Leadership

The Training Program in Cardiac & Vascular Cell Biology is administered by a training program steering committee consisting of the program director, the co-directors, and eight faculty members. The Steering Committee members have extensive experience in graduate and post-graduate training, as Training Grant Program Directors or Co-directors, or as Directors of a Graduate Program in Life Sciences program or track. The Steering Committee is responsible for establishing the program’s educational policies and curriculum, for determining overall program policies and directions, for selecting the trainees, reviewing the trainees' progress, and reviewing the career development of former trainees.

The composition of the training program's steering committee includes:

1. faculty representatives of the three unique and integrated scientific features of the Program (e.g. biophotonics & imaging, molecular biology and functional genomics),
2. the directors of distinct but related training programs in Integrative Membrane Biology and Muscle Biology, and
3. faculty representing women and underrepresented racial/ethnic groups.

Our External Advisory Committee consists of an eminent group of internationally recognized individuals, each of whom has extensive experience in graduate and postgraduate training. Dr. L. Gabriel Navar is Chair of the AHA High Blood Pressure Council and a former NHLBI T32 Program Director. Dr. David Kass at Johns Hopkins University is Program Director of a long running T32, and has a rich history of mentoring both clinical and basic science trainees. Dr. Andrew Marks, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Chair of the Department of Physiology at Columbia University School of Medicine is also a Program Director of a T32 training program; and Dr. John Solaro is Head of the Department of Physiology at the University of Illinois, Chicago.