ISHLT: The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation

Boards & Committees - Standards and Guidelines

2011-2012 ISHLT PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES COMMITTEE
COMMITTEE CHAIRS
	James K. Kirklin, MD Committee Chair University of Alabama at Birmingham Birminham, Alabama, USA 205-934-3368 jkirklin@uab.edu	James Kirklin, MD, is a Professor and Director of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham. Dr. Kirklin is a 1973 graduate of Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Toronto, and completed two fellowships at Children's Hospital, Boston and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is a past president of the ISHLT and former editor-in-chief of the Journal for Heart and Lung Transplantation.
	Maria Rosa Costanzo, MD Past Chair Midwest Heart Specialists Naperville, Illinois, USA 630-527-2730 mcostanzo@midwestheart.com	Bio coming soon...
COUNCIL WORKFORCE LEADERS
	Naveen Pereira, MD Heart Failure Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, USA 507-538-8151 pereira.naveen@mayo.edu	Naveen Periera MD, FACC is a Consultant in Cardiovascular Diseases at Mayo Clinic, Rochester specializing in advanced heart failure, mechanical circulatory support and heart, heart-lung, heart-kidney and heart-liver transplantation. His research interests include investigating the role of surrogate markers of long-term mortality in heart transplantation including cardiac allograft hypertrophy, antibody mediated rejection and anti-HLA antibodies. He is NIH funded with a focus on genetic variation of the natriuretic peptide system and its effect on the pathophysiology and treatment response in heart failure. Dr. Pereira received his medical training at the University of Bombay, India. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Connecticut Health Sciences Center, Farmington, CT and cardiology fellowship at Brown University, Providence, RI and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
	Amparo Sole, MD, PhD Infectious Diseases University Hospital la Fe Valencia Valencia, SPAIN 34-61-656-6203 sole_amp@gva.es	Amparo Sole, MD, PhD, is a pulmonologist professor of lung transplant medicine at EVESP (Escuela valenciana de estudios superiores). She is Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit and Senior Consultant of the Lung Transplant Unit at the University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe in Valencia, Spain. Her clinical interests include lung transplant, heart-lung transplant, transplant outcomes, and cystic fibrosis. She has developed her career in the field of lung transplant at several hospitals around the world, being a visitor and researcher at the Royal Brompton Hospital of London, Freeman Hospital in Newcastle (England), Toronto General Hospital in Ontario (Canada), and at St. Vincent's Hospital in Sydney (Australia). She was president of the 33rd European Cystic Fibrosis Conference held in Valencia in June, 2010. Currently she is the President of the Spanish Scientific Society of Cystic Fibrosis.
	Susan D. Moffatt-Bruce, MD, PhD Junior Faculty & Trainees Ohio State University Medical Center Columbus, Ohio, USA 614-293-4509 susan.moffatt-bruce@osumc.edu	Susan Moffatt-Bruce, MD, PhD, is a cardiothoracic surgeon, assistant professor of surgery and assistant professor of molecular virology, immunology and medical genetics at The Ohio State Medical Center. Dr. Moffatt-Bruce earned her medical degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, N.S., Canada, and her doctorate from the University of Cambridge in the U.K. She completed her residency in general surgery at Dalhousie University and her residency in cardiothoracic surgery at Stanford University. Dr. Moffatt-Bruce’s research has been focused on transplant immunology. Her clinical interests include lung transplant, heart transplant, transplant outcomes and thoracic oncology. In 2009, Dr. Moffatt-Bruce received The Ohio State University College of Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award for the Department of Surgery.
	David S. Feldman, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA Mechanical Circulatory Support Minneapolis Heart Institute Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 612-863-3980 dfeldman@mplsheart.com	David S. Feldman, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, is a researcher and clinical cardiologist at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His interests include heart and lung transplantation. Dr. Feldman is also Director of Heart Failure, VAD and Cardiac Transplantation at the Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. Dr. Feldman received his medical training at the Medical College of Georgia in Atlanta. He completed his residency and a Medicine and Cardiology fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and a Molecular and Cell Biology fellowship at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.
	Connie White-Williams, PhD, RN, FAAN Nursing, Health Sciences & Allied Health University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama, USA 205-975-8611 cwwilli@uabmc.edu	Connie White-Williams, PhD, RN, FAAN, works in the Center for Nursing Excellence at the University of Alabama Birmingham. Her primary responsibility is the incorporation of evidence based practice and research into the nursing infrastructure. For the previous 24 years, she was a cardiothoracic transplant coordinator where she devoted her nursing career to cardiothoracic transplantation and achieved distinction as a clinician, researcher, and educator. Dr. White-Williams received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing. She received her Master of Science, which focused on Cardiovascular Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate, and doctoral degree from the University of Alabama School of Nursing in Birmingham. Upon graduation, she was awarded the 2009 Outstanding Doctoral Student Distinction. In 2009, she received the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation Excellence in Research Award.
	Carmela D. Tan, MD Pathology Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, Ohio, USA 216-444-9489 tanc@ccf.org	Carmela D. Tan, MD, is on Staff in the Department of Anatomic Pathology at Cleveland Clinic. Her interest and expertise is in the subspecialty of cardiovascular pathology. She also performs autopsy pathology. Dr. Tan received her medical degree at the University of the Philippines Medical School in Manila, completed her internship in Internal Medicine at the Good Samaritan Hospital of Maryland in Baltimore, and her residency in Pathology at Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. She also complete a fellowship in Cardiovascular Pathology at Rush. Dr. Tan's interests include molecular diagnostics of the genetics of cardiovascular diseases.
	Robert J. Boucek, Jr., MD Pediatric Transplantation Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center Seattle, Washington, USA 206-987-2761 robert.boucek@seattlechildrens.org	Robert J. Boucek Jr., MD, is professor of pediatrics in the Division of Cardiology of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He holds the Thomas Bradley Armstrong Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiology. He received his MD from Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans. He completed a pediatrics internship and residency at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and fellowships in biochemistry and pediatric cardiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Boucek was the first medical director for the pediatric heart transplant programs at Vanderbilt and at the University of South Florida/All Children’s Hospital. He was instrumental in bringing infant cardiac transplantation to SCH. He has led the recruitment of basic research collaborators to focus on the translation of myocardial regeneration strategies to children with heart failure. Boucek’s vision is to develop a nationally recognized Clinical and Research Center for the diagnosis and care of children with heart failure at Seattle Children’s and the University of Washington.
	Evelyn Horn, MD Pulmonary Hypertension Weill Cornell Medical Center New York, New York, USA horneve@med.cornell.edu	Dr. Evelyn Horn is the Director of Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension at the Perkin Heart Failure Center of Weill Cornell, specializing in Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension, and Mechanical Circulatory Support. She is a graduate of Brown University, Mount Sinai Medical School where she also was a medical intern and resident. She completed cardiology at the Cedars Sinai/UCLA program and thereafter spent 2 years as a research fellow at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons understanding the beta adrenergic G protein complex in heart failure, the denervated heart and models of arrhythmias. She has received numerous awards as clinician educator and continues to participate in clinical research in the areas of cardiac and vascular remodeling in heart failure and pulmonary hypertension.
	David Weill, MD Pulmonary Transplantation Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, California, USA 650-724-6795 dweill@stanford.edu	David Weill, MD, is Director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease, the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Center and Medical Director of the Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Program at Stanford University Hospitals and Clinics in Stanford, California. Dr. Weill received his medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine, completed his residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and a fellowship at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is board certified in Pulmonary Disease and Creitical Care from the American Board of Internal Medicine.
AT LARGE MEMBERS
	Diego H. Delgado, MD, MSc Toronto General Hospital Toronto, Ontario, Canada 416-340-3940 diego.delgado@uhn.on.ca	Diego Delgado, MD, MSc, is Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiology and Cardiac Transplantation and the Director of the Heart Failure Clinical Trials Group at the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Delgado graduated in Medicine from the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He completed his Internal Medicine and Cardiology training in Hospital Espanol in Buenos Aires. Subsequently he completed a research fellowship in cardiac transplantation at Rush Presbyterian St Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago, US. He completed his Masters in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Toronto, and completed a research/clinical fellowship in heart failure and transplantation at the Toronto General Hospital.
	Maria G. Crespo-Leiro, MD Hospital Universitario A Coruña La Coruña, SPAIN 34-981-178-304 Marisa.Crespo.Leiro@sergas.es	Maria G (Marisa) Crespo-Leiro, MD, PhD, FESC, is the Medical Director of the Advanced Heart Failure Transplant Unit at the Hospital Universitario A Coruña, La Coruña, Spain. She obtained her MD degree at the University of Santiago de Compostela, her specialization in cardiology at Clinica Puerta de Hierro in Madrid and her PhD from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Since 1993 she has been working in the Heart Division at the Hospital Universitario A Coruña (formerly the Hospital Universitario Juan Canalejo) in La Coruña, where she is also Associate Professor of Medicine. Her main fields of research interest are heart failure and heart transplantation.
Image coming soon...	Daniela Pini, MD Instituto Clinico Humanitas Milan, Italy daniela.pini@humanitas.it	Bio coming soon...
COMMITTEE COMPOSITION
The leader of each Scientific Council Professional Standards and Guidelines Workforce 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
Identify the need to update existing standards and guidelines and to develop new standards and guidelines relevant to the mission of the Society. Develop a calendar for the regular review/revision of existing standards and guidelines and for the development of new standards and guidelines. Develop criteria to which all ISHLT standards and guidelines documents must adhere, to include the following: content and format standards; endorsement/adoption of standards and guidelines developed by other organizations; development of standards and guidelines jointly with other organizations; rights of publication of co-sponsored standards and guidelines. Develop policies regarding content development of standards and guidelines, to include the following: authorship and content must reflect the international nature of the Society and the broad interests of the membership; evidence based medicine approaches must be systematically incorporated; minority and special populations must be considered; all guidelines must be developed into pocket guideline and a downloadable slide set. Review proposal for standards and guidelines generated by the Scientific Councils. Refer proposals for standards and guidelines to the appropriate Scientific Council Standards and Guidelines Workforce for development into formal proposals. Act as liaison between the Scientific Council Standards and Guidelines Workforces, the proposed guideline authors, and the Board to facilitate presentation of well structured proposals for the board's consideration, with appropriate budget proposals. Act as liaison with the Journal editor to keep him/her aware of timelines, topics and length of proposed standards and guidelines documents to facilitate appropriate and timely publication strategies. Coordinate with the Communications Committee regarding external distribution/public awareness of ISHLT guidelines and the publication of guidelines in other-language journals. Coordinate with the Education Committee regarding the development of educational activities to disseminate information/training about new standards and quidelines. Provide initial review of requests from other organizations to co-sponsor or endorse guidelines relevant to the mission of the society and make recommendations to the Board regarding such.