Carlos Enrique Ruiz MD, PhD, FACC, FESC, MSCAI

Dr. Carlos E. Ruiz, MD, PhD, FACC, FESC, MSCAI, is the Director of the Structural and Congenital Heart Disease Program at Hackensack University Medical Center and at the Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital. He is a Professor of Cardiology in Pediatrics and Medicine and in May 2016 he has been elected President of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Cardiology for a 3-year term. He was born and raised in Barcelona, Spain, and completed his medical degree at the University of Barcelona. He trained at the University of Barcelona, Mayo Clinic, and the University of Southern California, and in 1991 was named the Director of the Pediatric and Adult Catheterization Labs at Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children’s Hospital. In 1999 became the Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and in 2006 he moved to New York to start a devoted Structural and Congenital Heart Disease Program at the Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute.

He initiated the first dedicated Fellowship program in Structural and Congenital Heart Disease in the US. In conjunction with Philips engineers, his team developed the Multi-Imaging Fusion technology to plan and guide complex Structural Heart Interventions. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC), and the European Society of Cardiology (FESC), and in 2014 was named Master of the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (MSCAI). He is an internationally renowned interventional cardiologist recognized for his pioneering work in the field of interventions for Structural Heart Disease and Congenital Heart Disease. In 1986 he was one of the pioneers of the double-balloon Mitral and Aortic valvuloplasty technique and in 1994 did the first stenting of a Patent Ductus Arteriosus in a neonate born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.