Clinical Centres

Leading global institutions within MAC that are actively enrolling patients and contributing to HTAD research. Find participating sites, investigators, and clinical teams.

These centres represent a global network of leading institutions with expertise in genetic aortic conditions, offering specialized care, advanced diagnostics, and opportunities for research participation. Use this list to identify participating sites, principal investigators, and clinical teams involved in MAC, and to better understand where collaborative research and patient enrolment are currently taking place.

Sites currently enrolling patients:

Hospital

PI and Staff

Baylor College of Medicine
  • Scott Lemaire (PI)
  • Irina Volguina
Calgary, Canada
  • Julien Marcadier (PI)
Ghent, Belgium
  • Dr. Julie De Backer (PI)
  • Deborah Wille
  • Laura Muino Mosquera
Great Ormond St. Hospital, UK
  • Elena Cervi (PI)
  • Ella Field
HOAG Memorial Hospital
  • Anthony Caffarelli (PI)
  • Chelsey Weatherill
  • Rachel Collier
  • Rita Weiss (PI)
  • Megan Kaplan
Calgary, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Spain
  • Gisela Teixedo Tura (PI)
  • Anna Sabate-Rotes
Innova
  • Christopher P. Jordan (PI)
  • Christine Tawfik
  • Rebeca Miller
  • Jason Goldberg
  • Akos Berthold
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
  • Mark Lindsay (PI)
Sydney, Australia
  • Dr. Richmond Jeremy (PI)
Texas Children’s Hospital
  • Dr. Shaine Morris (PI)
  • Taylor Beecroft
  • Nadia Espahbodi
  • Yu Cai
Toronto, Canada
  • Maral Ouzounian (PI)
  • Tanzia Alam Amy
University of Kentucky
  • Mary Sheppard (PI)
University of Michigan
  • Marion Hofmann (PI)
  • Lauren Humphrey-Stark
University of Nebraska
  • Dr. Angela Yetman (PI)
  • Ayisha Bashir
  • Kelly Erickson
University of Texas Health Science Center
  • Dianna Milewicz (PI)
  • Ernesto Calderon Martinez
  • Alana Cecchi
Washington University in St. Louis
  • Alan Braverman (PI)
  • Leslie Boyer
  • Michelle Lim
  • Andrew Koefoed
Sutter Health - Sacramento, California 
  • Matthew Solomon