Spring/Summer 2006
Volume 8 • Number 1
President’s
Message
by Leo Cole,
CHF President
MacKinzie Kline, National Spokesperson
I
have volunteered for CHF for nine years because I get
more out of my involvement than I could ever give.
I am pleased to say that most of the current Board
members have been involved for many years as well. The
Board is also pleased to welcome our new members, Martha
Hauber and Tom McKeough. Both Martha and Tom attended
“Hearts at Play,” our Family Benefit at the Museum of Science
and Industry this past February and knew they wanted to do
more. With a few other members pending, the Board will be
infused with fresh energy and creativity to go with experience as we move forward through 2006 and beyond. We
are heading into some very important organizational growth
initiatives with the planning and execution of an extensive
marketing plan and the creation of a local board in Northern Illinois as well as increasing the depth and exposure of
the National Board. I am confident working with the board
and with Bill Foley, executive director, and his staff, Jenny
Kuzma and Kasey Dunn, that we will be successful in these
endeavors. CHF has funded nearly $1 million in congenital
heart defects research in the last three years and I would like
to see us double or even triple that figure over the next three
years. There are many great young investigators out there
with very relevant research projects to fund and CHF is still
the only organization strictly funding this important research.
If you’d like to volunteer your personal strengths to CHF or
any organization that selflessly benefits a greater good, just
do it. The reward is worth it!
Save the Date
P
lease join us at the activities below and
for more information please visit our web
site at www.childrensheartfoundation.org.
May 12, 2006
Mac Kline Celebrity Golf Classic Encinitas
Ranch Golf Course, Encinitas, California
June 26, 2006
Third Annual New Jersey Golf Outing at Mountain Ridge Country Club, West Caldwell, NJ.
July 15, 2006
Third Annual LionHeart at Laurelhurst in Portland, Ore. Please visit http://www.chforegon.
org for more information.
August 12, 2006
Saving tiny Hearts Society’s First Fundraising
Gala at The Union League Club, Chicago.
Please visit www.savingtinyhearts.org for more
information.
August 26, 2006
Casino Night at the Westin Innisbrook in Palm
Harbor, Fla. Please visit http://www.chfflorida.
org for more information.
September 18, 2006
Seventh Annual Chicago Golf Outing presented
by The Porsche Exchange at Conway Farms Golf
Club, Lake Forest, Ill.
Inside
October 7, 2006
PULSE at Starver Locomotive in Portland, Ore.
Please visit http://www.chforegon.org for more
information.
Heartfelt Thanks............................................................2
Susannah’s Story...........................................................3
The Medical Advisory Board Update............................4
Chapter Updates................................................. 6 and 7
November 10, 2006
Third Annual Forever in our Hearts Gala in loving memory of Isabel Rose Agne at Abbington
Banquets, Glen Ellyn, Ill..
“Matters of the Heart” • Spring/Summer 2006
Page Letter from the
Executive Director
T
he lives of children born with congenital heart
defects and their families are dramatically different
than children born decades ago. The reason for the
dramatic change is simple: RESEARCH. In the past decade
alone, death rates for congenital heart defects have declined
by 30 percent because of advances made in surgical techniques, genetic testing, device creation and improvement.
When The Children’s Heart Foundation was founded in 1996,
there were no organizations established that strictly funded
research. Ten years later, The Children’s Heart Foundation
remains the only organization that strictly funds research
to advance the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of congenital heart defects. To date, we have funded 24 research
projects totaling more than $1.9 million because of the
generosity of our donors and volunteers.
As Executive Director of The Children’s Heart Foundation, it
is my privilege to lead the organization onto its next phase
of growth — growth in fund raising and awareness through
the establishment of a growing network of CHF chapters
throughout the United States as well as creating opportunities for corporate partnerships. The creation of corporate
partnerships will provide CHF with a multi-year commitment
of revenue which will enable us to fund critical life-saving
research.
Awareness of The Children’s Heart Foundation continues to
grow because of the generosity of The Medtronic Foundation
and its ongoing funding of our parent resource book, “It’s My
Heart.” For the last three years, The Medtronic Foundation
has provided more than $170,000 to print, warehouse and
distribute “It’s My Heart” to families, support groups and the
medical community.
The recent success in fund raising has enabled The Children’s
Heart Foundation to fund unprecedented amounts of research on an annual basis. In the past two years alone, we
have funded almost $750,000 in research with the goal of
funding an additional $500,000 in research in 2006. We
are extremely grateful for the generosity of our donors and
volunteers and with your help we will continue to make
great strides in the funding of congenital heart defect research.
“It is my privilege to lead
the organization onto its
next phase of growth.”
Page Heartfelt Thanks
W
e are so thankful for the help and generosity from the
following people. We couldn’t have done everything
we have without you!
2006 Hearts at Play Co-chairs, Erin Smith and Megan Van
Pelt ♥ Thank you both so much for all of your help on every
last detail! Our auction baskets were so pretty!
2006 Hearts at Play Sponsors ♥ Caribou Coffee, Chipotle,
Me & Ro, Philosophy, Rainforest Café, Simply Canvas and the
grandparents of a child with a heart defect! We are so thankful
to you for helping us make Hearts at Play a fabulous event!
2006 Hearts at Play Volunteers ♥ Our volunteers helped with
everything from putting gift bags together, registration and
night-of set-up at the Museum! We couldn’t have done it without you. We look forward to working with you next year.
Nancy McCarthy and McCarthy Communication ♥ Nancy
and her team of designers donated all of the Hearts at Play
graphics. McCarthy Communication was fabulous to work
with. Thanks, ladies! For more information, please visit www.
thinkmccarthy.com.
Adam Fried and Simply Canvas ♥ Adam and his company,
Simply Canvas, generously donated the Heart Kid canvases
for Hearts at Play — which were a huge hit at Hearts at Play.
Adam, thank you for your beautiful art work and your last
minute help with our event! For more information, please
visit www.simplycanvas.com.
Jennifer Nilson, Wild Zipper T-shirt Quilts ♥ Jennifer kindly
donated her services for our CHD quilt. It is absolutely beautiful!
For more information, please visit www.wildzipper.com.
Cindy Luetje ♥ Cindy embroidered every square that was
included in our CHD quilt in record time. Thanks, Cindy!
Todd Morgan ♥ Todd is always willing to lend the CHF office
a hand when we need it. Thanks, Todd!
Steven Omori ♥ Steve is our new volunteer accountant from
PBG Financial Services. He donates 20 hours a month to
CHF. Thanks, Steve!
Mac Kline ♥ Mac, thank you so much for your tireless efforts
to raise $1 million for CHF!
Deerfield High School Community Chest ♥ A special thanks
to Adam Heffez and Lauren Pais and the DHS Community
Chest volunteers who raised $118,000 for CHF! We are so
thankful for all of your hard work and for your volunteer hours
at Hearts at Play! Thank you!
Spring/Summer 2006 • “Matters of the Heart”
Susannah’s Story
M
y husband and I were very excited when I went
for my first ultrasound as we have two boys and
hoped for a girl. I knew something was wrong
when she kept looking at the baby’s heart. She told me
it was a girl, looked at the heart again and left the room.
She came back with a doctor who said it looked like my
baby had Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and wanted
me to come back to see a pediatric cardiologist. He
confirmed what was suspected and recommended we
follow up at MUSC to make sure. So, we traveled 200
miles away for a second opinion. The doctor there said
the same thing and we decided to deliver her at MUSC. I
was so sad, especially because I had just lost my mom to
a cancerous brain tumor three months before I found out
I was pregnant. It seemed like everything was all going
so wrong. I was just numb and didn’t know how to feel
one moment to the next.
special formula because of the leak, it didn’t taste good),
and a G-tube she got to come home at the end of April.
Although she has a leaky valve she is doing so well. She
still has the G-tube but hardly needs it. She recently had
a heart cath and had a large collateral vein coiled off. I
am so amazed at all she has been through yet still smiles
so bright. I named her after my Mom, who was my hero,
and my daughter is a strong little person just like her. I
believe she has a great purpose in life to have endured
all she has. We just take it one day at a time — that’s
all you can do. I still cry thinking of the future and what
might happen. But, to make it through you can’t think
about what could happen. We just take it moment by
moment.
Written by Brooke, mother of Susannah, in South Carolina
Susannah was born November 22, 2004, at MUSC. She
was two days old when she had the Norwood. She made
it through with flying colors. The only problem she had
was fluid around her heart and she had to get a drainage
tube placed for about three days. She amazed everyone
with how well she did. I had to spend four weeks away
from home, my husband and my two boys. Thank God for
the Ronald McDonald House! It really affected all of us.
Susannah got to come home right before Christmas.
Susannah did very well until the end of January 2005.
Her color wasn’t quite right and her cardiologist said to
bring her to the hospital. Her oxygen sats were in the 50’s
and they couldn’t figure out what was wrong, so it was
back to MUSC again.
There she got a heart catheter and they found a blockage. Her oxygen saturation dropped into
the 30’s and the doctors had to rush her
to surgery. They decided to go ahead
and do the Glenn procedure — she
was only two months old.
Susannah did very well. About a
week later she developed a fever. She
had gotten an infection in her blood and
was given one antibiotic after another.
Then she started having a leakage of fluid
around her lungs called chyle. She had to
get another surgery to tie off the duct that was
leaking the fluid. It worked and she fought off
the infection. Finally after three months in the
hospital, feeding problems (she had to be on
“Matters of the Heart” • Spring/Summer 2006
Page The Medical Advisory Board Update
T
he Medical Advisory Board is a group of 30 physicians and scientists. Most are pediatric cardiologists
and pediatric cardiac surgeons, but there are also
several basic scientists. All have a major interest in children
with congenital heart disease. The main function of the Medical Advisory Board is to review and score grants each year.
The Medical Advisory Board then makes recommendations
to the Children’s Heart Foundation Board as to which grants
should be funded. The Medical Advisory Board members
volunteer their time and review between 20 and 30 grants per
year. Each member of the Medical Advisory Board acts as the
primary reviewer on one grant and the secondary reviewer on
two grants. The primary reviewer does an in-depth analysis
of the grant and writes a brief synopsis and critique for the
other Board members to review. The secondary reviewers
are expected to provide a detailed score sheet and by having
three main reviewers for each grant there is a “tie-breaker”
vote should this be necessary.
The Medical Advisory Board met on October 15, 2005, and
reviewed 24 new grant proposals and the progress reports of
the four grants which were initially funded in 2004. The grant
proposals are scored both for relevancy to the Children’s
Heart Foundation mission and on the scientific merit of the
research plan. All four grants initially funded in 2004 had
satisfactory progress reports and were recommended for a
second year of funding. These four grants were from
Funding Renewed
Dr. Aarti Bhat of Oregon Health & Science University. Dr.
Bhat is working on 3- and 4-dimensional fetal ultrasound
imaging ($60,000).
Dr. Emmanuèle Délot of the University of California at Los
Angeles is working on a basic science project evaluating cell
signaling in a DiGeorge syndrome model ($70,000).
Dr. Marshall Jacobs represents the Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society and is overseeing a multi-institutional study
evaluating the optimal pulmonary ventricle-to-pulmonary
artery conduit for infants and young children ($50,000). This
project has already generated an abstract that will be presented to the prestigious American Association for Thoracic
Surgery meeting in Philadelphia in May of this year.
Dr. Tajinder P. Singh has moved from Wayne State University
in Detroit to Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts. His
project involves studying the coronary blood flow pattern in
patients who have had the arterial switch operation using a
noninvasive nuclear medicine technique ($37,000).
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Dr. Pirooz Eghtesady at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital is
evaluating the role of nitric oxide therapy in a sheep model
of fetal cardiopulmonary bypass ($36,500).
Dr. Lisa Bergersen from Children’s Hospital Boston is evaluating a method for evaluating and improving outcomes in
pediatric cardiac catheterization ($56,000).
Dr. Nancy Ghanayem at the Medical College of Wisconsin
is studying the neurodevelopmental outcomes in postoperative hemodynamics in children with hypoplastic left heart
syndrome ($60,000).
Finally, Dr. Kenneth O. Schowengerdt who was at the
University of Florida, Gainesville is moving to Cardinal
Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. He will
be investigating the role of neutrophil-derived factors in the
pathogenesis of cardiac allograft vasculopathy after heart
transplantation ($70,000).
New Members
I would like to welcome to the Medical Advisory Board:
Jeffrey P. Jacobs, M.D.
Dr. Jacobs is an associate professor of surgery at the
University of South Florida. Dr. Jacobs operates at All
Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida and is associated with the Congenital Heart Institute of Florida.
Dr. Jacobs is internationally recognized for his efforts in
accomplishing a unified nomenclature and database system for congenital heart surgeons throughout the world.
John Costello, M.D.
Dr. Costellow is from Boston Children’s Hospital. John
is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical
School and is board certified both in pediatric cardiology and pediatric critical care. John is an active clinical
investigator and his expertise both in critical care and
pediatric cardiology is a welcome addition to the Medical
Advisory Board.
In summary, the Medical Advisory Board is a highly specialized, highly motivated, and dynamic group to which
the Children’s Heart Foundation owes a great debt. Their
dedication to grant review and scientific advances in the
field of congenital heart disease is enormous. I personally
would like to thank the members of the Medical Advisory
Board for their outstandind efforts.
Spring/Summer 2006 • “Matters of the Heart”
Alpine Children’s
Charity Update
Hearts at Play
Family Benefit
H
earts at Play — Our 10th Anniversary Family Benefit
and Celebration
The Children’s Heart Foundation celebrated our Tenth Anniversary on Saturday, February 11th, 2006 with a family benefit fund
raiser at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry.
More than 400 adults and children were treated to an
evening of music, live entertainment, food and full access
to more than 30 museum exhibits, including an Omnimax
presentation of the Tom Hanks narrated movie, “Magnificent Desolation, Walking on the Moon.” In addition to the
museum exhibits, Justin Roberts, a local Chicago children’s
musician, performed some of his most well known songs for
the children and a face painter entertained everyone with her
whimsical face art. Attendees were able to tour the Museum’s
newly renovated U505 exhibit as well as some of the old
favorites like the Coal Mine, Yesterday’s Main Street and The
Great Train Story. Game On- 2.0 A History of Video Games,
The Living Heart and Robots Like Us exhibits were just a few
of the newer exhibits made available to CHF’s guests as well.
More than 150 silent auction items that included jewelry,
sculptures, artwork, sports memorabilia, fashion trends as
well as plenty of Chicago-area restaurant and service gift
certificates were also a big hit with the crowd.
We were pleased that more than half of those in attendance
were new to the CHF cause and were attending the Family
Benefit for the first time because we have not held an event
of this size since 2001. Because of this event, several people
have come forward as potential board members and will be
welcomed at both the March and May 2006 Illinois board meetings to be held at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
In addition to the event’s attendees, more than 40 Deerfield
(Illinois) High School student council volunteers and DHS
staff were on hand to help CHF during the evening’s events.
We thank these folks immensely for their unending enthusiasm and generosity with their time that undoubtedly helped
to make the evening enjoyable for all who were there.
A big thanks to Bill Foley, Kasey Dunn and Jenny Kuzma for
all the work and effort that they put into Hearts at Play — they
were instrumental in making the evening a success. We also
extend a thank you to the event committee and all who
continue to support CHF in their mission to fund research
that will one day, we are certain, lead to the elimination of
congenital heart defects.
Erin Smith & Megan Van Pelt, 2006 Hearts at Play Event Co-Chairs
“Matters of the Heart” • Spring/Summer 2006
H
i everyone! We are Team Rushmore—Michael(15)
and Caroline(13). We started Alpine Children’s Charity two years ago with the help of our cousins, to
raise money for research and to support several childhood
diseases and to get kids involved in helping other kids. We
thought a ski-a-thon would be a great way to raise money.
We’ve had a great experience getting Alpine Children’s Charity off of the ground and watching it grow. Last year was our
first event and we raised $120,000—not bad for a bunch of
kids! Alpine Children’s Charity hosted the Second Annual
Cruisin’ for Kids ski-a-thon on March 30, 2006, and to date
almost $150,000 has been raised, and the checks are still
coming in. The money raised this year will go to juvenile
diabetes, congenital heart defects, HIV/AIDS, and pediatric
cancer. Since we started, our Junior Board has more than
doubled in size and we’ve raised a lot of money for the
charities we support, so both our goals are being met—to
raise money for research for childhood diseases and to get
kids involved in helping other kids. For more information,
please contact www.alpinechildrenscharity.org or www.
childrensheartfoundation.org.
Mac Kline Update
T
he “Mac Kline Celebrity Golf Classic” presented by
AME Financial will take place on May 12, 2006,
at Encinitas Ranch, Calif. All proceeds will go to
The Children’s Heart Foundation. She has turned into a
champion golfer who carries a 1.2 handicap and has won
numerous junior tournaments on a statewide and national
level. Individual entry fee into the tournament is $250.00
a player. There will be 30 groups and each foursome will
have a celebrity added to it. Entry fee includes green fees,
cart, range, lunch and awards dinner. There will be contests
on all par three holes, long drive holes and straightest drive
holes. There will be more than $10,000 in auction and raffle
prizes given out at the dinner. Tee signs on the course are
available for purchase as well as have your own company
hole. For information on any aspect of the tournament please
call tournament director David Mirisch at (760) 632-7770
or e-mail him at [email protected]. For information on
MacKinzie Kline go to www.mackline.com or on CHF go
to www.childrensheartfoundation.org.
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Oregon Chapter
Update
Chicago Golf Outing
I
am excited to announce that The Children’s Heart
Foundation’s Seventh Annual Golf Outing returns
to Conway Farms Golf Club on Monday, September
18, 2006. Conway Farms Golf Club is a Tom Fazio designed
golf course located in Lake Forest, Ill. The par 72 Scottish
links course played host to the 1997 NCAA Men’s Championship, the 1998 USGA Boys Junior Amateur and the 2002
prestigious Cannon Cup. The Cannon Cup is also returning
in 2006. Additionally, Conway Farms Golf Club has been
voted among America’s 100 best modern courses.
This is a great event at a great venue. You will be receiving your Save the Date notice and invitation shortly. I look
forward to seeing you at Conway Farms Golf Club on September 18, 2006. For more information, please visit www.
childrensheartfoundation.org.
Dan Keenan, 2007 Golf Outing Chairperson
New Jersey Golf Outing
T
he third annual New Jersey Golf Outing for The
Children’s Heart Foundation is Monday, June 26,
2006, at the Mountain Ridge Country Club in West
Caldwell, NJ. Tony Bernheim, Joe Bier, Rob Cowen, Dan
Napoli and Gary Kramer are organizing this event again for
us. Enjoy a brunch before the shotgun start. There will also
be an on-course lunch and buffet dinner for golfers. The Golf
Outing will feature and live and silent auction as well as a
50/50 cash raffle. Mac will be there to challenge golfers in
a closest to the pin contest! Fore more information, please
visit www.childrensheartfoundation.org.
O
n Saturday, Oct. 7, 2006, at 3 p.m., there will be an
energy revving and a beat pulsing throughout the
city of Portland. Forty artists on the verge will come
together side by side in a communal space for eight hours
to create their own magnum opus — vital to the hearts of
children. As the beat picks up at 6 p.m., you and every art
enthusiast are invited to witness the artists in process for three
hours as their work of art develops. At 9 p.m., the artists will
sit back and have a drink, nosh, enjoy the live local music
and now it’s your chance to bid on these fresh new pieces
of work. Throughout the evening, hors d’ oeuvres, wine and
beer will be served from some of Portland’s best chefs, wine
makers and brewers. Pulse, the don’t miss event of the year
is essential to many, many young hearts and to Portland, a
city that loves to give and is bursting at the seams to let the
art world know… we are here!
Last year more than 350 of Portland’s finest turned out to
support The Children’s Heart Foundation and wound up
finding an event they couldn’t stop talking about. This year,
be the one-touting Portland’s premiere art event.
Pulse, an annual fund raiser, dedicated to funding the most
promising clinical research that supports the lives of children
with congenital heart defects — proceeds go to support The
Children’s Heart Foundation-Oregon Chapter.
CHF is looking
for a few
good interns…
Arizona Golf Outing
T
he second annual Swing for their Hearts Golf Outing
for The Children’s Heart Foundation was Saturday,
Feb. 25, 2006, at the Randolph North Golf Course
in Tucson, Ariz. Trev Anderson and Todd Camenisch were
the co-chairs. This event raised $5,000 to support our mission. Mac attended and played one of the finest municipal
courses in Arizona!
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re you looking for a semester or a summer internship
to fulfill university requirements? We would love to
work with you! CHF is looking for two interns to assist
the staff with event coordinating, volunteer recruitment, auction item acquisitions as well as administrative assistance. For
more information, please contact Jenny Kuzma at jkuzma@
childrensheartfoundation.org or at 847.634.6474.
Spring/Summer 2006 • “Matters of the Heart”
Indiana Chapter
Events
Awareness Day
I
n conjunction with Congenital Heart Defect
Awareness Day on February 14, 2006, the Indiana
Chapter distributed goodie bags to patients who
attended the Valentine’s Day party hosted by the Child
Life Department at Riley Hospital for Children and to the
patients at the Children’s Heart Center at St. Vincent in
Indianapolis. Members were also given the courtesy of
sharing CHF material at the hospitals.
2006 Kids at Heart Benefit
T
he Indiana Chapter hosted its third annual fund
raising event, “Kids at Heart,” on February 23 in
Crown Point, Indiana, which was a success! The
event was attended by more than 200 people and raised
more than $5,000.
Attendees were treated to pizza, beverages, desserts, face
painting, balloon creations, music, arts and crafts, challenges
and goodie bags. More than 100 silent auction items were
presented. Some of the silent auction items included American Girl items, Longaberger, scrapbooking, bikes, gardening,
Crayola products, electronics, sports, decorating, family fun
outings, gift certificates to various stores and restaurants,
Disney items, beach items and spa and beauty products.
Florida Chapter
Update
T
he Florida Chapter is in the midst of its annual Change
a Heart campaign. The Change a Heart campaign is
our way to increase awareness of congenital heart
defects, particularly among parents of school-aged children.
We handed out newsletters and ran fund raisers at schools
in several Florida counties. Students who donated received
red Change a Heart wristbands — still a popular giveaway.
CHF volunteers also gathered at two different Wal-Marts to
reach the general public and collect more money. It was very
successful, with many shoppers stopping to find out more
about our group and to share their own stories about connections to people born with heart defects. A reporter from
The Tampa Tribune met us at the Wal-Mart and ran a story
in the Sunday paper. Little by little, we feel like more people
are starting to know who the Children’s Heart Foundation is
— and with the exposure, we’re attracting new volunteers,
as well. Exact numbers aren’t in yet, but it looks like Change
a Heart has brought in more than $12,000. We still have
more Change a Heart events, including a swim-a-thon in
July on the horizon.
We’re also hard at work on our annual fund raising gala,
which will take place August 26, 2006. We’ll be hosting a
Casino Night at the Winstin Innisbrook in Palm Harbor, Fla.,
and we’ve invited some special surprise guests. You’ll have
to wait until the next newsletter to find out about that!
The Indiana Chapter would like to thank its sponsors and
benefit patrons for their generous contributions. A special
“thank you” to the fund raising committee, volunteers and
supporters for their hard work and dedication. We truly
appreciate all those who gave so much of their time and
talents.
“We truly appreciate all
those who gave so much
of their time and talents.”
Change-a-Heart Florida
“Matters of the Heart” • Spring/Summer 2006
Page 2006 Board of Directors
President – Leo Cole
Past President – Sue Rushmore
Secretary – Sue Donnellan
Founder – Betsy Peterson
Medical Advisory Liaison –
Dr. Tom Weigel
Executive Director – Bill Foley
President’s Council
Louis Dejesus
Chris Griesmeyer
Jaymi Griesmeyer
Martha Hauber
Keith Hunt
Dan Keenan
Tom McKeough
Aimee Mooney
Janet Niepokoj
Brian Smith
Erin Smith
Megan Van Pelt
Ryan Van Pelt
Ellen Weiss
About CHF
The Children’s Heart Foundation was established in 1996 by Betsy and Steve Peterson
to honor the memory of their son, Sam, who died from congenital heart disease at age
eight. Today, the Foundation is a national organization with local chapters and a network
of volunteers working to eradicate congenital heart disease as America’s number one
birth defect. To date, CHF has distributed $1.9 million through 24 research grants.
Our Mission
The Children’s Heart Foundation funds the most promising research to advance the
diagnosis, treatment and prevention of congenital heart defects
The Children’s Heart Foundation would like to welcome three new Board Members
♥ Chris Griesmeyer, ♥ Jaymi Griesmeyer ♥ Martha Hauber, and
♥ Tom McKeough.
Medical Advisory Board
Dr. Joseph Amato
Dr. Emile Bacha
Dr. Carl Backer – Chairperson
Dr. D. Woodrow Benson
Dr. Scott M. Bradley
Dr. Frank Cetta
Dr. Roger Cole
Dr. Timothy Cordes
Dr. John Costello
Dr. Susan Crawford
Dr. Andrew Griffin
Dr. Madhu Gupta
Dr. Richard Hopkins
Dr. Jim Huhta
Dr. Jeffrey Jacobs
Dr. Thomas S. Klitzner
Dr. John Lamberti
Dr. Constantine Mavroudis
Dr. Marla Mendelson
Dr. Jane Wimpfheimer Newburger
Dr. David Overman
Dr. David Roberson
Dr. David Sahn
Dr. Alan Saroff
Dr. Norman Talner
Dr. Kent Thornburg
Dr. Jeffrey A. Towbin
Dr. Martin Tristani - Firouzi
Dr. Catherine L. Webb
Dr. Thomas Weigel
Dr. Vincent Zales
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Spring/Summer 2006 • “Matters of the Heart”