AHA Fellows and International Fellows

Class of 2020

The American Heart Association welcomes Fellows and International Fellows elected in 2020. This honor recognizes members for their scientific and professional accomplishments, and volunteer leadership and service.

3CPR  |  ATVB  |  BCVS  |  CLCD  |  CVRI  |  CVSA  |  CVSN  |  EPI  |  GPM  |  Hypertension  |  KCVD  |  Lifestyle  |  PVD  |  QCOR  |  Stroke  |  Young Hearts

Council on Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, Perioperative and Resuscitation (3CPR)

  • Danny Chu, MD, FAHA
  • Mingxia Gu, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Tomas Konecny, MD, FAHA
  • Roberto F Machado, MD, FAHA
  • Yunis M Mayasi, MD, MS, FAHA
  • Kurt Ruetzler, MD, FAHA

Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB)

  • Blake J. Cochran, PhD, FAHA
  • Eugenia Gianos, MD, FAHA
  • Genesio Karere, PhD, FAHA
  • Sumitra Miriyala, PhD, MBA, FAHA
  • Kenneth T. Moore, MS, FAHA
  • Gissette Reyes-Soffer, MD, FAHA
  • Cynthia St. Hilaire, PhD, FAHA
  • Venkateswaran Subramanian, PhD, FAHA
  • Hagai Tavori, PhD, FAHA
  • Mohamed A. Zayed, MD, PhD, FAHA

Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS)

  • Ademuyiwa Aromolaran, MSc, PhD, FAHA
  • Aarti Asnani, MD, FAHA
  • Joey V. Barnett, PhD, FAHA
  • Brandon Biesiadecki, PhD, FAHA
  • Sanjiv Dhingra, MSc, PhD, FAHA
  • Asish K. Ghosh, MS, PhD, FAHA
  • Peter V. Johnston, MD, FAHA
  • Sandra Jones, BSc, PhD, FAHA
  • Prabhakara R Nagareddy, MPharm, MSc, PhD, FAHA
  • Ravi Radhakrishnan, MD, MBA, FAHA
  • Murugesan Rajaram, PhD, FAHA
  • Ippei Shimizu, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Yi Tan, PhD, FAHA
  • Min Xie, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Mingxing Xie, MS, PhD, FAHA
  • Donghui Zhu, PhD, FAHA

Council on Clinical Cardiology (CLCD)

  • Ana Barac, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Joe B. Calkins, MD, FAHA
  • Manouchkathe Cassagnol, PharmD, FAHA
  • Janice Y. Chyou, MD, FAHA
  • José Albuquerque de Figueiredo Neto, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Anil Dhall, MD, DM, FAHA
  • Camille G. Frazier-Mills, MD, MHS, FAHA
  • Nasrien E. Ibrahim, MD, FAHA
  • Sabrina Islam, MD, MPH, FAHA
  • Dipti Itchhaporia, MD, FAHA
  • Jason N. Katz, MD, MHS, FAHA
  • Antony K. Lau, MBBS, PhD, FAHA
  • Deborah Lockwood, MB, BCh, MA, MRCP, FAHA
  • Mohammad Madjid, MD, MS, FAHA
  • Nishaki K. Mehta, MD, FAHA
  • Alanna A. Morris, MD, MSc, FAHA
  • Ajith Nair, MD, FAHA
  • Smita I. Negi, MD, FAHA
  • Željko Reiner, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Andrea M. Russo, MD, FAHA
  • Jennifer A. Rymer, MD, MBA, FAHA
  • Siu-Hin Wan, MD, FAHA

Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention (CVRI)

  • Daniel B. Ennis, PhD, FAHA
  • Maureen P. Kohi, MD, FAHA

Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia (CVSA)

  • Vincent Chan, MD, MPH, FAHA
  • Piroze M. Davierwala, MD, MS, MCh, FAHA
  • Kamrouz Ghadimi, MD, FAHA
  • Michael E. Jessen, MD, FAHA
  • Jamshid Karimov, MD, PhD, MCH, FAHA
  • Matthias Peltz, MD, FAHA

Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing (CVSN)

  • Annette L. Baker, RN, BSN, MSN, CPNP, FAHA
  • Billy A. Caceres, PhD, RN, AGPCNP-BC, FAHA
  • Sylvia W. Coleman, RN, BSN, MPH, CLNC, FAHA
  • Yamnia I. Cortés, PhD, MPH, FNP-BC, FAHA
  • Wendy Dusenbury, DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC, AGACNP-BC, ANVP-BC, FAHA
  • Mary Heitschmidt, RN, PhD, APN, CCRN-K, FAHA
  • Barbara Hinch, DNP, ACNP-BC, FAHA
  • Seon Young Hwang, RN, PhD, FAHA
  • Miyeon Jung, PhD, RN, FAHA
  • Ann M. Leonhardt-Caprio, DNP, RN, ANP-BC, FAHA
  • Britt F. Pados, PhD, RN, NNP-BC, FAHA
  • Jennifer K. Peterson, PhD, APRN-CNS, CCNS, FAHA
  • Mary Rezk-Hanna, PhD, NP, FAHA
  • Tiffany O. Sheehan, PhD, RN, SCRN, ASC-BC, FAHA
  • Stephanie Turrise, PhD, RN-BC, APRN, CNE, CHFN-K, FAHA
  • Kelly L. Wierenga, PhD, RN, FAHA
  • Joellen Wilbur, PhD, RN, FAHA

Council on Epidemiology and Prevention (EPI)

  • Tracy Baynard, PhD, FAHA
  • Amelia K. Boehme, PhD, MSPH, FAHA
  • Todd M. Brown, MD, MSPH, FAHA
  • Kelly Evenson, PhD, MS, FAHA
  • Whitney R. Garney, PhD, MPH, FAHA
  • Philimon N. Gona, PhD, MPH, FAHA
  • Parag H. Joshi, MD, MHS, FAHA
  • Gen-Min Lin, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Hadii M. Mamudu, PhD, MPA, FAHA
  • Morgana Mongraw-Chaffin, PhD, MPH, FAHA
  • Ann M. Navar, MD, MHS, PhD, FAHA
  • Ambarish Pandey, MD, MSCS, FAHA
  • Jane E.B. Reusch, MD, FAHA
  • Michael D. Shapiro, DO, MPH, FAHA
  • Sakima Smith, MD, MPH, FAHA

Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine (GPM)

  • Charlotte Andersson, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Allison L. Cirino, MS, FAHA
  • Sharlene Day, MD, FAHA
  • Deepak K. Gupta, MD, MSc, FAHA
  • Neal K. Lakdawala, MD, FAHA
  • Jonathan D. Mosley, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Nathan Stitziel, MD, PhD, FAHA

Council on Hypertension (HTN)

  • Swapnil Hiremath, MD, MPH, FAHA
  • Cameron Mccarthy, PhD, FAHA
  • Marcel Ruzicka, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Robert C. Speth, PhD, FAHA
  • Camilla F. Wenceslau, MS, PhD, FAHA

Council on the Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease (KCVD)

  • Nisha Bansal, MD, MAS, FAHA
  • Michelle L. Gumz, PhD, FAHA
  • Robert S. Hoover, MD, FAHA
  • Rajesh Mohandas, MD, MPH, FAHA
  • Janani Rangaswami, MD, FAHA
  • Ekamol Tantisattamo, MD, FAHA

Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health (LCH)

  • Colin R. Carriker, PhD, EP-C, FAHA
  • Stephanie Chung, MBBS, FAHA
  • Laura F. Defina, MD, FAHA
  • Jill L. Kaar, PhD, FAHA
  • Deepika Laddu, PhD, FAHA
  • Abbi D. Lane-Cordova, PhD, FAHA
  • Xiaoran Liu, PhD, MS, FAHA
  • John D. Omura, MD, MPH, FAHA
  • Kristina S. Petersen, PhD, APD, FAHA
  • Marie Eve Piche, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Jorge Plutzky, MD, FAHA
  • Maya K. Vadiveloo, PhD, RD, FAHA

Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD)

  • Saurav Chatterjee, MD, FAHA
  • Jon C. George, MD, FAHA
  • Yogendra Kanthi, MD, FAHA

Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research (QCOR)

  • Xiaoxi Yao, MPH, PhD, MS, FAHA
  • Kori S. Zachrison, MD, MSc, FAHA

Stroke Council

  • Negar Asdaghi, MD, MSc, FAHA
  • Graham C. Beacom, MBBS, FAHA
  • Sherita N. Chapman, MD, FAHA
  • Sallyann Coleman King, MD, MSc, FAHA
  • Felipe De Los Rios La Rosa, MD, FAHA
  • Andrew W. Grande, MD, FAHA
  • Emmanuel B. John, PT, DPT, PhD, MPH, MBA, FAHA
  • Masahito Kawabori, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Naim N. Khoury, MD, MS, FAHA
  • Charles E. Kircher, MD, FAHA
  • Meng Lee, MD, FAHA
  • Michael R. Levitt, MD, FAHA
  • Tracy E. Madsen, MD, ScM, FAHA
  • Nandakumar Nagaraja, MD, MS, FAHA
  • Shahid Nimjee, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Robin Novakovic, MD, FAHA
  • Laurie B. Paletz, BSN, PHN, RN, BC, SCRN, FAHA
  • Radoslav Raychev, MD, FAHA
  • Andrew N. Russman, DO, FAHA
  • Sudhakar R. Satti, MD, FAHA
  • Woo-Keun Seo, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Anjail Z. Sharrief, MD, MPH, FAHA
  • Evgeny Sidorov, MD, PhD, MHA, FAHA
  • Alexis N. Simpkins, MD, PhD, MSCR, FAHA
  • Shlee S. Song, MD, FAHA
  • Jason Tarpley, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Eduard Tiozzo, PhD, MSCTI, FAHA
  • Farhaan Vahidy, MD, PhD, MPH, FAHA
  • Barbara Voetsch, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Ashley M. Wabnitz, MD, FAHA

Council on Lifelong Congenital Heart Disease and Heart Health in the Young (Young Hearts)

  • Anne Dipchand, MD, FAHA
  • Craig P. Dobson, MD, FAHA
  • Raman K. Kumar, MD, DM, FAHA
  • Vicki Mahan, MD, FAHA
  • Michael Portman, MD, FAHA
  • Thomas D. Ryan, MD, PhD, FAHA
  • Elizabeth V. Saarel, MD, FAHA
  • Satoshi Yasukochi, MD, FAHA