Enduring Hearts funds research to increase longevity and improve the quality of life for children with a new heart.
WHY OUR WORK IS NECESSARY:
- A transplant is not a cure. The average heart transplant lasts only 17 years.
- One in four transplants will fail largely due to organ rejection. Of those who have another transplant, nearly half will not survive.
- Anti-rejection drugs and rejection detection procedures negatively affect their quality of life.
- Enduring Hearts is the only nonprofit solely dedicated to research that helps kids with heart transplants live longer, healthier lives.
- We fund the critical, yet often overlooked research needed to eliminate rejection, prevent life-threatening complications and reduce the risk that a second transplant will be needed.
WHO OUR WORK WILL HELP:
- Babies born with congenital heart defects that cannot be surgically repaired and require a heart transplant.
- Children who experience end-stage heart failure through heart disease, infection, and Cardiomyopathy.
- Not only patients, but their entire families that all live with the stress of knowing that the transplanted heart may eventually fail.
- Many kids who receive other transplanted organs will also experience organ failure due to rejection.
- Adult heart transplant recipients.
Enduring Hearts is led by our Chief Executive Officer and governed by a body of independent professionals in addition to advisement from our Scientific Advisory Committee. Together, we are spurring the momentum of Enduring Hearts to rapidly make a significant impact, at a time when opportunities to advance transplantation science is greater than ever. Our Board of Directors continues to demonstrate a commitment to governance, fundraising, grant-making and establishing partnerships with leading institutions to achieve long-term success.
- Carolyn Salvador – Chief Executive Officer
- Ruth Manlapas – Board President
- Dean Bellmoff – Board Vice President
- Mike Gahan – Board Treasurer
- Patrick Gahan – Founder
- Dr. Robert Boucek, M.D.- Board Scientific Liaison
- Ankur Chatterjee – Board Member
- Stephen Ochs – Board Member
- Derek Cunningham – Board Member
- John Hawkins – Board Member
- Avi Yashchin – Board Member
- Jason Decker – Board Member
- Alok Gupta – Board Member
- Joshua Weiner – Board Member
- Scott Stephens- Board Member
- Joe Brownlee- Board Member
- Kelly Fechalos – Director, Business Development
- Raeann Tighe – Executive Administrative Assistant
- Diann Begley– Program Administrator
- MJ Pedrone– For Media Inquiries
The SAC is comprised of top pediatric cardiologists and immunologists from highly esteemed institutions with many years of both patient care and clinical research.
The SAC ensures that our funding is used to serve the mission of our organization to increase the longevity of pediatric heart transplants, improve the quality of life for children living with a new heart and eliminate pediatric heart diseases that may lead to a transplant.
Mott Children’s Hospital Assistant
Professor of Pediatrics – University
of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Pediatric Cardiologist-Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Cardiology St. Louis, MO
Pediatric Cardiologist- Monroe
Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
Thomas P. Graham Jr. Division of
Cardiology Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
of Medicine MSTP,
Center, Immunology Research
Fellow Atlanta, GA.
Children’s National Medical
Center Medical Director of
Pediatric Heart Transplantation
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
– Emory University Atlanta, Georgia
Psychologist, C.S. Mott Children’s
Hospital Assistant Professor of
Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric
Psychology University of Michigan
Transplant Center Ann Arbor, Michigan
Pediatric Cardiology, University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Children’s Hospital Assistant
Professor of Heart Failure
and Heart Transplant Programs,
University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine Pittsburgh, PA
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Board Scientific Liaison Research
Affiliate, Seattle Children’s Research
Institute Past Associations: Chief,
Division of Pediatric Cardiology,
Department of Pediatrics, University
of Washington School of Medicine,
Seattle WA Chief of Pediatric Cardiology,
University of South Florida/All Children’s
Hospital St. Petersburg, FL Medical
Director, Pediatric Cardiac Transplant
Program, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN
and Outcomes Center (HeRO)
Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Engineering and Medicine, Emory
University Children’s Healthcare of
Atlanta Research Scholar Atlanta, GA
Canada Research Chair in Cardiac Transplantation
Director, Canadian Donation and Transplantation Research Program
Director, Alberta Transplant Institute
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
Medical Director, PACT Program at Stanford Children’s Health
Roma and Marvin Auerback Pediatric Cardiology Scholar
Loma Linda University School of
Medicine Chief Medical Officer
Loma Linda University Children’s
Hospital Loma Linda, CA
University of Colorado,
Denver Children’s Hospital Colorado
All Children’s Specialty Physicians,
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital,
St. Petersburg, FL
Associate Professor of Pediatrics,
Division of Pediatric Cardiology,
Department of Pediatrics,
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Executive Director of Systems Design and Collaborative Research, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatric Endocrinology, Stanford School of Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford School of Engineering
OUR PARTNERS
Enduring Hearts’ Public Charity Approval Letter
Enduring Hearts’ Application for Recognition of Exemption – Form 1023
FISCAL YEAR 2019 FILINGS & REPORTS
FISCAL YEAR 2018 FILINGS & REPORTS
Enduring Hearts
1144 Alpharetta St, Suite 300
Roswell, GA 30075
Contact: Carolyn Salvador
Csalvador@enduringhearts.org
