Who We Are

External Collaborations and Advisory Committee

Objectives

The External Collaborations and Advisory Committee (ECAC) is a group of leading CVD experts assembled
with the goal of leveraging the CVRN’s expertise and resources beyond the network.

NAME	INSTITUTION
John Rumsfeld, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA (Chair)	Department of Medicine Denver VA Medical Center University of Colorado
John Ayanian, MD, MPP, FACP	Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health
David C. Goff, Jr., MD, PhD, FACP, FAHA	Public Health Sciences and Internal Medicine Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Barbara Howard, PhD	Departments of Medicine, Georgetown University and the University of Maryland Department of Biochemistry at Howard University
Barry Massie, MD, FACC	Department of Medicine University of California, San Francisco San Francisco VA Medical Center
David Meltzer, MD, PhD, FACP	Departments of Medicine, Economics and Public Policy University of Chicago
Sharon-Lise Normand, PhD, MSc, FACC, FASA	Departments of Biostatistics and Health Care Policy Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health
Eric Peterson, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA	Department of Medicine Duke University Medical Center
Neil Risch, PhD	Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences University of California, San Francisco
Wayne Rosamond, PhD	Department of Epidemiology University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John Spertus, MD, MPH, FACC	Department of Medicine University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Mid- America Heart Institute