The mission of the Have a Heart Foundation is to provide comfort, support, education to and for the benefit of transplant recipients, advanced heart failure patients, their families; and encourage organ donation.
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Chairman

Roger X. Baker ♥

 

Board of Trustees

Wayne P. Segner (1st Vice-Chairman)

Dominick Vece ♥ (2nd Vice-Chairman)

James M. Alaimo ♥ (Secretary)

Kathleen A. Malloy (Treasurer)

William M. Baker (Trustee)

Sandra Nothegger (President of the Heart Support Group)

 

Recording Secretary

Sandra Rodenback

 

Honorary & Life Trustees

James J. Ryan (Deceased)

Charles E. Feltes ♥

Robert E. Nelson

 

Medical Advisory Board

G. Martin Mullen, M.D. (Alexian Brothers Medical Center)

Jose C. Mendez, M.D. (Rush University Medical Center)

Barbara A. Pisani, D.O. (Rush University Medical Center)

Robert S. D. Higgins, M.D. (Rush University Medical Center)

Allen Anderson, M.D. (University of Chicago Hospitals)

William G. Cotts, M.D. (Northwestern Memorial Hospital)

Valluvan Jeevanandam, M.D. (University of Chicago Hospitals)

Edwin McGee, M.D. (Northwestern Memorial Hospital)

 

♥ - Denotes the person is a Heart Transplant Recipient

 
Foundation history
 
HAVE A HEART FOUNDATION was created in 1999 to carry out its important mission. Various heart transplant and heart failure programs are supported by the Foundation throughout the upper Midwest: Illinois, Southwestern Michigan, Northwestern Indiana, and lower Wisconsin. Currently, the Foundation's support is largely aimed at those heart transplant recipients and heart failure patients located throughout the Chicago metropolitan area. The Foundation and Heart Support Group also host social and fund raising events for the benefit and enjoyment of heart transplant recipients, heart failure patients and their families. A summer picnic and December holiday luncheon have become special events.
Organ Donation Support
 
To encourage organ donation, the Foundation has several prominent coalition partners: United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), and the Gift of Hope. In addition, the Foundation works closely with the Illinois Secretary of State to encourage organ donation throughout Illinois. The Foundation is also linked with the primary medical centers performing heart transplant surgery and hospitals treating advanced heart failure throughout the upper Midwest.