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 |
| 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 [email protected] with “LHI Membership Request” in the subject line.
Current LHI Members
| Person | Department | |
| Adabag, Selcuk (Ahmet) | Cardiology/ Minneapolis VA Health Care System | [email protected] |
| Aggarwal, Varun | Pediatric Cardiology | [email protected] |
| Alejandro, Emilyn | IBP | [email protected] |
| Alexy, Tamas | Medicine/Cardiology | [email protected] |
| Alford, Patrick | Biomedical Engineering | [email protected] |
| Apple, Fred | Laboratory Medicine and Pathology | [email protected] |
| Asakura, Atsushi | Neurology | [email protected] |
| Azarin, Samira | Chemical Engineering and Materials Science | [email protected] |
| Babicheva, Aleksandra | Hormel Institute | [email protected] |
| Bank, Alan | Cardiology | [email protected] |
| Barnett, Vincent | Integrative Biology and Physiologpy | [email protected] |
| Barocas, Victor | Biomedical Engineering | [email protected] |
| Bartolomucci, Alessandro | IBP | [email protected] |
| Bartos, Jason | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Beckman, Joan | Hematology/Oncology/Transplantation | [email protected] |
| Benditt, David | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Bertog, Stefan | VAMC | [email protected] |
| Bianco, Richard | Experimental Surgical Services, Department of Surgery | [email protected] |
| Bielczyk-Maczynska, Ewa | Hormel Institute | [email protected] |
| Binstadt, Bruce | Pediatric Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology | [email protected] |
| Bitterman, Peter | Medicine | [email protected] |
| Blaes, Anne | Hematology/Oncology/Transplantation | [email protected] |
| Blazar, Bruce | Pediatrics, Blood and Marrow Transplantation | [email protected] |
| Bosnakovski, Darko | Pediatrics, Blood and Marrow Transplantation | [email protected] |
| Braunlin, Elizabeth | Pediatrics | [email protected] |
| Can, Iknur | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Carlson, Selma | VAMC | [email protected] |
| Chandrashekhar, YS | VAMC | [email protected] |
| Chen, Jane | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Chen, Lin Yee | Medicine/Cardiology | [email protected] |
| Cho, Roy | Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine | [email protected] |
| Cogswell, Rebecca | Cardiology, Section of Heart Failure | [email protected] |
| Collister, John | Veterinary Biosciences | [email protected] |
| Craighead, Daniel | School of Kinesiology; Exercise Physiology | [email protected] |
| Das, Satya | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Demmer, Ryan | School of Public Health; Epidemiology & Community Health | [email protected] |
| Dengel, Donald | School of Kinesiology | [email protected] |
| Dincer, H. Erhan | Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine | [email protected] |
| Dudley, Samuel | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Duprez, Daniel | Medicine, Cardiology | [email protected] |
| Duval, Sue | Medicine/Cardiology | [email protected] |
| Elliott, Andrea | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Erdman, Arthur | Mechanical Engineering | [email protected] |
| Finnegan, John | School of Public Health | [email protected] |
| Florea, Viorel | VAMC | [email protected] |
| Foker, John | Department of Surgery | [email protected] |
| Francis, Gary | Advanced Heart Failure Program - Division of Cardiology | [email protected] |
| From, Arthur | Radiology Medicine (cardiovascular Division) and Center for Magnetic Resonance Research | [email protected] |
| Garry, Daniel | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Garry, Mary | Department of Medicine | [email protected] |
| Golzarian, Jafar | Department of Radiology | [email protected] |
| Gong, Wuming | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Grande, Andrew | Neurosurgery | [email protected] |
| Gurevich, Sergey | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Gutierrez, Alejandra | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Hadidi, Niloufar | Nursing, University of Minnesota | [email protected] |
| Hebbel, Robert | Medicine, HOT - Vascular Biology Center | [email protected] |
| Henry, Timothy | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation | [email protected] |
| Huddleston, Stephen | Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery | [email protected] |
| Hume, Janet | Pediatric Critical Care Medicine | [email protected] |
| Iaizzo, Paul | Surgery, Visible Heart Laboratory | [email protected] |
| Iles, Tinen | Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery | [email protected] |
| Ingbar, David | Medicine (PACCS Division) | [email protected] |
| Jhun, Bong-Sook | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| John, Ranjit | Cardiothoracic Surgery | [email protected] |
| Kalra, Rajat | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Kamdar, Forum | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Kawakami, Yasuhiko | Genetics, Cell Biology and Development | [email protected] |
| Kazmirczak, Felipe | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Keirstead, Sue | Integrative Biology and Physiology and Stem Cell Institute | [email protected] |
| Keller-Ross, Manda | Physical Therapy | [email protected] |
| Kelly, Aaron | Department of Pediatrics / Center for Obesity Medicine | [email protected] |
| Kelly, Rosemary | Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery | [email protected] |
| Konety, Suma | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Kyba, Michael | Lillehei Heart Institute and Department of Pediatrics | [email protected] |
| Liu, Hong | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Liu, Julia | Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology | [email protected] |
| Liu, Man | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Lohr, Jamie | Pediatrics | [email protected] |
| Lowe, Dawn | Physical Therapy | [email protected] |
| Luepker, Russell | Division of Epidemiology and Community Health | [email protected] |
| Lutsey, Pamela | Division of Epidemiology and Community Health | [email protected] |
| MacIver, Robroy | Pediatric Cardiac Surgery | [email protected] |
| Mackenzi, Mbai | VAMC | [email protected] |
| Maharaj, Valmiki | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Markowitz, Jeremy | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Metzger, Joseph | Integrative Biology and Physiology | [email protected] |
| Meyer, Markus | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Mulvihill, Michael | Cardiothoracic Surgery | [email protected] |
| Narasimhan, Shanthi | Pediatrics | [email protected] |
| Nijjar, Prabhjot | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| O'Connell, Timothy | Integrative Biology and Physiology | [email protected] |
| Ogle, Brenda | Biomedical Engineering | [email protected] |
| Osborn, John | Integrative Biology and Physiology | [email protected] |
| O-Uchi, Jin | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Panetta, Carmelo | Cardiology | [email protected] |
| Perlingeiro, Rita | Medicine - Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Peterson, Tess | Epidemiology, School of Public Health | [email protected] |
| Prins, Kurt | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Prisco, Sasha | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Pritzker, Marc | Cardiology/Medicine | [email protected] |
| Ramu, Bhavadharini | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Raveendran, Ganesh | Cardiology | [email protected] |
| Revelo, Xavier | Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology | [email protected] |
| Rich, Timothy | Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine | [email protected] |
| Roopnarine, Osha | Biochemistry Molecular Biology and Biophysics | [email protected] |
| Roukoz, Henri | Medicine, Cardiology, Electrophysiology | [email protected] |
| Santilli, Steven | Department of Radiology Surgery | [email protected] |
| Schultz, Jessica | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Sedaghat, Sanaz | Division of Epidemiology and Community Health | [email protected] |
| Shaffer, Andrew | Department of Surgery | [email protected] |
| Sharma, Alok | VAMC | [email protected] |
| Shen, Wei | Biomedical Engineering | [email protected] |
| Shenoy, Chetan | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Shumway, Sara | Cardiothoracic Surgery | [email protected] |
| Song, Guisheng | Medicine | [email protected] |
| Soule, Matthew | Cardiothoracic Surgery | [email protected] |
| Steer, Clifford | Department of Medicine | [email protected] |
| Steffen, Lyn | Division of Epidemiology and Community Health | [email protected] |
| Steinberger, Julia | Pediatric Cardiology | [email protected] |
| Straka, Robert | Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Department, College of Pharmacy | [email protected] |
| Swingen, Cory | Surgery Medicine- Division of Cardiology | [email protected] |
| Talkachova, Alena | Biomedical Engineering Department | [email protected] |
| Tang, Weihong | Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public health | [email protected] |
| Thenappan, Thenappan | medicine/cardiology/section of advanced heart failure and pulmonary hypertension | [email protected] |
| Tholakanahalli, Venkat | VAMC | [email protected] |
| Thomas, David | BMBB | [email protected] |
| Tolar, Jakub | Pediatrics, Blood and Marrow Transplantation | [email protected] |
| Townsend, DeWayne | Integrative Biology and Physiology | [email protected] |
| Tranquillo, Robert | Biomedical Engineering | [email protected] |
| Treat-Jacobson, Diane | School of Nursing | [email protected] |
| Tsai, Michael | Laboratory Medicine and Pathology | [email protected] |
| van Berlo, Jop | Medicine | [email protected] |
| Van't Hof, Jeremy | Medicine | [email protected] |
| Veglia, Gianluigi | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics; Chemistry | [email protected] |
| Vercelotti, Gregory | Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation | [email protected] |
| Voeller, Rochus | Cardiothoracic Surgery | [email protected] |
| Watt, Tessa | Cardiothoracic Surgery | [email protected] |
| Wei, Li-Na | Pharmacology, Medical School | [email protected] |
| Weir, Edward | Medicine (Adjunct) | [email protected] |
| Williams, Jesse | Integrative Biology and Physiology | [email protected] |
| Wilson, Robert | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Wong, K. Joshua | Cardiothoracic Surgery | [email protected] |
| Xie, An | Cardiovascular Division | [email protected] |
| Yannopoulos, Demetri | Cardiology | [email protected] |
| Yoshida, Kyoko | Department of Biomedical Engineering | [email protected] |
| Zordoky, Beshay | Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology | [email protected] |
Content for Current Members
LHI Faculty Meeting Recordings