A Who’s Who from the NIH Conference on Primary Pulmonary Hypertension

A conference earlier this year sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health drew experts from around the country and Canada to discuss new directions in research. This conference, Transactional Research in Primary Pulmonary Hypertension, was chaired by John H. Newman, MD, Chief, Medical Service, VA Medical Center, and Professor at Vanderbilt University School of Mediine, Nashville, Tennessee.

The conference, held in Bethesda, Maryland, also included: Cochairman, Barry L. Fanburg, MD, Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

Participants included:

Steven L. Archer, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

David Badesch, MD
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Science Center, Denver, Colorado

Robyn J. Barst, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York

Joe G.N. Garcia, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Asthma and Allergy Center, Baltimore, Maryland

Peter N. Kao, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Medicine/Pulmonary and Critical Care, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California

James A. Knowles, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York

James E. Loyd, MD
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

Michael D. McGoon, MD
Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Jane Morse, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York

William C. Nichols, PhD
Associate Professor, Division and Program in Human Genetics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Marlene Rabinovitch, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California

David Rodman, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver, Colorado

Ivan Robbins, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director, Adult Allergy Pulmonary Hypertension Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

Troy Stevens, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, Alabama

Rubin M. Tuder, MD
Associate Professor of Pathology and Medicine, Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Director, Division of Cardiopulmonary Pathology, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland