Pulmonary Circulation

Dr Anna Hemnes is a translational physician-scientist researching altered metabolism in pulmonary vascular disease. Her research focuses on the effect of BMPR2 mutation on insulin-mediated intracellular signalling in the pulmonary vasculature and right ventricle, and the genetic susceptibility to insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome in human pulmonary vascular disease. Her work has led to the development of an Omic signature of vasodilator-responsive pulmonary arterial hypertension, and she is actively researching novel blood-based Omic predictive strategies for FDA-approved therapies for pulmonary arterial hypertension. Dr Hemnes sees patients at the Vanderbilt Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease and serves as the Director of Research for the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Jason Yuan is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, USA. He is also the Director of the Section of Physiology in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at the UCSD School of Medicine. Dr Yuan received his medical degree at Suzhou Medical College (China), his PhD at Peking Union Medical College (China), and his postdoctoral training at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. His Pulmonary Vascular Disease (PVD) research propels the field on the pathogenic roles of membrane receptors and ion channels and provides a new research direction for developing therapeutic approaches for the disease. Dr Yuan is currently Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physiology Cell Physiology and serves on the editorial boards of Circulation Research, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, and American Journal of Physiology Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology.

Dr Stenmark is a renowned Professor of Paediatrics and Medicine, serving as Division Head and La Cache Endowed Chair of Paediatric Critical Care. He has published close to 400 papers related to pulmonary hypertension and has conducted studies on PH across various species, including bovine. Dr Stenmark has served on several national and international committees, played a significant role in planning international meetings on PH, and presently serves as the Director of the Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research Laboratories at the University of Colorado. He is also the Deputy Editor of Pulmonary Circulation and an Associate Editor of Cardiovascular Research. Dr Stenmark is an Elected Member of the Association of American Physicians and was recently awarded the Dickinson W. Richards Lecture Award by the American Heart Association.

Irene Lang is a senior staff member at the Department of Cardiology and Deputy Chair of the Department at the Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. She has been a Professor of Vascular Biology at the Medical University of Vienna since 2004, where she leads a clinical and experimental group in vascular medicine focusing on pulmonary vascular biology and right ventricular function. Dr. Lang is an active interventional and structural cardiologist, recently very active as a balloon pulmonary angioplasty interventionist, and an active researcher. She was nominated by the World Medical Association as a ‘Caring Physician of the World’ in 2006, ‘Teacher of the Year’ at MUV in 2013 and is past president of the Austrian Society of Cardiology.

• Ghazwan Butrous, MB ChB PhD, University of Kent, UK 
• Joe G.N. "Skip" Garcia, MD, University of Arizona, USA 
• Hossein Ardeschir Ghofrani, MD, University of Giessen, Germany 
• Stella Kourembanas, MD, Harvard Medical School, USA \Jess Mandel, MD, University of California, San Diego, USA 
• Evangelos D. Michelakis, MD, University of Alberta, Canada 
• Qadar Pasha, PhD, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India 
• Vinicio A. de Jesus Perez, MD, Stanford University, USA 
• Marlene Rabinovitch, MD, Stanford University, USA 
• Sandeep Sahay, MD, Houston Methodist Hospital, USA 
• Werner Seeger, MD PhD, University of Giessen, Germany 
• Patricia A. Thistlethwaite, MD PhD, University of California, San Diego, USA 
• Chen Wang, MD PhD, Peking Union Medical College, China 
• Jian Wang, MD, Guangzhou Medical University, China