The Graeme McDaniel Foundation’s Board of Directors (BoD) and Medical Review Team (MRT) are in charge of collecting and reviewing each congenital heart defect research grant application that is submitted to the Foundation. During the annual review process, the MRT helps the BoD to evaluate the projects in contention for the foundation’s funding and to identify the projects that may have the greatest impact and most closely align with our mission.
We are extremely grateful for MRT’s investment in the heart community and time given to support this effort. It’s an honor to introduce our Medical Review Team with you.
C. Huie Lin MD, PhD, FACC FSCAI
Huie Lin is the Director of the Accredited Adult Congenital Heart Comprehensive Care Program at Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center. He received his MD/PhD from the University of Virginia, and completed internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He went on to train in adult, congenital, and interventional cardiology at Barnes-Jewish and St Louis Children’s Hospital at Washington University. He has been awarded funding from PCORI to build an adult congenital heart patient stakeholder roundtable of underrepresented minorities to engage in comparative effectiveness research as equal partners.
Dr. Santosh Uppu
Originally from India, Dr. Santosh Uppu has been practicing medicine in the U.S. since 2005. He cares for patients of all ages and tailors each treatment plan based on each person’s lifestyle and condition. Dr. Uppu is committed and invested to his patients and makes himself available by email or phone. He also works as a team with other medical professionals to ensure his patients have access to comprehensive and coordinated care.
Dr. Uppu is board certified and fellowship-trained in pediatric cardiology and has advanced training in congenital cardiac imaging which includes MRIs and fetal echocardiography. During this time at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, he led the congenital cardiac MRI program in New York. He has also received numerous awards and recognition for his research and contribution to health care.
In his spare time, Dr. Uppu enjoys reading fiction and nonfiction books, listening to National Public Radio, spending time with family and enjoying nature.
Shaine A. Morris, MD, MPH
Dr. Shaine Morris is a pediatric and fetal cardiologist at Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. After medical school at UT Southwestern, she completed pediatric training at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, followed pediatric cardiology training at TCH, then cardiac imaging at Boston Children's, and then a Masters of Public Health at Harvard. She joined faculty at TCH in 2010. She serves as the Medical Director of both the Fetal cardiology Program and the Cardiovascular Genetics program, and splits her time between seeing patients and leading clinical research studies. Much of her research focuses on understanding how to have the best possible outcomes for children with congenital heart disease, starting in fetal life, and on personalizing care based on each child's Indvidual characteristics.