and medical director of interventional trials for the CIS Clinical Research Corporation in Houma, Louisiana.
Ravi Bathina MD, FACC
Dr. Bathina completed his internship, internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship in North Western University affiliate hospitals in Chicago. He is American Board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Geriatric Medicine and Nuclear Cardiology.
Dr. Bathina
completed his fellowship in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance at Royal Brampton Hospital, London. He is one of the founding members of a large multispeciality medical group and practiced in Fort Wayne, Indiana for more than two decades. He has been a part time teaching faculty at CVCTA Education for 3 years.
Brendan Cavanaugh, MD
Director of SCCT workgroups for Texas and New Mexico
Dr. Brendan Cavanaugh is the director of Cardiovascular CT at the New Mexico Heart Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He completed his cardiology fellowship at Northwestern Medical Center in Chicago, where he received Level III certification in Cardiovascular CT and was formally trained by both the departments of Radiology and Cardiology. Dr. Cavanaugh has interpreted over 2000 coronary and peripheral CT angiograms.
Dr. Cavanaugh is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease. His additional professional interests include the cardiovascular care of athletes, cardiovascular imaging, and preventive cardiology. He attended undergraduate at Colby College, Medical school at Rush University and completed his residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Erasmo de la Pena-Almaguer, MD, FACC
Dr. Erasmo de la Pena-Almaguer is a board certified cardiologist and has earned Level 3 competency in Cardiac CT Angiography from the SCCT as well as Level 3 from SCMR and ASNC. He founded the Cardiovascular Imaging Department at Christus-Muguerza Heart Institute, in Monterrey Mexico, partially owned by the USA Based Christus-Health Group.
He began clinical Cardiac and peripheral CT Angiography in 2002 with the first 16 slice scanner in Latin America after a Post-Doctoral fellowship from 1999 until 2002 at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Stanford University Medical Center.
He currently co-Chairs the Latin-American Working Group for the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and has been recently appointed director for Latin-American affairs for the SCCT.
He has taught several radiologists and cardiologists from Latin America as well as the US and is a founding member of the Society of Cardiovascular CT. He is founder and Professor of the Cardiovascular Imaging Fellowship from Monterrey's University and Associate Professor of Nuclear Medicine. Dr. De La Pena-Almaguer is on the Educational Advisory Board for General Electric Medical Systems, and Medical Imaging Systems (MEDIS, the Netherlands).
Michael W. Bungo, MD, FACC, FACP, CPE
Professor of Medicine in Cardiology
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston
Dr. Michael W. Bungo is a board certified cardiologist and has earned Level 3 competency in Cardiac CT Angiography. He is a full time faculty member at the University of Texas Medical School located in the Texas Medical Center, Houston (the largest medical complex in the world). Dr. Bungo is actively involved daily in teaching students, residents, and fellows. He has been jointly responsible for the establishment of the Cardiac CT program at Memorial Hermann Hospital – TMC Heart and Vascular Institute.
Dr. Bungo received his formal postgraduate training at Harvard Medical School and the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a Certified Physician Executive.
Prior to his involvement in academics, Dr. Bungo had been in private practice and also spent eleven years in the employment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, during which time his laboratory was responsible for several key spaceflight related cardiovascular investigations as well as the assurance of crew health and safety. He still continues to do funded research for NASA - Johnson Space Center.
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