Scientific Program Committee

International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation 37th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions ANNUAL MEETING SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE ♦ Symposium Planning Committee ∗ Abstract Selection Committee

Jeffrey J.Teuteberg, MD, University of Pittsburgh/ Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2017 Scientific Program Chair♦* Maryl R. Johnson, MD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA, ISHLT President♦* Christian Benden, MD, FCCP, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 2018 Scientific Program Chair♦* Andrew Fisher, FRCP, PhD, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2016 Scientific Program Chair♦* Saima Aslam, MD, MS, UCSD, San Diego, CA, USA♦* Fiorella Calabrese, MD, University of Padova, Padova, Italy♦* Chesney Castleberry, MD, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA* Sabina De Geest, RN, PhD, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland♦* Shashank Desai, MD, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA, USA♦* Fabienne Dobbels, PhD, MSc, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium* Howard Eisen, MD, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA♦* Maryjane Farr, MD, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA♦* Savitri Fedson, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,TX, USA* Rochelle Gellatly, PharmD, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia* Patricia Ging, PharmD, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland♦* Kristine Guleserian, MD, Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami, FL, USA* Christopher Hayward, MD, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia* Are Martin Holm, MD, PhD, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway♦* Shahid Husain, MD, MS,Toronto General Hospital/UHN, Toronto, ON, Canada* Jonathan N. Johnson, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA♦* Kiran Khush, MD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA* Ivan Knezevic, MD, University Clinical Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia* Theodore Kofidis, MD, PhD, FRCS, National University of Singapore, Singapore♦* Brent Lampert, DO,The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA* Erika Lease, MD, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA♦* Claudius Mahr, DO, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA*

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Tereza Martinu, MD,Toronto General Hospital/UHN,Toronto, ON, Canada♦* Mandeep Mehra, MD, MBBS, FACC, FACP, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, Journal Editor-in-Chief♦* Hirsch Mehta, MD, San Diego Cardiac Center, San Diego, CA, USA* Joshua Mooney, MD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA* Sanem Nalbantgil, MD, Ege Universite Tip Hospital, Izmir, Turkey♦* Desley Neil, FRCPath, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom♦* Ivan Netuka, MD, PhD, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic♦* Francis Pagani, MD, PhD, University of Michigan Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA♦* Caroline Patterson, MD, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom* Simon Pecha, MD, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany♦* Axel Rahmel, MD, German Procurement Organisation DSO, Frankfurt, Germany * Joanna Schaenman, MD, PhD, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA♦* Palak Shah, MD, MS, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA, USA* Oksana Shlobin, MD, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA, USA♦* Michael Shullo, PharmD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA♦* Ryan Tedford, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA♦* Adriana Torres, MD, Fundacion Cardioinfantil, Bogota, Colombia* Marian Urban, MD, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom♦* C. Dario Vizza, MD, University of Rome, Rome, Italy♦* Robin Vos, MD, PhD, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium♦* Connie White-Williams, PhD, RN, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA* Christopher H. Wigfield, MD, FRCS, Advocate Christ Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA, Medical Director of Educational Affairs♦* Quincy Young, PhD, RPsych, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada♦* Roger Yusen, MD, MPH, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA* Daniel Zimpfer, MD, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria*

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