Councils - Junior Faculty and Trainee
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The goal of the is to provide an opportunity for trainees to meet with an established specialist in their respective field in order to facilitate communication and gain guidance, and provide an opportunity for academic career enrichment.
Interested mentees and mentors complete a brief survey so that the Junior Faculty Committee can find a match based on mutual interests. For more information or to find out how to participate, please contact the JFC at ishltmentorprogram@gmail.com. (This program is only available to current ISHLT members.)
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University of Michigan Health Systems
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
734-232-4154
jennifercowger@gmail.com
Jennifer Cowger, MD, MS, is a clinical lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine. Her expertise is in advanced heart failure, cardiac transplant, and mechanical support of the heart. Dr. Cowger received her medical degree from the Ohio State University, graduating class valedictorian in 2001. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina in 2004. She received her Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship training at the University of Michigan with subspecialty training in Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant which was completed in 2007. After concluding her medical education, Dr. Cowger obtained a Masters in Clinical Research and Statistics at the University's School of Public Health. Dr. Cowger's research interests are in mechanical circulatory support of the heart using left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). Her specific research area of focus is on imporving patient outcomes with long term LVAD support. She is also interested in investigating novel means of reducing oxidative stress in the setting of heart failure.
Allegheny General Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
412-359-4760
mkanwar@wpahs.org
Manreet Kanwar, MD, FACC, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine in 2007, followed by a fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases at St John Hospital and Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan. In 2010, she joined the Advanced Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension and Cardiac Transplant fellowship program at Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, where she continued on as faculty since July 2011. Her clinical interests include care of patients with end stage heart failure, mechanical circulatory support, pulmonary hypertension and cardiac transplantation. Her research interests include pulmonary hypertension secondary to left heart disease as well as improving patient outcomes in mechanical support devices.
David Geffen School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California, USA
917-658-9086
edepasquale@mednet.ucla.edu
Bio coming soon...
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
410-955-3467
pdedhiy2@jhmi.edu
Pali Shah, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Shah received her undergraduate degree from Penn State University in 1999 and his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 2001. She trained in Internal Medicine the University of Pennsylania and completed a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Her clinical interests include the care of patients with end stage lung disease and lung transplantation. Her research interests include the study of chonic lung rejection, a process known as obliterative bronchiolitis. She is interested in immunologic pathways that prevent chronic lung rejection and how various exposures accelerate the development of obliterative bronchiolitis.
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University of Alberta
Dept of Ped, Lab of Dr. Lori J. West
Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
780-492-7259
esmedijke@med.ualberta.ca
Esmé Dijke works as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta in Edmonton under the supervision of Dr. Lori West. She graduated cum laude from the Rotterdam University in Rotterdam (Netherlands) with a Bachelor of Applied Sciences degree in Biotechnology. She received her PhD in the laboratory of Dr. Carla Baan and Dr. Willem Weimar at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, where her doctoral studies focused on the role of regulatory T cells in adult heart transplant recipients. Her research interests are the role of regulatory T cells and B-cell memory in infants and its possible relation to development of tolerance to graft antigens. | | ![]()
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, AUSTRIA
43-140-4005-643
arezu.aliabadi@meduniwien.ac.at
Bio coming soon... | | 
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
412-692-2210
morrellmr@upmc.edu
Matthew Morrell, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Morrell graduated summa cum laude from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry. Afterwards, he attended the University of California in Los Angeles School of Medicine where he received his Doctor of Medicine degree and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He then completed both his residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Washington University in St. Louis/Barnes-Jewish Hospital. During this time he was awarded the Shatz-Strauss Teaching Award and the Washington University School of Medicine Resident of the Year Award. | | 
University of Michigan Cardiovascular
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
734-232-6793
hasanr@med.umich.edu
Bio coming soon... | | 
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia, USA
804-828-4571
kshah@mcvh-vcu.edu
Dr. Shah is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiology at Virginia Commonwealth University Hospital System (formerly Medical College of Virginia) in Richmond, VA. Dr. Shah completed both his residency in internal medicine and fellowship training at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. Dr. Shah’s clinical interests include heart failure, heart transplantation, pulmonary hypertension and mechanical circulatory support. He is the Medical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at VCU. | | ![]()
Children's Memorial Hospital
Chicago, Illinois, USA
773-880-3647
skindel@childrensmemorial.org
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Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
216-444-2492
taylord2@ccf.org
Dr. Taylor is Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Taylor is the Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship Program at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Taylor completed his Internal Medicine residency, Cardiology fellowship, and Heart Failure/Transplant fellowship at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. He remained on staff at MCV for one year prior to joining the U.T.A.H Cardiac Transplant Program in Salt Lake City in 1991. He moved to Cleveland Clinic in 2001. | | 
The Proof Centre of Excellence
Vancouver, CANADA
604-682-2344
zsuzsanna.hollander@hli.ubc.ca
Zsuzsanna Hollander is currently pursuing a PhD at UBC, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, under the supervision of Dr. Bruce McManus. Her work focuses on identifying novel biomarkers for the management of heart failure and heart transplant patients. Zsuzsa obtained a Master’s of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Zsuzsa started working for the Biomarkers in Transplantation project in 2004 and transferred to the PROOF Centre of Excellence in 2008. She has expertise in genomics, proteomics and metabolomics data analyses as well as bioinformatics and data management.
University of Alberta
Dept of Ped, Lab of Dr. Lori J. West
Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
780-492-7259
esmedijke@med.ualberta.ca
See '2014 Annual Meeting Program Committee Representative' for bio. | | 
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Newark, New Jersey, USA
973-926-4430
CMigliore@barnabashealth.org
Bio coming soon... | | 
University of Montréal
St-Luc Hospital, Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montréal (CHUM)
Montreal, CANADA
514-890-8000 ext. 37460
me-linh.luong.chum@ssss.gouv.qc.ca
Me-Linh Luong, MD is an assistant professor of Medicine at the University oF Montreal, Montreal, Canada. Dr. Luong earned her MD at the University of Sherbrooke and subsequently completed her residency in Internal Medicine at University of Montreal. She went on to complete an Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology fellowship at McGill University followed by a postgraduate training in Transplant Infectious Diseases at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her main research interests include the epidemiology and outcome of fungal infection in lung transplant recipients, novel diagnostics methods for fungal infections and antifungal treatment. |
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