St. Louis Children's Hospital
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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Duke Univ Med Ctr
Durham, North Carolina, United States

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California, United States
Jeffrey Teuteberg, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Section Chief of Heart Failure, Cardiac Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support at Stanford University. He joined the Stanford faculty in July 2017 after spending the prior 12 years at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He specializes in the care of patients with advanced cardiomyopathies, cardiac transplantation, and ventricular assist devices.. He has particular interests in advanced heart failure and the transition to cardiac transplantation and ventricular assist devices. Dr. Teuteberg graduated from the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, in 1992 and remained at the University of Chicago for his Internal Medicine Residency and general Cardiovascular Fellowship, during which he spent a year as the Chief Medical Resident. Dr. Teuteberg received his Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant training at Brigham and Women's hospital in Boston.

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Jason D. Christie, M.D., M.S. is the Chief of the Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division. He is Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Senior Scholar in the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. His career is focused on translational research studies of the risks, pathogenesis, treatment, and outcomes of acute lung injury (ALI) in the transplant and non-transplant human populations. Through leadership of the Center for Translational Lung Biology, Dr. Christie brings together clinicians, bench scientists, epidemiologists, and statisticians to build multidisciplinary research teams. His research integrates new knowledge generated from bench studies with epidemiology approaches in well-phenotyped, large human populations to generate new definitions of human syndromes, improved diagnostics and prognostics, and targeted therapy approaches in advanced lung diseases and critical illness.

Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Univ of Michigan Hlth Sys
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Kevin M. Chan, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of the Lung Transplant program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. He has been involved with lung transplantation since his fellowship training at the University of California Los Angeles and has also been associate director or director of lung transplantation at the University of Southern California and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Dr. Chan’s primary research focus has been on post-transplant infections, improving patient outcomes and more recently, organ allocation policy development. He has been involved with the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)/Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN) in various volunteer capacities over the years. Dr. Chan is the Fellowship Director for Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan and has been a previous Scientific Program Chair as well as a leader in other professional organizations. He brings his expertise in clinical lung transplantation, policy development, organizational understanding and medical education to the ISHLT.

Henry Ford Hospitals
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Dr. Jennifer Cowger is the medical director of the Henry Ford Mechanical Circulatory Support Program in Detroit, Michigan. She has a masters in biostatistics & clinical trial design from the University of Michigan and is the chair of the IMACS research committee and is on the DAAP Committee of INTERMACS. She joined the ISHLT board of directors in 2017 and is a liaison for the Education committee.

Univ of California
San Francisco, California, United States
Teresa De Marco, MD , completed her internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She completed training in heart transplantation at the University of Utah Medical Center in 1989 and since then has been on the faculty at UCSF. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine and Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant Cardiology. She is currently Professor of Medicine and Surgery. She holds the R.H. and Jane G. Logan Endowed Chair in Cardiology. She is the Director of the Advanced Heart Failure Therapies Program and Medical Director of Heart Transplantation. She is Director of the Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Comprehensive Care Center. She serves as Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship Program.

Sahlgrenska Univ Hosp
Göteborg, Sweden
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University of Lübeck
Lubeck, Germany
Stephan Ensminger, MD, DPhil is a Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Head of the Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery at the University of Lübeck, Germany. Dr. Ensminger graduated from the University of Würzburg Medical School in 1996 and received a D.Phil. in Transplantation Immunology at the Nuffield Department of Surgery at the University of Oxford, U.K. under the supervision of Prof. Kathryn Wood in 2000. He received his cardiothoracic surgery training at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, where he was appointed as a Professor of Experimental Cardiac Surgery in 2008. Between 2011 and 2018 he was one of the Deputy Heads of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Ruhr University Bochum at Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. His interests are Transplantation Immunology with the main focus on the immunobiology of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) and minimally invasive cardiac surgery with the emphasis on catheter based valve therapies (TAVR). He is currently a member of the executive board of the German Aortic Valve Registry (GARY).

Papworth Hospital
, United Kingdom
Dr Martin Goddard was appointed as a Consultant Histopathologist at Papworth Hospital in 1996. He provides a full range of diagnostic cardio thoracic pathology. He is the clinical lead for cardiac pathology including cardiac transplantation. He is Chairman of the National Cardiac Pathology Network and receives referred hearts from cases of Sudden Adult Death. His major research interests are in the field of cardio vascular disease and cardiac transplantation in particular coronary artery vasculopathy.

Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Kathleen L. Grady, PhD, MS, RN, FAAN is a Professor of Surgery and Medicine in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and the Administrative Director of the Center for Heart Failure within the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL. Dr. Grady’s clinical and research areas of interest are advanced heart failure, heart transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, health-related quality of life, psychosocial outcomes, patient self-care, patient adherence with therapeutic regimens, patient decision-making, and caregiver burden. Dr. Grady’s research on health-related quality of life outcomes after heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support has been funded by the American Heart Association and National Institutes of Health. She has published 130 articles and 10 book chapters. Dr. Grady is currently chair of the ISHLT Grants & Awards Committee and a member of the ISHLT Board of Directors.

Montefiore Med Ctr
Bronx, New York, United States

St. Paul 's Hospital
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Allegheny General Hospital
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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WVU Medicine
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
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Addison, Texas, United States

Addison, Texas, United States