Trial Leadership

Organization

Trial Organization

How the CABANA-HF centers, committees, and oversight bodies work together.

National Institutes of Health Sujata Shanbhag, MD · Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, MD · Fassil Ketema, MSc

DSMB

CABANA-HF CCC Principal Investigators
Douglas Packer, MD — Intermountain Health
Sanjiv Shah, MD — Northwestern
Jeanne Poole, MD — Univ of Washington
Heidi May, PhD — Intermountain Health
Jonathan Piccini, MD — Duke University

Trial Administration

ECG and Echo Core Labs

Central IRB

Site Recruitment

CABANA-HF Steering Committee

Operations Group

Community Engagement Panel

Publications, Presentations, and Ancillary Studies Committee

CABANA-HF Site Network

CABANA-HF DCC PIs: Hussein Al-Khalidi, PhD
Daniel B. Mark, MD, MPH
Duke Clinical Research Institute

Statistical Services

Data Quality and Integration

Clinical Events Committee / Safety

Economics and Quality of Life Core Lab

Site Activation and Monitoring

Site Management Collaboration links Site Recruitment, the CABANA-HF Site Network, and Site Activation and Monitoring.

Clinical Coordinating Center

CCC Leadership

Principal Investigators

Douglas L. Packer, MD

CCC Contact PI

Mayo Clinic

Heidi T. May, PhD, MSPH

Principal Investigator

Intermountain Health

Sanjiv J. Shah, MD

Principal Investigator

Northwestern University

Jonathan Piccini, MD

Principal Investigator

Duke University

Jeanne Poole, MD

Principal Investigator

University of Washington

Data Coordinating Center

DCC Leadership

Principal Investigators

Hussein Al-Khalidi, PhD

DCC Contact PI

DCRI

Daniel B. Mark, MD, MPH

Principal Investigator

DCRI

Nikki Freeman, PhD

Principal Investigator

DCRI

Tristram Bahnson, MD

Principal Investigator

DCRI

Clinical Trial Director

Trial Operations

HM

Heather Maestas, CCRC

Clinical Trial Director

Intermountain Healthcare

Executive Committee

The executive committee provides overall governance and strategic direction for the CABANA-HF trial.

Hussein Al-Khalidi, PhD

DCRI

Tristram Bahnson, MD

DCRI

MD

Melanie Daniels

DCRI

Nikki Freeman, PhD

DCRI

Daniel Mark, MD, MPH

DCRI

Heidi May, PhD, MSPH

Intermountain

Douglas Packer, MD

Mayo Clinic

Ratika Parkash, MD, MS

Dalhousie

Jonathan Piccini, MD, MHS

Duke

Jeanne Poole, MD

U of Washington

Sanjiv Shah, MD

Northwestern

Anthony Tang, MD

Western University

Steering Committee

International experts providing scientific and clinical guidance for the trial, organized by heart failure, electrophysiology, and geographic regional representation.

Heart Failure

Barry Borlaug, MD

Mayo Clinic

Akshay Desai, MD, MPH

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Marat Fudim, MD, MHS

Duke University

Parag Goyal, MD, MSc

Weill Cornell Medicine

Ambarish Pandey, MD, MSCS

University of Michigan

Yogesh Reddy, MBBS

Mayo Clinic

Kavita Sharma, MD

Johns Hopkins

Lynne Stevenson, MD

Vanderbilt

Clyde Yancy, MD, MSc

Northwestern

Electrophysiology

Jason Andrade, MD

University of British Columbia

Riccardo Cappato, MD

Gruppo MultiMedica

Gerhard Hindricks, MD, PhD

Charité Berlin

Pierre Jais, MD

Bordeaux / IHU Liryc

Jonathan Kalman, MBBS, PhD

U of Melbourne

Ammar Killu, MBBS

Mayo Clinic

Gregory Lip, MD

U of Liverpool

Andrea Natale, MD

Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Inst.

Prash Sanders, MBBS, PhD

U of Adelaide

Richard Schilling, MD

Queen Mary U of London

Outside US

Geographic regional EP and HF representation.

Ratika Parkash, MD, MSc

Canada — Dalhousie / Nova Scotia Health

Luis Aguinaga, MD, PhD

South America — CIAT Tucumán

Pierre Jais, MD

France — Bordeaux / IHU Liryc

Riccardo Cappato, MD

Italy — Gruppo MultiMedica

Prash Sanders, MBBS, PhD

Australia — U of Adelaide

Jonathan Kalman, MBBS, PhD

Australia — U of Melbourne

Young-Hoon Kim, MD, PhD

Korea — Korea University

NHLBI

Our NHLBI Colleagues

CABANA-HF is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. These NHLBI staff members provide scientific and programmatic oversight for the trial.

Sujata Shanbhag, MD

Project Officer · NHLBI

Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, MD

Project Scientist · NHLBI

FK

Fassil Ketema, MSc

Clinical Trial Specialist · NHLBI

EL

Eric Leifer, PhD

Biostatistician · NHLBI

DF

D'Andrea Freeman

DSMB Executive Secretary · NHLBI

Neal Jeffries, PhD

Unblinded Statistician · NHLBI

Data Safety Monitoring Board

DSMB

The DSMB is composed of independent experts responsible for safeguarding patient welfare and ensuring trial integrity.

Frank Sellke, MD (Chair)

Brown University · Cardiothoracic surgery, surgical EP, therapeutic angiogenesis

Trial Organization

CCC Leadership

DCC Leadership

Trial Operations

Heather Maestas, CCRC

Executive Committee

Melanie Daniels

Ratika Parkash, MD, MS

Anthony Tang, MD

Steering Committee

Heart Failure

Ambarish Pandey, MD, MSCS

Electrophysiology

Outside US

Our NHLBI Colleagues

Sujata Shanbhag, MD

Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, MD

Fassil Ketema, MSc

Eric Leifer, PhD

D'Andrea Freeman

Neal Jeffries, PhD

DSMB

Frank Sellke, MD (Chair)

Committees & Working Groups

Public / Trial Wide Communication

Site / Enrollment Committee

International Engagement Committee

Novel / New Anticoagulation AGC

Novel Ablation Technology AGC

Heart Failure Therapeutics AGC

Publication and Dissemination

Communication Engagement Panel

CABANA-HF Patient Guidance Panel

Industry Engagement Community

Women in CABANA-HF

Clinical Events Committee

ECG / Monitoring Committee

Echo / Imaging Committee

AI in CABANA-HF Think Tank

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