ISHLT: The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation

Councils - Heart Failure and Transplant Medicine

SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL ON HEART FAILURE AND TRANSPLANT MEDICINE
COUNCIL CHAIRS
	Lee R. Goldberg, MD, MPH CHAIR University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 215-615-0820 lee.goldberg@uphs.upenn.edu	Lee Goldberg, MD, MHP, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of the University of Pennsylvania Heart Failure and Transplantation Program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His area of specialty is in Heart Failure and Heart Transplant. Dr. Goldberg received his medical training at Boston University School of Medicine, subsequently completing his internship and residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and a fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Goldberg is board certified in Cardiovascular Medicine, Internal Medicine, Advance Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.
	David Brad Dyke, MD VICE CHAIR University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 734-936-5265 DDyke@umich.edu	David B. Dyke, MD, is an Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, at the University of Michigan Health System. He is a specialist in Cardiovascular Medicine, and his clinical interests are transplant cardiology, ventricular assist devices, congestive heart failure and congenital heart disease. Dr. Dyke completed his medical degree and residency from the University of Michigan, as well as a fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Dyke's research interests include beta receptor physiology in patients with mitral valve disease, homocysteine metabolism in transplant patients, population science and research in transplant populations.
	David A. Baran, MD PAST CHAIR Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Newark, New Jersey, 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.
ISHLT BOARD OF DIRECTORS LIAISONS
	David O. Taylor, MD ISHLT PRESIDENT-ELECT Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio, 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.
	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.
2012 ANNUAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES
	Lynne W. Stevenson, MD Brigham & Women's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, 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.
	Luciano Potena, MD, PhD University of Bologna Bologna, ITALY 390-51-636-4526 luciano.potena2@unibo.it	Bio coming soon...
	Eulalia Roig, MD Hospital Sant Pau Barcelona, SPAIN 34-93-227-5400 eroigm@santpau.cat	Bio coming soon...
	Joren C. Madsen, MD, DPhil Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, 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.
WORKFORCE LEADERS
	Naveen Pereira, MD STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES WORKFORCE Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, USA 507-538-8151 pereira.naveen@mayo.edu Workforce Members: PDF	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.
	David A. Baran, MD EDUCATION WORKFORCE Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Newark, New Jersey, USA 973-926-7205 dbaran@sbhcs.com Workforce Members: PDF	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.
	Josef Stehlik, MD REGISTRIES AND DATABASES WORKFORCE University of Utah School of Medicine Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 801-585-2340 josef.stehlik@hsc.utah.edu Workforce Members: PDF	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.
	David P. Nelson, MD COMMUNICATIONS WORKFORCE Integris Baptist Medical Center Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA 405-949-3349 david.nelson@integris-health.com Workforce Members: PDF	Dr. David Nelson has been the Chief of Heart Transplant Medicine at the Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute at INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center since 1994. He is a graduate of the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University in Chicago/Evanston, Illinois. He then completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Northwestern followed by a Pulmonary and Heart/Lung Transplant Fellowship at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. He trained at Stanford under Dr. Norman Shumway, the “father of heart transplantation”. Dr. Nelson has been UNOS approved in both heart and lung transplantation. He was previously the Medical Director of Cardiac Transplantation at the Arizona Heart Institute and the Utah Cardiac Transplant Program, LDS Hospital. Under Dr. Nelson’s directorship, in 2002 the Nazih Zuhdi Transplant Institute set a benchmark with a 100% one-year survival rate and in 2003 the Heart and Lung Transplant Team was honored with the INTEGRIS Team Excellence Award.
	Robert C. Bourge, MD DEVELOPMENT LIAISON University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama, USA 205-934-3624 bbourge@uab.edu	Robert Bourge, MD, is Professor of Medicine, Radiology, and Surgery, the M. G. Waters Chair of Cardiovascular Disease, Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Disease, and Co-Director of the Heart and Vascular Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His primary interest is in outcomes-research in advanced heart failure, heart and heart/lung transplantation, and pulmonary vascular disease. His clinical focus involves the evaluation of patients with these diseases and the subsequent application of therapeutic approaches including general, medical, device-based and surgical methods to improve both quality of life and life expectancy. Dr. Bourge received his MD from Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans in 1979 where he received the Chancellor's award as the outstanding graduating medical student. He then completed a Residency in Internal Medicine, Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease (serving as Chief Fellow in CV Disease from 1980-1982), and Fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) obtaining board certification in these three disciplines.