clinical centres

Members & 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

PI and Staff

Location

Baylor College of Medicine
  • Scott Lemaire (PI),
  • Irina Volguina
Houston, Texas, USA
Alberta Children’s Hospital
  • Julien Marcadier (PI)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Ghent University Hospital
  • Dr. Julie De Backer (PI),
  • Deborah Wille,
  • Laura Muino Mosquera
Ghent, Belgium
Great Ormond Street Hospital
  • Elena Cervi (PI),
  • Ella Field
London, United Kingdom
HOAG Memorial Hospital
  • Anthony Caffarelli (PI),
  • Chelsey Weatherill,
  • Rachel Collier,
  • Rita Weiss (PI),
  • Megan Kaplan
Newport Beach, California, USA
Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron
  • Gisela Teixedo Tura (PI),
  • Anna Sabate-Rotes
Barcelona, Spain
Inova Health System
  • Christopher P. Jordan (PI),
  • Christine Tawfik,
  • Rebeca Miller,
  • Jason Goldberg,
  • Akos Berthold
Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Mark Lindsay (PI)
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
  • Dr. Richmond Jeremy (PI)
Sydney, Australia
Texas Children’s Hospital
  • Dr. Shaine Morris (PI),
  • Taylor Beecroft,
  • Nadia Espahbodi,
  • Yu Cai
Houston, Texas, USA
Toronto General Hospital
  • Maral Ouzounian (PI),
  • Tanzia Alam Amy
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
University of Kentucky
  • Mary Sheppard (PI)
Lexington, Kentucky, USA
University of Michigan
  • Marion Hofmann (PI),
  • Lauren Humphrey-Stark
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Dr. Angela Yetman (PI),
  • Ayisha Bashir,
  • Kelly Erickson
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)
  • Dianna Milewicz (PI),
  • Ernesto Calderon Martinez,
  • Alana Cecchi
Houston, Texas, USA
Washington University School of Medicine
  • Alan Braverman (PI),
  • Leslie Boyer,
  • Michelle Lim,
  • Andrew Koefoed
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Sutter Health
  • Matthew Solomon (PI)
Sacramento, California, USA