ISHLT: The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation

Councils - Pediatric Transplantation

SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL ON PEDIATRIC TRANSPLANTATION
QUICK LINKS
April 2011 Council Meeting Agenda April 2011 PEDS Council Report to Board Order your copy of Monograph Volume 2: Pediatric Heart Transplantation - click HERE for details.
COUNCIL CHAIRS
	Beth Kaufman, MD CHAIR Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 215-590-6051 kaufmanb@email.chop.edu	Beth Kaufman, MD, is the Interim Medical Director of the Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure Program and the Interim Medical Director of the Heart Transplantation Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Kaufman received her medical education at Cornell University Medical College in New York, and completed her internship and residency at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She went on to complete a fellowship at Columbia University in New York. Her special interests include pediatric cardiomyopathy, heart failure and heart transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support. Her research interests include biomarkers of cardiac remodeling and genetic modifiers of cardiomyopathy and heart failure.
	Melanie Everitt, MD VICE CHAIR Primary Children's Medical Center Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 801-572-9874 melanie.everitt@imail.org	Melanie Everitt, MD is Medical Director of the Pediatric Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Program at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Primary Children´s Medical Center. She plays a lead role in the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Clinic. She is the principal investigator of the Pediatric Heart Transplant Study and Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry at Primary Children’s Medical Center. Dr. Everitt is a board-certified pediatric cardiologist who sees children with all forms of heart disease, having special interest in heart failure, cardiomyopathy, and heart transplantation. Dr. Everitt received her medical training from Washington University and completed an internship and residency in Pediatrics at St. Louis Children's Hospital, where she was appointed Chief Resident. She completed fellowships in Pediatric Cardiology at Washington University and at Primary Children's Medical Center.
	Elfriede Pahl Schuette, MD PAST CHAIR Children's Memorial Hospital Chicago, Illinois, USA 773-880-4553 epahl@childrensmemorial.org	Elfriede Pahl, MD, is Medical Director of the Heart Transplant Program at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. She is also the Marvin E. Wodika Professor of Cardiology and Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University. Her special interests include cardiomyopathy, heart transplantation and heart failure, and Kawasaki disease. Dr. Pahl received her medical training at Northwester University. Her postgraduate training included a residency in pediatrics at Children's Memorial Hospital and a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
ISHLT BOARD OF DIRECTORS LIAISON
	Richard Kirk, MA FRCP FRCPCH Freeman Hospital Newcastle, UNITED KINGDOM 44-191-213-7499 richard.kirk@nuth.nhs.uk	Dr. Richard Kirk trained at Christ's College, Cambridge University and Guy's Hospital graduating in 1979. His general paediatric training was principally undertaken in Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Alder Hey Children's Hospital (the largest children's hospital in Europe). His specialist training in Paediatric Cardiology was undertaken at Harefield Hospital and Freeman Hospital in the UK, Boston Children's Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco in the USA and the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne in Australia. Following his training, he was appointed consultant to the University Hospital of Wales and established the Paediatric and Fetal Cardiac Service for South Wales which achieved UK recognition as a centre of excellence. In 2001 he moved to Singapore and was Head of the Department of Paediatric Cardiology at the National University Hospital. In 2004 he returned to the UK and currently works in the Department of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Services at the Freeman Hospital.
2012 ANNUAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES
	Melanie Everitt, MD VICE CHAIR Primary Children's Medical Center Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 801-572-9874 melanie.everitt@imail.org	Melanie Everitt, MD is Medical Director of the Pediatric Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Program at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Primary Children´s Medical Center. She plays a lead role in the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Clinic. She is the principal investigator of the Pediatric Heart Transplant Study and Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry at Primary Children’s Medical Center. Dr. Everitt is a board-certified pediatric cardiologist who sees children with all forms of heart disease, having special interest in heart failure, cardiomyopathy, and heart transplantation. Dr. Everitt received her medical training from Washington University and completed an internship and residency in Pediatrics at St. Louis Children's Hospital, where she was appointed Chief Resident. She completed fellowships in Pediatric Cardiology at Washington University and at Primary Children's Medical Center.
	Richard Kirk, MA FRCP FRCPCH Freeman Hospital Newcastle, UNITED KINGDOM 44-191-213-7499 richard.kirk@nuth.nhs.uk	Dr. Richard Kirk trained at Christ's College, Cambridge University and Guy's Hospital graduating in 1979. His general paediatric training was principally undertaken in Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Alder Hey Children's Hospital (the largest children's hospital in Europe). His specialist training in Paediatric Cardiology was undertaken at Harefield Hospital and Freeman Hospital in the UK, Boston Children's Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco in the USA and the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne in Australia. Following his training, he was appointed consultant to the University Hospital of Wales and established the Paediatric and Fetal Cardiac Service for South Wales which achieved UK recognition as a centre of excellence. In 2001 he moved to Singapore and was Head of the Department of Paediatric Cardiology at the National University Hospital. In 2004 he returned to the UK and currently works in the Department of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Services at the Freeman Hospital.
COUNCIL WORKFORCE LEADERS
	Robert J. Boucek, Jr., MD STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES WORKFORCE Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center Seattle, Washington, USA 206-987-2761 robert.boucek@seattlechildrens.org Workforce Members: PDF	Robert J. Boucek Jr., MD, is professor of pediatrics in the Division of Cardiology of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He holds the Thomas Bradley Armstrong Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiology. He received his MD from Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans. He completed a pediatrics internship and residency at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., and fellowships in biochemistry and pediatric cardiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Boucek was the first medical director for the pediatric heart transplant programs at Vanderbilt and at the University of South Florida/All Children’s Hospital. He was instrumental in bringing infant cardiac transplantation to SCH. He has led the recruitment of basic research collaborators to focus on the translation of myocardial regeneration strategies to children with heart failure. Boucek’s vision is to develop a nationally recognized Clinical and Research Center for the diagnosis and care of children with heart failure at Seattle Children’s and the University of Washington.
	Daphne Hsu, MD EDUCATION WORKFORCE Children's Hospital at Montefiore Bronx, New York, USA 718-741-2415 dhsu@montefiore.org Workforce Members: PDF	Daphne Hsu, MD, is the Division Chief of Pediatric Cardiology and Co-Director of the Pediatric Heart Center at Children's Hospital at Montefiore. She is also Professor of Pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Hsu received her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Pediatrics and a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at Babies Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Hsu sits on the boards of the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry and the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Committee for the American Heart Association. In addition to authoring dozens of peer-reviewed cardiologic studies, Dr. Hsu reviews pediatric cardiologic-related grants for the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health and is a member of the Sub Board of Pediatric Cardiology of the American Board of Pediatrics.
	Richard E. Chinnock, MD REGISTRIES AND DATABASES WORKFORCE Loma Linda University Medical Center Loma Linda, California, USA 909-558-4130 rchinnock@llu.edu Workforce Members: PDF	Richard Chinnock, MD, is Chair of Pediatrics and Professor of Pediatrics at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, and Medical Director of the Pediatric Heart Transplant Program at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital in Loma Linda, California. His research has focused on the long-term outcomes of pediatric heart transplantation. Dr. Chinnock completed medical school and an internship in Pediatrics from Loma Linda University Medical Center. Subsequently he completed his residency in Pediatrics and was Pediatric Chief Resident at the US Naval Hospital in San Diego, California. He is currently working on a Masters of Science in Health Care Management from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he anticipates completing his degree in May 2013.
	Kimberly L. Gandy, MD COMMUNICATIONS WORKFORCE Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City, Missouri, USA klgandy@cmh.edu Workforce Members: PDF 10-12-11 Communications Workforce Conference Call Minutes	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.