The Scientific Leadership Council of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association
The scientific program of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association is guided by the association's Scientific Leadership Council. The Council includes the following health care professionals:
Michael McGoon, MD, SLC Chair, Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Robyn Barst, MD, SLC Vice-Chair, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, Babies Hospital, New York, New York
David B. Badesch, MD, Chair, SLC Nominations Committee, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado
Joy Beckmann, RN, MSN, Pulmonary Hypertension Program, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California
C. Gregory Elliott, MD, Chair, SLC Publications Committee, LDS Hospital, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Adaani Frost, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Sean Gaine, MD, PhD, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Nazzareno Galiè, MD, Istituto di Malattie dell' Apparato Cardiovascolare, Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Marc Humbert, MD, PhD, Hospital Antoine Beclere, Clamart, France
Abby Krichman, RRT, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
David Langleben, MD, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
James E. Loyd, MD, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
Vallerie V. McLaughlin, MD, Rush Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
John H. Newman, MD, Nashville VA Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee
Horst Olschewski, MD, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Harold I. Palevsky, MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Marlene Rabinovitch, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Stuart Rich, MD, Vice-Chair, SLC Research Committee, Rush Heart Institute-Center for Pulmonary Heart Disease, Chicago, Illinois
Ivan M. Robbins, MD, Chair, SLC Consensus Committee, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Lewis J. Rubin, MD, Chair, SLC Research Committee, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California
Cathy J. Severson, RN, BSN, Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Victor F. Tapson, MD, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Allison Widlitz, PA, Pediatric Cardiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
Carol E. Vreim, PhD NHLBI Liaison, Deputy Director, Division of Lung Diseases, NHBLI, Bethesda, Maryland
Emeritus
Bruce H. Brundage, MD, Heart Institute of the Cascades, Bend, Oregon
Alfred P. Fishman, MD, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania