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Coordinating Center
The IMMEDIATE Trial Coordinating Center is based at the Center for Cardiovascular Health Services Research (CCHSR) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies ICRHPS) at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Harry Selker, MD, MSPH - Study Chair, Principal Investigator (PI)
  • Joni Beshansky, RN, MPH - Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI), Project Director
  • Patty Sheehan, RN, MPH - Associate Project Director
  • Nira Hadar, MS - Project Manager
  • Sarina George, MBBS - Project Manager
  • Lillian Burdick - Research Coordinator
  • Ellen Vickery – Administrative Assistant / Research Assistant
Data Coordinating Center
The Data Coordinating Center is based at the Tufts Medical Center, in its Biostatistics Research Center.
  • Ralph D’Agostino, PhD - Principal Investigator
  • John Griffith, PhD - Co-Principal Investigator
  • Joseph Massaro, PhD - Harvard Clinical Research Institute (HCRI) Senior Project Director
Left Ventricular Imaging Core Laboratory
The Left Ventricular Imaging Core Laboratory is located at the Tufts Medical Center, in its Division of Cardiology Nuclear Cardiology Center.
  • James Udelson, MD - Principal Investigator
NHLBI
  • Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, MD - Project Officer, Heart Failure & Arrhythmias Branch Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Yves Rosenberg, MD - Deputy Project Officer
Scientific Advisory Board
  • Charles Rackley, MD - Professor of Medicine, Director of the Lipid Disorder Center, Georgetown Medical School, Washington DC
  • Thomas Killip, MD - Professor and CEO, Beth Israel Medical Center, NY
  • Robert Zalenski, MD - Professor of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI
  • Bruce MacLeod, MD - Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mercy Hospital,
    Pittsburgh, PA
  • Costas Lambrew, MD - Professor of Medicine, University of Vermont and Senior Consultant, Division of Cardiology, Maine Medical Center
  • Leonard Cobb, MD - Professor Emeritus, of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle
  • Lionel Opie, MD, Ph.D - Director, Hatter Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences University of Cape Town, South Africa
  • Joanne Ingwall, Ph.D - Department of Cardiovascular Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston

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