Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is responsible for the overall governance of the organization including the formulation of a long-range strategic plan. It also has the final authority regarding the operations of the IAHF, consistent with the Bylaws. Specifically, it has responsibility for the control and management of the affairs, funds, and property of the IAHF, including but not limited to, approval of the budget and other fiscal matters, approval of strategic and operational policies, oversight of risk management, delegation of the implementation of operational policy and employment to the Executive Director and annual evaluation of the Executive Director. The Board will also review Bylaws and make recommendations for discussion and approval by the General Assembly. To fulfill its responsibilities, the Board may create and dissolve committees of the Board and other more informal working groups as it deems necessary. The members of the Board shall serve without compensation.

Craig Beam, CRE – President
Innovation Institute – President Petra-ICS
United States

Deborah Chen, SRN MPH – Immediate Past President
The Heart Foundation of Jamaica
Executive Director
Jamaica

Marielba Cordido – Secretary
Fundación Venezolana del Corazón
Venezuela

Lesley James, PhD – Member at Large
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Director, Health Policy & Systems, Ontario
Canada

Daniel Piskorz, MD – Vice President / President Elect
Sanatorio Británico
Argentina

Lawrence B. Sadwin – Treasurer
Former Chair, American Heart Association
Former Chair, Bradley Children’s Hospital Foundation
United States

Nathan D. Wong, PhD, MPH, FACC, FAHA – Member at Large
Heart Disease Prevention Program, Division of Cardiology
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
United States

Karen Sealey, MD, MPH – Member at Large
Global Health, Strategic Planning and Organizational Development
Director, Healthy Caribbean Coalition
Chair, Trinidad and Tobago NCD Alliance
Trinidad & Tobago

STAFF

Eugenia Ramos, PhD – Executive Director
Uruguay

Ignacio Drake – Project Manager
Argentina

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Javier Valenzuela, BSc – Chief Operating Officer
United States

Communications Team

Piera Deambrosi – Corporate Communications and Public Relations Analyst
Uruguay

Karol Madriz Morales MSc
Nutritionist
Nutrition and Food: Promotion of Health and
Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention
Costa Rica

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Rosina Bonomi, BSc – IAHF E-newsletter Coordinator
Uruguay

Karen Suarez, BSc – Communications Assistant
Canada

Volunteers

Cristina Salazar – Finance and Wire Transfer Processing
United States

IAHF Scientific Committee

Nathan D. Wong, PhD, MPH, FACC, FAHA
Chair
Heart Disease Prevention Program, Division of Cardiology
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
United States

Daniel Piskorz, MD
Sanatorio Británico
Argentina

Ivan Mendoza, MD MSc MS
Cardiologist
Venezuelan Society of Cardiology
Chief Professor Tropical Cardiology
Central University of Venezuela
Venezuela

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Raul D. Santos, MD, MSC, PhD
Director
InCor Lipid Clinic
University of Sao Paulo
Brazil

Álvaro Avezum, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC
Director of the Research Division
Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology
International Research Fellow at Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University
Brazil

Karina Gonzalez Carta, MD, MS, CRCP, FACC, FSIAC, FSSC
Cardiologist
Governor ACC Venezuela Chapter
Somos Latinos MERG, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine
Venezuela

IAHF Advisory Council

Alejandro Ramos Carbajales, M.Sc.
Economist
Tobacco Taxes and Illicit Trade
Uruguay

Jaime Miranda, MD, MSc, PhD, FFPH
Head of School of Public Health
University of Sidney
Previous Director (CRONICAS), Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH)
Peru