Faculty

Course Directors

Nicholas Hill, MD

Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Chief Emeritus, Pulmonary,
Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Tufts Medical Center

CME Course Reviewer

Ioana Preston, MD

Director, Pulmonary Hypertension
Division of Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine
Lahey Clinic and Medical Center

Harrison Farber, MD

Director, Pulmonary Embolism
Response Team (PERT), Pulmonologist,
Tufts Medical Center

Raymond Benza, MD, FACC

Professor of Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine
at Mount Sinai
Chief of Pulmonary Hypertension
Mount Sinai Health System

Murali Chakinala, MD, FCCP

Professor of Medicine
Director, WUSM & BJH
Pulmonary HTN Care Center
Washington University
School of Medicine

Richard Channick, MD

Professor of Medicine
Saul Brandman Endowed Chair in
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Co-Director, Pulmonary
Vascular Disease Program
Pulmonary and Critical Care Division
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Hilary DuBrock, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Director, Pulmonary
Hypertension Fellowship

Robert Frantz, MD, FACC

Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension
Clinic
Director, Unexplained Dyspnea Clinic
Mayo Clinic

Ardeschir Ghofrani, MD

Professor, Pulmonary
Vascular Medicine
Head, Pulmonary Hypertension
Justus Liebig University Giessen

Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, MD, MSc

Professor of Medicine
George Washington School of
Medicine & Health Sciences
Medical Director
Pulmonary Hypertension Program
MFA/George Washington
University Hospital

John Granton, MD

Consultant, Pulmonary
Hypertension and Critical Care
Professor of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto

Anna Hemnes, MD

Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Attending Physician
Pulmonary and
Critical Care Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Stephanie Hon, MD

Assistant Professor
Tufts University School of Medicine
Pulmonary Hypertension Specialist
Tufts Medical Center

David Kiely, MD, FRCP

Honorary Professor of Pulmonary
Vascular Medicine
Director, Sheffield
Pulmonary Vascular Disease Unit
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS

John Kingrey, MD

Director, Pulmonary
Hypertension Center
Oklahoma Heart Hospital

James Klinger, MD

Professor of Medicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School
of Brown University
Medical Director
Pulmonary Hypertension Center
Rhode Island Hospital

Susanne McDevitt, DNP

Nurse Practitioner
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Pulmonary Hypertension Program
University of Michigan

Vallerie McLaughlin, MD, FACC

Kim A Eagle M.D.
Endowed Professor of
Cardiovascular Medicine
Director, Pulmonary
Hypertension Program
University of Michigan

Lisa Mielniczuk, MD, FRCPC, FCCS

Senior Associate Consultant,
Department of
Cardiovascular Medicine
Division of Circulatory Failure
Mayo Clinic

Josanna Rodriguez-Lopez, MD

Director, Pulmonary Hypertension and
CTEPH Program
Director HHT Center of Excellence
Equity Director, Division of
Pulmonary and Critical Care
Massachusetts General Hospital

Nicole Ruopp, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Tufts University School of Medicine
Pulmonary and
Critical Care Physician
Tufts Medical Center

John Ryan, MD

Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Director
Pulmonary Hypertension Center
University of Utah

Rajan Saggar, MD

Professor of Medicine
Director, Pulmonary
Hypertension Program
Co-Director, Pulmonary Vascular
Disease, and Lung & Heart-Lung
Transplant Programs
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Oksana Shlobin, MD

Director, Pulmonary
Vascular Disease Program
Director of Education,
Advanced Lung Disease and
Transplant Program,
Inova Fairfax Hospital

Olivier Sitbon, MD, PhD

Professor of Respiratory Medicine
University Paris-Saclay

Jean-Luc Vachiery, MD, FESC

Head of the Pulmonary Vascular
Diseases and Heart Failure Clinic
Department of Cardiology
CUB-Hôpital Erasme

Nurse CE Course Reviewer

Melisa Wilson, DNP, APRN

Pulmonary Hypertension
Program Coordinator
Advent Health