The Mended Hearts, Inc. Board Of Directors 2023-2025 President: Denise Duch Widzgowski Executive Vice President: Vacant Vice President: Lea Parker MLH Vice President: Amanda Stewart Treasurer: Al Voss Regional Directors MH Central Region: Vacant MLH Central Region: Ronda Adamo MH Mid-Atlantic Region: Mike Buffington MLH Mid-Atlantic Region: Maryann Mayhood MH Midwest Region: Vacant MLH Midwest Region: Vacant MH Northeast Region: Robert Hoffman MLH Northeast Region: Vacant MH Rocky Mountain Region: Raymond Trapp MLH Rocky Mountain Region: Vacant MH Southern Region: Ed Wainwright MLH Southern Region: Catherine Lobien MH Southwest Region: Vacant MLH Southwest Region: Candida Schendel MH Western Region: Vacant MLH Western Region: Nicole Sanchez Staff Vicki Churchman, Customer Service Representative Lisa Goodman, Office and Customer Service Manager Celeste Hall, Customer Service Representative Kim Hubbard, Customer Service Representative George Humes, Shipping and Inventory Specialist Tammie King, Program Administrative Assistant Marley Lucas, Social Media Coordinator Kristie Nattrass, Accounting Manager Mandy Sandkuhler, Field Services and Communications Director Gretchen Vatter, Staff Accountant Corporate Advisory Council Amgen, Incorporated AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals Bayer Berens Bristol Myers Squibb Company - BMS Cytokinetics iRythm Technologies Novartis Mended Hearts® Medical Advisory Council Bernard A. Clark III, M.D., Former Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Hoffman Heart & Vascular Institute of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut Aseem Desai, M.D., FHRS, Co-Director, Mission Heritage Heart Rhythm Specialists Valeria Duarte, M.D., Cardiology, Congenital Cardiac Disease, Adult Congenital Cardiac Disease, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston, Texas Alden H. Harken, M.D., FACS, Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCSF – East Bay, Alameda Health, Oakland, California Barbara S. Jacobs, MSN, RN-BC, Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, Maryland Paul Michael, M.D., FSCAI, Medical Director, JFK Wound Management & Limb Preservation Center, JFK Medical Center, West Palm Beach, Florida Srihari S. Naidu, M.D., FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, Interventional Cardiologist, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, New York Haroula Protopapadakis Norden, FACHE, Associate Administrator, Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Boca Raton, Florida Dr. Nirav Y. Raval, Thoracic Transplant Director, Advent Health Transplant Institute, Orlando, Florida David Reinmund, Director of Volunteer Services, Memorial Regional Hospital, Hollywood, Florida Sarah A. Spinler, PharmD, FCCP, FAHA, FASHP, AACC, BCPS-AQ Cardiology, Philadelphia Karl P. Ullrich, Ph.D., D.Min, Pastoral and Clinical Psychotherapy Mended Little Hearts® Medical Advisory Board Jean Anne Connor, Ph.D., RN, CPNP, FAAN, Director Nursing Research Cardiovascular & Critical Care Patient Services, Boston Children’s Hospital Kathryn Dodds, MSN, CRNP, SVSP/Fontan Forward Clinical Program Manager, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Dr. William Dreyer, Medical Director, Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy and Cardiac Transplantation, Texas Children’s Hospital Adrienne Garo, MSN, RN-BC, Heart and Vascular Center/Adult Congenital Cardiology RN Care Coordinator, University of Virginia Health System Caley Johns, CCLS, CIMI, Heart Center Child Life Specialist, Texas Children’s Hospital Dr. Aaron Kay, Cardiology Consultant Chris Knott-Craig, Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Heather Langlois, Children’s National Medical Center Dr. Chris Lindblade, Director of the Fetal Cardiology Program, Phoenix Children’s Hospital Brad Marino, Associate Division Head of Research, Division of Cardiology, Co-Director NICU-Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Alison Meadows, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Adult Congenital Heart Program, Kaiser Permanente, Northern California Erica Sood, Ph.D., Pediatric Psychologist Director, Cardiac Learning and Early Development (LEAD) Program, Nemours Cardiac Center Gil Wernovsky, M.D., FAAP, FACC, Senior Consultant in Cardiac Critical Care and Pediatric Cardiology, Children’s National Hospital Heartbeat ®, the national magazine of The Mended Hearts, Inc., a nonprofit organization, is published four times per year by The Mended Hearts, Inc. Editor: Lisa Horn Director of Print Strategy/Art DIrector: Ben Carpenter Graphic Designer: Kim Baker Ad Sales: Adam Weiss, (817) 908-7827,
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