Ian Gilchrist, MD, FSCAI is Professor of Medicine at Penn State University’s College of Medicine. Graduate of Dartmouth (BA) & Columbia (MD). Board certified in Medicine, CV Disease, Interventional Cardiology & Critical Care Medicine. He is probably best known for his advocacy for transradial catheterization since 1996, but has also been involved in over 250 multi-centered drug and device trials and is a long-standing student of research studies.

Rajiv Gulati, MD, FSCAI is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. His clinical interests include PCI, peripheral intervention and TAVR. He holds the rank of Professor of Medicine, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic. He maintains active research interests in clinical outcomes after PCI, vascular biology and spontaneous coronary dissection.

Samir Pancholy, MD, FSCAI serves as a Professor of Medicine at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, and Founding Program Director of the Fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases at The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He served as the founding co-chair, and chair of the Transradial Working Group, and Vascular Access Working Group of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, as well as the SCAI-TRIP course series, and a member of the Simulation, Education and Early Leaders Mentorship (ELM) committees.

Christopher Pyne, MD, FSCAI has been an interventional cardiologist at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts for over 20 years. He has been a radial-first operator and involved in radial access education for over 10 years. He has specific research interests and publications in the use of TRA in ST elevation MI as well as limiting operator radiation exposure in trans-radial procedures. Dr. Pyne has served as program chair for the SCAI Radial Summit, the Society’s first foray into education on transradial interventions in 2010.

Ms. Speiser has served as the Cath Lab Nurse Manager at the Jesse Brown VA Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. She also has been National Cardiology Nurse Consultant for the Department of Veteran's Affairs, Washington DC-Central Office where she provided oversight for 170 Cath Labs. She is currently serving in a consultative capacity for the Palo Alto VA in California. Ms. Speiser was co-author of the first-published book on transradial PCI, has been the primary contact to develop new cath and electrophysiology labs in the VA network. She is a member of the approval team for TAVR centers in the VA. She has over 27 years of cath/EP experience. She is a proliferate speaker and publisher in the field of interventional cardiology.

Jennifer Tremmel, MD, FSCAI obtained her medical degree from the University of Iowa and did her internship/residency at Dartmouth. She then got a Master's of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health before heading to Stanford where she completed fellowships in general cardiology, preventive cardiology, and interventional cardiology. Following fellowship, Dr. Tremmel started the Women's Heart Health Program at Stanford, as well as the Transradial Program. More recently, she launched the Hybrid CTO program. She conducts research in women's heart health and sex differences in CVD.