NAAC Board Members
President
Aryeh Shander, MD, FCCM, FCCP
Vice President/President Elect
William B. Ershler, MD
Immediate Past President
Richard K. Spence, MD
Secretary/Treasurer
Andrew Artz, MD, MS
At-Large Members
Arnold J. Friedman, MD
Sherri Ozawa, RN
Members
Inder Anand, MD, FRCP, DPHIL
Lodovico Balducci, MD
Jeffrey S. Berns, MD
Richard D. Brasington, Jr., MD
Paul W. Crawford, MD
Daniel E. Furst, MD
Janet B. McGill, MD
Allen R. Nissenson, MD, FACP
Ileana Piña, MD
Lloyd P. Van Winkle, MD
Bradley A. Warady, MD
Roslyn Yomtovian, MD
Ileana Piña, MD
NAAC At-Large Member
Professor of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Quality Scholar, Department of Veteran's Affairs
Specialty: Cardiology
Ileana L. Piña, MD, a Veterans Affairs National Quality Scholar, has served as Director of the Exercise Laboratory of the University of Miami, of Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation at Hahnemann University, of Cardiomyopathy at Temple University and Heart Failure Transplantation at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Piña was also the principal investigator in multiple heart failure trials including PRECISE (carvedilol), ELITE (losartan), and ATLAS (lisinopri); and served as co-investigator in others such as Bosentan, VEST and HF ACTION. Dr. Piña is also a device consultant for the FDA.
Dr. Piña received her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Miami in 1976, finished her internal medicine residency at the University of South Florida, and completed her Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Miami in 1982. While at the University of Miami, she established its Cardiac Rehabilitation Program, and in 1986 she initiated cardiopulmonary testing in patients with mild to moderate heart failure using nicorandil while pursuing a research project.
She also established and initiated the N-HeFT™ Program (National Heart Failure Training Program), sponsored by Case Western Reserve University. She is Co-Director of the N-HeFT Program, which consists of 34 national sites that train cardiologists and primary care physicians and their medical teams to improve care for heart failure patients. Dr. Piña has authored numerous publications in the area of heart failure, exercise and gender differences and collaborated to establish the HFSA Heart Failure Guidelines. She has edited the book Exercise and Heart Failure and The Year in Heart Failure 2004. Dr. Piña also reviews for Circulation, American Journal of Cardiology, and American Heart Journal. She sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Current Cardiology Reports.
Last Updated: January 26, 2009
