Board Members:
L-R Front row: Bohdan “Danny” Malaniak, Brenda Williams, Jeffrey Goodman MD,
Elaine Lebowitz, C. Thomas Peter, MD; Chief Ronald Banks
MENTORS
CARES Board
PROFESSIONAL
Founder of CARES – Cheruvathur Thomas Peter, MD
Dr. Peter is the Founder and first President of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Support Group (CARES), a non-profit group or organization dedicated to the support of research and education in the field of cardiac arrhythmias. CARES has made a significant impact on the lives of physicians and their patients around the world. CARES sponsors international physicians at Cedars-Sinai and UCLA in the management and prevention of cardiac arrhythmias and diagnostic and interventional electrophysiology, etc.
UCLA honored Dr. Peter and established this Mentorship/educational training program for practicing Electrophysiologists from around the world providing them access to teaching and mentorship at Cedars and UCLA - The C. Thomas Peter Mentorship Award. He was also the Founder of the Greater Los Angeles Electrophysiology Society (GLAES) at Cedars-Sinai - the members were Cardiologists/Electrophysiologists and Electrophysiology Fellows from major medical institutions in Southern and Northern California.
Dr. Peter continues to be involved with CARES and in the recruitment and selection of international Physicians for the C. Thomas Peter Mentorship Program at Cedars and UCLA.
Read Dr. Peter's full bio here
Jeffrey Goodman, CARES President
Jeffrey S. Goodman, MD, FACP, FACC, FHRS has been the President of CARES since 2006. He is an attending cardiologist with the Division Cardiology, Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and a member of the Electrophysiology Center of Excellence. He is also an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr Goodman is a Board Certified Cardiologist and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologist.
Seated from left to right: Mark MacCarley, Esq; founding member, Brenda Williams, Secretary, Virgie Walker,
Standing from left to right: Elaine Lebowitz, Treasurer, Chief Ronald Banks, Jeffrey Goodman, MD; President
CARES OFFICERS
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Jeffrey S. Goodman, MD President
Brenda Williams, Secretary
Elaine Lebowitz, Treasurer
CARES MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
Chief Ronald Banks, 1994-present
Father Maurice Chase *, 1994-2004
Peng-Sheng Chen, MD, 2005-2007
William Ganz, MD*, 1994-2005
Mark MacCarley, Esquire, 1994 - present
Ivan Velasquez-Monge, MD, 2005-2007
Cheruvathur (C.) Thomas Peter, M.D. Immediate Past President , 1994-present
Sarah Peter, 2015-present
Virgie Walker, 2014-present
* In Memoriam