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