Clinical Trials in Every Corner

Dr. Cyrille-Superville is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, echocardiography, advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology.

She is the associate director of Heart Failure for the Atrium Health Southern Region. She served as chief cardiology fellow during her cardiovascular fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center and was the recipient of the Dr. Martin B. Cohen Award for Clinical Excellence.

Dr. Cyrille-Superville has clinical interests in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), durable mechanical support devices, heart transplants and cardiac amyloidosis (stiff heart syndrome caused by an abnormal protein in the heart tissue).

The dynamic nature of the field is what led Dr. Cyrille-Superville to her career. She feels the field of heart failure has blossomed with exciting developments not only in the pharmaceutical realm but also in the area of mechanical support devices and heart transplant.

Dr. Cyrille-Superville received her medical degree and completed residency at Columbia University. She completed a heart failure and transplant fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.

She is involved in ongoing research looking into the causes of diastolic heart failure, also known as heart failure preserved ejection fraction.

Dr. Bushnell completed her neurology residency training, stroke research fellowship, and graduate degree in clinical research at Duke University.  After 6 years on faculty in the Duke Division of Neurology, she joined the Neurology faculty at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in October 2007.  After serving as medical director of the Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Stroke Center and Stroke Section Chief for 9 years, she is currently Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Neurology.  Clinically, she is passionate about both inpatient and outpatient stroke treatment across the continuum, especially the transition of post-acute care and secondary prevention.  Her research spans women’s issues related to stroke, including sex differences in risk and outcomes, and was the chair of the first AHA Guideline for the Prevention of Stroke in Women.  She was co-PI of COMprehensive Post-Acute Stroke Service (COMPASS) Study, a pragmatic clinical trial funded by Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, which compared a holistic, patient-centered post-acute stroke model of care vs usual care in 41 hospitals across North Carolina.  Building on COMPASS, she is the PI for one of the first PCORI-funded Phased Large Awards for Comparative Effectiveness Research (PLACER) awards ($30 million) to compare telehealth management (home monitoring plus lifestyle coaching) vs clinic management to reach target goals for blood pressure 6 months after discharge.  She is also the writing group chair of the updated AHA/ASA 2024 Primary Prevention of Stroke Guidelines. 

Jamy Ard, M.D. completed his medical training at Duke University Medical Center and is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Prevention and Vice Dean for Clinical Research at Wake Forest School of Medicine. He is also co-director of the Advocate Health Wake Forest Baptist Weight Management Center, directing medical weight management programs. Dr. Ard conducts research on the clinical management of obesity and strategies to improve treatment outcomes in underserved and underrepresented populations. He has served on several expert panels and guideline development committees, including the 2013 AHA/ACC/TOS Guideline Panel on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults. Dr. Ard served as president of The Obesity Society in 2024.

Dr. Thomas Saphner joined Aurora Health Care in 2013. He is a medical oncologist at the Vince Lombardi Cancer Clinic in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. He currently serves as the co-principal investigator of the NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) and has since its inception in August 2014. The Aurora NCORP supports all NCI-sponsored research in Wisconsin and Illinois and is the largest federal award for Advocate Health – Midwest, earning more than $15 million for the organization over the past 10 years.