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FOUNDER AND CONGRESS CHAIRMAN
Asher Kimchi, USA
 
SECTION CHAIRMEN

Naranjan S. Dhalla, Canada
Jawahar L. Mehta, USA
CELLULAR BIOLOGY OF THE HEART

Marcos A. Rossi, Brazil
VASCULAR BIOLOGY

Rodolfo Paoletti, Italy
PATHOGENESIS OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS

 

Sergio Dalla Volta, Italy

James H. Chesebro, USA
CORONARY CIRCULATION

 

Horst Sievert, Germany

Harold Mudra, Germany

INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY

Daniel S. Berman, USA
Vasken Dilsizian, USA   
NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY

Julius Gardin, USA
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

Herbert J. Geschwind, France
BIOETHICS

Barry F. Uretsky, USA

Udho Thadani, USA
CARDIOVASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY
AND DRUG THERAPY

Harisios Boudoulas, Greece
Jeffrey S. Borer, USA
VALVULAR HEART DISEASE

Philip R. Liebson, USA
HYPERTENSION AND THE HEART

Israel Rubinstein, USA
PULOMONARY CIRCULATION

Hani N. Sabbah, USA
Heinz P. Schultheiss, Germany
MYOCARDIAL AND PERICARDIAL DISEASES

Kanu Chatterjee, USA

Uri Elkayam, USA
HEART FAILURE

 

Michael E. Cain, USA

Richard L. Page, USA
ARRHYTHMIAS

C. Thomas Peter, USA
PACING

Brian Duncan, USA

Geoffrey Rosenthal, USA
PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY

John A. Elefteriades, USA
CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

 
SCIENTIFIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Jeffrey S. Borer, USA (Chairman)

Osama
Abdel-Aziz, Egypt
William T. Abraham, USA
Jonathan Abrams, USA
Martin Alpert, USA
Ezra Amsterdam, USA
Nestor Angomachalelis, Greece
Jeroen Bax, The Netherlands
Daniel S. Berman, USA
Rafael Beyar, Israel
Geetha Bhat, USA
Peter C. Block, USA
Robert O.Bonow, USA
Harisios
Boudoulas, Greece
Robert C. Bourge, USA
William V. Brown, USA
John C. Burnett JR., USA
Michael E.Cain, USA
Yzhar Charuzi, USA
Kanu, Chatterjee, USA
James H. Chesebro, USA
Sergio Dalla-Volta, Italy
Prakash Deedwania, USA
Naranjan S. Dhalla, Canada
Robert Dibianco, USA
Vasken Dilsizian, USA
Brian W. Duncan, USA
John A. Elefteriade, USA
Uri Elkayam, USA
Nabil E. El-Sherif, USA
Michael L. Epstein, USA
Gordon A. Ewy, USA
Daniel Flammang, France
Gregory P. Fontana, USA
James S. Forrester, USA  Valentin Fuster, USA
Peter Ganz, USA
William Ganz, USA
Junbo Ge, China
Herbert Geschwind, France
Mihai Gheorghiad, USA
Sidney Goldstein, USA
Mervyn S. Gotsman, Israel
Antonio M. Gotto Jr., USA
Roland Hetzer, Germany
Robert E. Hobbs, USA
David G. Iosseliani, Russia
Maryl R. Johnson, USA
Bodh I. Jugdutt, Canada
Saibal Kar, USA
Lorrie A. Kirshenbaum, Canada
Itzhak
Kronzon, USA

  Howard Kruth, USA
  Horst Kuhn, Germany
 
Bruce Lerman, USA
  Philip Liebson, USA
  Rajendra Makkar, USA
  Giuseppe Mancia, Italy
  Paolo Marzullo, Italy
  Gerald Maurer, Austria
  Jawahar L. Mehta, USA
  Dan M. Meyer, USA
  James Morgan, USA
  Patrick Nataf, France
 
Brian Olshansky, USA
  Dean Ornish, USA
  Rodolfo Paoletti, Italy
  C. Thomas Peter, USA
  Fausto J. Pinto, Portugal
  Gerald Pohost, USA
  James A. Reiffel, USA
  Ariel J. Reyes, Uruguay
  William C. Roberts, USA
  Clive Rosendorff, USA
 
Geoffrey Rosenthal, USA
  Marcos A. Rossi, Brazil
  Israel Rubinstein, USA
 
Hani N. Sabbah, USA
  Saul Schaefer, USA
  Heinrich R. Schelbert, USA
  Henning Schroeder, Germany
  Heinz Peter Schultheiss, Germany
  Andrew Selwyn, USA
  Prediman K. Shah, USA
  Horst Sievert, Germany
  Pawan K. Singal, Canada
  Michael Sole, Canada
  Edmund Sonnenblick, USA
 
Francis G. Spinale, USA
  David H. Spodick, USA
  Olga Stein, Israel
 
Yehezkiel Stein, Israel
  Shlomo Stern, Israel
  Jamil Tajik, USA
  Doris Taylor, USA
  Udho Thadani, USA
  Jeffrey A. Towbin, USA
  Ronald Trent, Australia
  Barry F. Uretsky, USA
  George Vetrovec, USA
  Salim Yusuf, Canada
  Irving Zucker, USA

 
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

Stephen Achenbach, Germany
Dan Admon, Israel
Masood Akhtar, USA
Cumali Aktolun, Turkey
Michelle A. Albert, USA
Jesus Almendral, Spain
Etienne M. Aliot, France
Sana M. Al-Kahtib, USA
Maurits A. Allessie, Netherlands
Salomon Amar, USA
Guiseppe Ambrosio, Italy
Ettore Ambrosioni, Italy
Sonia Anand, Canada
Jeffrey L. Anderson, USA
Mark E. Anderson, USA
Charles Antzelevitch, USA
Piero Anversa, USA
Eloisa Arbustini, Italy
Nadir Askenasy, Israel
Gerd Assmann, Germany
Pal Aukrust, Norway
Angelo Auricchio, Germany
Peter H Backx, Canada
Juan J Badimon, USA
Lina Badimon, Spain
Steven R. Bailey, USA
C. Noel Bairey Merz, USA
Guiseppe Barbaro, Italy
Elizabeth L. Barrett-Connor, USA
Gregory W. Barsness, USA
Wayne B.Batchelor, USA
Ronen Beeri, Israel
Solomon Behar, Israel
Laurent Belhassen, France
Jutta Bergler-Klein, Austria
Sandro Betocchi, Italy
Vera Bittner, USA
Stefan Blankenberg, Germany
Burns C. Blaxall, USA
Jozsef Borbola, Hungary
Rene M. Botnar, USA
Mohamed Boutjdir, USA
Neil E. Bowles, USA
Ayrton Pires Brandao, Brazil
Michele Brignole, Italy
David L. Brown, USA
Pedro Brugada, Belgium
Hans Peter Brunner-La Rocca,
 
Switzerland
Andrew J. Burger, USA
Peter M. Buttrick, USA
Mark Callahan, USA
John G. Canto, USA
Yihai Cao, Sweden
Noel M. Caplice, USA
Alessandro Capucci, Italy
David M. Capuzzi, USA
David S. Celermajer, Australia
Roman Cerbak, Czech Republic
Bojan Cercek, USA
Leszek Ceremuzynski, Poland
Mario Cerqueira-Gomes, Portugal
Julie Chan, Taiwan-R.O.C.
Paul Chan, Taiwan-R.O.C.
Peng-Sheng Chen, USA
Bernard Chevalier, France
Pierre Chouraqui, Israel
Dennis V. Cokkinos, Greece
Leslie Cooper, USA
Bertrand Cormier, France
Jacques Couet, Canada
David C. Cumberland, UK
Lawrence S. Czer, USA
Luciano Daliento, Italy
Haim D. Danenberg, Israel
George Dangas, USA
Martha L. Daviglus, USA
Jeanne M. Decara, USA
Michaela Diamant, Netherlands
Nabil Dib, USA
Hisham Dokainish, USA
Gerald Dorros, USA
Anique Ducharme, Canada
Mercedes K.C. Dullum, USA
Kensuke Egashira, Japan
Jesus Egido, Spain
Leon Eijsman, Netherlands
Marguerite M. Engler, USA
Georg Ertl, Germany
Javier Escaned, Spain
Pompilio Faggiano, Italy
Katherine Fan, China
Zahi Fayad, USA
William F. Fearon, USA
Francesco Fedele, Italy
Stephan B. Felix, Germany
Francisco Fernandez-Aviles,   Spain
Gerasimos S. Filippatos, Greece
Tim A. Fischell, USA
John M. Flack, USA
Gregg C. Fonarow, USA
Ulrich Forsterman, Germany
Elyse Foster, USA
Jane E. Freedman, USA
Andrea Frustaci, Italy
Shmuel Fuchs, Israel
Hisayoshi Fujiwara, Japan
Curt D. Furberg, USA
Francesco Furlanello, Italy
Anthony P. Furnary, USA
William H. Gaasch, USA
Fiorenzo Gaita, Italy
Manuel Galinanes, UK
Zorina S. Galis, USA
Julius Gardin, USA
Kirk N. Garratt, USA
Jacques Genest, Canada
Guido Germano, USA
Borut Gersak, Slovenia
Bernard J. Gersh, USA
Jalal K. Ghali, USA
Satyendra Giri, USA
Dario Giugliano, Italy
Robert P. Giugliano, USA
Robert J. Goldberg, USA
Nora F. Goldschlager, USA
Shinya Goto, Japan
Shmuel Gottlieb, Israel
Stephen Gottlieb, USA
Peter J. Grant, England
Paolo Gresele, Italy
Scott M. Grundy, USA
Marco Guazzi, Italy
Peter G. Guerra, Canada
Sandeep Gupta, UK
Rory Hachamovitch, USA
Donald Hall, Germany
Mohammed H. Hamdan, USA
H.Kirk Hammond, USA
Peter Hanrath, Germany
Goran K. Hansson, Sweden
Dror Harats, Israel
Michael Haude, Germany
Christian C. Haudenschild, USA
Zuo-Xiang He, China
Charles H. Hennekens, USA
Michel Henry, France
Otto M. Hess, Switzerland
Denise M. Heublein, USA
Yukihito Higashi, Japan
Judith S. Hochman, USA
Martin Hoher, Germany
Brian Hoit, USA
Lene Holmvang, Denmark
Paul Holvoet, Belgium
Shunichi Homma, USA
Masatsugu Hori, Japan
Keith A. Horvath USA
Donald B. Hunninghake, USA
Joanne Ingwall, USA
Ami E. Iskandrian, USA
Silviu Itescu, USA
Warren M. Jackman, USA
Deepak Jain, Germany
Stefan James, Sweden
Shirish Jani, USA
Ishwarlal Jialal, USA
Luis J. Jimenez-Borreguero, Spain
J. W. Jukema, Netherlands
Hanjoerg Just, Germany
Alan H. Kadish, USA
Masaya Kato, Japan
Arnold M. Katz, USA
Sanjay Kaul, USA
Ulrich Keil, Germany
Henning Kelbaek, Denmark
Daniel P. Kelly, USA
Matyas Keltai, Hungary
Ijaz A. Khan, USA
Steven S. Khan, USA
Bijoy Khandheria, USA
Yasuki Kihara, Japan
Nodar N. Kipshidze, Georgia
Yehezkiel Kishon, Israel
Helmut
Klein, Germany
Meinhard Kneussl, Austria
Anne A. Knowlton, USA
Juhani Knuuti, Finland
Georg Kojda, Germany
Jaspal S. Kooner, UK
Stephen L. Kopecky, USA
Ran Kornowski, Israel
Michaela Kozakova, Italy
Dara L. Kraitchman, USA
Litsa Kranias, USA
Henry Krum, Australia
Wolfgang Kubler, Germany
Adarsh Kumar, India
Arvinder S. Kurbaan, UK
Maia Teresa La Rovere, Italy
Jean-Marc Lablanche, France
Roger Laham, USA
Avijit Lahiri, UK
Nasser Lakkis, USA
Roberto M. Lang, USA
Richard A. Lange, USA
Alexandra J. Lansky, USA
Warren Laskey, USA
Alexander Leaf, USA
Claude Lenfant, USA
Jonathan Leor, Israel
Paul A. Levine, USA
Robert A. Levine, USA
T. Barry Levine, USA
Samuel Levy, France
Martin M. LeWinter, USA
Choong-Chin Liew, USA

  Shih-Chung Lin, Taiwan-R.O.C.
  A. Michael Lincoff, USA
  Gregory Y.H. Lip, UK
  Frank Litvack, USA
  Jennifer E. Liu, USA
 
Peter P. Liu, Canada
 
Daniel Loisance, France
  Antonio Lopez-Farre, Spain
  Douglas W. Losordo, USA
  Chaim Lotan, Israel
  Fernando Lucchese, Brazil
  Charles Y. Lui, USA
  Thomas F. Luscher, Switzerland
  Thomas A. Mabin, South Africa
  Carlos Macaya, Spain
  John J. Mahmarian, USA
  Kenneth Maiese, USA
  Bernhard Maisch, Germany
  Warren J. Manning, USA
  Antonis Manolis, Greece
  Mario F.C. Maranhao, Brazil
 
Michael S. Marber, United Kingdom
  Andrew R. Marks, USA
  Hugh Markus, UK
  Antonio Martinez-Rubio, Spain
  Manuel Martinez-Selles, Spain
  Mario Marzilli, Italy
  Verghese Mathew, USA
  Akira MatsumorI, Japan
  Mansunori Matsuzaki, Japan
  Bruce McManus, Canada
  Shamir R. Mehta, Canada
 
Bernhard Meir, Switzerland
  Bruno M. Meiser, Germany
  Joao  Melo, Portugal
  George A. Mensah, USA
  Jose L. Merino, Spain
  Marco Metra, Italy
  Bart Meyns, Belgium
  Andrea Mezzetti, Italy
  Evangelos Michelakis, Canada
  Dianna M. Milewicz, USA
  Wayne Miller, USA
  Tetsuji Miura, Japan
  Yasunori Momose, Japan
  Antoon F.M. Moorman, Netherlands
  Rainer G.H. Moosdorf, Germany
  Hidezo Mori, Japan
  Ryuichi Morishita, Japan
  Concepcion Moro, Spain
  Michael Motro, Israel
  Harald Mudra, Germany
  Thomas Munzel, Germany
  Sherif F. Nagueh, USA
  Navin C. Nanda, USA
  Andrea Natale, USA
  Danilo Neglia, Italy
  Jae K. Oh, USA
 
Robert A. O'Rourke, USA
  Julio I. Osende, Spain
  Eli Ovsyshcher, Israel
  Douglas L. Packer, USA
  Richard L. Page, USA
  Carlo Palombo, Italy
  Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Greece
  Kailash N. Pandey, USA
  Vasilios Papademetriou, USA
  Richard Pasternak, USA
  Kaushik P. Patel, USA
  Matthias Pauschinger, Germany
  Patricia Pellikka, USA
  Dudley Pennell, UK
  Nicholas S. Peters, UK
  Philippe Pibarot, Canada
  Massimo Piepoli, Italy
  Luc A. Pierard, Belgium
  Burkert Pieske, Germany
  Cristina Pislaru, USA
  Christos Pitsavos, Greece
  Bertram Pitt, USA
  Maria Vittoria   Pitzalis, Italy
  Kirkwood A. Pritchard Jr., USA
  Ross Prpic, Australia
  Eric Prystowksy, USA
  Karin Przyklenk, USA
  Marlene Rabinovitch, USA
  Babeth Rabinowitz, Israel
  Ninoslav Radovanovic, Yugoslavia
  Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola, USA
  Nalini M. Rajamannan, USA
  Jai Raman, USA
  Anis Rassi Jr., Brazil
  Antonio Raviele, Italy
  Andrew Redington, Canada
  Joe L. Rod, USA
  Richard J. Rodeheffer, USA
  Suzanne Roedler, Austria
  David S. Rosenbaum, USA
  Todd K. Rosengart, USA
  Robert D. Ross, USA
  Gian Paolo Rossi, Italy
  Arie Roth, Israel
  Raymond Roudaut, France
  Stanley A. Rubin, USA
  Jeremy Ruskin, USA
  Marc S. Sabatine, USA
  Michel Safar, France
  David J. Sahn, USA
 
Mitchell T. Saltzberg, USA
  Timothy A. Sanborn, USA
  Massimo Santini, Italy
  Maurice E. Sarano, USA
  Hartzell V. Schaff, USA
  Nelson B. Schiller, USA
 
Ronald E. Schmieder, Germany  
  Helmut Schuhlen, Germany
  Markus Schwaiger, Germany
 
Robert Schwartz, USA
  Ronald G. Schwartz, USA
 
Ricardo J. Seabra-Gomes, Portugal
  Petar M. Seferovic, Yugoslavia
  Frank W. Sellke, USA
  Howard D. Sesso, USA
 
Sanjay Sharma, UK
  Norman Sharpe, New Zealand
  Michael Shechter, Israel
  Robert Sheldon, Canada
  Win-Kuang Shen, USA
  Wataru Shimizu, Japan
  Avraham Shotan, Israel
  Rosa Sicari, Italy
  Rudiger W.R. Simon, Germany
  Don D. Sin, Canada
  Bramah N.
Singh, USA
  Mark S. Slaughter, USA
  Frank W. Smart, USA
  Virend Somers, USA
  Bart Staels, France
  Brigitte Stanek, Austria
  Randall C. Starling, USA
 
Christodoulos Stefanadis, Greece
 
C. D. Stehouwer, Netherlands
 
Duncan J. Stewart, Canada
  Ralph Stewart, New Zealand
  Bodo-Eckeha Strauer, Germany
  Allan D. Struthers, Scotland
  Valavanur A. Subramanian, USA
  Bernard Swynghedauw, France
  Csaba Szabo, USA
  Jean-Francoi Tanguay, Canada
  Pram S. Tappia, Canada
  Luigi Tavazzi, Italy
  Masaru Terai, Japan
  Erik Thaulow, Norway
  Gaetano Thiene, Italy
  Paul Thompson, USA
  Takanobu Tomaru, Japan
 
Andrew M. Tonkin, Australia
 
On Topaz, USA
 
Teruhiko Toyo-Oka, Japan
  Steven
Tracy, USA
  Teresa Tsang, USA
  Hung-Fat Tse, China
  Masahiko Tsuchiya, Japan
  Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Japan
 
Jack V. Tu, Canada
 
Suresh C. Tyagi, USA
 
Gideon Uretzky, Israel
  Ernst E. Van Der Wall, Netherlands
  Marc Vanderheyden, Belgium
  Frank Veith, USA
  Hector O. Ventura, USA
  Zvi Vered, Israel
   Isidro Vilacosta, Spain
  Cees A. Visser, Netherlands
  Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Greece
  Ruediger von Harsdorf, Germany
  Johannes Waltenberger, Netherlands
  Douglas W. Weaver, USA
  Judah Weinberger, USA
  William S. Weintraub, USA
  Teddy A. Weiss, Israel
  Jeffrey I. Weitz, Canada
  Nanette Kass   Wenger, USA
  Rene R. Wenzel, Germany
 
Harvey D. White, New Zealand
 
Josiah N. Wilcox, USA
 
Heinrike Wilkens, Germany
 
Christian Wolpert, Germany
 
Mark A. Wood, USA
 
Scott R. Wright, USA
 
Kenneth K. Wu, USA
 
Qingbo Xu, UK
 
Shizuya Yamashita, Japan
 
Gan-Xin Yan, USA
 
Zhong-Gun Yan, Sweden
 
Clyde W. Yancy, USA
 
Phillip C. Yang, USA
 
Xiaoming Yang, USA
 
Hirofumi Yasue, Japan
 
Yoshio Yazaki, Japan
 
Angela T. Yetman, USA
 
Doron Zahger, Israel
 
Michael N. Zairis, Greece
  Alberto Zanchetti, Italy
  Piero Zardini, Italy
  Robert Zelis, USA