About the HeartBrothers Foundation
Founded in 2014, the HeartBrothers Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation dedicated to helping heart failure patients and their families navigate the complicated financial world of Heart Failure (HF), Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD’s) and Heart Transplantation. Our mission is to fill gaps for patients by offering them essential support through medical insurance assistance programs, informative stress-coping resources, and connections to the global heart failure community.
Board of Directors
We are Bob Romer and Pat Sullivan. We are the HeartBrothers. After receiving defibrillators, stents, LVADS and transplants and spending more than two years in the hospital together, we dedicated our lives to helping other heart failure patients and their families by drawing on our combined three decades of experience dealing with this often-fatal condition.
Board of Advisors
Linda Ordway, RN, MS, ACNP-BC
Nurse Practitioner, Cardiomyopathy Center, Ventricular Assist Devices and Heart Transplants
Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
James Campbell
Director of Development, Diocese of Fall River, MA
Heather Cote, RN, BSN
Transplant Coordinator, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
Rich Carlson
President, Carlson Communications
Northborough, MA
William Pollack
Vice President, BillAway Corp
North Andover, MA
Michael Kiernan, MD, MSc
Director, Ventricular Assist Device Program, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
Deborah Fleck, RN, BSN
Heart Transplant Coordinator, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
Duc Thinh Pham, MD
Surgical Director, Center for Advanced Heart Failure, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern Memorial Hospital Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Chicago, IL
Kerry Gaj, DNP
Associate Professor at Northeastern University’s School of Nursing, Boston, MA