2010 ISHLT Academy Core Competencies in Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation
24 April to 25, 2010
Chicago, IL, USA
While all members are invited to enroll, this course is primarily designed to be of benefit for clinicians and allied professionals who are in the early stages of their careers or who are in training, are part of a new program or desire an update on the current state of the field.
Scientific ProgramAcademy Chairs
Jim Kirklin, MDAcademy Co-Chair
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, AL USA
Mandeep Mehra, MDAcademy Co-Chair
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD USA
Sub-Committee I: Advanced Heart Failure and High Risk Surgery
John O'Connell, MD, St Joseph's Hospital, Atlanta, GA USA
Heather Ross, MD, FRCPC, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON Canada
James Young, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH USA
Sub-Committee II: Mechanical Circulatory Support
Roberta Bogaev, MD, FACC, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX USA
Francis Pagani, MD, PhD, University of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI USA
Andreas Zuckermann, MD, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Sub-Committee III: Cardiac Transplantation
Sub-Committee IV: Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Paul Corris, MB, FRCP, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Myung Park, MD, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD USA
Sub-Committee V: Educational Committee and Special Consultants
Allen Anderson, MD, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL USA
Anne Dipchand, MD, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON Canada
James George, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL USA