1. Professional Standards and Guidelines Workforce MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT COUNCIL Workforce Leader Stephanie Moore Workforce Members: David Feldman Leslie Miller Matthias Loebe Frank Pagani James Long Emma Birks Michiel Morshuis Martin Strueber Katherine Lietz

2. Patient Selection – incl risk scoring Optimisation/ Timing (incl the use of short term devices) Intraoperative Standards and Guidelines - RV management - Bleeding - Infection - Renal failure - Pump management and placement MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT COUNCIL Standards and Guidelines

3. Imperial College OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE Harefield Hospital Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust Best practice Inpatient management - Anticoagulation - Infection - Rehabilitation - Training Best Practice Outpatient Management - Infection - Late bleeding issues & anticoagulation - Community care MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT COUNCIL Standards and Guidelines

4. Education Workforce MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT COUNCIL Workforce Leader Roberta Bogaev Workforce Members: Mark Slaughter OH Frazier Asghar Khaghani Rocky Daly Paul Mohacsi Thomas Krabatsch Bill Holman Karl Nelson Wayne Richenbacher Michael Petty

5. GRANTS AND AWARDS PROGRAM 2009 BRANO RADOVANCEVIC MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP GRANT

7. Registries and databases Committee MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT COUNCIL Workforce Leader Jaap Lahpor Workforce Members: Bob Kormos Jim Kirklin Jo Rogers George Wieselthaler Emma Birks Takeshi Nakatani Pascal Leprince Gerry O'Driscoll

8. Communications Committee MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT COUNCIL Workforce Leader Evgenij Potapov Workforce Members: Bob Higgins Salpy Pamboukian Ranjit John Mariano Feccia Soon Park Randall Starling Bobby Robbins

9. Professional Standards and Guidelines Workforce Education Workforce - Educational activity/training - Annual Meeting Scientific Programme Communications Workforce Registries and databases Workforce Development Liason: Mario Deng MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT COUNCIL