ISHLT: The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation

Councils - Pulmonary Hypertension

SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL ON PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
QUICK LINKS
April 2011 PH Council Meeting Minutes PDF April 2011 PH Council Meeting Report to Board PPT
COUNCIL CHAIRS
	Myung H. Park, MD, FACC CHAIR University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland, USA 410-328-7260 mpark@medicine.umaryland.edu	Myung Park, MD, FACC, is Director of the Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Program & CCU, and Associate Professor of Medicine, at the University of Maryland Medical Center. After receiving her medical degree from the Temple University School of Medicine, Dr. Park continued her training in Philadelphia with an internship and residency in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital.This was followed by a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at the Medical College of Virginia. She furthered her training by completing an advanced fellowship in Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Dr. Park is board certified in cardiology and internal medicine. She specializes in pulmonary hypertension, heart transplantation, advanced heart failure, and ventricular assist devices.
	Robert P. Frantz, MD VICE CHAIR Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, USA 507-284-0294 frantz.robert@mayo.edu	Bio coming soon...
	Raymond L. Benza, MD PAST CHAIR Allegheny General Hospital Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 412-359-3584 rbenza@wpahs.org	Dr. Raymond L. Benza is a Professor of Medicine at Temple University College of Medicine and Program Director for the Advanced Heart Failure, Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Pulmonary Vascular Diseases group of the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at the West Penn Allegheny Health System in Pittsburgh, PA. His primary clinical interests are in the evaluation and treatment of advanced congestive heart failure, cardiac transplantation, and pulmonary arterial hypertension. Dr. Benza graduated cum laude from Emory University in Atlanta, GA, received his medical degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville and is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha. He performed his internship and residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and served as the Chief Cardiology Fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, later serving as a faculty member there until 2008. He currently is the James Magovern Chair of Cardiovascular Research at the Allegheny West Penn Health System in Pittsburgh, PA, and serves as the Director of the Allegheny Heart Institute.
ISHLT BOARD OF DIRECTORS LIAISON
	Raymond L. Benza, MD PAST CHAIR Allegheny General Hospital Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 412-359-3584 rbenza@wpahs.org	Dr. Raymond L. Benza is a Professor of Medicine at Temple University College of Medicine and Program Director for the Advanced Heart Failure, Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support and Pulmonary Vascular Diseases group of the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at the West Penn Allegheny Health System in Pittsburgh, PA. His primary clinical interests are in the evaluation and treatment of advanced congestive heart failure, cardiac transplantation, and pulmonary arterial hypertension. Dr. Benza graduated cum laude from Emory University in Atlanta, GA, received his medical degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville and is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha. He performed his internship and residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and served as the Chief Cardiology Fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, later serving as a faculty member there until 2008. He currently is the James Magovern Chair of Cardiovascular Research at the Allegheny West Penn Health System in Pittsburgh, PA, and serves as the Director of the Allegheny Heart Institute.
2012 ANNUAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES
	Marc De Perrot, MD Toronto General Hospital Toronto, Ontario, CANADA 416-340-5549 marc.deperrot@uhn.on.ca	Bio coming soon...
	Marion Delcroix, MD University Hospital Leuven Leuven, BELGIUM 32 16 346 833 marion.delcroix@uzleuven.be	Bio coming soon...
	Reda Girgis, MD, BCh Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, USA 410-955-4643 rgirgis@jhmi.edu	Bio coming soon...
WORKFORCE LEADERS
	Evelyn Horn, MD STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES WORKFORCE Weill Cornell Medical Center New York, New York, USA 212-746-2381 horneve@med.cornell.edu Workforce Members: PDF	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.
	Dana P. McGlothlin, MD EDUCATION WORKFORCE UCSF Medical Center San Francisco, California, USA 415-502-4597 mcglothl@medicine.ucsf.edu Workforce Members: PDF	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.
	Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, MD, MSc REGISTRIES AND DATABASES CO-LEADER University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois, USA 773-702-5589 mgomberg@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu	Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, MD, MSc, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at the University of Chicago Medical Center. She is an expert clinician and researcher in the field of pulmonary heart disease. In recent years, she has participated in dozens of multi-center, multi-national research trials to explore new therapies for pulmonary hypertension. She is a former Doris Duke Clinical Scientist winner for her research in Phase I drug development. She is currently focusing on pulmonary arterial, pulmonary venous hypertension/diastolic dysfunction, and biomarker development. Dr. Gomberg-Maitland attended medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She completed her residency at the New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill/Cornell Medical Center and a fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. In addition, she has earned a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology.
	Fernando Torres, MD, PA REGISTRIES AND DATABASES CO-LEADER UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, Texas, USA 214-645-6487 fernando.torres@utsouthwestern.edu Workforce Members: PDF	Fernando Torres, MD, is Associate Professor and Director of the Lung Transplant Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Torres attended medical school at Cornell University Medical College in Ithaca, New York. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern, and fellowships in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine and Lung Transplant/Lung Volume Reduction at the University of Colorado Health Science Center. Dr. Torres is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine from the American Board of Internal Medicine and a United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Lung Transplant Physician.
	Deborah J. Levine, MD COMMUNICATIONS WORKFORCE UT Health Science Center at San Antonio San Antonio, Texas, USA 210-567-5616 levinedj@uthscsa.edu Workforce Members: PDF	Bio coming soon...
	Srinivas Murali, MD DEVELOPMENT WORKFORCE Allegheny General Hospital Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 412-359-3527 smurali@wpahs.org Workforce Members: PDF	Bio coming soon...