Dianna Milewicz, MD PhD

Executive Chair

President George Bush Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
Vice-Chair, Department of Internal Medicine
Director, Division of Medical Genetics
University of Texas at Houston Health Science Centre
Houston, Texas, USA

Reed Pyeritz, MD PhD

Past Executive Chair

William Smilow Professor of Medicine & Professor of Genetics
Vice-chair for Academic Affairs, Department of Medicine
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Smilow Center for Translational Research
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Julie de Backer, MD PhD

Scientific Co-Chair

Associate Professor
Cardiologist, Clinic Deputy Head
Departments of Cardiology and Medical Genetics
University Hospital Ghent, Belgium

Catherine Boileau, PhD

Scientific Co-Chair

Department of Genetics Head
University Hospital Xavier Bichat-Claude Bernard
Professor of Medical Genetics, University Denis Diderot
Paris, France

Guillaume Jondeau, MD PhD

Clinical Chair

Director, Heart Failure Unit, Cardiology Department, Claude Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital
Director, Centre de référence sur le syndrome de Marfan et apparentés
Professor of Cardiology, University Denis Diderot
Paris, France

Alan Braverman, MD

Executive Member

Director, Marfan Syndrome Clinic, Washington University Medical Center
Professor of Medicine
Professor in Cardiovascular Diseases
Director and Chief-of-Service, Inpatient Cardiology Unit, Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Faculty, Center for Diseases of the Thoracic Aorta
Washington University School of Medicine, USA

Arturo Evangalista, MD

Executive Member

Head, Department of Aortic Disease
Hospital Universitari Vall d´Hebron
Barcelona, Spain

Shaine A. Morris, MD

Executive Member

Assistant Professor in Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, Texas, USA

Maral Ouzounian , MD PhD

Executive Member

Cardiovascular surgeon, Surgeon Scientist
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Principal Investigator
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Anji Yetman, MD

Executive Member

Professor, Pediatrics & Medicine
Director, Clinical Research Pediatric Cardiology
Fellowship Director, Adult Congenital Cardiology
Medical Director, Aortic Program, Nebraska Medicine
Children’s Hospital & Medical Center
University of Nebraska, Omaha USA 

Lesley Ades, MD HGSA FRACP

Senior staff specialist Department of Clinical Genetics,
Conjoint senior lecturer in clinical genetics Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health,
University of Sydney
Head, Marfan Research Group,
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
Sydney, Australia

Eloisa Arbustini, MD

Centre for Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, IRCCS
Pavia, Italy

Nanette Alvarez, MD

Calgary Marfan & Connective Tissue Disorders Clinic
Director, Canadian Adult Congenital Heart Centre
The Peter Lougheed Centre
Calgary, Canada

Anne H. Child, MD MRCP FRCP

Reader in Cardiovascular Genetics
Honorary Consultant Cardiology and Genetics
Department  of Cardiac and Vascular Sciences
St George’s Hospital University of London
London, United Kingdom

Bo Carlberg, MD PhD

Associate Professor
Division of Medicine, Dept. of Public Health and Clinical Medicine
Umeå University, Sweden

Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD PhD FRCSC

Assistant Professor of Department of Surgery, University of Montréal
Aortic and Connective Tissue Clinic
Associate Researcher, Montreal Heart Institute
Montréal, Québec, Canada

David Chitayat, MD FABMG FCCMG FRCPC

Head, Prenatal Diagnosis and Medical Genetics Program
Mount Sinai Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular and Medical Genetics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
University of Toronto
Division of Clinical Genetics, The Hospital for Sick Children
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Anne de Paepe, MD PhD

Department Head, Center for Medical Genetics
Ghent University, Belgium

Richard B. Devereux, MD

Director of the Adult Echocardiography Laboratory
Professor of Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York Presbyterian Hospital
New York, NY, USA

Bridget Fernandez, MD FRCPC FCCMG

Associate Professor and Chair, Discipline of Genetics
Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada

Josephine Grima, PhD

Vice President of Research and Legislative Affairs
The Marfan Foundation
Port Washington, New York, USA

Maarten Groenink, MD PhD

Associate Professor in Cardiology
Director, Cardiovascular Imaging Program
Department of Cardiology and Radiology
Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam

Gabrielle Horne, MD PhD

Prof., Cardiology & Biomedical Engineering
Director, Maritimes Connective Tissue Clinic
Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Richmond Jeremy, MB BS PhD FRACP FACC FESC FCSANZ GAICD

Professor in Medicine, Department of Cardiology, University of Sydney
Director, Marfan & Aortic Disease Clinic, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
President, Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand
Camperdown, NSW, Australia

Yskert von Kodolitsch

Department of General and Interventional Cardiology
Universitäres Herzzentrum Hamburg GmbH
UKE – Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Hamburg, Germany

Ronald Lacro, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Department of Cardiology
Cardiology Research Centre
Boston Children’s Hospital, USA

Scott A. LeMaire, MD

Professor of Surgery
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
University of Texas Heart Institute, USA

Alex V. Levin, MD, MHSc, FRCSC

Chief, Paediatric Ophthalmology and Ocular Genetics
Will’s Eye
Philadelphia, PA, USA

David Liang, MD PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Cardiovascular Medicine and Electrical Engineering
Stanford University Medical Centre
Stanford, California, USA

Irene Maumenee, MD

Research Professor of Ophthalmology
Pediatric Ophthalmology & Adult Strabismus Service
Director, Ocular Genetics Laboratory
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA

Vivienne McConnell

Consultant in Genetic Medicine
Department of Genetic Medicine
Belfast City Hospital
Belfast, Ireland

Rocio Moran, MD

Division Director of Genetics
MetroHealth Medical Center
2500 MetroHealth Dr. G730A
Cleveland, OH, USA 

Hiroko Morisaki, MD PhD

Laboratory Chief, Department of Bioscience and Genetics, Research Institute
Section Chief, Department of Medical Genetics
National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center
Suita, Osaka, Japan

Takayuki Morisaki, MD PhD

Director, Department of Bioscience and Genetics
National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute
Professor, Department of Molecular Pathophysiology
Osaka University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Member, Expert Panel on Bioethics, Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
Suita, Osaka, Japan

Alex Pitcher, MRCP PhD

Clinical Research Fellow, British Heart Foundation
Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of Oxford
Honorary Specialist Registrar in Cardiology and General (Internal) Medicine
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
England, United Kingdom

Nancy Poirier, MD

Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, CHU Sainte-Justine
Aortic and Connective Tissue Clinic
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Montreal Heart Institute
Montréal, Québec, Canada

Francesco Ramirez, PhD

Chair of Molecular Biology Connective Tissue Diseases,
Professor of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics
Professor of Medicine-Cardiology
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, USA

Peter Robinson, MD

Professor of Computational Biology
The Jackson Laboratory
Genomic Medicine
Farmington, CT, USA

Dieter Reinhardt, PhD

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Cell-Matrix Biology
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Faculty of Dentistry, Division of Biomedical Sciences
McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Meike Rybczynski, MD

Cardiologist, University Heart Centre Hamburg GmbH
Kardiologische Zentralambulanz
Hamburg, Germany

George Sandor, MD

Clinical Investigator, CFRI Professor, University of British Columbia
Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics
BC Children’s Hospital
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lynn Sakai, PhD

Senior Investigator, Portland Shriners Research Center,
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon, USA

Denver Sallee, MD

Sibley Heart Center Cardiology
Director, Aortopathy Program
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Sherene Shalhub, MD MPH FACS

Assistant Professor, Vascular Surgery
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, USA

Michael N. Singh, MD

Instructor, Harvard Medical School, Pediatric Cardiology
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boston, USA

Bert Callewaert, MD PhD

Clinical geneticist and pediatrician
Center for Medical Genetics
Pediatrics department
Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Ellen S. Regalado, MS CGC

Assistant Professor
Division of Medical Genetics
Department of Internal Medicine
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas, USA

Marion A. Hofmann Bowman, MD PhD

The University of Michigan
Cardiovascular Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA

Fabien Labombarda, MD

Cardiology Department,
Caen University Hospital and University of Caen,
Avenue cote de nacre
14033 Caen, France 

Dr. Laurence Faivre, MD, PhD

Genetics Department
CHU Dijon
14 rue Gaffarel
Dijon, France 

Claire Bouleti, MD, PhD

Cardiology Department
Bichat Hospital, 46 rue Henri Huchard
75018 Paris, France 

Marjolijn  Renard , MSc, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Center for Medical Genetics,
Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185
Ghent 9000 Belgium 

Derek Human, BA, BM

Clinical Investigator, CFRI,
Clinical Professor, Division of Cardiology,
Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia
BC Children’s Hospital,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Zoltan Szabolcs , MD PhD MSc

Division Chief, Research Program Director
Department of Heart and Vascular Center
Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary 

Andrew Michael Crean, MD, MRCP, FRCR

Principal Investigator/Professor
Laboratory Director, Department of Medicine (Cardiology)
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center,
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Joseph Bavaria, MD

Co-Director, Transcatheter Valve Program
Director, Thoracic Aortic Surgery Program
Vice Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery
Brooke Roberts – William Maul Measey Professor in Surgery
Penn Medicine, Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA 

Apostolos “Paul” Psychogios, MD, FACMGG

Associate Professor | University of Kentucky
Diplomate Medical Clinical Geneticist
Department of Internal Medicine | Cardiology
Department of Pediatrics | Genetics and Metabolism Clinic
Lexington, KY, USA

Vidyasagar Kalahasti, MD, FACC

Staff – Department of Cardiovascular Imaging
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Director, Marfan syndrome and connective tissue disorder clinic
Associate Director, Clinical Endpoints Committee (CEC),
C5 Research Desk J1-5, Heart and Vascular Institute,
Cleveland Clinic, OH, USA 

Philip F. Giampietro, MD, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics
Drexel University College of Medicine
Section Chief of Clinical Genetics
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children,
Philadelphia, PA, USA 

Laura Muiño-Mosquera, MD

Clinical Fellow Paediatric Cardiology
Research Fellow Human Genetics
Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent.
Ghent. Belgium 

Gisela Teixido-Tura , MD, PhD

Cardiologist, Medicine,Internal Medicine
Hospital Vall d’Hebron
Passeig Vall d’Hebron 119-129
Barcelona, Spain

Olivier Milleron , MD

Cardiologist, Medicine
Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital
46 rue Henri Huchard
Paris, France

Mark Evan Lindsay , MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Medicine
Department of Cardiovascular Research
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Juan Manuel Bowen, MD

Consultant – Division of Primary Care Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Director – Mayo Clinic Marfan and Thoracic Aorta Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA 

Shuping Ge, MD

Chief, Section of Cardiology
Heart Center for Children
St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children
Professor of Pediatrics, Drexel University College of Medicine
Chair, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Deborah Heart and Lung Center
Philadelphia, PA, USA 

Anthony David Caffarelli, MD

Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hoag Heart and Vascular Institute
Director of Aortic Clinic, Hoag Memorial Hospital
Newport Beach, CA, USA 

Prof. Dr. J.W. Roos-Hesselink, MD, PhD

Director of Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program
Department of Cardiology
Rotterdam, Netherlands 

Mary B. Sheppard, MD

Assistant Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Department of Surgery
Saha Aortic Center
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Lexington, KY 

Andrew Choong, MBBS, MFSTEd, FRCS (Gen Surg), FEBVS (Hons)

Assistant Professor & Consultant
Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery
National University Heart Centre,
Singapore 

Enid R. Neptune, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Smilow Institute of Marfan Research
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD USA

Zhou Zhou, MD, PhD

Director of Beijing Key Laboratory
for Molecular Diagnostics of Cardiovascular Diseases,
Diagnostic Laboratory Service, Fuwai Hospital,
National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases,
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College,
Beijing, China 

Alessandro Pini, MD

Department of Cardiology, ASST-Fatebenefratelli-Sacco
A.O. Luigi Sacco, University Hospital
Medical Director at Cardiology service
In Charge of Rare Disease – Cardiological Operative Unit
Founder of Marfan Clinic
Founder of Chronic Heart Failure Centre and tele surveillance
Milan, Italy 

Germano Melissano, MD

Associate Professor of Vascular Surgery
San Raffaele University, Senior Surgeon,
Vice-Chief of Division, Ospedale San Raffaele,
Milano, Italy 

Elisabetta M Mariucci, MD, PhD

Pediatric Cardiology and GUCH Unit,
Marfan Clinic, S.Orsola-Malpighi Hospital,
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy

Elena Cervi, MD, PhD

Consultant Cardiologist
Centre for Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
London, UK

Melissa L. Russo, MD

Assistant Professor, Brown University,
Warren Alpert School of Medicine,
Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Genetics
Rhode Island, USA 

Pascal-Nicolas Bernatchez, PhD

Associate Professor
Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada

Mitra Esfandiarei, PhD

Associate Professor
Biomedical Sciences
Midwestern University, Arizona, USA

Julien Marcadier, MD

Clinical Geneticist
Alberta Children’s Hospital,
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB Canada

Seda Tierney , MD

Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Director of Research, Non-Invasive Imaging Laboratory
Director of Vascular Laboratory
Stanford CHRI Faculty Scholar, Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA USA 

Jessica  Wang , MD PhD

Director, UCLA Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic
Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California
Los Angeles, CA, USA 

Kevin Michael Harris, MD, FACC, FASE

Co-Director, Aortic Dissection Program,
Minneapolis Heart Institute,
University of Minnesota School of Medicine,
Minneapolis, MN, USA 

Sara B. MacKay, MS, CCGC

Genetic Counsellor,
Maritime Medical Genetics Service,
IWK Health Centre,
Halifax, NS, Canada

Andrea L. Rideout, MS, CCGC, CGC

Genetic Counsellor,
Maritime Medical Genetics Service,
IWK Health Centre,
Halifax, NS, Canada

Sandhya Parkash, MD

Medical Geneticist
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Maritime Medical Genetics Service,
IWK Health Centre, Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada

Anthony Martin Vandersteen , MA, PhD, BM,
FRCP (Lond.), FRCPC, FCCMG

Medical Geneticist
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Maritime Medical Genetics Service,
IWK Health Centre, Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada

Nadine Hanna, PharmD, PhD

Genetics, Family Medicine
Department of Genetics,
University Hospital Xavier Bichat-Claude Bernard,
Paris, France  

Carine Le Goff, PhD

Senior Research Investigator
Department of Genetics,
University Hospital Xavier Bichat-Claude Bernard,
Paris, France 

Quentin Pellenc, MD,MSc

Senior Vascular Surgeon, Lead Aortic Team
Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Marfan Syndrome French National Referral Center
Hopital Bichat
Paris, France 

Patrick Sips, PhD

Senior Postdoctoral Researcher
Center for Medical Genetics, Ghent University,
Ghent, Belgium

Scott Michael Damrauer, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery
Attending Physician, Department of Surgery,
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, USA 

Lois Starr, MD, PhD, FAAP, FACMG

Medical Co-Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics,
University of Nebraska Medical Center,
Nebraska Medical Center,
Omaha, USA 

Bo Yang, MD, PhD

Associate Professor in Cardiac Surgery,
Department of Cardiac Surgery
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, USA

Jay B. Shah, M.D.

Cardiologist
Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine
Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Justin T Tretter , M.D.

Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardiology
Heart Institute, Division of Cardiology
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH USA

Irman Forghani , MD.

Clinical Assistant Professor
Division of Clinical and Translational Genetics
Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics
University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL USA

Kelly Cox , MD.

Assistant Professor, Pediatric Cardiology
Lurie Children’s Hospital
225 E Chicago Ave Chicago, IL USA

Siddharth K. Prakash, MD, PhD.

Associate Professor, Medical Genetics,
Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine
at McGovern Medical School, UTHealth Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas, USA

Sachiko Kanki, MD, PhD.

Assistant Professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery,
Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Osaka, Japan

Justin A Weigand, MD

Assistant Professor, Pediatric Cardiac Imaging
Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, Texas, USA

Taylor A Beecroft , MS, CGC

Genetic Counsellor, Pediatric Genetics,
Cardiovascular Genetics Clinic,
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

Alan Frederick Rope , MD

Clinical Geneticist
Genome Medical
701 Gateway Boulevard, Ste. 380
South San Francisco, USA

 Yaso  Emmanuel , MBChB, DPhil, FRCP

Consultant Cardiologist
Cardiovascular Department
St Thomas’s Hospital
Westminster Bridge Road,
London, UK

David Dichek, MD

Professor of Medicine
Associate Director for Research, Division of Cardiology
Department of Medicine
University of Washington
Seattle, USA

Michelle Keir, MD, MSc, BJourn

Cardiologist,
Clinical Assistant Professor
Division of Cardiology
Libin Cardiovascular Institute
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Klaus Kallenbach, Prof. Dr.

Cardiac Surgery
INCCI Heart Center Luxembourg
Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Talha Niaz, MBBS

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Mayo Clinic & Texas Children Hospital
Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Mirela Tuzovic, MD

Cardiologist, Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Stanford University
Stanford, California

Anthony L. Estrera, MD, FACS

Professor and Chair
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)
Texas, USA

Timothy Carter , MD

Director of Aortic Surgery
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
St. Francis Hospital
West Islip, NY

Martin Czerny, MD, MBA, FESC, FEBCTS, FEBVS

Cardiovascular Surgery
University Hospital Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany

Anna Sabaté Rotés, MD, PhD

Pediatric Cardiology
Vall d’Hebron Hospital
Barcelona, Spain

Brett Carroll, MD

Director, Section of Vascular Medicine

Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA

William T. Brinkman, MD

Cardiovascular Surgery
The Heart Hospital Baylor Scott and White Plano
Plano, USA