Heart Failure and Transplant Medicine Scientific Council

Board Reports

Chicago April 24, 2010

HF and Tx Med Operating Board2009-2010

• Chair: Marisa Crespo-Leiro

• Vice-Chair: Allen Anderson

• Past-Chair: Maria Rosa Costanzo

• Workforce Leaders

• Chair: MR Costanzo– TF 1: Anne Dipchand: Perioperative care. – TF 2: David Taylor: Inmunosupression. – TF 3: Sharon Hunt: Long term care of HT recipients

• Presented at 2010 ISHLT meeting• Executive summary August 2010 JHLT• Final Document ISHLT Monography in 2011

HF and Tx Med 2009-2010 Projects

ISHLT Guidelines for HT recipients

1) Banff Conference on Allograft Pathology (August 2009).

2) AMR consensus conference (Chicago, April 20, 2010)

• Chair: J Kobashigawa, Co-chairs: M Crespo-Leiro, H Reichenspurner, S Ensminger

3) ISHLT academy. Master Course on Advanced HF, cardiac transplantation and MCS

HF and Tx Med 2009-2010

Other Activities / Participations

1) To develop HT Patients’ Educational Materials in different languages.

2) To develop a prediction model in Heart Transplantation (J Sethlik / M Hertz)

HF and Tx Med Council

New proyects

HF and Tx Med Operating Board2010-2011

• Chair: David Baran

• Vice-Chair: Lee Goldberg

• Past-Chair: Marisa Crespo-Leiro

HF & Tx Med Council

Council members representatives at the 2011 Scientific Program Committee:-Heather Ross and Juan Delgado