Councils - Basic Science and Translational Research
| SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL ON BASIC SCIENCE AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH | | COUNCIL CHAIRS |  |
Children's Mercy Hospital
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
klgandy@cmh.edu | Kimberly Gandy, MD is Surgical Director of the Pediatric Transplant Program and a Cardiac Surgeon at Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City, Missouri. She is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her specialty interests include pediatric cardiac surgery, pediatric cardiac transplantation, pediatric mechanical circulatory support, immune competence of children after neonatal pediatric cardiac surgery, long-term function of children with single ventricle cardiac lesions, evaluation of arch flow patterns after neonatal arch reconstruction. Dr. Gandy earned her MD at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and her PhD at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. She completed general surgery and cardiovascular surgery residencies at Duke University Medical Center, and completed a cardiothoracic surgery postdoctoral research fellowship and pediatric cardiovascular surgery fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine. |  |
Stanford University
Transplant and Stem Cell Immunobiology Lab (TSI)
Stanford, CA, USA
schrepfer@stanford.edu | Sonja Schepfer, MD, PhD is Director of the Transplant and Stem Cell Immunobiology (TSI)-Lab at the University Heart Center in Hamburg, Germany. She is also a Visiting professor of CT Surgery at the Stanford University, School of Medicine. Her laboratory investigates experimental cardiac and lung transplantation, myocardial restoration, and vascular biology and her specific area of interest is translational research of stem cell immunobiology and solid organ transplantation. Sonja Schrepfer graduated in Medicine in 2002 at the Universities Wuerzburg and Munich (Germany) and received her PhD in Immunology in 2007. Dr. Schrepfer completed her postdoctoral fellowship in CT Surgery at Stanford University and started the CT Surgery Transplant Immunobiology group in 2007. She received numerous awards for her research in the field of transplant and stem cell immunology, including the "Norman E Shumway Career Development Award" in 2010 from the ISHLT, the "Rudolf Pichlmayr Award" in 2007 from the German Transplant Society,and the "DFG Heisenberg W3-Professorship" in 2009; more information is available at www.TSI-lab.de. | Additional Council leadership is being developed under the direction of the following ISHLT Board members:
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
780-492-3200
ljwest@ualberta.ca
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
205-934-4261
jgeorge@uab.edu
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