Leadership
COUNCIL 
President
Hughes, Christopher C.
University of California, Irvine
President-elect
Red-Horse, Kristy
Stanford University
Past President
Griffin, Courtney T.
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Secretary-Treasurer
Muller, Bill A.
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Councilors
Boscolo, Elisa
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Glading, Angela J.
University of Rochester
Gomez, Delphine
University of Pittsburgh
Anjelica Gonzalez
Yale University
Greif, Daniel M.
Yale University School of Medicine
Tsutomu Kume
Northwestern University School of Medicine
Education Committee
Chair: Kishore Wary
University of Illinois at Chicago
Co-Chair: Carrie Shawber
Columbia University Medical Center
Committee Members:
Neha H. Ahuja
UT-Southwestern
Sophie Astrof
Rutgers University
Sayantani Chowdhury
University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
Diane Darland
University of North Dakota
Patty Lee
Duke University
Ziqing Liu
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stryder Meadows
Tulane University
Victoria Osinski
University of Minnesota
Glicella Salazar-De Simone
Columbia University Medical Center
Raul Santos
University of Sao Paulo Medical School Hospital Sao Paulo-Brazil
Joshua Scallan
University of South Florida
Sandra Schrenk
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Amber N. Stratman
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Lisandra Vila Ellis
MD Anderson Cancer Center
R. Clinton Webb
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Ke Yuan
Boston Children's Hospital
Jun Zhang
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso
Communications Committee
Chair: Marie Billaud
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Committee Members:
Xinjiang Cai
University of California, Los Angeles
William R. Huckle
Virginia Tech
Shashi Kant
Brigham Women's Hospital
Juyong B. Kim
Stanford University
Austin McDonald
Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Sherin Saheera
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Ivan Fan Xia
Yale University
Hao Yin
Robart's Research Institute, Western University
Communities Committee
Co-Chairs: Henar Cuervo Grahal
CNIC
and Morgan Salmon
University of Michigan
Crizza Ching
University of Toronto
Leah Greenspan
National Institutes of Health
Hooi Hooi Ng
University of Sydney
Alessandra Pasut
KULeuven
Laura Pillay
NIH
Morgan Salmon
University of Michigan
Rio Sugimura
University of Hong Kong
Jiayu Zhu
University of Chicago
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
Chair: Mahdi Garelnabi
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Committee Members:
Masanori Aikawa
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Elena Aikawa
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Aaron B. Baker
University of Texas, Austin
Abhijnan Chattopadhyay
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Hong Chen
Harvard Medical School/ Boston Children's Hospital
Naomi Chesler
University of California, Irvine
Mitzy Cowdin
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Yun Fang
University of Chicago
Marie Guerraty
University of Pennsylvania
Ngan F. Huang
Stanford University
Grietje Molema
University Medical Center Groningen
Gonzalo Rivera
Texas A & M University
Jocelyn Salvador
Northwestern University
Masuko Ushio-Fukai
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
Hiromi Yanagisawa
University of Tsukuba
Membership Committee
Chair: Mary Wallingford
Tufts Medical Center
Co-Chair: Mabruka Alfaidi
LSU Health Sciences Center - Shreveport
Committee Members:
Christopher Carman
Harvard School of Public Health
Jaehyung Cho
Washington University School of Medicine
Magdalena B. Chrzanowska
Blood Research Institute, Versiti
Michael T. Dellinger
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Hasina Outtz Reed
Weill Cornell Medicine
Richard Pierce
Yale University
Lawrence Pinkus
National Institutes of Health
Tirthadipa Pradhan
University Pittsburgh
Partha Roy
University of Pittsburgh
Meritorious Awards Committee
Chair: Tsutomu Kume
Northwestern University
Committee Members:
Kayla Bayless
Texas A&M Health Science Center
Michelle Bendeck
University of Toronto
Kathleen Caron
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ondine Cleaver
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Myron Cybulsky
University of Toronto
Carlos Fernández-Hernando
Yale University School of Medicine
Mark Ginsberg
University of California, San Diego
Karen Hirschi
University of Virginia
Brenda Lilly
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Kathleen Martin
Yale School of Medicine
A. Wayne Orr
LSU Health - Shreveport
Arndt Siekmann
University of Pennsylvania
Craig Simmons
University of Toronto
Brant Weinstein
NICHD, NIH
Online Program Committee
Co-Chairs: Hasina Outtz Reed
Weill Cornell Medicine
and Cynthia St. Hilaire
University of Pittsburgh
Mabruka Alfaidi
LSU Health Sciences Center - Shreveport
Nicholas W. Chavkin
University of Virginia
Sarvesh Chelvanambi
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sarah Colijin
Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine
Mitzy A. Cowdin
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Rolando A Cuevas
University of Pittsburgh
Hanqiang Deng
Yale University
Cristina Espinosa-Diez
University of Pittsburgh
Adriana Franco Acevedo
UCLA
Siqi Gao
University of Pittsburgh
Tiago Januario da Costa
University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Julie Leonard-Duke
University of Virginia
Terren Niethamer
University of Pennsylvania
Alexandra Racanelli
Weill Cornell Medicine
Mandy Turner
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Lisandra Vila Ellis
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Ruilin Wu
University Health Network
Art Yurdagul
LSUHSC-Shreveport
Vascular Biology Publications Alert
Senior Editors:
Juan Melero Martin
Boston Children's Hospital
Somanath PR Shenoy
University of Georgia
Radu V. Stan
Dartmouth University
Editors:
B. Rita Alevriadou
University at Buffalo-SUNY
Rolf Brekken
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Eric Camerer
INSERM
Selen Catania
NIH
Susana Cavallero
University of California, Los Angeles/VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Alexandre Dubrac
Montreal University
Tohru Fukai
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
Monica Lee
The University of Illinois at Chicago
Akiko Mammoto
Medical College of Wisconsin
Valentina Marchetti
STEMCELL Technologies
Michael May
University of Pennsylvania
Lorin Olson
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Liudmila Romanova
Rush University Medical Center
Morgan Salmon
University of Michigan
Teresa Sanchez Garcia-Vao
Weill Cornell Medical College
Linda Shapiro
University of Connecticut
Rio Sugimura
University of Hong Kong
Kishore Wary
University of Illinois, Chicago
Mary Weiser-Evans
University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus
Jun Yu
Temple University
Newsletter and NewsBEAT
Editor: William R. Huckle
Virginia Tech
Representatives are members who have agreed to act as ambassadors for NAVBO at their home institutions. If you need information about NAVBO or upcoming NAVBO programs, feel free to contact them or the NAVBO office (bernadette@navbo.org).
NAVBO is represented by our members at the following institutions:
Canada
Janos G. Filep, M.D.
Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital,
University of Montreal, PQ
Michelle P. Bendeck, Ph.D.
Unversity of Toronto,
Toronto, ON
Gediminas Cepinskas, D.V.M./Ph.D.
Lawson Health Research Institute
London, ON
Xi-Long Zheng, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB
Maria Febbraio, Ph.D., FAHA
University of Alberta, AB
Germany
Ralf H. Adams, PhD
Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster
Hellmut G. Augustin, Ph.D., DVM
University of Heidelberg and German Cancer Research Center
United Kingdom
Christiana Ruhrberg, Ph.D.
University College London
London
Anna M. Randi, M.D., Ph.D.
Imperial College London
London
United States (zip code order)
Joyce Bischoff, Ph.D.
Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
David Milstone, M.D., Ph.D.
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Boston, MA
Richard Pierce, M.D.
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Harold A.Singer, Ph.D.
Albany Medical College
Albany, NY
Kristopher Maier, Ph.D.
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NY
Angela J. Glading, Ph.D.
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
Beth L. Roman, Ph.D.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Alisa Morss Clyne, Ph.D.
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
Mark L. Kahn, M.D.
Univ of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Gary K. Owens, Ph.D.
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville,VA
William R. Huckle, M.S., Ph.D.
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
David A. Tulis, Ph.D.
FAHA, East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
Luke P. Brewster, M.D., Ph.D.
Emory Clinic
Decatur, GA
Lianchun Wang, MD
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
Walter Murfee, Ph.D.
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
Brenda J. Lilly, Ph.D.
Nationwide Children's Research Institute
Columbus, OH
Anand Ramamurthi, Ph.D.
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Elisa Boscolo, Ph.D.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati, OH
Tsutomu Kume, Ph.D.
Northwestern University School of Medicine
Chicago, IL
Bo Liu, Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin Medical School
Madison, WI
Diane Darland, Ph.D.
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, ND
Courtney Griffin, Ph.D.
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Oklahoma City, OK
Ondine B. Cleaver, Ph.D.
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX
Kayla Bayless, Ph.D.
Texas A&M Health Science Center
College Station, TX
Rebecca Stockton, Ph.D.
University of California
San Diego, CA
Kristina I. Bostrom, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California
Los Angeles, CA
Rama Natarajan, Ph.D.
Beckman Res Institute of City of Hope
Duarte, CA
Christopher C. Hughes, Ph.D.
University of California
Irvine, CA
Rong Wang, Ph.D.
University of California
San Francisco, CA
Mei Y. Speer, Ph.D.
Univerity of Washington
Seattle, WA
NAVBO Scientific Advisory Board
Kari Alitalo, M.D., Ph.D.
Biomedicum Inst/Univ Helsinki
Laura E Benjamin, PhD
New York, NY 10014 United States
Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Rochester Medical Center
Harold Dvorak, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Napoleone Ferrara, M.D.
University of California, San Diego
Mary Gerritsen, Ph.D.
San Mateo, CA
Michael A. Gimbrone Jr., MD
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Mark H. Ginsberg, M.D.
University of California, San Diego
Jordan S. Pober, M.D., Ph.D.
Yale Univ School of Med
Samuel D. Wright, Ph.D.
CSL Limited
Masanori Aikawa (2020-2021)
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Ondine Cleaver (2019-2020)
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Michelle Bendeck (2018-2019)
University of Toronto
Cecilia Giachelli (2017-2018)
University of Washington
Jan Kitajewski (2016-2017)
University of Illinois at Chicago
Joyce Bischoff (2015-2016)
Boston Children's Hospital
Karen Hirschi (2014-2015)
University of Virginia
Klaus Ley (2013-2014)
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Victoria Bautch (2012-2013)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tim Hla (2011-2012)
Boston Children's Hospital
William Sessa (2010-2011)
Pfizer, Inc.
Brant Weinstein (2009-2010)
NICHD/NIH
Mark Majesky (2008-2009)
University of Washington
Mark Ginsberg (2007-2008)
University of California, San Diego
Luisa Iruela-Arispe (2006-2007)
Northwestern University
Michael Simons (2005-2006)
Yale School of Medicine
William Muller (2004-2005)
Northwestern University
Linda Demer (2003-2004)
University of California, Los Angeles
Paul DiCorleto (2002-2003)
Retired
Alexander Clowes* (2001-2002)
University of Washington
Mary E. Gerritsen (2000-2001)
Gerritsen Consulting
Bradford Berk (1999-2000)
University of Rochester Medical Center
Gary Owens (1998-1999)
University of Virginia
Jordan Pober (1997-1998)
Yale School of Medicine
Elizabeth Nabel (1996-1997)
ModeX Therapeutics
Stephen Schwartz* (1995-1996)
University of Washington
Michael Gimbrone (1994-1995)
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
*Deceased