The Team

Our LVAD Decision Aid was made through the collaboration of an interdiciplinary team and is funded through the generous support of The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Feel free to learn more about us.

Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, PhD

Asso Professor Baylor College of Medicine

Kristin Kostick, PhD

Research Assoc Baylor College of Medicine

Robert Volk, PhD

Professor MD Anderson

Jerry Estep, MD

Head of Section of Heart Failure and Transplantation, Cleveland Clinic

Charles Minard, PhD

Asst Professor Baylor College of Medicine

Brenda

PCORI LVAD Patient Partner

Mary

PCORI LVAD Patient Partner

Kenneth

PCORI LVAD Patient Partner

Matthias Loebe, MD, PhD

Surgical Dir Miami Transplant Inst

Mandeep Mehra, MD

Dir, Heart and Vascular Center, Brigham and Women's

Douglas Horstmanshof, MD

Dir of Heart Failure, INTEGRIS

Barry Trachtenberg, MD

Director, MCS Support Program, Houston Methodist

Andrew Civitello, MD

Director Heart Transplant Program, Baylor St. Luke's

Jonathan Grinstein, MD

Dir of MCS, UChicago

Nasir Sulemanjee, MD

Adv Heart Failure, Aurora St. Luke's

Ulrich Jorde, MD

Head of Heart Failure, Montefiore

Lauren Schoen

Research Coordinator, Baylor College of Medicine

Jennifer Ng

Research Assistant, Baylor College of Medicine

Former Team Members

Estevan Delgado, MA
Courtenay Bruce, JD, MA, CPHQ
Sheryl McCurdy, PhD
Lidija Wilhelms, BA
Holland Kaplan, MD
Mackenzie Nettlow

Deciding Together: A Decision Aid for Left Ventricular

Assist Device (LVAD) Choice

The Team

Former Team Members