Dr. Evan Shlofmitz is an Interventional Cardiologist and the Director of Intravascular Imaging at St. Francis Hospital – The Heart Center in Roslyn, NY and an Executive Director of Optimizing PCI (OPCI). He completed a fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at Georgetown University/MedStar Washington Hospital Center. He previously completed an Intravascular Imaging and Physiology fellowship at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) and Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), a Cardiovascular Disease fellowship at Northwell Health and served as Chief Resident for Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian Queens. He serves on the steering committee for the pivotal IVUS trial, IMPROVE and SCAI’s Ischemic Heart Disease Council. Dr. Shlofmitz’s research interests have centered on intravascular imaging and physiology, calcified coronary artery disease and PCI optimization, with more than 140 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He participates in numerous education initiatives globally, in an effort to increase the adoption of intravascular imaging.