Physiology guided complex PCI using Optowire™ 2nd Generation Fiber Optic Pressure Guidewire

Dr Hitoshi Matsuo is currently President of Gifu Heart Center, and Clinical Visiting Professor of Medicine in Gifu University School of Medicine. He graduated from Jichi Medical School in 1986. He spent one year at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore as a research fellow of Nuclear Medicine from 1987. He dedicated his clinical research work on physiology and interventional cardiology using pressure guide wires at Gifu Prefectural General Medical Center, Toyohashi Heart Center and Gifu Heart Center. Dr Matsuo is now participating in and contributing to many international multi-center trials including DEFINE-FLAIR, international multicenter FFRCT registry (ADVANCE registry), 3V-FFR FRIENDS study, DEFINE FLOW study and FAVOR2 Europe and Japan.

Dr Allen Jeremias, MD, MSc is an interventional cardiologist at St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, NY and Director of Interventional Cardiology Research and Associate Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. He is also the Director of the Physiology Core Laboratory at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, NY.

Dr Jeremias earned his medical degree at Heinrich-Heine-University School of Medicine in Düsseldorf, Germany, and a Master of Science degree at Harvard Medical School. He completed his medical training at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Stanford University School of Medicine, as well as Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School.