President
Richard K. Spence, MD
Vice President/President Elect
Aryeh Shander, MD, FCCM, FCCP
Immediate Past President
Lodovico Balducci, MD
Secretary/Treasurer
Andrew Artz, MD, MS
At-Large Members
William B. Ershler, MD
Allen R. Nissenson, MD, FACP
Members
Inder Anand, MD, FRCP, DPHIL
Jeffrey S. Berns, MD
Richard D. Brasington, Jr., MD
Paul W. Crawford, MD
Arnold J. Friedman, MD
Daniel E. Furst, MD
Janet B. McGill, MD
Sherri Ozawa, RN
Ileana Piña, MD
Jerry L. Spivak, MD
Lloyd P. Van Winkle, MD
Bradley A. Warady, MD
Roslyn Yomtovian, MD
Ileana Piņa, MD
NAAC At-Large Member
Professor of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University
Quality Scholar, Department of Veteran's Affairs
Specialty: Cardiology
Ileana L. Piņa, 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. Piņa 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. Piņa is also a device consultant for the FDA.
She is Co-Director of the N-HeFT Program, sponsored by Case Western Reserve University, consisting of 34 national sites that train cardiologists and primary care physicians and their medical teams to improve care for heart failure patients. Dr. Piņa 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. Piņa 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
