Leadership
COUNCIL
President
Fish, Jason
University Health Network - Toronto
President-elect
A. ​Wayne Orr
LSU Health - Shreveport
Past President
Red-Horse, Kristy
Stanford University
Secretary-Treasurer
Muller, Bill A.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Councilors
Astrof, Sophie
Rutgers University
Fang, Yun
University of Chicago
Gonzalez, Anjelica
Yale University
Gu, Mingxia
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Johnstone, Scott
Virginia Tech
Kume, Tsutomu
Northwestern University School of Medicine
Education CommitteeÂ
Chair: Carrie Shawber
Columbia University Medical Center
Committee Members:
Laszlo Balint
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mitzy Cowdin
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Mallika Ghosh
University of Connecticut Health Center
Angela Glading
University of Rochester
Donny Hanjaya-Putra
University of Notre Dame
Minah Kim
Columbia University
Callie Kwartler
University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Li Li
Wayne State University
Qing Li
Johns Hopkins University
Ziqing Liu
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Victoria Osinski
University of Minnesota
Nicole Pek
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Research Center
Paula Rodrigues de Barros
University of South Carolina
Lily Takeuchi
University of Toronto
Young-sup Yoon
Emory University
Communications Committee
Chair: Amber Stratman
Washington University in St.Louis
Committee Members:Â
Cyrine Ben Dhaou
LSUHS Shreveport
Xinjiang Cai
University of California, Los Angeles
Elizabeth Crouch
University of California, San Francisco
William R. Huckle
Virginia Tech
Shashi Kant
Brigham Women's Hospital
Sherin Saheera
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Vigneshwaran Vellingiri
University of Illinois at Chicago
Ivan Fan Xia
Yale University
Communities Committee
Chair: Morgan Salmon
University of Michigan
Committee Members:
Crizza Ching
University of Toronto
Leah Greenspan
National Institutes of Health
Alessandra Pasut
KULeuven
Laura Pillay
NIH
Mark Renton
Virginia Tech, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute
Morgan Salmon
University of Michigan
Rio Sugimura
University of Hong Kong
Jiayu Zhu
University of Chicago
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
Chair: Bhama Ramkhelawon
New York University Langone Medical Center
Vice-Chair:
Sarvesh Chelvanambi
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Committee Members:
Aaron B. Baker
University of Texas, Austin
Elisa Boscolo
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Abhijnan Chattopadhyay
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Hong Chen
Harvard Medical School/ Boston Children's Hospital
Naomi Chesler
University of California, Irvine
Jennifer Fang
Tulane University Â
David Gordon
University of Michigan Medical School
Marie Guerraty
University of Pennsylvania
Ngan F. Huang
Stanford University
Skylar KingÂ
University of Missouri
Glicella Salazar-De Simone
Columbia University Medical Center
Membership Committee
Chair: Mabruka Alfaidi
LSU Health Sciences Center - Shreveport
Committee Members:
Nick Chavkin
University of Virginia
Melody Chemaly
Karolinska Institute
Lian Guo
University of Virginia
Anjali Kusumbe
University of Oxford/Kennedy Institute
Xiaolei Liu
Temple University
Suellen Darc Oliveira
University of Illinois at Chicago
Richard Pierce
Yale University
Lawrence Pinkus
National Institutes of Health
Meritorious Awards Committee
Chair: Kathleen Caron
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Committee Members:
Zoltan Arany
University of Pennsylvania
Elisa Boscolo
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Sarah Childs
University of Calgary
Patricia D'Amore
Schepens Eye Research Inst of Mass Eye and Ear/ Harvard Medical School
Mahdi Garelnabi
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Mark Ginsberg
University of California, San Diego
Courtney Griffin
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Natasha Harvey
University of South Australia
Karen Hirschi
University of Virginia
Jan Kitajewski
University of Illinois Chicago, College of Medicine
Brenda Lilly
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Stefania Nicoli
Yale University Cardiovascular Research Center
Sara Nunes de Vasconcelos
University Health Network
A. Wayne Orr
LSU Health - Shreveport
Ellie Tzima
University of Oxford
Brant Weinstein
NICHD, NIH
Online Program Committee
Co-Chairs: Cristina Espinosa-Diez
Wayne State University
and Lisandra Vila-Ellis
Northwestern UniversityÂ
Committee Members:
Abhijnan Chattopadhyay
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Hanqiang Deng
Yale University
Adriana Franco Acevedo
UCLA
Tiago Januario da Costa
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Vivian Lee-Kim
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Julie Leonard-Duke
University of Virginia
Terren Niethamer
University of Pennsylvania
Alexandra Racanelli
Weill Cornell Medicine
Li Chang Jessica Teo
Boston University
Mandy Turner
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Ruilin Wu
University Health Network
Yifan Yuan
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Vascular Biology Publications Alert
Senior Editors:
Juan Melero Martin
Boston Children's Hospital
Somanath PR Shenoy
University of Georgia
Radu V. Stan
Dartmouth University
Editors:
B. Rita Alevriadou
University at Buffalo-SUNY
Rolf Brekken
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Eric Camerer
INSERM
Selen Catania
NIH
Susana Cavallero
University of California, Los Angeles/VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Alexandre Dubrac
Montreal University
Tohru Fukai
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
Carmen Halabi
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Andrius Kazlauskas
University of Illinois at Chicago
Monica Lee
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Akiko Mammoto
Medical College of Wisconsin
Michael May
University of Pennsylvania
Tirthadipa Pradhan-Sundd
Blood Research Institute, Versiti
Liudmila Romanova
Rush University Medical Center
Morgan Salmon
University of Michigan
Teresa Sanchez Garcia-Vao
Weill Cornell Medical College
Linda Shapiro
University of Connecticut
Rio Sugimura
University of Hong Kong
Kishore Wary
University of Illinois, Chicago
Mary Weiser-Evans
University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus
Jun Yu
Temple University
Newsletter and NewsBEAT
Editor: William R. Huckle
Virginia Tech
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Representatives are members who have agreed to act as ambassadors for NAVBO at their home institutions. If you need information about NAVBO or upcoming NAVBO programs, feel free to contact them or the NAVBO office (bernadette@navbo.org).
NAVBO is represented by our members at the following institutions:
Canada
Janos G. Filep, M.D.
Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital,
University of Montreal, PQ
Michelle P. Bendeck, Ph.D.
Unversity of Toronto,
Toronto, ON
Gediminas Cepinskas, D.V.M./Ph.D.
Lawson Health Research Institute
London, ON
Xi-Long Zheng, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB
Maria Febbraio, Ph.D., FAHA
University of Alberta, AB
Germany
Ralf H. Adams, PhD
Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster
Hellmut G. Augustin, Ph.D., DVM
University of Heidelberg and German Cancer Research Center
United Kingdom
Christiana Ruhrberg, Ph.D.
University College London
London
Anna M. Randi, M.D., Ph.D.
Imperial College London
London
United States (zip code order)
Joyce Bischoff, Ph.D.
Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical SchoolÂ
Boston, MA
David Milstone, M.D., Ph.D.
Brigham & Women's HospitalÂ
Boston, MA
Richard Pierce, M.D.
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Harold A.Singer, Ph.D.
Albany Medical College
Albany, NY
Kristopher Maier, Ph.D.
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NY
Angela J. Glading, Ph.D.
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
Beth L. Roman, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Alisa Morss Clyne, Ph.D.
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
Mark L. Kahn, M.D.
Univ of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Gary K. Owens, Ph.D.Â
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville,VA
William R. Huckle, M.S., Ph.D.
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
David A. Tulis, Ph.D.
FAHA, East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
Luke P. Brewster, M.D., Ph.D.
Emory Clinic
Decatur, GA
Lianchun Wang, MD
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
Walter Murfee, Ph.D.
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Brenda J. Lilly, Ph.D.
Nationwide Children's Research Institute
Columbus, OH
Anand Ramamurthi, Ph.D.
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Elisa Boscolo, Ph.D.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati, OH
Tsutomu Kume, Ph.D.
Northwestern University School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Bo Liu, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin Medical School
Madison, WI
Diane Darland, Ph.D.
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND
Courtney Griffin, Ph.D.Â
Oklahoma Medical Research FoundationÂ
Oklahoma City, OK
Ondine B. Cleaver, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Kayla Bayless, Ph.D.
Texas A&M Health Science Center
College Station, TX
Rebecca Stockton, Ph.D.
University of California
San Diego, CA
Kristina I. Bostrom, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California
Los Angeles, CA
Rama Natarajan, Ph.D.
Beckman Res Institute of City of Hope
Duarte, CA
Christopher C. Hughes, Ph.D.
University of California
Irvine, CA
Rong Wang, Ph.D.
University of California
San Francisco, CA
Mei Y. Speer, Ph.D.
Univerity of Washington
Seattle, WA
NAVBO Scientific Advisory Board
Kari Alitalo, M.D., Ph.D.
Biomedicum Inst/Univ Helsinki
Laura E Benjamin, PhD
New York, NY 10014 United StatesÂ
Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Rochester Medical Center
Harold Dvorak, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterÂ
Napoleone Ferrara, M.D.
University of California, San Diego
Mary Gerritsen, Ph.D.
San Mateo, CA
Michael A. Gimbrone Jr., MD
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Mark H. Ginsberg, M.D.
University of California, San Diego
Jordan S. Pober, M.D., Ph.D.
Yale Univ School of Med
Samuel D. Wright, Ph.D.
CSL Limited
Courtney Griffin (2021-2022)
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Masanori Aikawa (2020-2021)
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Ondine Cleaver (2019-2020)
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Michelle Bendeck (2018-2019)
University of Toronto
Cecilia Giachelli (2017-2018)
University of Washington
Jan Kitajewski (2016-2017)
University of Illinois at Chicago
Joyce Bischoff (2015-2016)
Boston Children's Hospital
Karen Hirschi (2014-2015)
University of Virginia
Klaus Ley (2013-2014)
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Victoria Bautch (2012-2013)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tim Hla (2011-2012)
Boston Children's Hospital
William Sessa (2010-2011)
Pfizer, Inc.
Brant Weinstein (2009-2010)
NICHD/NIH
Mark Majesky (2008-2009)
University of Washington
Mark Ginsberg (2007-2008)
University of California, San Diego
Luisa Iruela-Arispe (2006-2007)
Northwestern University
Michael Simons (2005-2006)
Yale School of Medicine
William Muller (2004-2005)
Northwestern University
Linda Demer (2003-2004)
University of California, Los Angeles
Paul DiCorleto (2002-2003)
Retired
Alexander Clowes* (2001-2002)
University of Washington
Mary E. Gerritsen (2000-2001)
Gerritsen Consulting
Bradford Berk (1999-2000)
University of Rochester Medical Center
Gary Owens (1998-1999)
University of Virginia
Jordan Pober (1997-1998)
Yale School of Medicine
Elizabeth Nabel (1996-1997)
ModeX Therapeutics
Stephen Schwartz* (1995-1996)
University of Washington
Michael Gimbrone (1994-1995)
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
*Deceased