Tertiary prevention and treatment of rheumatic heart disease: a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute working group summary

• Emmy Okello,
• Craig Sable,
• Dominique Vervoort,
• Ganesan Karthikeyan,
• Gene Bukhman,
• Liesl J Zuhlke,
• Jeffrey W Cannon,
• Ana Mocumbi,
• George A Mensah,
• Salome Maswime,
• Makeda Williams,
• Annette Ansong,
• Marcelo Cardarelli,
• Kathleen Fenton,
• Jacques Kpodonu,
• Christopher Sabo Yilgwan,
• Jennifer N Baumgartner,
• Geetha Bansal,
• Madeleine W Cunningham,
• Melissa Green-Parker,
• Mary Masterson,
• B Remenyi

Affiliations

Emmy Okello

15 Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Craig Sable

11 Department of Cardiology, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Dominique Vervoort

Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Ganesan Karthikeyan

CIHR Canada-HOPE scholar

Gene Bukhman

Harvard Medical School, USA

Liesl J Zuhlke

Department of Medicine, Red Cross War Memorial Children`s Hospital, Rondebosch, Western Cape, South Africa

Jeffrey W Cannon

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

Ana Mocumbi

NCDI Poverty Network

George A Mensah

Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Salome Maswime

Global Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Makeda Williams

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

Annette Ansong

8 Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Children`s National Hospital, The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Marcelo Cardarelli

19 Co-Founder, William Novick Cardiac Alliance, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Kathleen Fenton

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

Jacques Kpodonu

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Christopher Sabo Yilgwan

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

Jennifer N Baumgartner

National Institutes of Health Office of Disease Prevention, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Geetha Bansal

Division of International Training and Research, John E Fogarty International Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Madeleine W Cunningham

The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Melissa Green-Parker

National Institutes of Health Office of Disease Prevention, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Mary Masterson

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

B Remenyi

Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory of Australia, Australia