ISHLT: The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation

Councils - Pathology

SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL ON PATHOLOGY
QUICK LINKS
April 2011 PATH Council Report to Board PPT 2009 Banff Agenda: Antibody Mediated Rejection in Heart Transplantation PDF AMR in Heart Transplant: Pathology Report Survey
COUNCIL CHAIRS
	Gerald J. Berry, MD CHAIR Stanford University Stanford, California, USA 650-723-7211 gjberry@stanford.edu	Gerald Berry, MD, is a Professor of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He received his medical education from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and completed his internship at Ottawa General Hospital in 1985. He completed his residency and a fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. Dr. Berry's research interests include cardiopulmonary and pulmonary transplant medicine, and diagnostic surgical pathology. He currently practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
	Patrick Bruneval, MD VICE CHAIR Hopital European Georges Pompidou Paris, FRANCE 33-156-09-3860 patrick.bruneval@egp.aphp.fr	Patrick Bruneval, MD, is Professor of Pathology at Paris-Descartes University and head of the Department of Pathology at the Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou. He completed his residency in Paris and one year in Montreal (McGill University-Royal Victoria Hospital). He received his medical degree in 1983 in Paris and his Pathology qualification in 1984. His specialty interests include cardiovascular and renal pathology, cardiac and pulmonary transplant pathology, vascular diseases, and valvular diseases.
	Annalisa Angelini, MD PAST CHAIR Universita Di Padova Padova, ITALY 390-49-8272260 annalisa.angelini@unipd.it	Bio coming soon...
ISHLT BOARD OF DIRECTORS LIAISON
	James F. George, PhD Univ of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama, USA 205-934-4261 jgeorge@uab.edu	Dr. James George, a Professor of Surgery, Medicine, and Microbiology, is the Director of the Transplantation Immunobiology Laboratory and Co-Director of Clinical Research in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. George completed his post-doctoral training in immunology with Dr. Max D. Cooper and Harry W. Schroeder at UAB after receiving a PhD in immunology from the University of Cincinnati.
2012 ANNUAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVE
	Gerald J. Berry, MD Stanford University Stanford, California, USA 650-723-7211 gjberry@stanford.edu	Gerald Berry, MD, is a Professor of Pathology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He received his medical education from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and completed his internship at Ottawa General Hospital in 1985. He completed his residency and a fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. Dr. Berry's research interests include cardiopulmonary and pulmonary transplant medicine, and diagnostic surgical pathology. He currently practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
WORKFORCE LEADERS
	Carmela D. Tan, MD STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES WORKFORCE 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.
	E. Rene Rodriguez, MD EDUCATION Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio, USA 216-444-2091 rodrigr2@ccf.org	E. Rene Rodriguez, MD, is head of the Anatomic Pathology Department at The Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his medical degree in 1982 from the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitan Xochimilco in Mexico. He completed a fellowship in 1986 in Cardiovascular Pathology at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and his residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology in 1990 at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. His specialty interests in clude autopsy pathology, cardiovascular pathology, cardiac transplant pathology, aortic diseases, valvular diseases, and molecular diagnostics of cardiovascular diseases.
	Robert F. Padera, MD, PhD REGISTRIES AND DATABASES WORKFORCE Brigham & Women's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, USA 617-525-6792 rpadera@partners.org	Robert Padera, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. He earned his MD from Harvard Medical School, his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,and completed his residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital. His clinical specialties are in autopsy pathology, cardiac pathology, and pulmonary pathology. Dr. Padera's research interests include biotechnology, lung cancer, mouse models and transplant pathology.
	James B. Atkinson, III, MD, PhD COMMUNICATIONS WORKFORCE Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, Tennesee, USA 615-343-9576 james.atkinson@vanderbilt.edu	Dr. Atkinson is Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanterbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Hi research specialty includes mechanisms of cardiovascular disease (atherosclerosis / cardiovascular pathology / cardiovascular disease / heart transplantation).