2022 Fellows Courses

Nelson L. Bernardo, M.D., FSCAI

Biographical Sketch: Nelson L. Bernardo, MD is the Medical Director of the Peripheral Vascular Laboratory at the Medstar Heart and Vascular Institute at Medstar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. He runs the percutaneous endovascular intervention program for the Institute. Besides his clinical and teaching duties in the catheterization laboratory and outpatient clinic, his research interests include treatment strategies for peripheral arterial disease, specifically on chronic total occlusions and critical limb ischemia (CLI). He also has established a well-recognized CTO-PCI and ‘high-risk’ PCI programs. Dr. Bernardo is part of the organizing faculty of the annual Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) interventional cardiology conference in Washington, DC. He also runs the yearly Mastering Cardiac and Vascular Complications (MCVC) meeting specifically focused for fellows-in-training. He actively promotes collaborations across the various disciplines to attain optimal outcomes and investigation of vasculopaths who tend to be elderly and have severe co-morbidities as well as multi-system atherosclerotic disease.

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