SCMR Committees meet a minimum of twice a year: In person at the Annual Scientific Sessions, and at least one teleconference throughout the year.
Diversity and Inclusion are important to SCMR’s strategic vision and critical to our society’s core values. SCMR is a global society, and strongly encourages applicants to committees from diverse backgrounds, subspecialties, practice settings, and career stages. As we seek to build and cultivate a diverse pipeline of future leaders with complementary skills and talents, participation in SCMR’s committees is crucial and enhancing diversity in the society is a top priority.
Committee rosters are reviewed once a year in preparation for new committee member selections. The term for serving as a committee member is two years, and respectively begins during the Annual Scientific Sessions.
Volunteers can apply for committees each Fall, and will be selected to start at the following SCMR annual meeting.
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.
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| President: Vanessa Ferreira | Immediate Past President: Carlos Rochitte | Vice President: Lars Grosse-Wortmann |
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| Secretary-Treasurer: Tim Leiner | Vice Secretary-Treasurer: Amit Patel |
Advocacy Committee
To identify the challenges affecting CMR professionals and patients globally, and to recommend impactful strategies and actions to address them.
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| Chair: Rafidah Abu Bakar | Vice Chair: Ntobeko Ntusi |
Past Chair: Mona Bhatia
Board Liaison: Otavio Coelho-Filho
- Timothy Albert
- James Armo
- Pudhiavan Arunachalam
- Mona Bhatia
- Yucheng Chen
- Victor Ferrari
- Patrycja Galazka
- Sebastian Kelle
- Isabella Leo
- Vidya Nadig
- Mark Nolan
- Diego Perez de Arenaza
- 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.
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| Program Chair: Kanae Mukai | Abstract Chair: Purvi Parwani |
President: Vanessa Ferreira
Board Liaison: Lars Grosse-Wortmann
Clinical Track
| Science Track
Abstract Support Team
| Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Track
Technologist Track
Jeopardy Lead
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Awards Committee
To identify and recognize individuals that have had significant contribution to the society, and deserving of various SCMR awards including Gold Medal Award, Education Award, Advocacy Award and Technologist Award. The voting members of the committee is kept confidential.
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| Board Liaison: Lars Grosse-Wortmann (Non-Voting) |
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.
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| Chair: Luigi Natale | Vice-Chair: Mani Motwani |
Past Chair: Robert Manka
Board Liaison: John Greenwood
- Ashish Aneja
- Gloria Ayuba
- Ashita Barthur
- Filippo Bosio
- Otávio Coelho-Filho
- Christopher J. François
- Pankaj Garg
- Tevfik Ismail
- Dinesh Kalra
- Kristopher David Knott
- Anna Koulova
- Faraz Kureshi
- Luis Moura
- Lakshmi Nambiar
- Kaveh Rezaei Bookani
- Laura Victoria Torres-Araujo
- Sui-Cheng Wang
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.
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| Chair: Kenneth Bilchick | Vice-Chair and Board Liaison: Deborah Kwon |
- Mona Bhatia
- Camilla Calvieri
- Joao Cavalcante
- Priya Chudgar
- Otávio Coelho-Filho
- Shruti Hegde
- Kan Hor
- Daniel Lee
- Alicia Maceira
- Rebeca Mata Caballero
- Sebastian Onciul
- Diego Perez de Arenaza
- Amir Rahsepar
- Elisabetta Tonet
- Cory Trankle
- 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.
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| Chair: Vass Vassiliou | Vice Chair:Vineeta Ojha |
Past Chair: Manish Motwani
Board Liaison: Christopher Francois
- Khatira Abdulalimova
- A. Sami Abuzaid
- Deya Alkhatib
- Sadegh Dehghani
- Elen Elen
- Sara Ersözlü
- Negar Firoozeh
- Bashaer Gheyath
- Esra Gucuk Ipek
- Andrew Hoyer
- Ramezan jafari
- Supriya Jain
- Yoshito Kadoya
- Alexandros Kallifatidis
- Anna Koulova
- Mariana Lamacie
- Thais Lima
- Nicole Marella
- Shirjeel Murtaza
- Bhavana Nagabhushana Reddy
- Debanjan Nandi
- Ana-Maria Poenar
- Julieta Rancati
- Ahmed Sami
- Soukaina Scadi
- Viraj Shah
- Kirsten Shaw
- Ashish Shrivastava
- Elisabetta Tonet
- Laura Victoria Torres-Araujo
- Siddharth Trivedi
- Muhammad Usman
- Akos Varga-Szemes
- Mansi Verma
- Anam Waheed
- Syed Muddabir Zaidi
Social Media Subcommittee
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| 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
- Tiago Sequeiros
- 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.
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| Chair: Allison Hays | Vice Chair: Ntobeko Ntusi |
Past Chair: Mona Bhatia
- 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.
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| Chair: Purvi Parwani | Vice Chair: Elsie Nguyen |
Board Liaison: Ming-Yen Ng
- Mekkaoui Abderrahmane
- Jorge Andion Torreão
- James Armo
- Patricia Bandettini
- Siobhan Boyle
- Jane Cao
- Priya Chudgar
- Mariana Fontana
- Bashaer Gheyath
- Yuchi Han
- Supriya Jain
- Alexandros Kallifatidis
- Menhel Kinno
- Ting Liu
- Shiraz Maskatia
- Sabrina Nordin
- Vineeta Ojha
- Anna Giulia Pavon
- Rengarajan Rajagopal
- Julieta Rancati
- Ramin Sahar
- Michael Salerno
- Eric Schrauben
- Tarinee Tangcharoen
- Katharine Thomas
- Ramesh Valapil
- David Wendell
- Qiang Zhang
COI Subcommittee
- Ganesh Adluru
- Daniel Groves
- Alicia Maceira
- Rengarajan Rajagopal
Finance Committee
To oversee Society finances and make recommendations to the Board on financial matters.
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- 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.
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| Chair: Lilia Sierra-Galan | Vice Chair: Sebastian Kelle |
Board Liaison: Yuchi Han
- Rafidah Abu Bakar
- Ajay Alex
- James Armo
- Ashita Barthur
- Siobhan Boyle
- Carmen Chan
- Otávio Coelho-Filho
- Miguel Cruz
- Sadegh Dehghani
- Peng Hu
- Eryca Jesus
- Debiao Li
- Amol More
- Luis Moura
- Luigi Natale
- Ahmed Negm
- Carol Ng
- Vijaya Bhakskar Nori
- Christopher Occleshaw
- Esosa Odigie-Okon
- Dr Din-E-Mujahid Mohammad faruque Osmany
- Jose Rodriguez-Palomares
- Soha Romeih
- Lemuell Karla Sanchez
- Jha Saurabh
- Megha Sheth
- Dimitrios Verganelakis
- Jie Zheng
- Xiaodong Zhong
Membership Committee
To identify and solicit members for the Society, and review Society benefits to ensure they are providing value.
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| Chair: Garcia Flores | Vice Chair: Ramesh Valapil |
Past Chair: Ruud Van Heeswijk
Board Liaison: Sebastian Weingärtner
- Mona Bhatia
- Bruno Lima
- Mehul Patel
- Marian Pop
- Saira Siddiqui
- Felipe Torres
- Ramesh Valapil
- Anam Waheed
- Shuo Wang
- Sebastian Weingärtner
- Shujuan Yang
- Stefan Zimmerman
Nominating Committee
To identify individuals who may be considered to serve on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. The slate of individuals would then be voted upon by the society members.
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| Chair and Board Liaison: Carlos Rochitte |
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.
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| Chair: Declan O’Regan | Vice Chair: Anita Wokhlu |
Board Liaison: Tim Leiner
- Calvin Chin
- Nicola Galea
- Tevfik Ismail
- Rebeca Mata Caballero
- Noreen Nazir
- Richard Nethononda
- Niraj Pandey
- Haikun Qi
- Prabhakar Rajiah
- Hajime Sakuma
- Megha Sheth
- Saira Siddiqui
- Laura Victoria Torres-Araujo
- Timothy Wong
- Shen Zhao
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.
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| Chair: Michael Gannon | Vice Chair: Vidya Nadig |
Board Liaison: Steve Leung
- Alexander Alfaro Venegas
- Kana Fujikura
- Alison Hays
- Sihong Huang
- Supriya Jain
- Rajesh Janardhanan
- Jennifer Jordan
- Michael Klein
- Shirjeel Murtaza
- Vidya Nadig
- Bhavana Nagabhushana Reddy
- Ming-Yen Ng
- Vineeta Ojha
- Ana-Maria Poenar
- Betty Raman
- Julieta Rancati
- Soukaina Scadi
- Deneen Spatz
- Jadranka Stojanovska
- Laura Victoria Torres-Araujo
- Mansi Verma
- 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.
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| Chair: Dipan Shah | Vice Chair: Alistair Young |
Board Liaison: Dipan Shah
- Michael (Jay) Campbell
- Priya Chudgar
- Michael DiLorenzo
- Andrada Guta
- Kan Hor
- Nisha Hosadurg
- Daniel Lee
- Maan Malahfji
- Ming-Yen Ng
- Venkat Polsani
- Yusuf Ziya Şener
- Behzad Sharif
- Chetan Shenoy
- Lila Sierra Galan
- 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.
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| Chair: Kate Hanneman | Vice Chair: Sebastian Weingärtner |
Board Liaison: Daniel Kim
- Mehmet Akcakaya
- Giandomenico Bisaccia
- Jordi Broncano
- Otávio Coelho-Filho
- Albert Hsiao
- Peng Hu
- Tevfik Ismail
- Songtao Liu
- Rebeca Mata Caballero
- Dana Peters
- Patricia Rodriguez Lozano
- Yusuf Ziya Şener
- Neda Tavakoli
- Ye Tian
- Connie Tsao
- Sebastian Weingärtner
- Karolina Zareba
Translations Committee
To assure key SCMR publications are available and accurately translated into multiple languages.
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| Chair: Andrea Cardona | Vice Chair: Ahmet Demirkiran |
Board Liaison: Carlos Rochitte
Chinese
- Qizhi Chen
- Yucheng Chen
- Shujuan Yang
- Lei Zhao
French
- Mekkaoui Abderrahmane
- 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
- Gabriela Liberato
- Thais Lima
- Carlos Eduardo Rochitte
- Felipe Torres
Spanish
- Alexander Alfaro Venegas
- Erasmo De La Peña-Almaguer
- Katia Devorha Menacho Medina
- Elena Diaz Pelaez
- José Rodríguez-Palomares
- Laura Victoria Torres-Araujo
Turkish
- Elif Ayduk Gövdeli
- Zeynep Gizem
- Zehra İrem-Sezer
- Begüm Uygur
US Advocacy Committee
To identify public policy issues and concerns affecting CMR professionals and our patients in the United States.
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| Chair: Ibrahim Saeed | Vice Chair: Robert Biederman |
Past Chair: Edward (Ted) Martin
Board Liaison: Amit Patel
CEO: Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci
Consultant: Carrie Kovar
- Ahmed Sami Abuzaid
- Recai Aktay
- Andrew Ertel
- Cristina Fuss
- James Goldfarb
- Nazia Husain
- Arun Iyer
- Anupam Kumar
- Edward (Ted) Martin
- Michael Morris
- Vidya Nadig
- Kim-Lien Nguyen
- Jonathan Pan
- Anu Rao
- Michael Salerno
- Sharath Subramanian
- Laura Victoria Torres-Araujo
- Asha Vaikom House
Ex-officio Members:
- Victor Ferrari
- Mark Fogel
- Anthon Fuisz
- Ron Jacob
- Pamela Woodard
Verification 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.
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| Chair: Jeremy Collins | Vice Chair: Juan Lopez-Mattei |
Board Liaison: Christopher Francois
- Ashita Barthur
- Mona Bhatia
- Jennifer Bryant
- Amr Idris
- Rebecca Mills
- Bhavana Nagabhushana Reddy
- Roosha Parikh
- Hari Rajagopal
- Lauren Stipp
- Mushabbar Syed
- Laura Victoria Torres-Araujo
