Executive Committee
The role of the Executive Committee is to support the policy and governance work of the full Board and act on behalf of the Board in specified situations.
2007-08 Executive Committee Members
Clay Marsh, MD
Chair, Board of Directors
Michael Cain, MD
Immediate Past Chair, Board of Directors
Jon Lomasney, MD
Treasurer, Board of Directors
Charles Lowenstein, MD
Chair, Scientific Committee; Vice Chair, Board of Directors
Ann Marie Schmidt, MD
Vice Chair, Scientific Committee
Dana Boyd
Executive Director (non-voting member)
Alumni Committee
The role of the Alumni Committee is to enhance the professional development of alumni and engage them in the work of the Foundation and its mission.
2007-08 Alumni Committee Members
Christopher Dyke, MD, Chair
Alaska Heart Institute
Leslie Cooper, MD, Vice Chair
Mayo Clinic
Andrew Plump, MD, PhD Vice Chair-Elect
Merck & Co., Inc.
Eric Adler, MD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Ms. Aarti Asnani
Duke University
Rajat Gupta, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital
J. Peter Oettgen, MD
Harvard Institutes of Medicine
Ashvin Pande, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Michael Cain, MD, Chair
University at Buffalo
Christopher Dyke, MD
Alaska Heart Institute
Daniel Friedman, MD
Presbyterian Heart Group, Albuquerque, NM
Gary Gerstenblith, MD
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Elsa-Grace Giardina, MD
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Lee Goldman, MD
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Charles Lowenstein, MD
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Clay Marsh, MD
The Ohio State University
Charles Lowenstein, MD, Chair
Professor, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
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Ann-Marie Schmidt, MD, Vice Chair
Gerald & Janet Carrus Professor of Surgical Science
Chief, Division of Surgical Science, Department of Surgery Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
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E. Dale Abel, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry
University of Utah, School of Medicine
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Eric Adler, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiology
Mount Sinai Hospital
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Ms. Aarti Asnani
Medical Student
Duke University School of Medicine
Robert Balaban, Ph.D.
Scientific Director for Laboratory Research
Chief of the Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, Division of Intramural Research
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
H. Scott Baldwin, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Vice Chair for Laboratory Sciences in Pediatrics
Vanderbilt University Medical School
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John Burnett, Jr., MD
Marriott Family Professor of Cardiovascular Research
Mayo Medical School
Head of the Cardiorenal Research Laboratory and Director for Research
Mayo Clinic and Foundation
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Jonathan Epstein, MD
William Wikoff Smith Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Pennsylvania
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Rajat Gupta, MD
Resident
Massachusetts General Hospital
Daniel Levy, MD
Director
Framingham Heart Study
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
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Paul Noble, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
Duke University School of Medicine
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J. Peter Oettgen, MD
Director of Preventive Cardiology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
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Ashvin Pande, MD
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Cardiovascular Division
Brigham & Women's Hospital
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Peipei Ping, Ph.D.
Professor of Physiology and Medicine/Cardiology
UCLA School of Medicine
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David J. Pinsky, MD
J. Griswold Ruth MD & Margery Hopkins Ruth Professor of Internal Medicine
Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine
Director, Cardiovascular Center
University of Michigan
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Wendy Post, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
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Paul Ridker, MD
Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Brigham & Women's Hospital
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Jean Schaffer, MD
Professor of Medicine, Molecular Biology & Pharmacology
Washington University School of Medicine
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Debra Schwinn, MD
Professor and Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington
She is a current Sarnoff Sponsor
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Philip Tsao, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
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