Goals of Committee:
- Preserve innovation in the field as well as rejuvenating interest, enthusiasm and the participation of more centers in research endeavors
- Determine suitability of project proposals, provide advice and guidance to the Principle Investigator as well as oversight regarding data analysis and presentation
Roles of Committee:
- Serve in more comprehensive mentorship roles
- Help set research priorities within a given content area (i.e. determine what research questions remain unanswered using PHTS data related to rejection, PTLD, CAV, risk modeling, AMR (as subcategory under rejection), MCS, etc. using previous publications as a reference and the historical wisdom of the more senior members
- Review preliminary project ideas or more fully developed proposals within a given content area work with individual investigators to refine hypotheses and/or methodologies so a more polished proposal could ultimately be reviewed and approved for analysis
- A senior member from this committee would then assume more primary responsibility for mentoring the study investigator through the stages of analysis, analytic data review, secondary analyses, abstract preparation/presentation and manuscript submission. That individual would then be the senior author for that paper.
Committee Meetings:
- Meets quarterly to conceive and prioritize potential project ideas guided by their knowledge of previous PHTS publications and an appreciation for the remaining questions the PHTS dataset could answer
2026 Scientific Committee Members
*Committee member terms are January through December of their specified year
Chair
Irene Lytrivi, MD
Columbia University – Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York Presbyterian (CPM)
Vice Chair/ Steering-Scientific Liaison
TBD
Past Chair
Carol Wittlieb-Weber
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CPH)
DCC Representatives
James Kirklin, MD
Kirklin, Solutions
Members-at-Large
Michael Kuhn, MD
Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital (LLU)
Sairah Khan, MD
Children’s National (CNM)
Caitlin Milligan, MD
Primary Children’s Hospital (PMC)
Kriti Puri, MD
Texas Children’s Hospital (TCB)
Joey Spinner, MD
Texas Children’s Hospital (TCB)
Chesney Castleberry, MD
Dell Children’s Medical Center (University of Texas at Austin) (TXD)
Heather Henderson, MD
Medical University of South Carolina (MSC)
Nikki Singh, MD
Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin (CHW)
Shahn Amdani, MD
Cleveland Clinic Children’s (CCF)
Allied Health and Nursing Representative
Katherine Robinson, RN, CCTC
Levine Children’s Hospital- Atrium Health (LCH)
Kimberly Beddows, RN, MSN, CPNP
Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (MMC)
Parent Representative
Jennifer Ionno