Working Group Chairs and Vice Chairs

Dianna Milewicz

Basic and Translational Science Working Group - Chair 

Division Director, Professor, Vice-Chair, Medical Genetics

University of Texas, McGovern Medical School

Simon Body

Basic and Translational Science Working Group - Vice Chair 

Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Research

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School

Mary J. Roman

Clinical Science Working Group - Chair

Professor of Medicine

Weill Cornell Medicine 

Sherene Shalhub

Clinical Science Working Group - Vice Chair 

Associate Professor of Surgery, Director, Multidisciplinary Vascular Genetics Clinic

University of Washington Medical Center

Michael Weamer

Business Plan Working Group - Chair 

President & CEO

The Marfan Foundation

Joe Coselli

Business Plan Working Group - Vice Chair 

Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery and Vice Chair, Department of Surgery 

Baylor College of Medicine

Alan Braverman

Patients, Families, and Clinicians Education and Communication Working Group - Chair

Alumni Endowed Professor in Cardiovascular Diseases, Professor of Medicine

Director, Marfan Syndrome and Aortopathy Clinic

Washington University School of Medicine

Eva Kline-Rogers

Patients, Families, and Clinicians Education and Communication Working Group - Vice Chair 

Nurse Practitioner, Co-Director, Michigan Clinical Outcomes Research and Reporting Program (MCORRP)

University of Michigan

Siddharth Prakash

Biospecimens and Data Working Group - Vice Chair

Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Cheryl Maslen

Biospecimens and Data Working Group - Vice Chair

Professor, Director of Program in Enhanced Research Training

Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health & Science University