
Co-Chair
Cynthia St. Hilaire, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
sthilaire@pitt.edu | www.sthilairelab.pitt.edu | @StHilaireLab

Co-Chair
Claudia Goettsch, PhD
Group Leader, Department of Internal Medicine I, Cardiology
University Hospital Aachen, RWTH, Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
cgoettsch@ukaachen.de | Website
Members-at-Large

Agneta Simionescu, PhD
Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
agneta@clemson.edu | Website

Joy Lincoln, PhD
Director, Cardiovascular Research
Sommerhauser Chair
Herma Heart Institute, Children’s Hospital, Wisconsin
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Medical College Wisconsin, Medical College Wisconsin, USA

Julie Phillippi, PhD
Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Bioengineering
Vice Chair for Cardiac Research
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
phillippija@upmc.edu | Website | @JuliePhillippi

Rebecca D. Levit, MD
Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
rlevit@emory.edu | Website | @LevitLab

Sara Nunes de Vasconcelos, PhD
Scientist, Division of Experimental Therapeutics
Toronto General Hospital Research Institute
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
sara.vasconcelos@utoronto.ca | www.vasconceloslab.com | @YYZscientist
Junior Member-at-Large

Samantha K. Atkins, MS, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
skatkins@bwh.harvard.edu