Members

Steen Abildstrøm

NovoNordisk (International Medical Director, OSCD & Outcomes)

Bill Abraham

Ohio State University (Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine)

Phil Adamson

Abbott (Divisional VP and Medical Officer)

Rosalyn Adigun

FDA, CDER/DCN (Medical Reviewer)

Tariq Ahmad

Yale University, Director (Cardiac Transplant and MCS)

Amrut Ambardekar

University of Colorado (Medical Director of Transplant Program, Director of Clinical Research)

Courtney Ballenger

Project Leader, HFC

Wayne Batchelor

Inova Heart and Vascular Institute (Chief, Interventional Cardiology

Ankeet Bhatt

Kaiser Permanente (Cardiologist, Assistant Professor of Medicine)

Sanjeev Bhavnani

Digital Health Center of Excellence (DHCoE), CDRH, FDA
Ofc of Strategic Partnerships and Tech Innovation (OST)

Robert Blaustein

Merck (Associate Vice-President, Section Head Heart Failure)

Vanessa Blumer

Cleveland Clinic (Advanced HF Fellow)

Roberta Bogaev

Abiomed, Inc (Medical Director, HF)

Biykem Bozkurt

Baylor (Vice-chair of Medicine, Director–Winters Center for HF Research, Associate Director–Cardiovascular Research Institute, Professor of Medicine), Past President, HFSA

Michael Bristow

University of Colorado (Professor of Medicine), ARCA Biopharma (President and CEO)

Javed Butler

Baylor Health System (SVP, Baylor Scott and White health system, President, BSW Research Institute)

Jim Carr

Stealth Biotherapeutics

Cynthia Chauhan

Patient Representative

Johanna Contreras

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Assoc. Professor, Director, Hispanic Heart Center)

Lawton Cooper

Retired NIH, NHLBI (Former Medical Officer)

Maria Costanzo

Midwest CV Institute (HF and Transplant Cardiologist)

Martin Cowie

AstraZeneca (VP Cardiovascular)

Heather Crown

Project Leader, HFC

Piper Dankworth

Patient Representative

Ersilia DeFilippis

Columbia University Irving Medical Center (Advanced HF Cardiologist)

Lorenzo DiCarlo

LivaNova (CMO)

Matt Dimond

Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Intern

Melvin Echols

Morehouse SOM (Assistant Professor of Medicine)

Michael Felker

Duke University (Director, Cardiovascular Research, Vice-Chief of Cardiology for Clinical Research, Professor of Medicine), BOD, HFSA

Mona Fiuzat

Duke University (Associate Professor of Medicine)

Jonathan Fox

Eidos Therapeutics (President and CMO)

Michael Fritz

Ancora Heart (Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance)

Marat Fudim

Duke University (Assistant Professor)

Anders Gabrielsen

AstraZeneca (Executive Group Director)

Liz Galle

CRVx (VP of Global Clinical Research)

Richard George

Regeneron (Executive Medical Director,
Clinical Sciences, Global Development; Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins)

Robin Germany

Zoll Respicardia (Chief Medical Officer)

Al Gianchetti

Xylocor Therapeutics (President and CEO)

John Godwin

Patient Representative

Steven Goedeke

Cardionomic (President/CEO)

Carine Hamo

NYU Langone Health (Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiology)

Nasrien Ibrahim

Harvard University (Fellow, Minority Health Policy)

Richard Jacob

Patient Representative

James Januzzi

Massachusetts General Hospital (Hutter Professor of Medicine, Cardiology)

Mohammed Jessa

AstraZeneca (Senior Director–Regulatory affairs)

Mariell Jessup

University of Pennsylvania (Emeritus Professor), American Heart Association (Chief Science and Medical Officer), Past President, AHA

David Kao

University of Colorado, Divisions of Cardiology and Bioinformatics/Personalized Medicine

Robert Kazmierski

FDA, CDRH (Biomedical Engineer)

Shahzeb Khan

Duke University (CV Fellow)

Dalane Kitzman

Wake Forest School of Medicine (Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine and Geriatrics)

Marv Konstam

Tufts Medical Center (Chief Physician Executive), Past President, HFSA

Bettina Kraus

Boehringer-Ingelheim (Senior Global Medical Advisor)

Harlan Krumholz

Yale University (Director of Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation)

Elizabeth Kunkoski

FDA, Biomedical Engineer

Anu Lala

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Assistant Professor of Medicine)

John Laschinger

Edwards (VP of Medical Affairs for Advanced Technology)

Marty Lefkowitz

Novartis Pharmaceuticals (Therapeutic Area Head, Cardiovascular and Renal)

Eric Leifer

NIH, NHLBI (Mathematical Statistician)

JoAnn Lindenfeld

Vanderbilt University (Director, HF and Transplant Program), Past President, HFSA

Maulik Majmudar

Biofourmis (Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer)

Fady Malik

Cytokinetics (Executive VP, R&D)

Tre Martyn

Cleveland Clinic (Director of Heart Failure Population Health)

Martin Mendoza

HHS (Director for the Division of Policy and Data, Office of Minority Health)

Phil Mendys

Pfizer (Director, Early Pipeline; Global Medical Affairs)

Robert Mentz

Duke University (Chief, Heart Failure Section)

Masahiro Murakami

Eli Lilly and Company (Senior Medical Advisor)

Joseph Murar

Impulse Dynamics (Medical Director)

Michael Myers

Bristol Myers Squibb (Medical Director, Worldwide Medical CV Products)

Linda Nelson

WhiteSwell (VP of Clinical Affairs)

Wei Ni

Eli Lilly and Company (Research Advisor)

Patrice Nickens

NIH NHLBI (Medical Officer)

Richard Nkulikiyinka

Bayer AG (VP and Head of Therapeutic Area Cardiology & Nephrology, Clinical Department)

Christopher O’Connor

Inova Heart and Vascular Institute (President), Duke University (Professor of Medicine)

Ileana Pina

FDA, CDRH (Medical Reviewer)

Jordan Pomeroy

FDA (Medical Officer, CDER, DCN)

Mitch Psotka

Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Section Chief (Heart Failure and Transplant), Director (Infiltrative Cardiomyopathy Center)

Lothar Roessig

Bayer (Clinical Development Group Head and VP)

Leonard Sacks

FDA, CDER

Ben Saville

Director & Senior Statistical Scientist (Berry Consultants)

Dan Schaber

Medtronic (VP of HF Clinical Research)

Fred Senatore

FDA (Medical Officer, CDER)

Abhinav Sharma

McGill University (Assistant Professor of Medicine)

Meir Shinnar

FDA (Medical Officer, Circulatory Support Device Branch, Division of Cardiac Devices, Office of Device Evaluation, Center for Devices and Radiological Health)

Scott Solomon

Harvard Medical School (Professor of Medicine ), Brigham and Women’s (Director–noninvasive cardiology)

Randall Starling

Cleveland Clinic (Professor of Medicine), FDA (Member of Circulatory System Devices Panel), Past President, HFSA

Ken Stein

Boston Scientific (Senior VP and CMO for Rhythm Management and Global Health Policy)

Norman Stockbridge

FDA, CDER (Director, Division of Cardiovascular an Renal Products)

Howard Surks

Cardurion (Chief Science Officer, Head of Translational Medicine)

John Teerlink

University of California, San Francisco (Professor of Medicine), San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Director of HF Program), President- Elect, HFSA

John Teerlink

San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Director of HF Program and Clinical Echocardiography Laboratory), President-Elect, HFSA

Whit Tingley

Tenaya Therapeutics (CMO)

LeTanya Tomlinson

Tenaya Therapeutics (Executive Director, Clinical Operations)

Ellis Unger

Cardiologist (Former Director, Office of Drug Evaluation-1, FDA, CDER)

Muthiah Vaduganathan

Brigham and Women’s, Center for Advanced Heart Disease (Instructor of Medicine)

Orly Vardeny

University of Minnesota (Associate Professor of Medicine)

Vanja Vlajnic

Bayer AG (Sr. Manager, Statistics and Data Insights)

Minnow Walsh

St. Vincent Heart Center (Medical Director), Past President, ACC

David Whellan

Thomas Jefferson University (Associate Provost and Dean for Research), Executive Director, Jefferson Clinical Research Institute

Laura Williams

Patient Representative

Clyde Yancy

Northwestern SOM (Chief of Cardiology, Dept. of Medicine, Vice Dean of Inclusion and Diversity)

Amin Yeyha

Sentara Advanced Heart Failure Center (Advanced HF and Transplant Cardiologist)

Emily Zeitler

Dartmouth (Assistant Professor of Medicine)

Debbie Zeldow

HFSA (Director of Science and Research)

Bram Zuckerman

FDA, CDRH (Director, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases)