| 2012 ISHLT ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM COMMITTEE |
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| EXECUTIVE TEAM |
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St. Louis Children's Hospital
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
314-454-2694
sweet@kids.wustl.edu |
Stuart Sweet, MD, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Washington University and Medical Director of the Pediatric Lung Transplant Program at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. He received graduate and medical degrees at the University of Michigan and post-graduate training at Washington University. His current research focuses on lung disease in children and improved understanding of the important factors determining outcome after lung transplantation. He is currently leading an NIH funded multicenter collaborative study of the role viral infections play in pediatric lung transplant.
Dr. Sweet has active interests in organ allocation (he is currently Chair of the OPTN/UNOS Policy Oversight Committee) and the use of information technology in medicine (he is chair of the Electronic Health Records committee at St. Louis Children's Hospital). |
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St. Vincent's Hospital
Sydney, AUSTRALIA
61-2-8382-3257
aglanville@stvincents.com.au |
Professor Glanville trained in Sydney, Brompton Hospital, London and Stanford University, California. Currently working as a specialist in Lung Transplantation at St. Vincent's Hospital Sydney, he is actively involved with international trials into new immunosuppressive and anti-viral agents. He is Global Principal Investigator for the European and Australian Investigators in Lung Transplantation CeMyLungs trial, and sits on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. He has authored over 140 publications including approaches to antibody mediated rejection, bronchoscopic surveillance, RSV, CMV, Chlamydia and mycobacteria. He is the senior author of the International Guidelines for Lung Transplantation, foundation director of Outcomes Australia and a foundation member of ShareLife Australia. |
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University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD, USA
410-328-5842
rpierson@smail.umaryland.edu |
Bio coming soon... |
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University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
780-492-3200
ljwest@ualberta.ca |
Dr. Lori West is the Director of Heart Transplantation Research and a Professor of Pediatrics, Surgery and Immunology at the University of Alberta - one of the largest heart transplant programs in the world. Dr. West completed her pediatric residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She trained in pediatric cardiology at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and subsequently in pediatric transplant cardiology at Pittsburgh Children's Hospital, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Columbia-Presbyterian Children's Hospital. She obtained her PhD for specialized training in transplant immunology research at Oxford University and works in the role of a clinician-scientist. |
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University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
410-328-7716
mmehra@medicine.umaryland.edu |
Dr. Mehra, a nationally recognized cardiologist with expertise in the treatment of heart failure and heart muscle damage, cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory devices, is professor and head of cardiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He obtained his cardiovascular training at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation, where he sub-specialized in the field of advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation. He is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases. His specific research interests in cardiac transplantation focus on post-transplant coronary arterial disease, new immunosuppressive therapy to improve heart transplant outcomes, and bringing genomic and proteomic science (the study of protein interactions in the body) to the bedside. In the field of heart failure, his research has focused on the role of new devices and novel serum markers to guide diagnosis and therapy. |
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Toronto General Hospital
Toronto, ON, CANADA
416-340-3482
heather.ross@uhn.on.ca |
Dr. Heather Ross is the Director of Heart Failure and Transplantation, Deputy Director for the MultiOrgan Transplant Program, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University Health Network, University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Ross completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She trained in cardiology at Dalhousie, Nova Scotia, Canada, and subsequently in cardiac transplant at Stanford University, Palo Alto California. She completed her Masters in Bioethics at the University of Toronto. |
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Erasmus Medical Centre
Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
31-10-703-8293
c.c.baan@erasmusmc.nl |
Bio coming soon... |
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University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
323-442-5849
mbarr@surgery.usc.edu |
Mark L. Barr, MD, is Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (with tenure) at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine where he is Co-Director of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Associate Director of Cardiothoracic Surgical Research. He obtained his medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and completed 10 years of postgraduate residency at New York University and Columbia University, including a 2-year NIH-sponsored research fellowship in transplantation immunobiology.
Dr. Barr maintains an active research program, funded by both federal and regional grant support, studying transplant immunobiology and pulmonary phisiology. |
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Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
650-723-7211
gjberry@stanford.edu |
Bio coming soon... |
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Freeman Hospital
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UNITED KINGDOM
44-191233-6161
s.c.clark@ncl.ac.uk |
Bio coming soon... |
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Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA
216-636-1077
danzigl@ccf.org |
Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH, practices pediatric infectious diseases in the Center for Pediatric Infectious Diseases in the Pediatrics Institute at Cleveland Clinic. She is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western University School of Medicine. Dr. Danziger-Isakov earned her MD at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and complete her residency in Pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic. She also completed a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Saint Louis Children's Hospital. Dr. Danziger-Isakov is board-certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases by the American Board of Pediatrics. Her clinical interests include pediatric infectious diseases, infections in transplant recipients, and infections in immunocompromised patients. Her research interests include outcomes related to infection after pediatric transplantation with an emphasis on pediatric and adult lung transplantation. In addition, Dr. Danziger-Isakov participates in clinical trials to evaluate both new infectious disease therapies and new method of detection for infectious diseases. |
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Toronto General Hospital
Toronto, ON, CANADA
416-340-5549
marc.deperrot@uhn.on.ca |
Bio coming soon... |
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University Hospital Leuven
Leuven, BELGIUM
32 16 346 833
marion.delcroix@uzleuven.be |
Bio coming soon... |
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University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
412-624-5314
ajdst42@pitt.edu |
Annette DeVito Dabbs, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Associate Professor and Interim Vice Chair of Acute and Tertiary Care at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. She received her AD in Respiratory Care from the University of Toledo, her BSN from Kent State University, her MN in Physiological Nursing and Pulmonary CNS from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, and her PhD in Nursing from the University of Pittsburgh. Her scholarly interests include health-related quality of life after lung transplantation, active partnerships between patients and clinicians, qualitative research, and mixed-methods analysis techniques. |
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University of Erlangen-Nurnberg
Erlangen, GERMANY
49-91-3197-3610
SEnsminger@hdz-nrw.de |
Bio coming soon... |
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Primary Children's Medical Center
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
801-662-5400
melanie.everitt@imail.org |
Melanie Everitt, MD is Medical Director of the Pediatric Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Program at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Primary Children´s Medical Center. She plays a lead role in the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Clinic. She is the principal investigator of the Pediatric Heart Transplant Study and Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry at Primary Children’s Medical Center. Dr. Everitt is a board-certified pediatric cardiologist who sees children with all forms of heart disease, having special interest in heart failure, cardiomyopathy, and heart transplantation.
Dr. Everitt received her medical training from Washington University and completed an internship and residency in Pediatrics at St. Louis Children's Hospital, where she was appointed Chief Resident. She completed fellowships in Pediatric Cardiology at Washington University and at Primary Children's Medical Center. |
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Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD, USA
410-955-4643
rgirgis@jhmi.edu |
Bio coming soon... |
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Yale New Haven Hospital
New Haven, CT, USA
203-785-3271
daniel.goldstein@yale.edu |
Bio coming soon... |
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
griescj@upmc.edu |
Cynthia Gries, MD, completed medical school at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. In addition to completing her Internal Medicine residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital and her Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship at the University of Washington (UW), Dr. Gries received a Masters of Epidemiology from the School of Public Health at UW. She joined the UW faculty as a lung transplant sub-specialist in 2007 and subsequently joined the Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh in 2010.
Dr. Gries' clinical interests focus on caring for patients with advanced lung disease prior to and after lung transplantation. Her primary research focus concentrates on improving adherence after transplantation, and improving long-term outcomes by improving lung allocation. |
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Freeman Hospital
Newcastle Upon Tyne, UNITED KINGDOM
44-191-213-7499
richardkirk@nhs.net |
Dr. Richard Kirk trained at Christ's College, Cambridge University and Guy's Hospital graduating in 1979. His general paediatric training was principally undertaken in Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Alder Hey Children's Hospital (the largest children's hospital in Europe). His specialist training in Paediatric Cardiology was undertaken at Harefield Hospital and Freeman Hospital in the UK, Boston Children's Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco in the USA and the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne in Australia. Following his training, he was appointed consultant to the University Hospital of Wales and established the Paediatric and Fetal Cardiac Service for South Wales which achieved UK recognition as a centre of excellence. In 2001 he moved to Singapore and was Head of the Department of Paediatric Cardiology at the National University Hospital. In 2004 he returned to the UK and currently works in the Department of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Services at the Freeman Hospital. |
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UCSF
San Francisco, CA, USA
415-476-8287
lorriana.leard@ucsf.edu |
Lorriana Leard, MD, is the Vice Chief of Clinical Activities in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Associate Director of the Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, and Site Director at Moffitt-Long Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of California San Francisco.
Dr. Leard received her MD from the University of California San Diego. After completing her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, she completed her Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at UCSF. She completed an additional subspecialty fellowship in Lung Transplantation at UCSF and joined the faculty in 2006.
Her major academic interests include lung transplantation, interventional bronchoscopy, and lung cancer. |
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University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, TX, USA
210-567-5616
levinedj@uthscsa.edu |
Bio coming soon... |
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Alfred Hospital
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
61-402-247-965
b.levvey@alfred.org.au |
Bio coming soon... |
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
617-724-1130
jcmadsen@partners.org |
Joren Madsen, MD, DPHL, is Director of the Mass General Transplant Center, Section Chief of Cardiac Surgery, W. Gerald and Patricia R. Austen Distinguished Scholar in Cardiac Surgery and Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Madsen eceived his bachelor's degree from Brown University and his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1982. After completing his first three years of general surgery training at Mass General, he was awarded the Claude E. Welch Surgical Research fellowship to study at Oxford University. His work there culminated in a doctorate degree from Balliol College in immunology. Dr. Madsen completed his surgical residency in 1990 and went on to train in cardiothoracic surgery at Mass General and Boston Children's Hospital. He joined the Division of Cardiac Surgery in 1993. Early on, Dr. Madsen focused his research efforts on the induction of immune tolerance. In 1996 he was made Director of the Cardiothoracic Immunology Laboratory and in 1999 was appointed Surgical Director of Cardiac Transplantation at Mass General. |
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Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA
216-445-9303
mccurrk@ccf.org |
Bio coming soon... |
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University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, USA
410-328-7716
mmehra@medicine.umaryland.edu |
Dr. Mehra, a nationally recognized cardiologist with expertise in the treatment of heart failure and heart muscle damage, cardiac transplantation and mechanical circulatory devices, is professor and head of cardiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He obtained his cardiovascular training at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation, where he sub-specialized in the field of advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation. He is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases. His specific research interests in cardiac transplantation focus on post-transplant coronary arterial disease, new immunosuppressive therapy to improve heart transplant outcomes, and bringing genomic and proteomic science (the study of protein interactions in the body) to the bedside. In the field of heart failure, his research has focused on the role of new devices and novel serum markers to guide diagnosis and therapy. |
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Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA
507-255-7065
park.soon@mayo.edu |
Bio coming soon... |
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University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD, USA
410-328-5842
rpierson@smail.umaryland.edu |
Bio coming soon... |
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German Heart Institute
Berlin, GERMANY
49-30-4593-2065
potapov@dhzb.de |
Bio coming soon... |
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University of Bologna
Bologna, ITALY
39-051-636-4526
luciano.potena2@unibo.it |
Bio coming soon... |
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Hospital Sant Pau
Barcelona, SPAIN
34-93-227-5400
eroigm@santpau.cat |
Bio coming soon... |
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Toronto General Hospital
Toronto, ON, CANADA
416-340-3482
heather.ross@uhn.ca |
Dr. Heather Ross is the Director of Heart Failure and Transplantation, Deputy Director for the MultiOrgan Transplant Program, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University Health Network, University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Ross completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She trained in cardiology at Dalhousie, Nova Scotia, Canada, and subsequently in cardiac transplant at Stanford University, Palo Alto California. She completed her Masters in Bioethics at the University of Toronto. |
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University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
801-585-2340
josef.stehlik@hsc.utah.edu |
Josef Stehlik, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Stehlik received his medical degree from Charles University in Prague and Masters in Public Health degree from Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his training in Internal Medicine and in Cardiovascular Diseases at Allegheny General Hospital, MCP*Hahnemann University and advanced training in Heart Failure and Transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Stehlik has been on faculty at the University of Utah since 2004 and serves as Medical Director of the Heart Transplant Program at the University of Utah Hospital and the Salt Lake City Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He has been active in clinical work, education and research in the areas of advanced heart failure, heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. |
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Brigham & Women's Hospital
Boston, MA, USA
617-732-7406
lstevenson@partners.org |
Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, is a Senior Physician and Director of the Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her clinical specialty is in Advanced Heart Disease, Heart Failure, and Transplant.
Dr. Stevenson received her medical training at Stanford University School of Medicine. Subsequently she completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine and a cardiology fellowship at UCLA Center for Health Sciences. |
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Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH, USA
216-444-2492
taylord2@ccf.org |
Dr. Taylor is Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Taylor is the Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship Program at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Taylor completed his Internal Medicine residency, Cardiology fellowship, and Heart Failure/Transplant fellowship at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. He remained on staff at MCV for one year prior to joining the U.T.A.H Cardiac Transplant Program in Salt Lake City in 1991. He moved to Cleveland Clinic in 2001. |
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University Hospital Gasthuisberg
Leuven, BELGIUM
32-16-34-68-23
dirk.vanraemdonck@uz.kuleuven.ac.be |
Bio coming soon... |
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University Medical Centre Groningen
Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS
31-50-361-4932
e.a.m.verschuuren@int.umcg.nl |
Bio coming soon... |
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University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
780-492-3200
ljwest@ualberta.ca |
Dr. Lori West is the Director of Heart Transplantation Research and a Professor of Pediatrics, Surgery and Immunology at the University of Alberta - one of the largest heart transplant programs in the world. Dr. West completed her pediatric residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She trained in pediatric cardiology at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and subsequently in pediatric transplant cardiology at Pittsburgh Children's Hospital, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Columbia-Presbyterian Children's Hospital. She obtained her PhD for specialized training in transplant immunology research at Oxford University and works in the role of a clinician-scientist. |
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Alfred Hospital
Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
61-3-9276-3600
g.westall@alfred.org.au |
Bio coming soon... |
| COMMITTEE COMPOSITION |
- The Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee shall consist of a Vice-Chair appointed by the President-Elect and a Chair who shall rotate into the position after serving as Vice-Chair. Chair and Vice-Chair terms are one year each.
- The Chair shall appoint sufficient additional committee members to reflect the disciplines of the abstract categories and to ensure, to the extent possible, representation from among the various geographic and specialty constituencies of the Society. Such terms are for one year.
- The Immediate Past Chair, the Editor of the Journal, the President, and the Chair of the Development Committee shall also serve as members of the Program Committee.
- If not already an elected Board member, the Chair of the Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee shall serve as an ex-officio member of the Board of Directors and shall also serve as a member of the Education Committee.
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- Develop learning objectives for the Annual Meeting that are tied to the identified educational needs of the members.
- Ensure that the Annual Meeting Scientific Program meets the identified educational needs of the members and the established learning objectives.
- Develop the Annual Meeting Scientific Program content, including the selection of abstract presentations and the development and selection of symposia.
- Make revisions to the scientific program to ensure it continues to meet the educational needs of the members.
- Evaluate and make changes, as needed, to the format, structure, and content development process of the Annual Meeting Scientific Program
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