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John Camm, MD
Professor of Clinical Cardiology
Division of Cardiac and Vascular Sciences
St. George’s University of London
Cranmer Terrace
London, SW17 0RE
United Kingdom

Kim A. Eagle, MD, FACC
Albion Walter Hewlett Professor of Internal
Medicine
Chief of Clinical Cardiology
Director, Cardiovascular Center
University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center
1500 East Medical Drive, Suite 2131
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5852, USA

Stephan D. Fihn, MD, MPH, FACP
Chief Quality and Performance Offi cer
Department of Veterans Affairs
1100 Olive Way STE 1400
Seattle, WA 98101-3801, USA

Lee A. Fleisher, MD, FACC, FAHA
Robert Dunning Dripps Professor and Chair
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Professor of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
3400 Spruce Street, Suite 680 Dulles
Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

Theodore D. Fraker, Jr., MD, FACC
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Associate Division Director for Clinical Affairs and
Operations
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
248 Davis Heart & Lung Research Institute, 473
West 12th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210, USA

Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, FAHA
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave Levy Place
Box 1030
New York, NY, USA

Michael H. Gewitz, MD, FAHA

Physician-in-Chief/Executive Director

Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital at Westchester

Medical Center

Professor and Vice Chair, Pediatrics

Chief, Pediatric Cardiology

New York Medical College

Valhalla, NY 10595, USA

Raymond J. Gibbons, MD, FAHA

Professor of Medicine

Mayo Clinic Fnd.- Gonda

200 1st Street SW

Rochester, MN 55905-0001, USA

Scott M. Grundy, MD, PhD, FAHA

Director, Center for Human Nutrition

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Department of Clinical Nutrition

5323 Harry Hines Building

Dallas, TX 75390-7200, USA

Robert A. Guyton, MD

Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic

Surgery

Department of Surgery

Emory University School of Medicine

1365 Clifton Road NE

Atlanta, GA 30322-1013, USA

Ziv J. Haskal, MD, FAHA, FSIR, FACR

Professor and Vice Chair, Radiology

Chief, Division of Interventional Radiology

University of Maryland School of Medicine

22 E Greene Street

Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

Alan T. Hirsch, MD

Division of Epidemiology and Community Health

School of Public Health

University of Minnesota

1300 South 2nd Street, Suite 300

Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA

Sharon A. Hunt, MD, FACC, FAHA

Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine

Stanford University

300 Pasteur Drive, Falk CVRB

Palo Alto, CA 94305, USA

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