
Teresa Wright-Johnson
Chair
Patient Advocate

Christina Rekash
Secretary
Patient

Chandra Branham
Treasurer
Senior Director, Payment & Care Delivery, Health Policy at Johnson & Johnson

David Andelman
Board Member
Patient, Journalist
Patient, Journalist

Wayne Batchelor, MD
Board Member
Director of Interventional Heart Program, Research, and Innovation at Inova

Aaron Horne, MD, MBA, MHS
Board Member
Structural and Interventional Cardiologist, Summit Health

Donald May
Board Member
Senior Vice President at Federation of American Hospitals

Elizabeth Perpetua, DNP, FACC
Board Member
Founder, Empath Health, Associate Editor Structural Heart, Adjunct Professor Seattle Pacific University

Mark Russo, MD
Board Member
Chief of Cardiac Surgery, Professor of Surgery, Director, Structural Heart Disease, Associate Professor of Surgery Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Tina Sampath
Board Member
Chief Commercial Officer, Cumulus Neuroscience

Kathi Sapp
Board Member
Executive Pastor of Operations, Meadowbrook Church

Vinod Thourani, MD
Board Member
Cardiovascular Surgeon Piedmont Healthcare, Professor of Cardiac Surgery Emory University School of Medicine
STAFF

Karissa Charles
Executive Director

Berkeley Barnett
Director of Policy and Advocacy

Robyn Peacock
Director of Patient Engagement

Hannah Krauss
Program Coordinator