Medical Advisory Board

MAB Chair Michael J. Landzberg, MD
Director, Boston Adult Congenital Heart Program (BACH) and Pulmonary Hypertension Service (PHT)
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Children's Hospital Boston/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University

MAB Vice Chair Curt J. Daniels, MD, FACC
Director, COACH (Columbus Ohio Adult Congenital Heart Disease) and Pulmonary Hypertension Programs
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Attending cardiologist, Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University

Jamil Aboulhosn, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Director, Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center  

Naser M. Ammash, MD
Professor of Medicine
Consultant, Cardiovascular Diseases
Co-director, echocardiography laboratory
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Craig Broberg, MD, MCR
Director, Adult Congenital Heart Program
Oregon Health and Science University

Stephen C. Cook, MD, FACC
Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center of UPMC
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Stephen Crumb, DNP, AACC
Coordinator, COACH (Columbus Ohio Adult Congenital Heart) Program 
The Heart Center at Nationwide Children's Hospital
The Ohio State University

William R. Davidson, Jr., MD
Professor of Medicine
Penn State Heart & Vascular Institute
Penn State College of Medicine 

Michael G. Earing, MD
Director, WI Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program (WAtCH)
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Adult Cardiovascular Medicine and Pediatric Cardiology
Medical College of Wisconsin

Michelle Z. Gurvitz, MD
Cardiologist, Children’s Hospital Boston
Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program

Joseph D. Kay, MD
Director, Colorado’s Adult & Teen Congenital Heart Program (CATCH)
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
UC Denver School of Medicine (University of Colorado Hospital & Children’s Hospital Colorado).

Brian Kogon, MD
Associate Professor, Surgery
Director, Adult Congenital Heart Surgery Program
Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

Karen S. Kuehl, MD, MPH
Director, Washington Adult Congenital Heart Center
Children's National Medical Center & Washington Hospital Center
Professor, Child Health and Development
George Washington University School of Medicine

Michael McConnell, MD
Co-Director, Emory Adult Congenital Cardiac Clinic
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine, Sibley Heart Center

Alison Knauth Meadows, MD, PhD
Director, ACHD Program, Northern California Kaiser Permanente
Adjunct Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Radiology, UCSF

Pamela D. Miner, NP
Nurse Practitioner, Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center
University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center

 

Disty Pearson, PA-C
Physician Assistant, Boston Adult Congenital Heart Program (BACH) and Pulmonary Hypertension Service (PHT)
Children's Hospital Boston/Brigham and Women's Hospital

Ronen Rozenblum, PhD, MPH
Director, The Unit for Innovative Healthcare Practice & Technology
Research Associate, The Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice/Brigham & Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School







Arwa S. Saidi, MB, BCh, MEd, FACC
Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program
Associate Professor
University of Florida

Karen Stout, MD
Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program
Associate Professor, Cardiology/Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor, Cardiology/Pediatrics
University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital

Carole A. Warnes, MD, FRCP, FACC
Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic
Professor of Medicine
Mayo Medical School
Consultant, Division of Cardiology Diseases and Internal Medicine
Consultant, Division of Pediatric Cardiology

Gary D. Webb, MD
Director, Cincinnati Adolescent and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program
Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati Children's Hospital

Anji Yetman, MD
Director, ACHD Program
Utah Adult Congenital Heart Program
University of Utah Health Sciences Center

Emeritus Members

Welton M. Gersony, MD
Director of the Pediatric Cardiology Center
Nadas Professor of Pediatric Cardiology 
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Columbia University

Thomas P. Graham, MD
Thomas P. Graham is the Emeritus Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. Dr. Graham came to Vanderbilt in 1971 to establish the Pediatric Cardiology program, which was renamed the Thomas P. Graham Division of Pediatric Cardiology in 2008. Dr. Graham has served the College as the chair of the Pediatric Cardiology Committee twice, the chair of the Credentials and Membership Committee, on multiple Bethesda Conference Steering Committees, and on the Publications Committee. He has also served on the editorial board of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and as a member of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Graham was awarded the Gifted Teacher award by Vanderbilt in 2006. His major research interest has been ventricular function in congenital heart disease and has been the pediatric cardiology editor for the Year Book of Cardiology since 1997.

Joseph K. Perloff, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
Joseph K. Perloff is the Founder and Medical Director of the UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center. Dr. Perloff has been pivotal in establishing the field of adult congenital heart disease. In 2008, the American College of Cardiology presented Dr Perloff with its most prestigious honor—the Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr Perloff is the author of hundreds of scientific articles and chapters. His books include the 5th edition of the Clinical Recognition of Congenital Heart Disease, a definitive text, the 3rd edition of Congenital Heart Disease in Adults, which was the first book dedicated to this new field, and the fourth edition of the Physical Examination of the Heart and Circulation, a classic text.

David J. Sahn, MD
Director, OHSU Interdisciplinary Program for Cardiac Imaging
Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Diagnostic Radiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Biomedical Engineering
Oregon Health and Sciences University

Jane Somerville, MD, FRCP
Dr. Jane Somerville established the first adolescent cardiology ward in 1975 at National Heart Hospital in London. In 1980, she organized the first World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, also in London. Dr. Somerville established “Grown Up Congenital Heart Disease” (GUCH) as a subspecialty of cardiology in the UK and Europe and founded the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on GUCH. The GUCH unit at Brompton Hospital is named after Dr. Somerville. Her “Unicorns,” a club of doctors from all over the world who have trained with her, continue to spread the passion for GUCH. Dr. Somerville has written papers on pediatric cardiology and adult congenital heart disease and given numerous named lectures, including the upcoming Dan G. McNamara lecture at ACC 2012 in Chicago. She has also been chosen to be honored by ACC as one of five legends for her contributions to cardiology, which she hopes has the potential to increase the “profile” of congenital heart patients and the importance of the issues that adults with CHD face.

Roberta G. Williams, MD, MACC, FAHA
Roberta G. Williams was trained in Medicine-Pediatrics and pediatric and adult cardiology. She became the first medical director of a cardiothoracic intensive care unit and instituted the pediatric echocardiography laboratory at Boston Children’s Hospital in 1973. She has co-authored three texts. She was Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at University of California Los Angeles from 1982-95, Chair of Pediatrics at University of North Carolina from 1995-2000, and Chair of Pediatrics and VP for Academic Affairs at University of Southern California/Children’s Hospital Los Angeles from 2000-2010.She has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from ASE, the Gifted Teacher Award from the ACC, the Women in Cardiology Mentor Award from the Clinical Cardiology Council of AHA, and the Founder’s Award from the Pediatric Cardiology Section of the AAP. Her career interest has been in the lifecycle of patients with congenital heart disease, from fetal life to old age.

International Advisors

Luis E Alday, MD, FACC, FAHA
Head of Cardiology, Air Force Hospital, Cordoba, Argentina
Head of Pediatric Cardiology, Sanatorio Allende, Cordoba, Argentina

Jack M. Colman, MD, FRCPC
Staff Cardiologist
Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults
Mount Sinai Hospital and Toronto General Hospital/UHN
Co-director, Heart Diseases in Pregnancy Program
Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto

Michael A Gatzoulis, MD, PhD
Professor of Cardiology, Congenital Heart Disease and Consultant Cardiologist
Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Centre
Royal Brompton Hospital and the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine in London, UK

Paul Khairy, MD, Ph.D, FRCP(C)
Electrophysiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Director, Adult Congenital Heart Centre
Associate Professor of Medicine, Montreal Heart Institute
University of Montreal Research Director
Boston Adult Congenital Heart Service Children's Hospital Boston/Brigham and Women's Hospital

Adrienne Kovacs, Ph.D
Clinical and Health Psychologist, Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults
Peter Munk Cardiac Centre/University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
Assistant Professor, Medicine, University of Toronto

Ariane Marelli, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, McGill University
Director, MAUDE Unit (McGill Adult Unit for Congenital Heart Disease)

Philip Moons, Ph.D, RN
Associate Professor of Nursing Science at the Center for Health Services and Nursing Research, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium
Advanced Practice Nurse, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program, University Hospitals Leuven

Barbara J.M. Mulder, MD, Ph.D
Professor of Cardiology in the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam
President, International Society for Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Koichiro Niwa, MD
Director, Department of Adult Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatrics
Chief, Department of Pediatrics
Chiba Cardiovascular Center, Chiba, Japan
Former President of the Japanese Society for Adult Congenital Heart Disease (JSACHD)