The C-TRACT Trial Steering Committee is comprised of international leaders in DVT and PTS research, education, and clinical practice from a broad range of clinical and non-clinical disciplines:
Suresh Vedantham MD
Principal Investigator
Chair, Steering Committee Chair, Coordinating Center Professor of Radiology & Surgery, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Assistant Dean for Clinical Research Medical Director, Center for Clinical Studies Washington University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO
Clive Kearon MB, MRCPI, FRCP(C), PhD
Principal Investigator, Data Coordinating Center (Prior to June 2020)
Principal Investigator, Data Coordinating Center Ontario Clinical Oncology Group at McMaster University Associate Chair, Operations Enrollment & Quality Committee Professor of Medicine, Juravinski Hospital Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Susan R Kahn MD MSc FRCPC ABIM
Associate Chair, Steering Committee
Chair, Clinical Outcomes Committee Co-Chair, Medical Therapy Committee Member, Operations Enrollment & Quality Committee Professor of Medicine, McGill University Director, McGill Thrombosis Fellowship Director, JGH Centre of Excellence in Thrombosis and Anticoagulation Care Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Montreal, Quebec, Canada
David J Cohen M.D., M.Sc.,
Chair, Health Economic Core—Mid-America Heart Institute (Prior to 2020)
Member, Operations Enrollment & Quality Committee Director, Cardiovascular Research for St. Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute Professor of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City Kansas City, MO
Anthony J. Comerota MD, FACS, FACC
Co-Chair, Venous Ulcer Care Committee
Co-Chair, Venous Ulcer Care Committee Member, Interventions Committee Medical Director, Eastern Region Inova Heart and Vascular Institute Inova Alexandria Hospital Alexandria, VA
Samuel Z. Goldhaber MD
Member, Medical Therapy Committee
Member, Medical Therapy Committee Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Interim Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine Division; Section Head, Vascular Medicine; & Director, Thrombosis Research Group, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, MA
Michael R Jaff DO, FACP, FACC
Collaborator, Vascular Ultrasound Core (VasCore) (Prior to 2020)
Collaborator, Vascular Ultrasound Core (VasCore) (Prior to 2020) Member, Operations Enrollment & Quality Committee Member, Medical Therapy Committee Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School President, Newton-Wellesley Hospital Newton, MA
Jim Julian MMath
Lead Statistician, Data Coordinating Center (Prior to August 2020)
Ontario Clinical Oncology Group at McMaster University Member, Operations Enrollment & Quality Committee Associate Professor, McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Elizabeth A. Magnuson, ScD
Chair, Health Economic Core—Mid-America Heart Institute (As of 2020)
Member, Operations Enrollment & Quality Committee Director, Health Economics and Technology Assessment Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Missouri, Kansas City Kansas City, MO
William A Marston MD
Co-Chair, Venous Ulcer Care Committee
Member, Interventions Committee George Johnson Jr Distinguished Professor and Chief Division of Vascular Surgery University of North Carolina School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC
Sameer Parpia, PhD
Principal Investigator, Data Coordinating Center (Since June 2020)
Ontario Clinical Oncology Group at McMaster University Associate Chair, Operations Enrollment & Quality Committee Associate Professor, Departments of Oncology, and Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University
Mahmood K. Razavi MD, FSIR, FSVM
Co-Chair, Interventions Committee
Medical Director, Comprehensive Aortic Center Director, Dept. of Clinical Trials St. Joseph’s Heart & Vascular Institute Orange, CA
Akhilesh Sista MD FSIR, Chair
Co-Chair, Interventions Committee
Associate Professor of Radiology New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medicine New York, NY
Suman M. Wasan MD, MS, PharmD, FACP, FSVM, RVT
Co-Chair, Medical Therapy Committee
Member, Venous Ulcer Committee Member, Interventions Committee Professor of Medicine Vice-Chair, Clinical Operations, Dept. of Medicine Director, Vascular Medicine, Cardiovascular Section University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Oklahoma City, OK
Ido Weinberg, MD
Member, Steering Committee
Medical Director, Vascular Ultrasound Core Laboratory
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Medical Director, VasCore
Chair, Vascular Medicine Fellowship
Co-Medical Director, Anticoagulation Management Services
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA