ISHLT: The International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation

Boards & Committees - IMACS Registry

ISHLT MECHANICALLY ASSISTED CIRCULATORY SUPPORT (IMACS) REGISTRY COMMITTEE
The IMACS Executive Committee will monitor regularly the data from the IMACS Registry, review and assess the performance of its operations, and make recommendations, as appropriate, to ISHLT and the DCAC with respect to: The performance of individual centers (including possible recommendation on actions to be taken regarding an centers that performs unsatisfactorily). Issues related to participant safety and informed consent including notification of and referral for abnormal findings. Adequacy of study progress in terms of recruitment, quality control, data analysis, and publications. Possible modifications in the study protocol. Overall scientific direction of the registry.
COMMITTEE LEADERSHIP
CHAIR	ADMINISTRATOR
James K. Kirklin, MD University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama, USA 205-934-3368 jkirklin@uab.edu James Kirklin, MD, is a Professor and Director of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham. Dr. Kirklin is a 1973 graduate of Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Toronto, and completed two fellowships at Children's Hospital, Boston and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is a past president of the ISHLT and former editor-in-chief of the Journal for Heart and Lung Transplantation.	S. Craig Collum, MPH University of Alabama Birmingham, Alabama, USA 205-996-7691 ccollum@uab.edu Craig Collum, MPH is Program Director of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Executive Director for the Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS). Craig received his BS in Microbiology from the University of Alabama in 1997 and his Masters in Public Health from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health in 2001. He is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Pediatric Heart Transplant Study Foundation.
ADDITIONAL MEMBERS
Nicholas Banner, MD Harefield Hospital Harefield, Middlesex, United Kingdom +44 (0)1895 82 37 37 N.Banner@rbht.nhs.uk	Elizabeth Blume, MD Boston Children's Hospital Boston, MA, USA 617-355-6329 Betsy.Blume@cardio.chboston.org
Eric A Chen, MS Director Of Humanitarian Use Device PR Food and Drug Administration Silver Spring, Maryland, USA 302-796-6327 eric.chen@fda.hhs.gov	Anne I. Dipchand, MD Hospital for Sick Children Toronto, Ontario, CANADA 44-191-213-7499 anne.dipchand@sickkids.on.ca
Margaret M. Hannan, MD Mater Hospital Dublin, IRELAND 35-31-803-4013 mhannan@mater.ie	Anchal Kaushiva, M.S. U S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 301-796-6330 Anchal.Kaushiva@fda.hhs.gov
Richard Kirk, MA FRCP FRCPCH Freeman Hospital Newcastle, UNITED KINGDOM 44 (0) 191 213 7499 richard.kirk@nuth.nhs.uk	Robert L. Kormos, MD University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 412-648-6259 kormosrl@upmc.edu
Jaap Lahpor, MD, PhD University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS 31-88-755-6179 j.r.lahpor@umcutrecht.nl	Prof. Pascal Leprince, MD, PhD Hospitalier de la Pitie Salpetrie Paris, FRANCE pascal.leprince@psl.aphp.fr
Lars H. Lund, MD, PhD, Associate Professor Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm, SWEDEN 46-8-51774975 Lars.Lund@alumni.duke.edu	Mandeep R. Mehra, MD MBBS FACC FACP Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Executive Director, Center for Advanced Heart Disease, Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, USA 617-732-8534 mmehra@partners.org
Marissa Miller, DVM, MPH NIH-NHLBI / DCVS-ATSB Bethesda, Maryland, USA 301-594-1542 marissa.miller@nih.gov	David C. Naftel, PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama, USA 205-934-4240 dnaftel@uab.edu
Takeshi Nakatani, MD, PhD National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Osaka, JAPAN 81-6-6833-5012 tnakatan@hsp.ncvc.go.jp	Francis D. Pagani, MD, PhD University of Michigan Hospital Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 734-647-2894 fpagani@umich.edu
Heather J. Ross, MD, MHSc, FRCP(c) Toronto General Hospital Toronto, Ontario, CANADA 416-340-3482 heather.ross@uhn.ca	Stephan Schueler, MD, PhD, FRCS Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Trust Freeman Hospital Newcastle Upon Tyne, UNITED KINGDOM 44-7980721546 s.schueler@talktalk.net
Martin Strueber, MD (2015) Hannover Medical School Hannover, GERMANY 49-511-532-3373 strueber.martin@mh-hannover.de	Steven SL Tsui, MD, FRCS Papworth Hospital NHS Trust Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM 44-1480-364-297 steven.tsui@papworth.nhs.uk
George M. Wieselthaler, MD (2014) Univ of California San Francisco San Francisco, California, USA 415-353-9028 georg.wieselthaler@ucsfmedctr.org
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
Amanda Rowe ISHLT Addison, Texas, 75001 972-490-9495 amanda.rowe@ishlt.org	David O. Taylor, MD Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio, USA 216-444-2492 taylord2@ccf.org