Clinical Centres

Leading global institutions within MAC that are actively enrolling patients and contributing to HTAD research. Find participating sites, investigators, and clinical teams.

These centres represent a global network of leading institutions with expertise in genetic aortic conditions, offering specialized care, advanced diagnostics, and opportunities for research participation. Use this list to identify participating sites, principal investigators, and clinical teams involved in MAC, and to better understand where collaborative research and patient enrolment are currently taking place.

Sites currently enrolling patients:

Institution

Principal Investigator (PI) and Staff

Location

Alberta Children's Hospital
  • Julien Marcadier (PI)
Calgary, AB, Canada
Baylor College of Medicine
  • Joseph Coselli (PI), Ginger Etheridge
Houston, TX, USA
Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital
  • Guillaume Jondeau (PI), Ludivine Eliahou, Olivier Milleron, Nadine Hanna, Carine Le Goff, Quentin Pellenc
Paris, France
Ghent University Hospital
  • Julie De Backer (PI), Laura Muino-Mosquera, Patrick Sips, Bert Callewaert, Liesbeth Wildero Van Wouwe
Ghent, Belgium
Great Ormond Street Hospital
  • Elena Cervi (PI), Ella Field 
London, UK
HOAG Memorial Hospital ​
  • Chelsey Torres (PI)​
Newport Beach, CA, USA ​
Inova Health System
  • Christopher P. Jordan (PI), Christine Tawfik, Rebeca Miller, Jason Goldberg, Akos Berthold
Fairfax, VA, USA
Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Mark Lindsay (PI)
Boston, MA, USA
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
  • Richmond Jeremy (PI), Michelle Lim​
Sydney, NSW, Australia ​
Sutter Health
  • Matthew Solomon (PI)​
Santa Rosa, CA, USA ​
Texas Children’s Hospital
  • Shaine Morris (PI), Justin Weigand Co-Investigator, Taylor Beecroft, Nadia Espahbodi​
Houston, TX, USA ​
Toronto General Hospital
  • Maral Ouzounian (PI), Waleed Al Nimr, Rifat Islam​
Toronto, ON, Canada
University of Kentucky
  • Mary Sheppard (PI)​
Lexington, KY, USA​
University of Michigan Children’s Hospital & Medical Center​
  • Marion Hofmann Bowman (PI), Lauren Humphrey-Stark​
Ann Arbor, MI, USA ​
University of Nebraska Medical Center and Children’s Nebraska
  • Angela Yetman (PI), Ayisha Bashir, Kelly Erickson, Lois Starr, Vince Gonzalez
Omaha, NE, USA
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)
  • Dianna Milewicz (PI), Alana Cecchi​, Oyediran Akinrinde
Houston, TX, USA ​
Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron
  • Gisela Teixido Tura (PI), Anna Sabate Rotes ​
Barcelona, Spain
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine/Barnes-Jewish Hospital
  • Alan C. Braverman (PI), Leslie Boyer
St. Louis, MO, USA​