Research Review Committees
Research Review Committees
For more information about the FHS Review Committees please select their headers below.
For information FHS review committee considerations of sponsorship, participant contact and/or requesting biospecimen see: “Submitting a Research Proposal”
Executive Committee (EC)
Chairs
Joanne M. Murabito, MD, ScM, ad interim mPIs and Co-Director, Framingham Heart Study
George O’Connor, MD, ad interim mPIs and Co-Director, Framingham Heart Study
Ravi Shah, MD
Members
Daniel Levy, MD, Director, Framingham Heart Study (NHLBI Intramural)
Matthew G. Nayor, MD, MPH
Nicole L. Spartano, PhD
Vanessa Xanthakis, PhD
Ankur Pandya, PhD
Gary Mitchell, MD
Claudia L. Satizabal, PhD
Vijaya B. Kolachalama, PhD, FAHA
Yuling Hong, MD, PhD (NHLBI PO)
Julie Mikulla, RN, MBA (NHLBI PO)
Mona Puggal, MPH (NHLBI PO)
Contact(s)
Ryan Franklin, EC Administrator (rffrank@bu.edu)
Heather Arruda, Ancillary Study Coordinator (harruda@bu.edu )
Research and Publications Committee (RC)
Chairs
Yorghos Tripodis, PhD
Joanne M. Murabito, MD ScM
Members
Emelia Benjamin, MD, ScM
Chunyu Liu, PhD
George O’Connor, MD
David Felson, MD
Daniel Levy, MD
Contact(s)
Heather Arruda, Ancillary Study Coordinator (harruda@bu.edu)
Biospecimen (DNA & Lab) Committee (BC)
Co-Chairs
Russell V. Luepker, MD, MS
Jeffery O’Connell, PhD
Members
Karen Conneely, PhD
Joel Henderson, MD, PhD
Anthony Killeen, MD, PhD
Christopher Newton-Cheh, MD, MPH
George O’Connor, MD
Russ Tracey, PhD
Ex officio Member
Rose Tavares-Proulx, FHS Laboratory Manager
Contact(s)
Heather Arruda, Ancillary Study Coordinator (harruda@bu.edu)
Laboratory Operations Sub-committee (Non-Review)
Chair
Joel Henderson, MD, PhD
Members
Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM
Martin Larson, SD
Rose Tavares-Proulx, FHS Laboratory Manager
Contact(s)
Heather Arruda, Ancillary Study Coordinator (harruda@bu.edu)
Genetics Steering Committee (FGSC)
Co-Chairs
Andrew D. Johnson, PhD
Nancy Heard-Costa, PhD
Members
Cashell Jacquish, PhD
Honghuang Lin, PhD
Ching-Ti Liu, PhD
Kathy Lunetta, PhD
Chunyu Liu, PhD
Contact(s)
Heather Arruda, Ancillary Study Coordinator (harruda@bu.edu)
Ancillary Proposal Review Committee (APRC)
Co-Chairs
Susan Cheng, MD
Raghava Velagaleti, MD
Members
Deepa M. Gopal, MD
Christine Lary, PhD
Jiantao Ma, PhD, MBBS
Sudha Seshadri, MD
Ashish Verma, MD
Sarah R. Preis, ScD, MPH
Andrew D. Johnson, PhD
Nilüfer Ertekin-Taner, MD, PhD
Yuling Hong, MD, PhD (NHLBI PO)
Mona Puggal, MPH (NHLBI PO)
Contact(s)
Ryan franklin, APRC Administrator (rffrank@bu.edu)
Framingham Advisory Investigators Committee (FAIC)
Chair
Honghuang Lin, PhD
Members
Yuling Hong, MD, PHD (NHLBI PO)
Douglas Kiel, MD, MPH
Leroy Cooper, PhD, MPH
Heather Snyder, PhD
Don Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP
Contact(s)
Ryan Franklin, FAIC Administrator (rffrank@bu.edu)
Observational Studies Monitoring Board (OSMB)
Chair
Russell Luepker, MD
Members
Pamela S. Douglas, MD
Philip Greenland, MD
James Neaton, PhD
Svati Shah, MD
Lewis J. Smith, MD
Jason Umans, MD
Alexander Wilson, PhD
Boston University Medical Campus Institutional Review Board (BMC-BUMC IRB)
Thank you to our former committee members for the time and effort they dedicated to the success of the Framingham Heart Study over many years.
- Paul Sorlie, PhD – Former FHS NHLBI Project Officer and member on several committees
- Brian Kit, MD, MPH – Former FHS NHLBI Project Officer and member on several committees
- Phyliss Sholinsky, MSPH – Former FHS NHLBI Project Officer and member on several committees
- Martin G. Larson, ScD – Former FGSC Chair, EC member
- George Papanicolaou, PhD – Former FHS NHLBI Project Officer and member on several committees
- Andrew D. Johnson, PhD – Former Biospecimen [Lab] Committee member
- Josée Dupuis, PhD – Former FGSC member
- Lorin Bachmann, PhD – Former Biospecimen Committee member
- Molly Bray, PhD – Former Biospecimen Committee member
- L. Adrienne Cupples, PhD – Former Biospecimen Committee member
- Curtis Ellison, MD – Former Research and Publications Committee member
- Greta Lee Splansky, MS – Former EC Administrator, Ex-officio Member on several committee
- Patrice Sutherland – Former Biospecimen Committee member
- Adolfo Correa, MD, PhD – Former EPRC co-chair
- Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD ScM – Former EPRC co-chair
- Wendy S. Post, MD – Former EPRC member
- Susan Cheng, MD – Former FAISC co-chair
- Jane E Freedman, MD – Former FAISC co-chair