Member Institutions

CaNVAS Leadership

  • Chair: Denise Adams, MD
  • Co-Chair: Michael Jeng, MD
  • Treasurer: Eric Sandler, MD
  • Secretary: Ionela Iacobas, MD

Participating Institutions

Arkansas Children’s, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Little Rock, AR)

  • PI: Shelley Crary, MD

Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA)

  • PI: Whitney Eng, MD 

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine (Atlanta, GA)

  • PI: Michael Briones, DO

Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine (Denver, CO)

  • PI: Taizo Nakano, MD 

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)

  • PI: Leo Mascarenhas, MD, MS

Children’s Hospital of Orange County, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine (Orange, CA)

  • PI: Geetha Puthenveetil, MD

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

  • PI: Denise Adams, MD

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (Pittsburgh, PA)

  • PI: Meghan McCormick, MD

Children's Hospital, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, TN)

  • Debra Friedman, MD

Children’s Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, WI)

  • PI: Richard Tower, MD, MS 

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center (Cincinnati, OH)

  • PI: Adrienne Hammill, MD, PhD

Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Columbia University (New York, NY)

  • PI: Margaret Lee, MD

Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University (Grand Rapids, MI)

  • PI: Kristy Pilbeam, DO

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, Stanford University School of Medicine (Palo Alto, CA)

  • PI: Michael Jeng, MD 

Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Ohio State University College of Medicine (Columbus, OH)

  • Bhuvana Setty, MD

Nemours Children’s Health System, Wolfson Children’s Hospital (Jacksonville, FL)

  • PI: Eric Sandler, MD 

New York University, Langone Health (New York, NY)

  • PI: Francine Blei, MD

Oregon Health, Science University (Portland, OR)

  • PI: Melinda Wu, MD, MCR 

Riley Children’s Hospital, Indiana University Health (Indianapolis, IN)

  • Rachael Schulte, MD, MS

St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)

  • PI: Bryan Sisk, MD

Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, TX)

  • PI: Ionela Iacobas, MD 

University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)

  • PI: Julie Blatt, MD

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