Committees

The Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee is responsible for the selection and finalization of all submitted scientific content for the ISHLT Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions.

The Membership Committee promotes the growth and retention of membership within the Society by working with staff and the Society’s organizational components to develop strategies to remove barriers to participation and enhance the value of membership.

The Executive Committee consists of the five ISHLT officers (President-elect, President, Past- President, Secretary and Treasurer). They make urgent or emergency decisions for the Society, and provide leadership to the Board.

The International Thoracic Organ Transplant (TTX) Registry is one of a kind and was created to provide on-going, current data regarding patient, donor, and transplant characteristics as well as post-transplant outcomes.

As part of its mission, ISHLT engages in the development of Professional Practice Guidelines and Consensus Statements, Health Policy Guidance Statements, and Standards Statements regarding care of patients with advanced heart and/or lung disease.

Each Interdisciplinary Network (IDN) is led by a Steering Committee, to ensure that the mission, purposes, and activities pursued by SHLT are reflective of the perspectives and needs of the entire health care delivery team.

Each Interdisciplinary Network (IDN) is led by a Steering Committee, to ensure that the mission, purposes, and activities pursued by SHLT are reflective of the perspectives and needs of the entire health care delivery team.

The LAF provides a representation-based forum for the varied geographic, generational, gender, and specialty-based constituencies of ISHLT to discuss issues of interest and concern to their constituencies and the Society.

The ISHLT Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (IMACS) is an international registry intended to enroll and follow patients who receive durable mechanically assisted circulatory support devices (MCSD).

The purpose of the ISHLT Grants & Awards Program is to support research training in heart and lung transplantation as well as end-stage heart and lung diseases so as to encourage the development of clinical or basic science research implications.