
Teresa Wright-Johnson
Chair
Patient Advocate

Tina Sampath
Vice Chair
Chief Commercial Officer, Cumulus Neuroscience

Christina Rekash
Secretary
Patient

Kathi Sapp
Treasurer
Executive Pastor of Operations, Meadowbrook Church

David Andelman
Board Member
Patient, Journalist
Patient, Journalist

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

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

Kirsten Tullia, JD, MPH
Board Member
Senior Vice President, Payment and Health Care Delivery Policy and Head of Research at AdvaMed
STAFF

Karissa Charles
Executive Director

Berkeley Barnett
Director of Policy and Advocacy

Robyn Peacock
Director of Patient Engagement

Hannah Krauss
Program Coordinator