scientific committees

FOUNDER AND CONGRESS CHAIRMAN
Asher Kimchi, USA
 
SCIENTIFIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Elena Aikawa, USA
Masanori Aikawa, USA
Takashi Akasaka, Japan
Matthew A. Allison, USA
Martin A. Alpert, USA
Ezra Amsterdam, USA
Nestor J. Angomachalelis, Greece
Wilbert S. Aronow, USA
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, USA
Gregory W. Barsness, USA
Lewis C. Becker, USA
Jonathan N. Bella, USA
Yochai Birnbaum, USA
Vera Bittner, USA
William Bommer, USA
Jeffrey S. Borer, USA
Eduardo Bossone, Italy
Harisios Boudoulas, Greece
Robert C. Bourge, USA
Mohamed Boutjdir, USA
Neil E. Bowles, USA
Sorin J. Brener, USA
David L. Brown, USA
John C. Burnett, USA
Michael E. Cain, USA
Yzhar Charuzi, USA
Kanu Chatterjee, USA
Changyi (Johnny) Chen, USA
Michael H. Criqui, USA
Anne B. Curtis, USA
Lawrence S. Czer, USA
Sergio Dalla-Volta, Italy
Alexander H. J. Danser, The Netherlands
Dipak K. Das, USA
Thomas Deneke, Germany
Naranjan S. Dhalla, Canada
Anique Ducharme, Canada
John A. Elefteriades, USA
Uri Elkayam, USA
Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, USA
Michael Farkouh, Canada
Janos G. Filep, Canada
Ulrich Forstermann, Germany
Gordon L. Fung, USA
William H. Gaasch, USA
Eli Gang, USA
Feng Gao, China
Julius Gardin, USA
S. David Gertz, Israel
Paul A. Heidenreich, USA
Roland Hetzer, Germany
Gerd Heusch, Germany
Maryl R. Johnson, USA
Bodh I. Jugdutt, Canada
Ulrich Keil, Germany
Arthur Klatsky, USA
Anne A. Knowlton, USA
Stephen L. Kopecky, USA
Rungroj Krittayaphong, Thailand
Lih Kuo, USA
Philip R. Liebson, USA
Carlin S. Long, USA
Gary Lopaschuk, Canada
John J. Mahmarian, USA
Kenneth Maiese, USA
Tadeusz Malinski, USA
Roberto Manfredini, Italy
James D. Marsh, USA
Verghese Mathew, USA
Jawahar L. Mehta, USA
Luisa Mestroni, USA
Dan M. Meyer, USA
Wayne L. Miller, USA
Werner Mohl, Austria
Mohammad-Reza Movahed, USA
Sherif F. Nagueh, USA
John N. Nanas, Greece
Navin C. Nanda, USA
Kevin D. O'Brien, USA
Brian Olshansky, USA
Kailash Pandey, USA
Cam Patterson, USA
Louis P. Perrault, Canada
Maria Vittoria H. Pitzalis, USA
Karin Przyklenk, USA
Nalini M. Rajamannan, USA
James A. Reiffel, USA
Robert Roberts, Canada
Clive Rosendorff, USA
Marcos A. Rossi, Brazil
Hani N. Sabbah, USA
George Sandor, Canada
Horst Sievert, Germany
Pawan K. Singal, Canada
Dinender K. Singla, USA
Michael J. Sole, Canada
Francis Spinale, USA
Masafumi Takahashi, Japan
Jean-Francois Tanguay, Canada
Udho Thadani, USA
Takanobu Tomaru, Japan
Teruhiko Toyo-oka, Japan
Barry F. Uretsky USA
George W. Vetrovec, USA
A. Teddy Weiss, Israel
Nathan D. Wong, USA
Qingbo Xu, UK
Angela T. Yetman, USA
Mitsuhiro Yokota, Japan
Xi-Yong Yu, China

 

 
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

Jun-Ichi Abe, USA
Mazen S. Abu-Fadel, USA
Chris Adamopoulos, Greece
Bruce D. Adams, USA
Ali Ahmed, USA
Kannayiram Alagiakrishnan, Canada
Fernanado Alfonso, Spain
Miguel Alvarez, Spain
Guiseppe Ambrosio, Italy
Madhu B. Anand-Srivastava, Canada
Dominick J. Angiolillo, USA
Maria R.G. Araneta, USA
Vignendra Ariyarajah, Canada
Menhaz Atiq, India
Dan Atar, Norway
Diana E. Ayala, Spain
Maciej Banach, Poland
Subhash Banerjee, USA
Giuseppe Barbaro, Italy
Philip Barter, Australia
Ronen Beeri, Israel
Elijah R. Behr, UK
Stefan Bertog, USA
Deepak L. Bhatt, USA
Luigi M. Biasucci, Italy
Robert W.W. Biederman, USA
Riccardo Bigi, Italy
Ron Blankstein, USA
Burns C. Blaxall, USA
Andreas Bollman, Germany
Leonardo Bolognese, Italy
Michiel L. Bots, The Netherlands
Michael E. Bowdish, USA
Johannes Brachmann, Germany
Beatrice Brembilla-Perrot, France
Gianfranco Butera, Italy
Samuel Butman, USA
Linda Cai, USA
Duncan J. Campbell, Australia
Alessandro Capucci, Italy
Filip P.A. Casselman, Belgium
Turgay Celik, Turkey
Roman Cerbak, Czech Republic
Hari P. Chaliki, USA
Julie Y.H. Chan, Republic of China
Farooq A. Chaudhry, USA
Asim N. Cheema, Canada
Horng H. Chen, USA
Jaw-Wen Chen, Taiwan
Shih-Ann Chen, Taiwan
Yingjie Chen, USA
Xian Wu Cheng, Japan
Yiu-Fai Cheung, China
Julio A. Chirinos, USA
Kee-Joon Choi, Korea
Pierre Chouraqui, Israel
Shorena Chumburidze, Rep. of Georgia
Edward J. Ciaccio, USA
Antonio Colombo, Italy
Leslie T. Cooper, USA
Filippo Crea, Italy
Luciano Daliento, Italy
Ram Dandillaya, USA
Sandra T. Davidge, Canada
Giovanni De Simone, Italy
Prakash C. Deedwania, USA
Giuseppe De Luca, Italy
Milind Y. Desai, USA
Christopher DeSouza, USA
Kenneth Dickstein, Norway
André Diedrich, USA
Luc Djousse, USA
Dobromir Dobrev, Germany
Gerald Dorros, USA
James M. Downey, USA
Stavros G. Drakos, USA
Samuel C. Dudley, USA
Daniel A. Duprez, USA
Firat Duru, Switzerland
Jesus Egido, Spain
Andrew J. Einstein, USA
Abdou Elhendy, USA
Guo-Chang Fan, USA
Mohamed E. Fawzy, Egypt
David Fedida, Canada
Michael A. Fifer, USA
Gerasimos S. Filippatos, Greece
Daniel Flammang, France
Jerome L. Fleg, USA
Nikolaos G. Frangogiannis, USA
Stanley S. Franklin, USA
Tohru Fukai, USA
Joel A. Garcia, USA
David Garcia-Dorado, Spain
Peter Gaskin, USA
Junbo Ge, China
Jacob George, Israel
A. Martin Gerdes, USA
Guido Germano, USA
J. Rod Gimbel, USA
Andreas Goette, Germany
Sorel Goland, Israel
Jeffrey J. Goldberger, USA
Uri Goldbourt, Israel
Jonathan Gollege, Australia
Tommaso Gori, Italy
Shmuel Gottlieb, Israel
Andrew Grace, USA
Peter J. Grant, UK
Rajiv Gulati, USA
Finn Gustafsson, Denmark
Mariann Gyongyosi, Austria
Jennifer L. Hall, USA
Ashraf Hamdan, Israel
Jihong Han, China
Louise Harris, Canada
Zuo-Xiang He, China
Anthony M. Heagerty, UK
Donald D. Heistad, USA
Charles A. Henrikson, USA
Michel Henry, France
Ramon C. Hermida, Spain
Akihiro Hirashiki, Japan
John S. Ho, USA
Paul C. Ho, USA
Simon P. Hoerstrup, Switzerland
Myeong-Ki Hong, South Korea
Gang Hu, USA
Heikki V. Huikuri, Finland
Rachel Huxley, USA
Joanne Ingwall, USA
Takafumi Ishida, Japan
Dipti Itchhaporia, USA
Warren M. Jackman, USA
Deepak J. Jain, Germany
Jesper K. Jensen, Denmark
Daniela Jezova, Slovakia
Ishwarlal Jialal USA
Wei Jiang, USA
Kai Jiao, USA
James W. Jones, USA
J. Wouter Jukema, The Netherlands
Andreas Kalogeropoulos, USA
Edo Kaluski, USA
Hideo Kanaide, Japan
Duk-Hyun Kang, Republic of Korea
Samir Kapadia, USA
Juan Carlos Kaski, UK
Zamaneh Kassiri, Canada
Masaya Kato, Japan
Osami Kawarada, Japan
Amir Kazory, USA
Ilan Kedan, USA
Henning Kelbaek, Denmark
Matyas Keltai, Hungary
Ijaz A. Khan, USA
Ali Khoynezhad, USA
Yong-Jin Kim, Korea
Scott Kinlay, USA
Wolfgang Koenig, Germany
Kwang Kon Koh, South Korea
Igor E. Konstantinov, Australia
Bruce A. Koplan, USA
Smadar Kort, USA
Hidenori Koyama, Japan
Dara L. Kraitchman, USA
Thomas Krasemann, UK
Leonard Kritharides, Australia
Mitchell W. Krucoff, USA
Henry Krum, Australia
Howard S. Kruth, USA
Horst J. Kuhn, Germany
Rakesh C. Kukreja, USA
Alexander Kulik, USA
Ulf Landmesser, Germany
Roberto M. Lang, USA
Alexandra Lansky, USA
Gaetano Antono Lanza, Italy
Martin J. LaPage, USA
Harold L. Lazar, USA
Hwa Mu Lee, USA
Michael S. Lee, USA
Stephanie Lehoux, Canada
Stamatios Lerakis, USA
Robert A. Levine, USA
Yuqing Li, USA
Shing-Jong Lin, Taiwan



 

Steven E. Lipshultz, USA
Jennifer Liu, USA
Ted Lo, UK
Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, USA
Douglas W. Losordo, USA
Chaim Lotan, Israel
Harry C. Lowe, Australia
Christoph Maack, Germany
Paolo Madeddu, UK
Mohammad Madjid, USA
Felix Mahfoud, Germany
Ehtisham Mahmud, USA
Bernhard Maisch, Germany
Giuseppe Mancia, Italy
Fabio Manfredini , Italy
Warren J. Manning, USA
Mario F.C. Maranhao, Brazil
Antonio Martinez Rubio, Spain
Nilanjana Maulik, USA
Pascal McKeown, Ireland
Bruce M. McManus, Canada
Jose L. Merino, Spain
Issam Mikati, USA
James K. Min , USA
James C. Moon, UK
Samia Mora, USA
Henning Morawietz, Germany
Raul Moreno, Spain
Ryuichi Morishita, Japan
Alexander Morss, USA
Arthus J. Moss, USA
Marjan Mujib, USA
Nandini Nair, USA
Hiroshi Nakagawa, USA
Satoshi Nakatani, Japan
Khurram Nasir, USA
Mohamad Navab, USA
Petr Nemec, Czec Republic
Arnold C.T. Ng, Australia
Jens C. Nielsen, Denmark
Alexander Niessner, Austria
Yasushi Oginosawa, Japan
Kenji Okumura, Japan
Torbjřrn Omland, Norway
Dean Ornish, USA
Kinay Otsu, Japan
Ilka Ott, Germany
Noriyuki Ouchi , Japan
Gavin Y. Oudit, Canada
Ramdas G. Pai, USA
Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Greece
John Parissis, Greece
Gerard Pasterkamp, The Netherlands
Kaushik P. Patel, USA
Giuseppe Patti, Italy
Patricia A. Pellikka, USA
Nicolo Piazza, Germany
Fausto J. Pinto, Portugal
Yigal M. Pinto, The Netherlands
Cristina Pislaru, USA
Sorin Pislaru, USA
Christos Pitsavos, Greece
Pyotr G. Platonov, Sweden
Sven Plein, UK
Sunny S. Po, USA
Don Poldermans, The Netherlands
Kailash Prasad, Canada
Maria Prokudina, Russia
Aniket Puri, New Zealand
Vijay Puri, UK
Lu Qi, USA
Satish R. Raj, USA
Shahzad G. Raja, UK
Sanjay Rajagopalan, USA
Judith G. Regensteiner, USA
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Germany
P. Syamasundar Rao, USA
Anis Rassi Jr., Brazil
Hanumanth K. Reddy, USA
Evelyn Regar, The Netherlands
Muredach P. Reilly, USA
Xiushui (Mike) Ren, USA
Joe L. Rod, USA
Giuseppe M.C. Rosano, Italy
Robert S. Rosenson, USA
Eric Rosenthal, UK
Arie Roth, Israel
Israel Rubinstein, USA
Rajesh Sachdeva, USA
Masood Sadiq, Pakistan
Christoph H. Saely, Austria
Naritatsu Saito, Japan
Guy Salama, USA
Nilesh J. Samani, UK
Maria J. Sanz, Spain
Hiroshi Sato, Japan
Naveed Sattar, Scotland
Tatsuya Sawamura, Japan
Tiziano M. Scarabelli, USA
Saul Schaefer, USA
Hartzell V. Schaff, USA
Heinrich R Schelbert, USA
Thomas M. Schiele, Germany
Ingolf Schimke, Germany
Paul Schoenhagen, USA
Karlheinz Seidl, Germany
Frank W. Sellke, USA
Howard D. Sesso, USA
Ashok Seth, India
Peter S. Sever, UK
Neeru Sharma, USA

Fayaz Shawl, USA
Michael Shechter, Israel
Robert S. Sheldon, Canada
Win-Kuang Shen, USA
Guo-Ping Shi, USA
Avi Shimony, Israel
Jamshid Shirani, USA
Avraham Shotan, Israel
Rosa Sicari, Italy
Mandeep S. Sidhu, USA
Alain Simon, France
Daniel I. Simon, USA
Christopher S. Snyder, USA
Jae-Kwan Song, South Korea
Yiqing Song, USA
V. S. Srinivas, USA
Komandoor Srivathsan, USA
Paul Steendijk, The Netherlands
Kaihong Su, USA
Phyllis G. Supino, USA
Jesper H. Svendsen, Denmark
Masahiko Takagi, Japan
Akira Tamura, Japan
W.H. Wilson Tang, USA
Paramjit S. Tappia, Canada
Christian Templin, Switzerland
Mitsuyasu Terashima, Japan
Luis Tercedor Sanchez, Spain
Bernhard Thibault, Canada
Dimitris Tousoulis, Greece
Jeffrey A. Towbin , USA
Steven Tracy, USA
Ronald J.A. Trent, Australia
Quynh A. Truong, USA
Masahiko Tsuchiya, Japan
Balwant S. Tuana, Canada
Yasunori Ueda, Japan
Mark K. Urman, USA
Masuko Ushio-Fukai, USA
Pim van der Harst, The Netherlands
Peter van der Meer, The Netherlands
Stephen F. Vatner, USA
Hector O. Ventura, USA
Johannes Waltenberger, Germany
S. Goya Wannamethee, UK
Lu Wang, USA
Qin Wang, USA
Xuejun Wang, USA
Yibin Wang, USA
Hiroshi Watanabe, Japan
Nanette Kass Wenger, USA
René R. Wenzel, USA
Cornelia M. Weyand, USA
Harvey D. White, New Zealand
Scott Wright, USA
Osamu Yamaguchi, Japan
Andrew T. Yan, Canada
Zhong-Qun Yan, Sweden
Phillip C. Yang, USA
Qinglin Yang, USA
Masafumi Yano, Japan
Jian Ye, Canada
Ertan Yetkin, Turkey
Ajit P. Yoganathan, USA
Doron Zahger, Israel
Maliha Zahid, USA
Alberto Zanchetti, Italy
Robert Zelis, USA
Zhixin (Jason) Zhang, USA
Hong Zheng, USA
Xi-Long Zheng, Canada
Yi Zhou, USA
Ming-Hui Zou, USA






 

 

 

News

Reduced Registration Deadline:
July 15, 2013

Final Program now online.

The scientific program of the 18th World Congress on Heart Disease has been reviewed by the American Medical Association and approved for a maximum of 25.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Publication of Abstracts:
Abstracts were published in a special online only supplement issue of the journal CARDIOLOGY.
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