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

Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

Andrea Beaton

Cincinnati Children`s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Gene Bukhman

Program in Global Noncommunicable Diseases and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Mark E Engel

AFROStrep Research Initiative, Cape Heart Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

Jeffrey W Cannon

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

Joselyn Rwebembera

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

Asha Bowen

Department of Infectious Diseases, Perth Children`s Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

Christopher Sabo Yilgwan

Departments of Paediatrics and West African Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Jos/Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria

Mary Masterson

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, 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