About ACHA
Medical Advisory Board
MAB Chair, Gary D. Webb, MD
Director, Cincinnati Adolescent and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine University of Cincinnati
Jamil Aboulhosn, MD
Curt J. Daniels, MD, FACC
Curt J Daniels, MD, FACC is the Director of the COACH (Columbus Ohio Adult Congenital Heart Disease) and Pulmonary Hypertension Programs. He is an an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatric Cardiology. He is an attending cardiologists at Nationwide Childrens Hospital and The Ohio State University. He is actively involved in Adult Congenital and Pediatric Cardiology Council of the ACC, ACHA Vision 2020, and ACHD Fellowship Training.
William R. Davidson, Jr., MD
William R. Davidson, Jr., MD
Penn State Heart & Vascular Institute
M.S. Hershey Medical Center, H047
Penn State College of Medicine
Hershey, PA 17033
1-717-531-5888
ph 1-717-531-5888
Joseph A. Dearani., MD
Dr. Dearani is a congenital heart surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN and Program Director of the Thoracic Surgery Residency. He trained in General Surgery at Georgetown and Harvard. Postgraduate fellowship training in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery was taken at Mayo Clinic Rochester followed by fellowship in Congenital Cardiac Surgery at Loma Linda University. Dr. Dearani has had a longstanding interest and expertise in multivalvular and aortic diseases in children and adults with congenital heart disease.
Michael G. Earing , MD
Dr. Michael G. Earing is the director of the Wisconsin Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program (WACH). He is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics in the divisions of both Adult Cardiovascular Medicine and Pediatric Cardiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. His program offers services throughout the state of Wisconsin, including Milwaukee, Appleton, Greenbay, and Madison.
Elyse Foster, MD, FACC
Professor of Clinical Medicine & Anesthesia
Araxe Vilensky Endowed Chair in Cardiology
Director, Echocardiography
Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Service
Welton Gersony, MD
Welton M. Gersony, MD
Nadas Professor of Pediatric Cardiology
Director of the Pediatric Cardiology Center
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
New York, NY
Michelle Z. Gurvitz, MD
Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program
University of Washington Medical Center
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, WA
Marshall Jacobs, MD
Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Diseases
Cleveland Clinic
Paul Khairy, MD, Ph.D, FRCP(C)
Canada Research Chair,
Electrophysiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Director, Adult Congenital Heart Centre Montreal Heart Institute Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Montreal Research Director, Boston Adult Congenital Heart Service Children's Hospital Boston/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University
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 J. Landzberg, MD
Director, Boston Adult Congenital Heart Program (BACH) and Pulmonary Hypertension Service (PHT)
Children's Hospital Boston/Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard University
Michael McConnell, MD
Dr. Michael E. McConnell is the Co-Director of the Emory Adult Congenital Cardiac Clinic. He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine. He is employed by the Sibley Heart Center, a group of 36 pediatric cardiologists practicing throughout Georgia.
Pamela D. Miner, NP
Nurse Practitioner, Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center
UCLA Medical Center
Daniel J. Murphy, Jr., MD
Director, Adult Congenital Cardiology Clinic
Stanford University Medical Center
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology)
Stanford University
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
James C. Perry, MD
Director of Electrophysiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Programs
Department of Pediatrics
University of California San Diego
Rady Children's Hospital
San Diego, California.
David J. Sahn, MD
Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology), Diagnostic Radiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology
and Biomedical Engineering
Director, OHSU Interdisciplinary Program for Cardiac Imaging
Oregon Health and Sciences University
Portland, OR
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Arwa S. Saidi, MD, BCh
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
Seattle, WA
Carole A. Warnes, MD, FRCP, FACC
Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School
Consultant, Division of Cardiology Diseases and Internal Medicine
Consultant, Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic
Roberta G. Williams, MD, MACC, FAHA
Professor and Chair
Department of Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
VP for Pediatrics and Academic Affairs
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Angela Yetman, MD
Evan M. Zahn, MD
Head, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Miami Children's Hospital
Chief, Cardiology
The Congenital Heart Institute at Miami Children's and Arnold Palmer Children's Hospitals
Thomas P. Graham, MD
Professor of Pediatric Cardiology
Division of Cardiology
Vanderbilt Children's Hospital
Nashville, TN
Joseph K. Perloff, MD
University of California, Los Angeles
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
President, International Society for Adult Congenital Cardiac Disease
Michael A Gatzoulis, MD, PhD
Michael A Gatzoulis, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Cardiology, Congenital Heart Disease and Consultant Cardiologist and Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Centre at the Royal Brompton Hospital and the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine in London, UK. Professor Gatzoulis, a graduate of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, completed his post-graduate training in London, UK and Toronto, Canada. He edited several cardiology textbooks, and has served as Associate or Guest Editor or Reviewer for most major journals in the cardiovascular field. He is also the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications. Professor Gatzoulis is currently the President of the International Society for Adult Congenital Cardiac Disease. His main interest is to promote the needs of the patient with congenital heart disease, including delivery of optimal care, translationary research, training and education.
Adreinne Kovacs, Ph.D
Dr. Adrienne Kovacs is a Clinical and Health Psychologist with the Toronto Congenital Cardiac Centre for Adults at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre/University Health Network in Toronto, Canada. She is also an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto.
Ariane Marelli, MD, FRCP(C), FACC
Philip Moons, Ph.D, RN
Dr. Philip Moons is Associate Professor of Nursing Science at the Center for Health Services and Nursing Research of the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium. He is also Advanced Practice Nurse in the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program of the University Hospitals Leuven.
Barbara JM Mulder, MD, Ph.D
Barbara JM Mulder is professor of cardiology in the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam and she is specialized in the field of adult congenital cardiology. In 2001 she initiated the national registry and DNA bank for congenital heart disease in the Netherlands. She chaired the European Survey on congenital heart disease. Since march 2008 she is president-elect of the International Society of Adult Congenital Cardiology.
Koichiro Niwa, MD