Participants

Network Leadership

Richard Weisel, MD (Chair)	Toronto General Hospital
Patrick T. O’Gara, MD (Co-Chair)	Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Eric A. Rose, MD (Vice Chair)	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Core Clinical Centers — Principal Investigators and Lead Coordinators

Baylor Research Institute	Michael Mack, MD
	Brian Lima, MD
	William Ryan, MD
	Robert L. Smith, MD
	Paul Grayburn, MD
	Pedro Nosnik, MD
	Tina Worley, RN
	Rachelle Winkle, RN
	Horacio Medel Martinez
	Brittany A. Zingler
	Sarah Lam
Cleveland Clinic Foundation	A. Mark Gillinov, MD
	Eugene Blackstone, MD
	Nader Moazami, MD
	Stephanie L. Mick, MD
	Richard A. Grimm, DO, FACC, FASE
	Irene Katzan, MD
	Barb Bittel, RN, BSN, CCRP
	Brian Strippy
	Michelle Garcia, RN
Duke University	Peter Smith, MD
	John Alexander, MD
	Carmelo Milano, MD
	Joel Morganlander, MD
	Beth Hollister
	Mary Beth Davis
	Sarah Casalinova
	Kathleen Lane
	Brian Englum, MD
	Mark Berry, MD
	Judson Williams, MD
Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie de	Pierre Voisine, MD
Québec (Hôpital Laval)	François Dagenais, MD
	Eric Charbonneau, MD
	Mario Senechal, MD
	Kim O’Connor, MD
	Robert Laforce, Jr., MD
	Hugo Tremblay
	Patricia Landry
	Nathalie Gagne
Montefiore Medical Center – Albert	Robert Michler, MD
Einstein College of Medicine	Joseph J. DeRose, Jr., MD
	Daniel J. Goldstein, MD
	Ricardo A. Bello, MD, PhD
	Cynthia Taub, MD
	Daniel Spevack, MD, FASE, FACC
	Kathryn Kirchoff, MD
	Agnieszka Siemienik, RN, BSN
	Rebecca Meli, RN
Montreal Heart Institute	Louis Perrault, MD
	Denis Bouchard, MD
	Jean-Francis Tanguay, MD
	Eileen O’Meara, MD
	Céline Odier, MD
	Sophie Robichaud, RT
	Jonathan Lacharité
Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de	Louis-Mathieu Stevens, MD
Montréal, CHUM	Nicolas Noiseux, MD
	Ignacio Prieto, MD
	Fadi Basile, MD
	Joannie Dionne
	Geneviève Péloquin
Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal	Hugues Jeanmart, MD
	Carole Sirois
University of Pennsylvania	Michael A. Acker, MD
	Pavan Atluri, MD
	Steven Messé, MD
	William H. Matthai, MD
	J. Eduardo Rame, MD, M.Phil
	Joyce W. Wald, MD
	Jesse Raiten, MD
	Mary Lou Mayer, BSN, CCRN, CCRC
University of Southern California	Michael Bowdish, MD
	Vaughn A. Starnes, MD
	David Shavelle, MD
	Christine Heck, MD
	Amy Hackmann, MD
	Edward Lozano
	Tammie Possemato
	Michelle Hernandez
	Sylvia Ramos
University of Virginia Health System	Gorav Ailawadi, MD
	Irving L. Kron, MD
	John Kern, MD
	Karen Johnston, MD
	John M. Dent, MD
	Sandra G. Burks, RN
	Rachel Simon, RN, CCRC
	J. Michael Cosner

Consortium Sites

Baylor Research Institute	Todd Rosengart, MD
	Ravi K Ghanta, MD
	Ernesto Jimenez, MD
	Cynthia Louise Boudreaux
Brigham and Women’s Hospital	Sari Aranki, MD
	Donna Rosborough
	Siobhan McGurk
Columbia University	Michael Argenziano, MD
	Yoshifumi Naka, MD, PhD
	Paolo Colombo, MD
	Lyn Goldsmith, MA, RN, BSN, CCRC
	Nadia Sookraj, RN
	Talaya McCright-Gill
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center	Jock McCullough, MD
	Alexander Iribarne, MD, MS
	Joseph P. DeSimone, MD
	Anthony W. DiScipio, MD
	James Hart
	Henry C. Stokes
	Amanda St. Ivany
East Carolina Heart Institute	Shahab Akhter, MD
	Brenda Lea Akers, RN, BSN
Emory University	Vinod Thourani, MD
	William Cooper, MD
	Robert Guyton, MD
	Michael Halkos, MD
	Jefferson Baer, MD, MPH
	Kim Baio, RN, MSN
	Tamara Prince, MD
Hamilton Health Sciences	Richard Whitlock, MD
	Thais Creary
Henry Ford Hospital	Hassan Nemeh, MD
	Celeste T. Williams, MD
	Wilma Ruffino
	Latoya Allen
Inova Fairfax Hospital	Alan M. Speir, MD
	Margaret Austin
	David Hipkins
London Health Sciences Centre	Michael Chu, MD
	Stephanie Fox BA, RRT
Lutheran Hospital of Indiana	Joseph S. Ladowski, MD
	Mark A. Jones, MD
	Alan C. Peterson, MD
	Kristen N. Maurice, DO
	Jenny Musselman, RN
Mayo Clinic	Simon Maltais, MD, PhD
	John Stulak, MD
	Sudhir Kushwaha, MD
	Krishnaswamy Chandrasekaran, MD
	Jolene Erola
	Julie Faust
Mission Hospital	Mark A. Groh, MD
	John Stulak, MD
	Reid D. Taylor, MD
	Todd H. Hansen, MD
	Lynne C. Hampton, MBA, MHA, RN, CCRC, CCRP
	Ralph Mangusan, MSN, RN-BC, PCCN, CWCN
	Tracy Nanney, BSN, RN, CCRC
Mount Sinai Medical Center	John D. Puskas, MD
Ohio State University Wexner Medical	Bryan A. Whitson, MD, PhD
Center	Ayseha Hasan, MD
	Denise Fadorsen
	Kelly MacBrair, RN, BSN
Stanford University	Y. Joseph Woo, MD
	Richard Ha, MD
	Dipanjan Banerjee, MD
	Kokil Bakshi, MSBA, CCRP
	Nicholas Vesom, MPH, CCRC
	William Hiesinger, MD
St. Michael’s Hospital	David A. Latter, MD
	Randi Feder-Elituv
Suburban Hospital	Philip Corcoran, MD
	Michael Siegenthaler, MD
	Zurab Nadareishvili, MD, PhD
	Mark Milner, MD
	Mandy Murphy, RN, CCRC
	Ann Greenberg, RN, MSN
	Peggy Iraola, RN, MPP
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Gideon Cohen, MD
	Reena Karkhanis
Toronto General Hospital	Terry Yau, MD
	Maral Ouzounian, MD
	Phyllis Billia, MD, PhD
	Michael Farkouh, MD
	Katherine Tsang
	Nishit Fumakia
	Lisa Garrard
	Shakira Christie
University of Alberta	John C. Mullen, MD, MSc
	Harald Becher, MD
	Alex Hripko
	Kayla-Marie Smith
University of Maryland	James S. Gammie, MD
	Bartley P. Griffith, MD
	Erica Feller, MD
	Manal Al-Suqi, M.S.T.C.
	Zahid Noor, PhD
	Kristen Mackowick
University of Michigan Health System	Steven Bolling, MD
	Francis D Pagani, MD
	Cathie Bloem, MPH, RN
	Lydia K. McGowan, MS, CCRP.
	Sarah Fox
University of Ottawa Heart Institute	Marc Ruel, MD, MPH, FRCSC, FAHA
	Vincent Chan, MD
	Munir Boodhwani, MD
	Cheemun Lum, MD
	Gifferd Ko
University of Pittsburgh	Robert Kormos, MD
	Jeffrey J. Teuteberg, MD
	Elizabeth Younkin
	Melissa Enlow
University of Utah	Craig Selzman, MD
	Stavros Drakos, MD
	Ashley Elmer
	Camila Vargas
University of Wisconsin	Takushi Kohmoto, MD
	Lucian Lozonschi, MD
	Walter Kao, MD
	Rob Dougherty
	Kaelin Grant, CCRC
WellStar / Kennestone Hospital	Rajnish Prasad, MD
	Martha Kelly
	Pamela Yaun
Yale University, New Haven Hospital	Arnar Geirsson, MD
	Marianne McCarthy

Data + Clinical Coordinating Center (DCC)

DCC Leadership

• Annetine C. Gelijns, PhD
• Michael K. Parides, PhD
• Alan J. Moskowitz, MD
• Ellen Moquete, RN, BSN
• Emilia Bagiella, PhD
• Anuradha Lala-Trindade, MD (Anu Lala)
• Donna Mancini, MD

DCC Faculty

• Giampaolo Greco, PhD, MPH
• Bart Ferket, MD, PhD
• Bart Ferket, MD, PhD

DCC Administrative

• Ronnie Jagmohan, BA
• Milerva Santos, MPA
• Melissa Chase, MPA

DCC Trial Coordination

• Kinjal Shah, PA-C
• Mary Beth Marks, RN, BSN
• Elise Barrow, MPH

Regulatory and Monitoring

• Karen O’Sullivan, MPH
• Kayla Dellefratte, MPH
• Nancy Sledz-Joyce, PA-C
• Andrea Ratner, RN
• Sapna Kapoor, MPH
• Evan Accardi
• Alishba Aslam, BA
• Brittany Kalosza, MPH

Data Design and Development

• Lopa Gupta, MPH
• Seth Goldfarb

DCC Statistics & Data Management

• Helena L. Chang, MS
• Jessica R. Overbey, MS
• Katherine Kirkwood, MS
• Stephanie Pan, MS
• Xiaoyu Liu, MS

DCC Information Technology

• Ron Levitan, DipCompSci
• Edlira Dobrev, MS
• Rami Habas, MS
• Jacqueline Sham, MS
• Xia (Terry) Ye, BS
• Virginia Chan, BS

National Institutes of Health

NHLBI

• Marissa Miller, DVM, MPH (Program Director)
• Albert Lee, PhD (Deputy Program Director)
• Wendy C. Taddei-Peters, PhD (Regulatory & Clinical Trials Specialist)
• Nancy L. Geller, PhD (Director, Office of Biostatistics Research)
• Neal O. Jeffries, PhD (Office of Biostatistics Research)
• Tyrone Smith, MS (Senior Grants Management Specialist)
• Teresa Marquette (Grants Management Officer)
• Catherine Burke, MA (Program Analyst)
• Denis Buxton, PhD (Cardiovascular Translational Research Specialist)

NINDS

• Claudia Moy, PhD (Program Director)

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

• Brian Rowe, MD, MSc (Scientific Director: Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health)

German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Centers:

German DCC

German Heart Center Berlin	Sabine Hübler, MD, MBA
	Prof. Dr. med. Volkmar Falk
	Inga Scheida
German Heart Center Munich	PD Dr. med. Markus Krane
Clinic Bad Neustadt - Medical Center for Heart and Vascular Diseases	Prof. Dr. med Anno Diegeler
Charité Berlin	Prof. Dr. med. Ulf Landmesser
	Prof. Dr. med. Burkert Pieske
Medical Center Braunschweig	Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Harringer
University Heart Center Hamburg	Prof. Dr. med. Lennard Conradi
Heart Center Leipzig	PD Dr. med. Bettina Pfannmuller
Kerckhoff-Clinic (Center for Heart, Lung and Rheumatic Diseases)	Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Walther
Medical Center of Nordrheinwestphalen	Dr. med. Kavous Hakim-Meibodi
University Medical Center Bonn	Prof. Dr. med. Armin Welz
University Medical Center Frankfurt	Prof. Dr. med. Anton Moritz
University Heart Center Freiburg Bad Krozingen	Prof. Dr. med. Friedhelm Beyersdorf
University Medical Center Göttingen	Prof. Dr. med. Bernd Danner
University Medical Center Heidelberg	Prof. Dr. med. Gabor Szabo
University Medical Center – Jena	Prof. Dr. med. Torsten Doenst
University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel	PD Dr. med. Assad Haneya
University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck	Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Klotz
Medical Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich	Prof. Dr. med Christian Hagl

Core Labs:

ECHO CORE LAB @ Massachusetts	Judy Hung, MD
General Hospital	Xin Zeng, MD
	David Hung
	Sudarat Satitthummanid, MD
NEUROCOGNITIVE CORE LAB @ Duke	Jeff Browndyke, PhD
University	Joseph P. Mathew, MD
	Michael L. "Luke" James, MD, FAHA
	Yanne Toulgoat-Dubois
	Rachele Brassard
	Alice Stevens
	Roberto Pagan-Rodriguez
MRI CORE LAB @ University of	Michel Bilello, MD, PhD
Pennsylvania Health System	Lisa M. Desiderio RT (R)(MR) CCRC
	Christos Davatzikos, PhD
	Mark Elliott, PhD
	Guray Erus, PhD
	Lauren Karpf
LVAD/MPC BIOSPECIMEN CORE LAB	Doris A. Taylor, PhD
@ Texas Heart Institute	Micheline M Resende, PhD
	Johnathan Mase
	Lourdes Chacon Alberty
	Ariadna Contreras
	Deirdre Smith, RN, CCRC
	Sarah Schneider
	Shahrzad Abbasi
	Joy Coraza
FILTER CORE LAB @ CVPath Institute, Inc.	Renu Virmani, MD, FACC
	Maria E. Romero, MD, FCAP
	Ryan Braumann
EP CORE LAB @ University of Rochester	Jean-Philippe Couderc, PhD, MBA
Rochester Medical Center	John DeCamilla
ECG MONITORING (HOLTER/TTM)	Dan Balda, MD
CORE LAB @ Medicomp, Inc.	Mauri Wilson, RN, BSN, BSES
	Anne Shering, RN, BSN, CCT
	Wayne Bowen, EMT-P, CCT

Protocol Review Committee:

Univ. of Utah Health Sciences Center	David A. Bull, MD (Chair)
NIAID - retired	Dennis O. Dixon, PhD
University of Utah	Richard Holubkov, Ph.D.
Boston University School of Medicine	Alice Jacobs, MD
The London Health Sciences Centre	John M. Murkin, MD
University of Missouri - Kansas City	John S. Ikonomidis, MD, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina	Mark L. Barr, M.D. (AD HOC)
NIH/NHLBI	Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, MD

Data and Safety Monitoring Board:

Rhode Island Hospital	Frank Sellke, MD (Chair)
University at Buffalo	John M. Canty, Jr., MD
Emory University School of Medicine	Neal Dickert, MD, PhD
NIAID - retired	Dennis O. Dixon, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina	John S. Ikonomidis, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison	KyungMann Kim, PhD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital	David O. Williams, MD
Northwestern University	Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc.
NIH/NHLBI	Cheryl L. McDonald, MD
Univ. of Miami, Miller School of Med.	Seemant Chaturvedi, MD
Medical University of South Carolina	Marc I. Chimowitz, MB, ChB

Medical Monitors:

University of Iowa	Wayne Richenbacher, MD
University of Utah	James C. Fang, MD

Event Adjudication Committee:

Toronto General Hospital	Vivek Rao, MD (Chair)
Duke University	Rachel Miller (Chair)
Rhode Island Hospital	Karen L. Furie, MD, MPH
Banner University Medical Center	Jennifer Cook, MD
Brigham & Women's Hospital	David A' D'Alessandro, MD
Univ. of Utah Health Sciences Center	Frederick T. Han, MD
Mount Sinai Hospital	Sean Pinney, MD
St. Vincent Medical Group, Inc.	Mary Norine Walsh, MD
Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute	William C. Roberts, M.D.

NP EAC sub-committee:

Yale University School of Medicine	David M. Greer MD, MA (Chair)
NYU Langone Medical Center	Koto Ishida, MD
Hôpital Notre-Dame	Christian Stapf, MD

POAF ECG Adjudication:

University of Utah

Frederick Han, MD

Infection Registry EAC:

Duke University	Rachel Miller (Chair)
Mount Sinai Medical Center	Shirish Huprikar, MD
University of Colorado	Marilyn Levi, MD

Alumni Sites

Baystate Medical Center	John Rousou, MD
	Barbara Burkott, RN, BSN, CCRP
Christiana Care	Ray Blackwell, MD
	Andrea M. Squire
East Carolina Heart Institute	T. Bruce Ferguson, MD
	Malissa J. Harris, RN, BSN
Inova Fairfax Hospital	Alan M. Speir, MD
	Minh Dang, Clinical Research Associate
Lankenau Medical Center	Scott Goldman, MD
	Susan Herring, RN, BSN, M.Ed.
St Michael’s Hospital Toronto	David Latter, MD
	Randi Feder-Elituv
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	Gideon-Nehemia Cohen, MD
	Reena Karkhanis, MBBS, DA
University of Chicago	Valluvan Jeevanandam, MD
	Elizabeth Johnson
Washington University	Ralph J. Damiano Jr., MD
	Tracey Guthrie, RN
WellStar Kennestone Hospital	William A. Cooper, MD
	George Kramer, MD
	Tauri Harden, RN, BSN
Yale New Haven	Abeel Mangi, MD
	Lynn Wilson