The Scientific Leadership Council of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association
The scientific program of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association is guided by the associaation's Scientific Leadership Council. The Council includes the following health care professionals:
Robyn J. Barst, MD, SLC Chair, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Babies Hospital, New York, New York
David B. Badesch, MD, SLC Vice-Chair, Chair, Nominations Committeee, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado
Raymond L. Benza, MD, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama
Richard N. Channick, MD, UCSD Medical Center, San Diego, California
Ramona Doyle, MD, Vera M. Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease, Palo Alto, California
C. Gregory Elliott, MD, LDS Hospital, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
Karen Fagan, MD, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado
Adaani Frost, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Sean Gaine, MD, PhD, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Nazzareno Galiè, MD, Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Nicholas Hill, MD, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Marc Humbert, MD, Hopital Antoine Beclere, Clamart, France
Dunbar Ivy, MD, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado
Michael J. Krowka, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
David Langleben, MD, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
James E. Loyd, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
Michael McGoon, MD, Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic/Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Vallerie V. McLaughlin, MD, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan
John H. Newman, MD, Vanderbilt Medical School, Nashville, Tennessee
Ronald J. Oudiz, MD, Liu Center for Pulmonary Hypertension, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California
Marlene Rabinovitch, MD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
Ivan M. Robbins, MD, Chair, Consensus Committee, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Lewis J. Rubin, MD, Chair, Research Committee, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California
Julio Sandoval, MD, Cardiopulmonary Department, National Institute of Cardiology of Mexico, Tlalpan, Mexico
James Seibold, MD, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Victor E. Tapson, MD, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Liaisons
Natalie Kitterman, BSN, PH Resource Network Chair, Salt Lake City, Utah
JoAnne Sperando Schmidt, Patient Liaison
Carol E. Vreim, PhD, Division of Lung Diseases, NHBLi, Bethesda, Maryland
Emeritus Members
Bruce H. Brundage, MD, St. Charles Medical Center-Bend, Bend, Oregon
Alfred P. Fishman, MD, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania