2018 Heart Innovation Forum Steering Committee Members
Ra-id Abdulla, MD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Editor-in-Chief, Pediatric Cardiology
Rush University Medical Center
Katie Arnold
Founder/Principal Consultant
SPRIG Consulting
MaryEllen Baker
Associate Director
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
Joe Forbess, MD
Associate Division Head, Cardiovascular-
Thoracic Surgery
Advocate Children’s Hospital
Dimitra Georganopoulou, PhD
Director of Commercialization
Innovation & New Ventures (INVO)
Northwestern University
Daniel H. Gruenstein, MD, FSCAI
Chief, Cardiology;
Director, Cardiac Catheterization
Co-Director, Chicago Pediatric Heart Center
Comer Children’s Hospital
Karen Larimer, Ph.D., ACNP-BC
FAHA
Assistant Professor
DePaul University School of Nursing
Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD
Director
Northwestern University Clinical &
Transitional Sciences Institute (NUCATS)
Dan Lyne
Senior Vice President,
Global Technology & Media
CBRE
Brad Marino, MD, MPP, MSCE
Professor, Pediatrics, Northwestern
University Feinberg School of Medicine
Heart Center Co-Director
Lurie Children’s Hospital
Nick Maull, JD/MBA
Associate Director, Innovation
& New Ventures (INVO)
Northwestern University
Manish Mehta
Partner
Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff
Evan Norton
Divisional Vice President
Abbott Ventures
Jorge F. Saucedo, MD
Chair, Division of Cardiology
NorthShore University Health System
Dean Seiler
Commercial Business Director
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
Lee Shapiro
Managing Partner
7Wire Venture
Smiti Sharma
Director, Solution Engineering
Virtustream
Jeffrey S. Sharp
Managing Partner
Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP
Joe Siok
Software Adoption Executive
IBM
Shoeb Sitafalwalla, MD
Clinical Lead
Advocate Health Care
Sarah Song, MD
Assistant Professor
Rush University Medical Center
Annabelle Volgman, MD, FACC, FAHA
Professor of Medicine
Rush College of Medicine
Medical Director
Rush Heart Center for Women
Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc
Vice-Dean, Professor,
Chief, Division of Cardiology
Northwestern University
