ISHLT: The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation

Boards & Committees - Education

2011-2012 ISHLT EDUCATION COMMITTEE
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COMMITTEE CHAIRS
	Allen S. Anderson, MD, FACC Education Committee Chair University of Chicago Medical Center Chicago, Illinois, USA 773-702-9396 aanderso@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu	Allen Anderson, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of the Advanced Heart Failure Program, and Medical Director of the Cardiac Transplant Service at the University of Chicago Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Anderson is a highly skilled specialist in heart failure and the care of patients before and after heart transplant, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology. He received his MD at Emory University in Atlanta, completed his internship and residency at New York University, and also completed fellowships at Columbia University and the University of Chicago Medical Center. He has extensive expertise in the medical management of heart failure and is currently researching promising new therapies and techniques to treat the condition.
	Stuart C. Sweet, MD, PhD 2012 Scientific Program Chair 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).
	Heather J. Ross, MD, MHSc, FRCP(c) Development Committee Chair Toronto General Hospital Toronto, Ontario, 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.
COUNCIL WORKFORCE LEADERS
	Basic Science & Translational Research	To Be Determined
	David Baran, MD Heart Failure & Transplant Medicine Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Newark, New Jersy, USA 973-926-7205 dbaran@sbhcs.com	David Baran, MD, is the Director of Heart Failure and Transplant Research at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey. Dr. Baran graduated from the University of South Florida College of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. His specialty training includes a congestive heart failure clinical/research fellowship both at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, as well as a clinical cardiology fellowhip at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City. Dr. Baran is board certified in internal medicine and cardiology and is certified by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) as a transplant cardiologist. He is a skilled invasive cardiologist with special competency in endomyocardial biopsy and diagnostic angiography. He has special interest in heart failure treatment trials and immunosuppression research.
	Fernanda Silveira, MD Infectious Diseases University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 412-648-6512 silveirafd@upmc.edu	Fernanda P. Silveira, MD, MS is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Division of Infectious Diseases and a member of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Unit. Her research interests are on treatment and outcome of infections in solid organ transplant recipients, cytomegalovirus infections in organ transplant recipients and infections with multi-drug resistant bacteria. She is also the Associated Director of Education for the Division of Infectious Diseases and coordinates the educational activities for the fellowship program.
	Matthew Morrell, MD Junior Faculty and Trainees University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 412-692-2210 morrellmr@upmc.edu	Matthew Morrell, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Morrell graduated summa cum laude from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry. Afterwards, he attended the University of California in Los Angeles School of Medicine where he received his Doctor of Medicine degree and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He then completed both his residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Washington University in St. Louis/Barnes-Jewish Hospital. During this time he was awarded the Shatz-Strauss Teaching Award and the Washington University School of Medicine Resident of the Year Award.
	Roberta C. Bogaev, MD, FACC, FACP Mechanical Circulatory Support Texas Heart Institute @ St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital Houston, Texas, USA 832-355-3977 rbogaev@heart.thi.tmc.edu	Roberta Bogaev, MD, FACC, FACP is Medical Director of the Heart Failure and Transplant Unit at Texas Heart Institute @ St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston, Texas. She graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia, and received her specialty training at the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health. She is board certified in Internal Medicine (Cardiovascular Disease) and Cardiology. Her specialty interests include heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, cardiac transplantation, heart failure treatment research and noninvasive technology.
	Michael Petty, PhD, RN, CCNS, ACNS-BC Nursing, Health Sciences & Allied HealthUniversity of Minnesota Medical Center-Fairview Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 612-273-5607 mpetty1@fairview.org	Dr. Michael Petty is a Cardiothoracic Clinical Nurse Specialist at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview. He received his bachelors degree in nursing from the University of the State of New York, his Masters in Nursing from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 1996 and earned his PhD at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing in 2011. He began his career as a staff nurse in the Surgical ICU at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic, and has held a variety of clinical, administrative, and industry roles in the subsequent years. Much of his practice during that time has been in the care of patients with cardiovascular disorders requiring medical, surgical, and transplant interventions including LVADs. His research interests are with LVAD therapy, with a focus on Caregiver Burden and Quality of Life for those caring for LVAD patients.
	E. Rene Rodriguez, MD Pathology Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio, USA 216-444-2091 rodrigr2@ccf.org	E. Rene Rodriguez, MD, is head of the Anatomic Pathology Department at The Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his medical degree in 1982 from the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitan Xochimilco in Mexico. He completed a fellowship in 1986 in Cardiovascular Pathology at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and his residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology in 1990 at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. His specialty interests in clude autopsy pathology, cardiovascular pathology, cardiac transplant pathology, aortic diseases, valvular diseases, and molecular diagnostics of cardiovascular diseases.
	Daphne Hsu, MD Pediatric Transplantation Children's Hospital at Montefiore Bronx, New York, USA 718-741-2415 dhsu@montefiore.org	Daphne Hsu, MD, is the Division Chief of Pediatric Cardiology and Co-Director of the Pediatric Heart Center at Children's Hospital at Montefiore. She is also Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Hsu received her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Pediatrics and a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at Babies Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Hsu sits on the boards of the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry and the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Committee for the American Heart Association. In addition to authoring dozens of peer-reviewed cardiologic studies, Dr. Hsu reviews pediatric cardiologic-related grants for the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health and is a member of the Sub Board of Pediatric Cardiology of the American Board of Pediatrics.
	Dana McGlothlin, MD Pulmonary Hypertension UCSF Medical Center San Francisco, California, USA 415-502-4597 mcglothl@medicine.ucsf.edu	Dana McGlothlin, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and an expert in the evaluation and management of patients with pulmonary hypertension and advanced heart failure, including heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support devices at the University of San Francisco in San Francisco, California. She is the Medical Director of combined Heart-Lung Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Medical Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, and Associate Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at UCSF. Dr. McGlothlin earned her medical degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City, KS and completed her internal medicine residency and cardiovascular disease fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ. Dr. McGlothlin then completed an advanced echocardiography fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco before joining the faculty at UCSF in 2003. Her clinical and research interests include pulmonary hypertension, heart failure, heart transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support devices.
	Christopher H. Wigfield, MD, FRCS Pulmonary Transplantation Loyola University Medical Center Maywood, Illinois, USA 708-327-2488 cwigfield@lumc.edu	Christopher Wigfield, MD, FRCS, is Assistant Professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. Dr. Wigfield received his medical schooling at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. He went on to complete residencies in General Surgery at Royal Berkshire Hospital, UK, Emergency Care at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals, UK, General and Vascular Surgery at Freeman Hospital, UK and Cardiothoracic Surgery at Freeman Hospital, UK. He also completed fellowships in Cardiopulmonary Transplantation and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at Freeman Hospital Cardiothoracic Centre, UK, Cardiothoracic Surgery at Northern Deanery Cardiothoracic Rotation, UK, and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin. Dr. Wigfield's special interests are in adult cardiac surgery, chest wall tumors and defects, coronary artery bypass without use of the heart-lung machine, emphysema surgery, heart bypass, heart surgery, laser surgery, lung cancer, lung surgery, lung transplant, minimally invasive surgery, minimally invasive thoracic surgery, pleural effusion, robotic surgery, thoracic surgery, and valve replacement.
AT LARGE MEMBERS
	Beatriz Diaz Molina, MD Hospital Central De Asturias Oviedo, SPAIN 34-958-061-167 beadimo@gmail.com	Beatriz Diaz Molina, MD, is the Co-Director of the Heart Failure and Transplant Unit at Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Spain. She has extensive expertise in the medical management of heart failure and cardiac transplantation. Her specialty interests include resynchronization therapy and immunosuppression research.
Image coming soon...	Keith McNeil, FRACP Metro North Health Service District Herston, Queensland, AUSTRALIA 61-7-3328-9921 keith_mcneil@health.qld.gov.au	Bio coming soon...
Image coming soon...	Andreas O. Zuckermann, MD University of Vienna Vienna, AUSTRIA 43-1-40400-5643 andreas.zuckermann@meduniwien.ac.at	Bio coming soon...
COMMITTEE COMPOSITION
The Education 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 leader of each Scientific Council Education Workforce shall serve on the Committee. The Annual Meeting Scientific Program Chair and the Chair of the Development Committee shall serve on the Committee. The Committee Chair may appoint up to three at large committee members to serve one-year, renewable terms for the purpose of ensuring broad geographic representation on the Committee.
COMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES
Ensure that the educational activities of the Society meet ACCME requirements as well as those of other medical education program accrediting bodies as directed by the Board of Directors. Identify the ongoing educational needs of the Society's members. Develop proposals for educational programs and services that meet the identified educational needs. Evaluate the quality of ISHLT's educational programs and recommend improvements. Develop criteria to which all ISHLT educational programs must adhere, to include the following: content and speaker selection standards; endorsement of educational programs by other organizations; development of educational programs jointly with other organizations. Review educational program proposals developed by the Scientific Councils. Refer discipline-specific proposals for educational programs to the appropriate Scientific Council Education Workforce for development into formal proposals. Act as liaison between the Scientific Council Education Workforces, the proposed educational program chair(s), and the Board to facilitate the development of well structured education program proposals to the board, with appropriate budget proposals. Evaluate requests from other organizations for ISHLT to co-sponsor or endorse educational programs and make recommendations to the Board of Directors for action. Act as liaison between the Scientific Council Education Workforces and the Annual Meeting Program Committee to facilitate the development of well structured proposals for the Annual Meeting Program Committee's consideration. Act as liaison with the Editor of the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation regarding the publication of any proceedings from such meetings.