Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Research and Advocacy Center
Meet the Team

Meet the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Research and Advocacy Center Team

Our center brings together a diverse group of experts from around the world, including cardiologists, infectious disease physicians, dedicated nurses, skilled lab scientists, experts in bioinformatics, experienced project managers, policy specialists, statisticians, community health workers, and passionate community members.

Within Cincinnati Children’s, we collaborate with the Division of Nursing, the Biomedical Informatics Research Team, the Heart and Mind Wellbeing Center, and the Qualitative Methods and Analysis Center.

Our external partners include The RHD Research Collaborative in Uganda, Reach, The World Heart Federation, and The Kids Research Institute Australia.

Director

Andrea Z. Beaton, MD

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Rheumatic fever/heart disease

Faculty

Sarah de Loizaga, MD

Instructor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Health disparities; rheumatic heart disease

Lisa M. Vaughn, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Nanhua Zhang, PhD

Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Research Interests
Missing data; comparative effectiveness; clinical trial design; meta-analysis; scale development; joint modeling; environmental health;...

Fellows

Hank Wirth, MD

Clinical Cardiology Fellow, Heart Institute