ADULT CONGENITAL HEART - Key Persons
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- Members Each Represent One of Nine Distinct Regions
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- Director, Behavioral Cardiovascular Care / Knight Cardiovascular Institute / Oregon Health Sciences University
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- Chairman, Research
- Director, Cincinnati Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program / Cincinnati Children 's Hospital Medical Center
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- Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics / Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease ( ACHD ) Center
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- Director, ACHD Program, Northern California Kaiser Permanente / Associate Professor at University of California, San Francisco
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- Director, Washington Adult Congenital Heart Program / Children 's National Medical Center / Washington, DC
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- Retired, Development and Public Relations Professional / Naples, FL
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- Director Johns Hopkins Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center / Johns Hopkins University Hospital
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- Associate Professor of Medicine, McGill University / Director, MAUDE Unit ( McGill Adult Unit for Congenital Heart Disease )
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- Cardiologist / Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL
- Immediate past MAB Chair
- Immediate past Medical Advisory Board Chair
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- Professor of Cardiology in the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam / President, International Society for Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Barry Meil is an entrepreneur who has operated several businesses throughout his career. In addition, he has served on the Board of Directors of several non-profit organizations. Barry is currently semi-retired but continues his involvement in commercial real estate.
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- Vice President, Ambulatory Care Services
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- Senior Events Coordinator
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- Community Marketing Coordinator
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- Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School / Consultant, Division of Cardiology Diseases and Internal Medicine
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- Midwest Regional Development Specialist
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- Lead Director, Aetna, a CVS Health Company / New Britain, CT
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- Dottie Dohan Shepard Endowed Chair / Professor, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
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- Senior Director of Medical Affairs
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- Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program / Medical University of South Carolina / Charleston, SC
"I have had a unique opportunity to watch ACHA grow over the last 20+ years. My daughter, Karen Klein McNulty, one of the three co-founders, was the first President of ACHA. The office was located in our home in Boston for the first seven years.
Dr. Mary Kay Klein is retired, after having worked in various teaching and administrative positions throughout her career. She also spent many years involved in the interfaith spirituality movement in the Boston area. She was a founding Board member of ACHA, and was ACHA's first secretary/treasurer.
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- Professor of Clinical Medicine & Anesthesia
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- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Webb provided leadership and advice for more than two decades as a valued member of both the ACHA Medical Advisory Board and ACHA Emeritus Medical Advisory Board. He served as the keynote speaker at the very first ACHA National Conference in Boston in 2000 and presented several patient webinars over the years. Dr. Webb was a supporter of the ACHA ACHD Clinic Directory, recognized the importance of and was involved in creating ACHA ACHD Program Accreditation, and shared the voice of ACHA on the Congenital Heart International Professionals (CHiP) network. Throughout his career in ACHD, he was director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic in the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at the University Health Network in Toronto, ON, Canada; the Philadelphia Adult Congenital Heart Center at the University of Pennsylvania; and the Adult Congenital Heart Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Heart Institute.
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- Medical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Program at Stanford
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- Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California
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- Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Psychology / Center for Biobehavioral Health
- Co - Chair, Patient / Family Program Committee
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- Associate Professor of Pediatrics / University of Minnesota School
Jane Somerville, MD, FRCP 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.
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- Director of Patient Resources & Advocacy
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- Patient & Family Advisory Board Co - Chair
- PFAB Co - Chair West South Central
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- Director, Providence Adult and Teen Congenital Heart Program ( PATCH ) Providence Center for Congenital Heart Disease / Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children 's Hospital
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- Assistant Professor, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program / University of Washington
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- Head of Sales Development and Insights, Google / Newport Beach, CA
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- Founder and Medical Director of the UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center
Joseph K. Perloff, the founder and Medical Director of the UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center, was 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.
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- Co - Founder and First President
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- Director, Washington Adult Congenital Heart Center / Children 's National Medical Center & Washington Hospital Center / Professor, Child Health and Development
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- Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program Associate Professor, Cardiology / Medicine
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- Director of Walk for 1 in 100
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- Director, Department of Adult Congenital Heart Disease and Pediatrics / Chief, Department of Pediatrics
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- Director of Congenital Interventional Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease / Joe DiMaggio Children 's Hospital
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- Provider Services Senior Coordinator
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- Head of Cardiology, Air Force Hospital, Cordoba, Argentina
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- Director of Adult Congenital Heart Disease
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- Retired National Senior Sales Director, Medtronic Congenital Therapies / Orlando, FL
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- Senior Wealth Planner, Merrill Lynch / New York, NY
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- Professor of Cardiology, Congenital Heart Disease and Consultant Cardiologist / Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Centre
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- Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine Chief, Pediatric Cardiology / Medical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program
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- Co - Director, Emory Adult Congenital Cardiac Clinic / Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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- Professor, Department of Medicine / Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
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- Inpatient Director of the Boston Adult Congenital Heart ( BACH ) / Pulmonary Hypertension Service
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- Cardiologist, Children 's Hospital Boston / Instructor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
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- Patient & Family Advisory Board Co - Chair
- PFAB Co - Chair New England
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- Professor of Medicine / Consultant, Cardiovascular Diseases
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- Vice President of Finance, Health and Science Technologies, IDEX Corporation / Minneapolis, MN
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- Nurse Practitioner, Ahmanson / UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center / UCLA Medical Center
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- Electrophysiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Director, Adult Congenital Heart Centre / Associate Professor of Medicine, Montreal Heart Institute
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- Medical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program / Texas Children 's Hospital / Baylor College of Medicine
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- Associate Professor of Nursing Science at the Center for Health Services and Nursing Research, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium
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- Chairman
- Director, Adult Congenital Heart Center / Professor of Medicine
- Medical Advisory Board Chair
Roberta G. Williams, MD, MACC, FAHA 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.
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- Associate Professor, Internal Medicine / Associate Program Director
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- Medical Director, Wisconsin Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program / Medical College of Wisconsin
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- Chief of Staff at University Medical Center
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- Diagnostic Radiologist / Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
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- Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program
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- Director of Marketing and Communications
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 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 had 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 was ventricular function in congenital heart disease and had been the pediatric cardiology editor for the Year Book of Cardiology since 1997.
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- Director of the Pediatric Cardiology Center
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- Employee Relations Consultant & Family Foundation Advisor / Oklahoma City, OK
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- Retired Attorney / Washington, DC
Dr. Davidson was a long-time ACHA advocate and friend with an unwavering dedication to the mission of ACHA. Instrumental in the development of the ACHA Clinic Directory, Dr. Davidson served as chairperson of the Clinic Directory Committee (later renamed the Professional Affairs Committee), beginning in 2004. He recognized the importance of adults with CHD receiving care from appropriately trained cardiologists. After finishing his Cardiology fellowship at the University of Rochester, Dr. Davidson joined the cardiology faculty at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center in 1985 where he founded the Program for Adult Congenital Heart Disease (PACHD) at Hershey in 1991. He directed that program from then until his retirement in early 2022. Dr. Davidson served on the ACHA Medical Advisory Board from 2006-2014, where he was also a member of the executive committee for a period of time. Subsequent to that, Dr. Davidson was a member of the ACHA Emeritus Medical Advisory Board from 2015 until his passing. He also served as an ACHA Board Member from 2009-2011, as well as on the steering committee of Vision 2020 and as chair of the Program Accreditation working group.
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- Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center
- Medical Advisory Board Vice Chair
- Vice Chair Co - Chair, Patient / Family Program Committee