Meet PHA’s New Membership Committee

The PHA Membership Committee is composed of pulmonary hypertension patients and caregivers, health care professionals, and volunteers. The committee is charged to provide insight, advice, and expertise on membership outreach and to improve member benefits and the member experience. Our goals are to implement a series of programs to engage members and meet the needs of PHA members.

Committee Members

Gillian P. Leung, PharmD, BCCP
Chair
Pulmonary Hypertension Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacist, University of Kentucky Healthcare
Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

Eugene C. Beard
PH survivor, PHA Volunteer, Nicholasville, KY

Gary Bruce
PH survivor and family caregiver
PHA Support Group Leader, Little Elm, TX

Michelle C. Cash, MSN, APRN, CNP
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Lindsay “Shelley” Forbes, MD
Instructor, Medicine-Pulmonary Sciences & Critical Care
University of Colorado

Ehren Hunter, RN
PH Primary Caregiver
Pediatric RN, Home, Hope and Healing Inc. & Aspire Behavioral Health and Counseling

Christopher Jenks MD, FCCP
Associate Professor, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center

Deborah J. Levine, MD
Director of Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic
Medical Director of Inpatient and Outpatient Lung Transplantation
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX

Marcie McGregor
Diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension in 2012
Support Group Leader, Augusta, GA

Ronald Oudiz, MD, FACP, FACC, FCCP
Professor of Medicine
Director, Liu Center for Pulmonary Hypertension
LA Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor – UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA

Nidhy Varghese, MD, FAAP
Medical Director, Texas Children’s Hospital Pulmonary Hypertension Center
Associate Professor of Pediatrics in Pulmonology Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX