Yalda Afshar
Yalda Afshar, MD, PhD is an OBGYN and specialist in maternal fetal medicine. Dr. Afshar is a physician-scientist with clinical and research interests that intersect and include high-risk pregnancy, pregnancy physiology, placentation, and and congenital heart disease, either affecting the pregnant person or fetus. Her research laboratory is focused on congenital heart disease and placentation. She […]
Katherine Arendt
Dr. Katherine (Katie) Arendt is Professor of Anesthesiology and the Vice Chair for the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester where she leads the department in the areas of People and Culture. Dr. Arendt is also the Associate Medical Director for Bold. Forward. Unbound. in Rochester, Mayo Clinic’s $5B multiyear strategic initiative to transform healthcare. Dr. Arendt completed medical school and residency in anesthesiology at […]
Joan Briller
Joan E. Briller, MD, FACC, FASE, FAHA is Professor of Medicine (Cardiology and Obstetrics and Gynecology) at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she directs the Women and Heart Disease Program. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Northwestern University, fellowship in cardiology at the University of Chicago and is board certified in echocardiography. […]
Yonatan Buber
Dr. Buber is a professor of Medicine at the University of Washington Medical Center, where he serves as the Division’s Director of Clinical Affairs, the Associate Program Director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease section, the fellowship program director, the Co-Director of the Cardio-Obstetrics service and the Director of the Cardio-Pulmonary Exercise Laboratory. He is […]
Mary Canobbio
Mary M. Canobbio, RN, MN, MPH, FAAN, FAHA Mary Canobbio received Bachelor’s in Nursing from California State University, Los Angeles and holds a Master’s in Nursing and Master’s in Public Health from University of California, Los Angeles. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the American Heart Association. Mary has been […]
Melinda Davis
Dr. Melinda Davis is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at University of Michigan. She is the Cardiology Director of the University of Michigan Cardio-Obstetrics Program, and has been actively involved with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Cardio-Obstetrics Workgroup, the Michigan Maternal Mortality Review Committee of the Department of Health […]
Julie De Backer
Julie De Backer, MD, PhD, FESC, is a genetic cardiologist at Ghent University Hospital, Belgium. She heads the Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) clinic and coordinates interdisciplinary programs for ACHD & Heritable Thoracic Aortic Disease (HTAD) patients, with a focus on patient centered care. She is appointed full professor at Ghent University. Her translational research […]
Doreen DeFaria Yeh
Dr. Doreen DeFaria Yeh is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnancy Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She completed Internal Medicine Residency at MGH and Cardiology and Echocardiography fellowships at the University of California at San Francisco. She completed advanced training in Adult Congenital […]
Michele De Hosson
Michèle de Hosson obtained her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen, Netherlands, in 2005 and began her career in the Coronary Care Unit at Ghent University Hospital, Belgium. In 2009, she completed a master’s in nursing science at Utrecht University. Since 2013, Michèle is working as a Clinical Nurse Specialist […]
Rohan d’Souza
Rohan D’Souza MD PhD FRCOG is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician and Associate Professor with the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada He holds a Tier-2 Canada Research Chair in Maternal Health and is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the CPP2025 award […]