ISHLT: The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation

Councils - Junior Faculty and Trainee

SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL FOR JUNIOR FACULTY AND TRAINEES
QUICK LINKS
April 2011 JFTC Meeting Minutes PDF
COUNCIL CHAIRS
	Daniel Dilling, MD CHAIR Loyola University Medical Center Maywood, Illinois, USA 708-216-5402 ddillin@lumc.edu	Daniel Dilling, MD, is Medical Director of the MICU, Co-Director of the LAM Clinic and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at Loyola University Medical Center. His special interests include Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency, COPD, Emphysema, Lung Disease, Lung Transplantation, Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), Pulmonary Fibrosis, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Sarcoidosis, and Sleep Disorders. Dr. Dilling completed his medical training at Loyola University Medical Center, including his residency in general internal medicine and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine. He is board certified in Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease and Sleep Medicine.
	Pali D. Shah, MD VICE CHAIR Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland, USA 410-955-3467 pdedhiy2@jhmi.edu	Pali Shah, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Shah received her undergraduate degree from Penn State University in 1999 and his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 2001. She trained in Internal Medicine the University of Pennsylania and completed a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Her clinical interests include the care of patients with end stage lung disease and lung transplantation. Her research interests include the study of chonic lung rejection, a process known as obliterative bronchiolitis. She is interested in immunologic pathways that prevent chronic lung rejection and how various exposures accelerate the development of obliterative bronchiolitis..
	David W. Markham, MD PAST CHAIR University of Texas Southwestern Dallas, Texas, USA 214-645-7500 david.markham@utsouthwestern.edu	David Markham, MD, is an Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. His clinical interests include device therapy for heart failure, dilated cardiomyopathy, exercise testing (EKG/ECG), heart failure, and heart transplant. Dr. Markham attended Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, and completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Virginia. He completed cardiology fellowships at UT Southwestern and Duke University Medical Center, and a heart failure/cardiac transplantation fellowship at Duke. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology.
ISHLT BOARD OF DIRECTORS LIAISONS
	John Dark, MB, FRCS Freeman Hospital Newcastle, UNITED KINGDOM 44-191-223-1450 j.h.dark@ncl.ac.uk	Dr. John Dark is Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Newcastle University and Freeman Hospital. He was an original member of the United Kingdom Xenotransplantation Interim Regulatory Authority (UKXIRA), serves on the Ethics Committee and Council of the British Transplant Society.
	Florian M. Wagner, MD University Heart Center Hamburg Eppendorf Hamburg, GERMANY 49-40-74105-8949 fl.wagner@uke.de	Bio coming soon...
2012 ANNUAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES
	Lorriana E. Leard, MD UCSF San Francisco, California, USA 415-476-8287 lorriana.leard@ucsf.edu	Lorriana Leard, MD, is the Vice Chief of Clinical Activities in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Associate Director of the Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, and Site Director at Moffitt-Long Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Leard received her MD from the University of California San Diego. After completing her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, she completed her Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at UCSF. She completed an additional subspecialty fellowship in Lung Transplantation at UCSF and joined the faculty in 2006. Her major academic interests include lung transplantation, interventional bronchoscopy, and lung cancer.
	Cynthia J. Gries, MD, MSc University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA griescj@upmc.edu	Cynthia Gries, MD, MSc, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Immunology at UPMC Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She completed medical school at University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. In addition to completing her Internal Medicine residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital and her Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship at the University of Washington (UW), Dr. Gries received a Masters of Epidemiology from the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. Dr. Gries’ clinical interests focus on caring for patients with advance lung disease prior to and after lung transplantation. Her main area of research interest surrounds building a research program that focuses on improving long-term outcomes in lung transplant patients. She also is interested in the ethical and medical considerations of donation after circulatory death. She is currently co-chairing a joint collaboration of the American Thoracic Society, the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the United Network of Organ Sharing to develop health policy statement regarding these issues.
WORKFORCE LEADERS
	Susan D. Moffatt-Bruce, MD, PhD STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES WORKFORCE 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.
	Matthew Morrell, MD EDUCATION WORKFORCE University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 412-692-2210 morrellmr@upmc.edu Workforce Members: PDF	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.
	Jennifer A. Cowger, MD REGISTRIES AND DATABASES WORKFORCE University of Michigan Health Systems Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 734-647-7321 jennmatt@umich.edu	Jennifer Cowger MD, MS, is a clinical lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine. Her expertise is in advanced heart failure, cardiac transplant, and mechanical support of the heart. Dr. Cowger received her medical degree from the Ohio State University, graduating class valedictorian in 2001. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina in 2004. She received her Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship training at the University of Michigan with subspecialty training in Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant which was completed in 2007. After concluding her medical education, Dr. Cowger obtained a Masters in Clinical Research and Statistics at the University's School of Public Health. Dr. Cowger's research interests are in mechanical circulatory support of the heart using left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). Her specific research area of focus is on improving patient outcomes with long term LVAD support. She is also interested in investigating novel means of reducing oxidative stress in the setting of heart failure.
	Pali D. Shah, MD COMMUNICATIONS WORKFORCE Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland, USA 410-955-3467 pdedhiy2@jhmi.edu	Pali Shah, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Shah received her undergraduate degree from Penn State University in 1999 and his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 2001. She trained in Internal Medicine the University of Pennsylania and completed a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Her clinical interests include the care of patients with end stage lung disease and lung transplantation. Her research interests include the study of chonic lung rejection, a process known as obliterative bronchiolitis. She is interested in immunologic pathways that prevent chronic lung rejection and how various exposures accelerate the development of obliterative bronchiolitis..
Image coming soon...	Arezu, Z. Aliabadi, MD Development Liaison Medical University of Vienna Vienna, AUSTRIA 43-140-4005-643 arezu.aliabadi@meduniwien.ac.at	Bio coming soon...