Research opportunities for the primary prevention and management of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute workshop report

• Nona Sotoodehnia,
• Andrea Beaton,
• Gene Bukhman,
• Mark E Engel,
• Jeffrey W Cannon,
• Joselyn Rwebembera,
• Asha Bowen,
• Christopher Sabo Yilgwan,
• Mary Masterson,
• Amy Sanyahumbi,
• Kathryn Taubert,
• Fernando P Bruno,
• James B Dale,
• Chris Van Beneden

Affiliations

Nona Sotoodehnia

Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

Andrea Beaton

Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Gene Bukhman

Program in Global NCDs and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Mark E Engel

Department of Medicine, Cape Heart Institute, University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences, Observatory, South Africa

Jeffrey W Cannon

1 Wesfarmers Centre for Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Joselyn Rwebembera

4 Department of Adult Cardiology, Uganda Heart Institute Ltd, Kampala, Uganda

Asha Bowen

2 Infectious Diseases Department, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth, Australia

Christopher Sabo Yilgwan

Departments of Paediatrics, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau, Nigeria

Mary Masterson

National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Amy Sanyahumbi

Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

Kathryn Taubert

American Heart Association International, Basel, Switzerland

Fernando P Bruno

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

James B Dale

Department of Medicine, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Chris Van Beneden

CDC Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia, USA