MEET THE TEAM
Medical Advisory Board.
Through the creation of our Medical Advisory Board, we have been able to accept proposals, review and fund many different research projects from some of the most respected researchers and institutions from around the country. We continue to receive more and more proposals each year and are given so much hope to see the breadth of needs that are being addressed. While we can’t say yes to every proposal, we take great pride in funding as many as we can based on the guidelines our board has created.
We are so appreciative of this remarkable team and their willingness to spend their time helping to advance our mission.
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Dr. Bret Mettler
LE BONHEUR CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
Bret Mettler, M.D., is Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Executive Co-Director of the Heart Institute at Le Bonheur and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
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Dr. Christopher Breuer
NATIONWIDE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
Christopher K. Breuer, MD, is director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Nationwide Endowed Chair in Surgical Research and director of Tissue Engineering in The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center's new Center for Regenerative Medicine and Cell Based Therapies.
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Dr. Ryan Davies
HEART CENTER CHILDREN’S HEALTH - DALLAS
Dr. Davies is the Chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Co-Director of the Heart Center Children’s Health (Children’s Medical Center Dallas).
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Dr. David Hehir
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
Dr. David Hehir is a pediatric cardiologist in at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Dr. Jonathan Menachem
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
Jonathan Menachem, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine's Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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Dr. Robb Romp
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
Dr. Romp is Pediatric Cardiologist, Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Medical Director , Cardiology Inpatient Services, Children's of Alabama. He enjoys caring for a broad spectrum of pediatric cardiac diseases, from fetal malformations to acquired diseases of older children and adolescents.
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Dr. Sarah Teele
BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
Sarah A. Teele, MD, MS-HPEd is a trained pediatric cardiac intensive care physician-scientist and medical educator specializing in the management of patients with congenital and acquired heart disease as well as interprofessional education at Boston Children’s Hospital.
We are so grateful to our previous medical advisory board members
Dr. David Parra - Monroe Carrel Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Dr. Joshua Salvin - Boston Children’s Hospital
Dr. Cyrus Samai - Sibley Heart Center Cardiology
Dr. Mark Scheurer - Medical University of South Carolina Heart Center
Dr. Amanda Shillingford - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Dr. Joseph Turek - Duke Children’s Pediatric & Congenital Heart Center
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Dr. Bret Mettler
LE BONHEUR CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
Bret Mettler, M.D., is a pediatric cardiac surgeon in Memphis, TN, caring for infants and children with a variety of heart conditions and congenital heart defects
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Dr. David Parra
MONROE CARELL JR. CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT
Dr. Parra is the director of Advanced Cardiac Imaging for the Division of Pediatric Cardiology and is an expert in all forms of echocardiography and cardiovascular MRI.
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Dr. Joshua Salvin
BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
Joshua W. Salvin, MD MPH is a physician in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Boston Children’s Hospital.
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Dr. Cyrus Samai
SIBLEY HEART CENTER CARDIOLOGY
Cyrus Samai has been employed as a pediatric cardiologist with Sibley Heart Center Cardiology since 2004, and is an Associate Professor at the Emory University School of Medicine.
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Dr. Mark Scheurer
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA HEART CENTER
Dr. Scheurer currently serves as a pediatric cardiac intensivist in the MUSC heart center.
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Dr. Amanda Shillingford
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
Dr. Amanda Shilingford is a pediatric and fetal cardiologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Dr. Joseph Turek
DUKE CHILDREN’S PEDIATRIC & CONGENITAL HEART CENTER
Since 2017, Dr. Turek has served as chief of pediatric cardiac surgery and executive co-director of Duke Children’s Pediatric & Congenital Heart Center.
