Welcome to CONTEMP-ICD feasibility!

Congratulations to the first 3 activated sites: 

  • Site 014, University of Rochester.
  • Site 008, West Virginia University.
  • Site 017, Nuvance Health/Hudson Valley Heart Center.

CONTEMP-ICD Screening tips

  • General Cardiology Clinics, Advanced Heart Failure Clinics and EP Clinics are great locations to consider for screening.
  • Use of screening tool to identify eligible patients is important – please contact CCRC team with any questions (contact info).
  • Physician buy-in is critical. Consider scheduling calls/Grand Rounds presentations with Drs. Goldenberg and Butler, who are happy to help (ilan.goldenberg@heart.rochester.edu).

Dates to remember

CONTEMP-ICD TrainingTBD
CONTEMP-ICD Recruitment meeting2/11/2025
CONTEMP-ICD across North America
Site #SitePIActive date# ParticipantsWomenMinorities
008WVU Heart and Vascular InstituteCaccamo12/10/2024   
014University of RochesterJawaid11/26/2024   
017Nuvance HealthVaranasi12/23/2024   
TOTAL      

Contact Info – Study email: contempicd.mail@heart.rochester.edu

CCCDCC
Principal Investigator: Ilan Goldenberg MD – Ilan.Goldenberg@heart.rochester.edu
Co-PI: Javed Butler MD – butlzih@gmail.com
Co-PI: Valentina Kutyifa MD Valentina_Kutyifa@urmc.rochester.eduCo-PI: Wojciech Zareba MD Wojciech_Zareba@urmc.rochester.edu
Manager: Ann Colasurdo Ann.Colasurdo@heart.rochester.eduManager: Kris Cutter Kris.Cutter@heart.rochester.edu
CRA: Kellie Sherron Kellie.Sherron@heart.rochester.eduScreening Tool/Log help: Alex Nakonechnyi Alex.Nakonechnyi@heart.rochester.edu
CRC: Mark Schede Mark.Schede@heart.rochester.eduScreening Tool/Log help: Dillon Dzikowicz Dillon_Dzikowicz@URMC.Rochester.edu

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