Board of Directors
Neil Weissman, MD, FASE
Chair (term expires December 31, 2027) MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD
Federico Asch, MD, FASE
Vice Chair (term expires June 30, 2026) MedStar Health Research Institute
Akhil Narang, MD, FASE
Treasurer (term expires June 30, 2027) Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL
Clara Angulo, MBA, ACS, RDCS, FASE
Member at Large (term expires December 2028) Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, TX
Merri Bremer, EdD, RN, ACS, RDCS, FASE
Member at Large (term expires June 2026) Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Brian Davidson, MD, FASE
Member at Large (term expires June 2028) Oregon Health & Science University
Eric Kallstrom, MBA, ACS, RDCS, FASE
Member at Large (term expires December 31, 2027) Parkland Hospital, TX
Kameswari Maganti, MD, FASE
Member at Large (term expires December 2028) Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, NJ
Gillian Whalley, DMU (Cardiac), PhD, FASE
Member at Large (term expires December 2027) University of Otago, New Zealand
Annual Appeal Committee
Bhaskar Arora, MD, FASE
Oregon Health & Science University
Judith Becker, MD
Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX
Brittany Byrd, RDCS (AE, FE, PE), FASE
Raleigh, NC
Courtney Cassidy, RDCS, FASE
Co-Chair Children’s Hospital Colorado, Denver, CO
Shawn Cupp, RCCS, RCS, FASE
Kentucky Children's Hospital, Lexington, KY
Holly Diglio, RCS, FASE
Atlantic Health System – Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
April Durham, BS, ACS, RCS, FASE
VCU Medical Center, Richmond, VA
Jens Eichhorn, MD, PhD, FASE
Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute - Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC
Betul Yilmaz Furtun, MD, FASE
Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX
Jacobo Moreno Garijo, MD, PhD, FASE
University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
Lanqi Hua, ACS, APCA (AE, PE, FE), MS, FASE
Mass General Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA
Renuka Jain, MD, FASE
Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
Peg Knoll, RCS, RDCS, FASE
University of California-Irvine Health, Irvine, CA
Margaret Kurnides, ACS, RDCS, FASE
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Jennifer Liu, MD, FASE
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Jill Mazal, BS, RDCS, RDMS, FASE
Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute - Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC
Andreas Plackis, MD
Baptist Health Arkansas, Little Rock, AR
Karl Richardson, MD, FASE
Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC
Heather Sabatelli, BS, RCS, RVS
Riverside Medical Group, Ringwood, NJ
Gary Satou, MD, FASE
UCLA - David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Neil Weissman, MD, FASE
Chair (term expires December 31, 2027) MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD