Meet the ISHLT2026 Roving Reporters

Published 02 April 2026
  • Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation
  • Advanced Lung Failure & Transplantation
  • Annual Meeting
  • Early Career
  • Education
  • ISHLT2026
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support
  • News
  • Pulmonary Vascular Disease (PAH & CTEPH)

All Interdisciplinary Network Logos GroupedAt the ISHLT Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions, early career volunteers are selected as Roving Reporters to cover content related to each Interdisciplinary Network during ISHLT2026.

These eleven ISHLT members will be posting summaries and insights through ISHLT2026. Connect with them on social media to follow along!

Advanced Heart Failure & Transplantation

Headshot of Ross ThomsonRoss Thomson, BMBCh
St. Bartholomew's Hospital

London, UK

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Bernardita Gonzalez, MD
Toronto General Hospital

Toronto, ON Canada

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Douaa Bouab, MD
University Badji Mokhtar Faculty of Medicine Annaba 

Brooklyn, NY USA

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Advanced Lung Failure & Transplantation

 

Nitin Nadella
University of Missouri

Kansas City, MO USA

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Ali Ansaripour, MBBS, MSc
Oxford University Hospitals

Oxford, UK

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Rupa Kanchi, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX USA

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Mechanical Circulatory Support

Deep Jakasaniya, DNB, CTVS
Narayana Hrudayalaya
Bengaluru, India

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Vanessa Simioni Faria, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, MA USA

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Anna Stegmann, MD
Deusches Herzzentrum der Charité

Berlin, Germany

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Pulmonary Vascular Disease (PAH + CTEPH)

 

Fabien Robert, PhD, PharmD
University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

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Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, IL USA

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