Councils - Pediatric Transplantation
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All ISHLT members with an interest in Pediatrics are invited to join the ISHLT Pediatric Transplantation Support Discussion Group. Subscribers will be able to join a worldwide community of Pediatric professionals. This group will cover all topics related to Pediatric Heart & Lung Transplantation and only members will be able to post and view group content. We hope to make this the premier site to discuss difficult management issues, gaps in knowledge, or to tap into the expertise of your colleagues. To receive an invitation to join, please send an introductory email to our discussion group moderator, Kim Gandy, at klgandy2@gmail.com - from your professional email address with credentials (name, professional title, affiliation and full contact information). Sorry, this group is not open to industry.
The ISHLT Pediatric google group home page is:
http://groups.google.com/group/ishltpeds
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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
513-636-6771
Marc.Schecter@cchmc.org
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
410-955-5987
jscheel@jhmi.edu
Bio coming soon...
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. | | | 
University Hospital Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
christian_benden@yahoo.de
Dr. Christian Benden is the Medical Director of Lung Transplantation at the University Hospital Zurich and a Reader in Pulmonology and Transplant Medicine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Benden completed his pediatric training in Hannover (Germany) and London (United Kingdom). In addition, he trained in Pediatric Pulmonology and received specialist training in lung transplantation in London and Zurich. Dr. Benden is a well-recognized Pediatric Lung Transplant Physician, and a former Chair of the ISHLT Scientific Council on Pediatric Transplantation. His research interests include clinical aspects of lung transplantation, particularly in children and adolescents, experimental aspects of chronic lung allograft dysfunction, and cystic fibrosis lung disease.
Children's Hospital of Boston
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
617-355-0558
tp.singh@cardio.chboston.org
Dr. Singh joined Boston Children’s Hospital’s Cardiovascular and Heart Transplant Program in 2005. He was previously medical director of the Heart Transplant Program at Children's Hospital of Michigan from 1998-2005. He is a clinical researcher with interest in (1) outcomes in children with heart failure and transplant, and (2) cardiovascular physiology (exercise physiology, cardiac innervation, vascular physiology, myocardial metabolism) in children with congenital and acquired heart disease. He has published several studies describing risk factors of mortality in children while waiting and after transplant. Dr. Singh holds an academic appointment as Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. | | 
Vanderbilt Children's Hospital
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
615-322-7448
debra.dodd@vanderbilt.edu
Dr. Debra Dodd graduated from medical school at The Johns Hopkins University. Her pediatric and pediatric cardiology training was at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. Following her training, she remained at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital where she helped establish a Pediatric Heart Transplant Program at VCH in 1989 and has been Medical Director of the Pediatric Heart Transplant Program since 1993. | | 
Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
416-813-6674
anne.dipchand@sickkids.on.ca
Anne Dipchand, MD FRCPC, is Head of the Cardiac Transplant Program and a Staff Cardiologist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. She is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics with the University of Toronto. | | 
University of Colorado
Aurora, Colorado, USA
scott.auerbach@childrenscolorado.org
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Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center
Seattle, Washington, USA
206-987-2761
robert.boucek@seattlechildrens.org
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. | | | 
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. | | 
Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital
Palo Alto, California, USA
650-723-5234
cconrad@stanford.edu
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University of Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
kgandy@mac.com
Kimberly Gandy, MD, PhD is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her primary area of basic and translational interest includes cellular therapy for tolerance induction using hematopoietic stem cells and myeloid progenitors. She is most recently involved in several translational projects regarding the use of mobile medical software for improving adherence in transplantation patients. Dr. Gandy earned her MD at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and her PhD in Immunology 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. | | 
Seattle Children 's Hospital
Seattle, Washington, USA
206-987-4233
yuk.law@seattlechildrens.org
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