Lillehei Heart Institute Membership
Become a Member
You are invited to sign up to become a Lillehei Heart Institute (LHI) member.
Membership Description
We offer two levels of membership:
Full Member: has faculty rank at the University of Minnesota (M.D. and/or Ph.D.; Assistant professor or above) and has peer reviewed publications and/or grant funding with demonstrated expertise in areas relevant to cardiovascular disease
Adjunct Member: M.D. and/or Ph.D. with adjunct or affiliate appointment at the University of Minnesota.
Responsibilities of Membership
Provide a yearly Bio sketch (or CV) with evidence of ongoing research in Cardiology.
Membership Benefits
| BENEFITS | ADJUNCT MEMBER | FULL MEMBER |
| Access to the LHI Blood & Tissue Bank | X | X |
| Invitations to LHI events, programs, and social events (LHI lectures, Cardiovascular Grand Rounds, Surgical Grand Rounds, etc) | X | X |
| Access to the LHI Lecture Recordings | X | X |
| Access to LHI Clinical Research Unit | X | X |
| Eligibility to apply for LHI Grants | X | |
| Eligibility to train funded LHI Scholars | X | |
| Ability to host LHI Speakers | X |
Application Process
Individuals applying for membership should submit a current CV to lhi@umn.edu with “LHI Membership Request” in the subject line.
Current LHI Members
| Person | Department | |
| Adabag, Selcuk (Ahmet) | Cardiology/ Minneapolis VA Health Care System | adaba001@umn.edu |
| Aggarwal, Varun | Pediatric Cardiology | aggar134@umn.edu |
| Alejandro, Emilyn | IBP | ealejand@umn.edu |
| Alexy, Tamas | Medicine/Cardiology | alexy001@umn.edu |
| Alford, Patrick | Biomedical Engineering | pwalford@umn.edu |
| Apple, Fred | Laboratory Medicine and Pathology | apple004@umn.edu |
| Asakura, Atsushi | Neurology | asakura@umn.edu |
| Azarin, Samira | Chemical Engineering and Materials Science | azarin@umn.edu |
| Babicheva, Aleksandra | Hormel Institute | ababiche@umn.edu |
| Bank, Alan | Cardiology | alan.bank@allina.com |
| Barnett, Vincent | Integrative Biology and Physiologpy | barne014@umn.edu |
| Barocas, Victor | Biomedical Engineering | baroc001@umn.edu |
| Bartolomucci, Alessandro | IBP | abartolo@umn.edu |
| Bartos, Jason | Cardiovascular Division | bart0313@umn.edu |
| Beckman, Joan | Hematology/Oncology/Transplantation | beckm092@umn.edu |
| Benditt, David | Cardiovascular Division | bendi001@umn.edu |
| Bertog, Stefan | VAMC | stefan.bertog@va.gov |
| Bianco, Richard | Experimental Surgical Services, Department of Surgery | bianc001@umn.edu |
| Bielczyk-Maczynska, Ewa | Hormel Institute | ebielczy@umn.edu |
| Binstadt, Bruce | Pediatric Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology | binstadt@umn.edu |
| Bitterman, Peter | Medicine | bitte001@umn.edu |
| Blaes, Anne | Hematology/Oncology/Transplantation | blaes004@umn.edu |
| Blazar, Bruce | Pediatrics, Blood and Marrow Transplantation | blaza001@umn.edu |
| Bosnakovski, Darko | Pediatrics, Blood and Marrow Transplantation | darko@umn.edu |
| Braunlin, Elizabeth | Pediatrics | braun002@umn.edu |
| Buchwald, Henry | Surgery | buchw001@umn.edu |
| Can, Iknur | Cardiovascular Division | canxx004@umn.edu |
| Carlson, Selma | VAMC | selma.carlson@va.gov |
| Chan, Sunny | Pediatrics | sschan@umn.edu |
| Chandrashekhar, YS | VAMC | shekh003@umn.edu |
| Chen, Jane | Cardiovascular Division | chen5759@umn.edu |
| Chen, Lin Yee | Medicine/Cardiology | chenx484@umn.edu |
| Cho, Roy | Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine | choxx548@umn.edu |
| Cogswell, Rebecca | Cardiology, Section of Heart Failure | cogsw014@umn.edu |
| Collister, John | Veterinary Biosciences | colli066@umn.edu |
| Das, Satya | Cardiovascular Division | sdas@umn.edu |
| Demmer, Ryan | School of Public Health; Epidemiology & Community Health | demmer@umn.edu |
| Dengel, Donald | School of Kinesiology | denge001@umn.edu |
| Dincer, H. Erhan | Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine | hedincer@umn.edu |
| Dudley, Samuel | Cardiovascular Division | sdudley@umn.edu |
| Duprez, Daniel | Medicine, Cardiology | dupre007@umn.edu |
| Duval, Sue | Medicine/Cardiology | duval002@umn.edu |
| Ebbini, Emad | Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Science and Engineering | ebbin001@umn.edu |
| Elliott, Andrea | Cardiovascular Division | elliotta@umn.edu |
| Erdman, Arthur | Mechanical Engineering | agerdman@umn.edu |
| Ervasti, James | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics | jervasti@umn.edu |
| Finnegan, John | School of Public Health | finne001@umn.edu |
| Florea, Viorel | VAMC | flore022@umn.edu |
| Foker, John | Department of Surgery | foker001@umn.edu |
| Francis, Gary | Advanced Heart Failure Program - Division of Cardiology | franc354@umn.edu |
| From, Arthur | Radiology Medicine (cardiovascular Division) and Center for Magnetic Resonance Research | fromx001@umn.edu |
| Garcia, Santiago | Minneapolis VA Medical Center. Division of Cardiology | santiago.garcia@va.gov |
| Garry, Daniel | Cardiovascular Division | garry@umn.edu |
| Garry, Mary | Department of Medicine | garry002@umn.edu |
| Golzarian, Jafar | Department of Radiology | jafar@umn.edu |
| Gong, Wuming | Cardiovascular Division | gongx030@umn.edu |
| Grande, Andrew | Neurosurgery | grande@umn.edu |
| Gurevich, Sergey | Cardiovascular Division | gure0011@umn.edu |
| Gutierrez, Alejandra | Cardiovascular Division | agb@umn.edu |
| Hackett, Perry | Genetics, Cell Biology and Development | perryh@umn.edu |
| Hadidi, Niloufar | Nursing, University of Minnesota | hadi0001@umn.edu |
| Hebbel, Robert | Medicine, HOT - Vascular Biology Center | hebbe001@umn.edu |
| Henry, Timothy | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation | henry003@umn.edu |
| Holtzman, Jordan | medicine | holtz003@umn.edu |
| Hu, Wei-Shou | Chemical Engineering and Material Science | wshu@umn.edu |
| Huddleston, Stephen | Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery | huddl007@umn.edu |
| Hume, Janet | Pediatric Critical Care Medicine | jrhume@umn.edu |
| Iaizzo, Paul | Surgery, Visible Heart Laboratory | iaizz001@umn.edu |
| Iles, Tinen | Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery | thealy@umn.edu |
| Ingbar, David | Medicine (PACCS Division) | ingba001@umn.edu |
| Jhun, Bong-Sook | Cardiovascular Division | bjhun@umn.edu |
| Kalra, Rajat | Cardiovascular Division | kalra@umn.edu |
| Kamdar, Forum | Cardiovascular Division | kamd0001@umn.edu |
| Kawakami, Yasuhiko | Genetics, Cell Biology and Development | kawak005@umn.edu |
| Kazmirczak, Felipe | Cardiovascular Division | nasci009@umn.edu |
| Keirstead, Sue | Integrative Biology and Physiology and Stem Cell Institute | sakeir@umn.edu |
| Keller-Ross, Manda | Physical Therapy | kell0529@umn.edu |
| Kelly, Aaron | Department of Pediatrics / Center for Obesity Medicine | kelly105@umn.edu |
| Kelly, Rosemary | Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery | kelly071@umn.edu |
| Kikyo, Nobuaki | GCD | kikyo001@umn.edu |
| Konety, Suma | Cardiovascular Division | shkonety@umn.edu |
| Kyba, Michael | Lillehei Heart Institute and Department of Pediatrics | kyba@umn.edu |
| Law, Ping-Yee | Pharmacology | lawxx001@umn.edu |
| Liu, Hong | Cardiovascular Division | liu00291@umn.edu |
| Liu, Julia | Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology | julialiu@umn.edu |
| Liu, Man | Cardiovascular Division | liu00290@umn.edu |
| Lohr, Jamie | Pediatrics | lohrx003@umn.edu |
| Low, Walter | Neurosurgery | lowwalt@umn.edu |
| Lowe, Dawn | Physical Therapy | lowex017@umn.edu |
| Luepker, Russell | Division of Epidemiology and Community Health | luepker@epi.umn.edu |
| Lund, Troy | Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant | lundx072@umn.edu |
| Lutsey, Pamela | Division of Epidemiology and Community Health | lutsey@umn.edu |
| MacIver, Robroy | Pediatric Cardiac Surgery | maci0035@umn.edu |
| Mackenzi, Mbai | VAMC | mackenzi.mbai2@va.gov |
| Maharaj, Valmiki | Cardiovascular Division | maha0104@umn.edu |
| Marchant, Johnathan | Pharmacology | march029@umn.edu |
| Markowitz, Jeremy | Cardiovascular Division | marko088@umn.edu |
| Metzger, Joseph | Integrative Biology and Physiology | metzgerj@umn.edu |
| Meyer, Markus | Cardiovascular Division | meye3249@umn.edu |
| Narasimhan, Shanthi | Pediatrics | silv0099@umn.edu |
| Neaton, James | Biostatistics, Public Health | neato001@umn.edu |
| Nelson, Dwight | Department of Urology | nel01295@umn.edu |
| Nijjar, Prabhjot | Cardiovascular Division | nijja003@umn.edu |
| Nordgren, Kendra | Biomedical Science | knordgre@d.umn.edu |
| O'Connell, Timothy | Integrative Biology and Physiology | tdoconne@umn.edu |
| Ogle, Brenda | Biomedical Engineering | ogle0008@umn.edu |
| O'Grady, Scott | Animal Sciences | ograd001@umn.edu |
| Osborn, John | Integrative Biology and Physiology | osbor003@umn.edu |
| O-Uchi, Jin | Cardiovascular Division | jouchi@umn.edu |
| Panetta, Carmelo | Cardiology | panet002@umn.edu |
| Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Angela | Pediatrics | panos001@umn.edu |
| Perlingeiro, Rita | Medicine - Cardiovascular Division | perli032@umn.edu |
| Pomerantz, William | Chemistry | wcp@umn.edu |
| Prins, Kurt | Cardiovascular Division | prin0088@umn.edu |
| Prisco, Sasha | Cardiovascular Division | szprisco@umn.edu |
| Pritzker, Marc | Cardiology/Medicine | pritz001@umn.edu |
| Ramu, Bhavadharini | Cardiovascular Division | bramu@umn.edu |
| Raveendran, Ganesh | Cardiology | ravee001@umn.edu |
| Revelo, Xavier | Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology | xrevelo@umn.edu |
| Rich, Timothy | Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine | rich0147@umn.edu |
| Roopnarine, Osha | Biochemistry Molecular Biology and Biophysics | roopn001@umn.edu |
| Roukoz, Henri | Medicine, Cardiology, Electrophysiology | rouko001@umn.edu |
| Santilli, Steven | Department of Radiology Surgery | santi002@umn.edu |
| Schultz, Jessica | Cardiovascular Division | schu3455@umn.edu |
| Sedaghat, Sanaz | Division of Epidemiology and Community Health | sedaghat@umn.edu |
| Shaffer, Andrew | Department of Surgery | shaff163@umn.edu |
| Sharma, Alok | VAMC | alok.sharma@va.gov |
| Shen, Wei | Biomedical Engineering | shenx104@umn.edu |
| Shenoy, Chetan | Cardiovascular Division | cshenoy@umn.edu |
| Song, Guisheng | Medicine | gsong@umn.edu |
| Steer, Clifford | Department of Medicine | steer001@umn.edu |
| Steffen, Lyn | Division of Epidemiology and Community Health | steffen@umn.edu |
| Steinberger, Julia | Pediatric Cardiology | stein055@umn.edu |
| Straka, Robert | Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Department, College of Pharmacy | strak001@umn.edu |
| Swingen, Cory | Surgery Medicine- Division of Cardiology | swing001@umn.edu |
| Talkachova, Alena | Biomedical Engineering Department | talkacal@umn.edu |
| Tang, Weihong | Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public health | tang0097@umn.edu |
| Thenappan, Thenappan | medicine/cardiology/section of advanced heart failure and pulmonary hypertension | tthenapp@umn.edu |
| Tholakanahalli, Venkat | VAMC | thola001@umn.edu |
| Thomas, David | BMBB | ddt@umn.edu |
| Tolar, Jakub | Pediatrics, Blood and Marrow Transplantation | tolar003@umn.edu |
| Townsend, DeWayne | Integrative Biology and Physiology | town0045@umn.edu |
| Tranquillo, Robert | Biomedical Engineering | tranquil@umn.edu |
| Traverse, Jay | Cardiovascular Division | trave004@umn.edu |
| Treat-Jacobson, Diane | School of Nursing | treat001@umn.edu |
| Tsai, Michael | Laboratory Medicine and Pathology | tsaix001@umn.edu |
| Ugurbil, Kamil | Radiology | ugurb001@umn.edu |
| van Berlo, Jop | Medicine | jvanberl@umn.edu |
| Van't Hof, Jeremy | Medicine | vanth008@umn.edu |
| Veglia, Gianluigi | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics; Chemistry | vegli001@umn.edu |
| Vercelotti, Gregory | Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation | verce001@umn.edu |
| Wei, Li-Na | Pharmacology, Medical School | weixx009@umn.edu |
| Weir, Edward | Medicine (Adjunct) | weirx002@umn.edu |
| Williams, Jesse | Integrative Biology and Physiology | jww@umn.edu |
| Wilson, Robert | Cardiovascular Division | wilso008@umn.edu |
| Wong, K. Joshua | Cardiothoracic Surgery | wong0649@umn.edu |
| Xie, An | Cardiovascular Division | axie@umn.edu |
| Yamada, Takumi | Cardiovascular Division | Yamad046@umn.edu |
| Yannopoulos, Demetri | Cardiology | yanno001@Umn.edu |
| Yoshida, Kyoko | Department of Biomedical Engineering | kyoshida@umn.edu |
| Zordoky, Beshay | Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology | zordo001@umn.edu |
Content for Current Members
LHI Faculty Meeting Recordings