Committees

SCMR Committees meet a minimum of twice a year: In person at the Annual Scientific Sessions, and at least one teleconference throughout the year.

Committee rosters are reviewed once a year in preparation for new committee member selections. The term for serving as a committee member is three years, and respectively begins during the Annual Scientific Sessions.

Executive Committee

To coordinate all Committee and Task Force activity, review motions prior to their submission to the Board, and to act in the absence of the Board on matters of urgency.

President: Michael Markl
Immediate Past President: Karen Ordovas
Vice President: Carlos Rochitte
Treasurer: Vanessa Ferreira
Vice-Secretary Treasurer: Lars Grosse-Wortmann

Advocacy Committee

To identify the challenges affecting CMR professionals and patients globally, and to recommend impactful strategies and actions to address them.

Chair: Rafidah Abu Bakar
Vice Chair: Ntobeko Ntusi
Past Chair: Mona Bhatia
Board Liaison: Martin Ugander

• Timothy Albert
• Pudhiavan Arunachalam
• Mona Bhatia
• Yucheng Chen
• Victor Ferrari
• Patrycja Galazka
• Sebastian Kelle
• Vidya Nadig
• Mark Nolan
• Steffen Petersen
• Lemuell Karla Sanchez
• Juerg Schwitter
• Lilia Sierra-Galan
• Xiaorui Xiang

Annual Scientific Program Committee

To design and implement the Annual Scientific Session program.

Program Chair: Claudia Prieto
Clinical Co-Chair: Bradley Allen
Abstract Chair: Clerio Azevedo
President: Michael Markl
Board Liaison: Carlos Rochitte

• Amr Abd Allah
• Karima Addetia
• Niti Aggarwal
• Mona Bhatia
• Siobhan Boyle
• Adrienne Campbell
• Gabriella Captur
• Andrea Cardona
• Anthonoy Christodolou
• Petter Dyverfeldt
• Daniel Ennis
• Zhaoyang Fan
• Marianna Fontana
• Kate Hanneman
• Albert Hsiao
• Peng Hu
• Jung Im Jung
• Dan Knight
• Christopher Lam
• Hildo Lamb
• Robert Lederman
• Bruno Lima
• Ladonna Malone
• Robert Manka
• Hector Medina
• Rebecca Mills
• Jorge Alberto Morales Aldana
• Kevin Moulin
• Bhavana Nagabhushana Reddy
• Luigi Natale
• Vineeta Ojha
• Ellen Ostenfeld
• Amit Patel
• Dana Peters
• Prabhakar Rajiah
• Rahul Rathod
• Otavio Rizzi Coelho-Filho
• Joshua Robinson
• Soha Romeih
• Nicole Seiberlich
• Lilia Sierra
• Irvin The
• Akos Varga-Szemes
• Yining Wang
• Sebastian Weingaertner

Clinical Practice Committee

To develop clinical standards for the practice of CMR, including safety and clinical topics, to provide advice on established service including specific queries and to address issues with regard to certification maintenance.

Chair: Robert Manka
Past Chair: Monika Radike (Arzanauskaite)
Board Liaison: James Moon

• Niti Aggarwal
• Melany Atkins
• Ashita Barthur
• Otávio Coelho-Filho
• Christopher Dyke
• Michael Elliott
• Tilman Emrich
• Christopher J. François
• Pankaj Garg
• Tevfik Ismail
• Jacobo Kirsch
• Suma Konety
• Vishal Kukkar
• Luis Moura
• Robin Nijveldt
• Ntobeko Ntusi
• Vimal Raj
• Theresa Reiter
• Jose Rodriguez-Palomares
• Hajime Sakuma
• Lilia Sierra Galan
• Anne Marie Valente

Clinical Trials Committee

To promote and facilitate well-designed clinical studies using CMR as an intervention or endpoint, including comparative effectiveness studies with other imaging modalities, with the goals of providing key data to the scientific community and enhancing the field of cardiovascular medicine by demonstrating how clinical care can be improved with CMR.

Chair: Kenneth Bilchick
Board Liaison: Deborah Kwon

• Colin Berry
• Mona Bhatia
• Otávio Coelho-Filho
• Fred Epstein
• Shruti Hegde
• Kan Hor
• Daniel Lee
• Alicia Maceira
• Kenneth Mangion
• Amit Patel
• Elisabetta Tonet
• Malgorzata Wamil
• Katherine Wu
• Huayan Xu

Communications Committee

Aims to increase global awareness regarding the value of CMR by building positive relationships with stakeholders internal** to the Society by delivering materials (i.e. website, social media, newsletter) in the most timely, effective, and inclusive manner, in accordance with the Society’s mission.

Chair: Vass Vassiliou
Vice Chair: Jadranka Stojanovska
Past Chair: Manish Motwani
Board Liaison: Hildo Lamb

• A. Sami Abuzaid
• Mazahir Alimohamed
• Andrew Hoyer
• Supriya Jain
• Mariana Lamacie
• Nicole Marella
• Nabila Mughal
• Bhavana Nagabhushana Reddy
• Ana-Maria Poenar
• Ahmed Sami
• Konstantinos Stathogiannis
• Elisabetta Tonet
• Siddharth Trivedi
• Akos Varga-Szemes
• Xiaorui Xiang

Social Media Subcommittee

Chair: Vineeta Ojha
Vice Chair: Jennifer Co-Vu
Board Liaison: Steve Leung

• Siobhan Boyle
• Nita Ray Chaudhuri
• Thrasos Constantinides
• Yousef Daryani
• Blanca Domenech-Ximenos
• Sara Ersözlü
• Kanwal Farooqi
• Anna Guilia Pavon
• Arun Iyer
• Jason Johnson
• Mohamad Khattab
• Rishabh Khurana
• Daniel Lorenzatti
• Verma Mansi
• Din-E-Mujahid Osmany
• Pushpa Shivaram
• Jeremy Slivnick
• Elisabetta Tonet
• Siddharth Trivedi
• Andrew Zbihley
• Chengcheng Zhu

Website Subcommittee

Webmaster: Steve Leung

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Taskforce

To ensure and improve diversity and inclusion throughout all SCMR activities including membership, leadership, committee composition, the Annual Scientific Sessions and Society publications.

Chair: Allison Hays
Vice Chair: Ntobeko Ntusi
Past Chair: Mona Bhatia
Board Liaison: Martin Ugander

• Lars Grosse-Wortmann
• Ntobeko Ntusi
• Suvai Gunasekaran
• Gabriela Liberato 
• Prachi Agarwal

Education Committee

To innovate and provide CMR education using a diverse range of pedagogies. To disseminate educational material and undertake international education initiatives in collaboration with the outreach committee.

Chair: Ming Yen Ng
Vice Chair: Purvi Parwani
Past Chair: Marianna Fontana
Board Liaison: Charlotte Manisty

• Rafidah Abu Bakar
• Patricia Bandettini
• Siobhan Boyle
• Jessica Chan
• Priya Chudgar
• Kanwal Farooqi
• Patricia Feuchter
• Ricardo Gonzales
• Yuchi Han
• Supriya Jain
• Menhel Kinno
• Ting Liu
• Elsie Nguyen
• Rengarajan Rajagopal
• Prabhakar Rajiah
• Ramin Sahar
• Michael Salerno
• Eric Schrauben
• Tarinee Tangchareon
• Katharine Thomas
• Thomas Treibel
• Ramesh Valapil

Finance Committee

To oversee Society finances and make recommendations to the Board on financial matters.

Chair: Vanessa Ferreira

• Paul Finn
• Reza Nezafat
• Lilia Sierra-Galan
• Robert Weiss

International Outreach Committee

To foster global connections and collaborations, expanding the organization’s reach and impact of CMR on an international scale, in collaboration with Education and Advocacy committees.

Chair: Lilia Sierra-Galan
Vice Chair: Sebastian Kelle
Board Liaison: Lars Grosse-Wortmann

• Rafidah Abu Bakar
• Bahiya Alnafisi
• Ashita Barthur
• Siobhan Boyle
• Carmen Chan
• Otávio Coelho-Filho
• Sadegh Dehghani
• Anna Herrey
• Peng Hu
• Debiao Li
• Amol More
• Luis Moura
• Luigi Natale
• Ahmed Negm
• Carol Ng
• Vijaya Bhaskar Nori
• Ntobeko Ntusi
• Christopher Occleshaw
• Esosa Odigie-Okon
• Din-E-Mujahid Mohammad Faruque Osmany
• Jose Rodriguez-Palomares
• Soha Romeih
• Lemuell Karla Sanchez
• Jha Saurabh
• Megha Sheth
• Jie Zheng

Membership Committee

To identify and solicit members for the Society, and review Society benefits to ensure they are providing value.

Chair: Ruud Van Heeswijk
Vice Chair: Julio Garcia
Board Liaison: James Moon

• Ajay Alex
• Mona Bhatia
• Jordi Broncano
• Jung Im Jung
• Bruno Lima
• Mehul Patel
• Marian Pop
• Saira Siddiqui
• Felipe Torres
• Ramesh Valapil
• Shuo Wang
• Sebastian Weingärtner
• John Wilson
• Shujuan Yang
• Stefan Zimmerman

Publications Committee

To assure SCMR publications, are in the public good and meet current and valid SCMR needs, in the most effective manner, through communication with staff and editors where appropriate. To suggest issues of importance for publication, and to recommend task groups to the Executive Committee to further CMR.

To submit a proposal, please email s.squarta@scmr.org.

Chair: Declan O’Regan
Vice Chair: Anita Wokhlu
Board Liaison: Carlos Rochitte
Member ex-officio: Tim Leiner

• Dianna Bardo
• Calvin Chin
• Carole Dennie
• Marco Francone
• Richard Nethononda
• Reza Nezafat
• Ming-Yeng Ng
• Prabhakar Rajiah
• Saurabh Rajpal
• Hajime Sakuma
• Dipan Shah
• Megha Sheth
• Saira Siddiqi
• Timothy Wong

Public Relations Committee

Aims to increase global awareness regarding the value of CMR by building positive relationships with stakeholders external to the Society (lay public, patient and physician led organizations, and advocacy groups) through direct collaboration and development of promotional materials.

Chair: Kanae Mukai
Vice Chair: Michael Gannon
Past Chair: Jennifer Jordan
Board Liaison: Steve Leung

• Anita Bhandiwad
• Blanca Domenech-Ximenos
• Christopher Dyke
• Kana Fujikura
• Alison Hays
• Sihong Huang
• Supriya Jain
• Rajesh Janardhanan
• Michael Klein
• Vidya Nadig
• Bhavana Nagabhushana Reddy
• Ming-Yen Ng
• Vineeta Ojha
• Ana-Maria Poenar
• Betty Raman
• Deneen Spatz
• Jadranka Stojanovska
• Kavitha Yaddanapudi

Registry Committee

To provide oversight of the SCMR Registry to 1) maintain the quality of registry data, 2) promote engagement of contributing registry sites, and 3) encourage registry utilization for educational, quality control, and multicenter research projects.

Chair: Dipan Shah
Vice Chair: Alistair Young
Board Liaison: Dipan Shah

• Michael (Jay) Campbell
• Angel Chan
• Michael DiLorenzo
• Andrada Guta
• Kan Hor
• Nisha Hosadurg
• Bob Judd
• Han Kim
• Daniel Lee
• Maan Malahfji
• Kanae Mukai
• Venkat Polsani
• Behzad Sharif
• Chetan Shenoy
• Lila Sierra Galan
• Orlando Simonetti
• Jeremy Slivnick
• M. Barbara Srichai
• Qian Tao
• Matthew Tong
• Olga H Toro-Salazar

Science Committee

To track and report scientific advancements to the Society, to recommend topics for the SCMR Annual Scientific Session, to recommend task groups for specific projects to the Executive Committee, and to develop technical standards aligned with the Society’s mission.

Chair: Daniel Kim
Vice Chair: Kate Hanneman
Board Liaison: Daniel Kim

• Anthony Christodoulou
• Otávio Coelho-Filho
• Francisco Contijoch
• Mohammed Elbaz
• Allison Hays
• Albert Hsiao
• Peng Hu
• Yoojin Lee
• Songtao Liu
• Dana Peters
• Patricia Rodriguez Lozano
• Andreas Schuster
• Felicia Seeman
• Jadranka Stojanovska
• Connie Tsao
• Sebastian Weingärtner
• Karolina Zareba

Translations Committee

To assure key SCMR publications are available and accurately translated into multiple languages.

Chair: Andrea Cardona
Vice Chair: Ahmet Demirkiran
Board Liaison: Vanessa Ferreira

Chinese

• Qizhi Chen
• Yucheng Chen
• Shujuan Yang
• Lei Zhao

French

• Amnie Amyar
• Francois Assagie
• Chirstos Gzikas
• Alexis Jacquier

Italian

• Andrea Baggiano
• Camilla Calvieri
• Isabella Leo
• Elisabetta Tonet
• Camilla Torlasco

Portuguese

• Nuno Bettencourt de Sousa
• Roberto Candia
• Sara Moura Ferreira
• Carlos Eduardo Rochitte
• Felipe Torres

Spanish

• Erasmo De La Peña
• Katia Devorha Menacho Medina
• Elena Diaz Pelaez
• José Rodríguez-Palomares

Turkish

• Elif Ayduk Gövdeli
• Zeynep Gizem
• Zehra İrem-Sezer
• Begüm Uygur

US Advocacy Commitee

To identify public policy issues and concerns affecting CMR professionals and our patients in the United States.

Chair: Ibrahim Saeed
Vice Chair: Robert Biederman
Past Chair: Edward (Ted) Martin
Board Liaison: Karen Ordovas
CEO: Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci
Consultant: Carrie Kovar

• Ahmed Sami Abuzaid
• Victor Ferrari
• Mark Fogel
• Anthon Fuisz
• Cristina Fuss
• James Goldfarb
• Nazia Husain
• Arun Iyer
• Ron Jacob
• Anupam Kumar
• Pankaj Mathur
• Michael Morris
• Vidya Nadig
• Kim-Lien Nguyen
• Jonathan Pan
• Anu Rao
• Michael Salerno
• Sharath Subramanian
• Asha Vaikom House
• Pamela Woodard

Verification Committee
(Formerly Certification Committee)

To oversee the SCMR training guidelines are adhered to by verifying training for those who qualify and to collaborate with certification pathways related to the practice of CMR worldwide. Aim: To support physicians and technologists by verifying training to align with published training guidelines and to align with certification pathways.

Chair: Jeremy Collins
Vice Chair: Juan Lopez-Mattei
Board Liaison: Jeremy Collins

• Ashita Barthur
• Mona Bhatia
• Jennifer Bryant
• Faraz Kureshi
• Rebecca Mills
• Bhavana Nagabhushana Reddy
• Roosha Parikh
• Hari Rajagopal
• Preeti Ramachandran
• Fabrizio Ricci
• Lauren Stipp
• Mushabbar Syed