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FOUNDER AND CONGRESS CHAIRMAN
Asher Kimchi, USA

SECTION CHAIRMEN
Jawahar L. Mehta, USA Pawan K. Singal, USA CELLULAR BIOLOGY OF THE HEART Amir Lerman, USA Henning Schroeder, Germany VASCULAR BIOLOGY Daniel S. Berman, USA NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY Fausto J. Pinto, Portugal ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY Herbert J. Geschwind, France BIOETHICS Michael L. Epstein, USA PEDIATRICS Peter C. Block, USA Mihai Gheorghiade, USA CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE Philip R. Liebson, USA Clive Rosendorff, USA HYPERTENSION AND THE HEART Hani N. Sabah, USA H.P. Schultheiss, Germany MYOCARDIAL AND PERICARDIAL DISEASES Udho Thadani, USA CARDIOVASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY AND DRUG THERAPY Michael E. Cain, USA ARRHYTHMIAS Jeffrey S. Borer, USA VALVULAR HEART DISEASE John A. Elefteriades, USA CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY Uri Elkayam, USA CLINICAL TRIALS

SCIENTIFIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Osama Abdel-Aziz, Egypt William T. Abraham, USA Jeffrey S. Borer, USA Harisios Boudoulas, USA Eugene Braunwald, USA Michael E. Cain, USA Leszek Ceremuzynski, Poland Yzhar Charuzi, USA Kanu Chatterjee, USA Prakash C. Deedwania, USA Naranjan S. Dhalla, Canada Robert DiBianco, USA Neal Eigler, USA John A. Elefteriades, USA Uri Elkayam, USA Michael L. Epstein, USA Gordon A. Ewy, USA Gregg C. Fonarow, USA Guy Fontaine, France Gregory P. Fontana, USA James S. Forrester, USA William Ganz, USA Herbert J. Geschwind, France Sidney Goldstein, USA Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., USA Roland Hetzer, Germany Bernd Heublein, Germany Robert E. Hobbs, USA David G. Iosseliani, Russia Maryl R. Johnson, USA Bodh I. Jugdutt, Canada Lorrie A. Kirshenbaum, Canada Walter J. Koch, USA Amir Lerman, USA Peter Libby, USA Philip R. Liebson, USA William C. Little, USA	Bernhard Maisch, Germany Giuseppe Mancia, Italy Paolo Marzullo, Italy Gerald Maurer, Austria Patrick McGuane McCarthy, USA Jawahar L. Mehta, USA Dan M. Meyer, USA James P. Morgan, USA Thomas A. Orszulak, USA C. Thomas Peter, USA Bruno Reichart, Germany James A. Reiffel, USA Ariel J. Reyes, Uruguay Paul M. Ridker, USA William C. Roberts, USA Clive Rosendorff, USA Hani N. Sabbah, USA David J. Sahn, USA Saul Schaefer, USA Hartzell V. Schaff, USA Henning Schroeder, Germany Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Germany Petar M. Seferovic, Yugoslavia Andrew Selwyn, USA Prediman K. Shah, USA Horst Sievert, Germany Marc A. Silver, USA Pawan K. Singal, Canada Shlomo Stern, Israel A. Jamil Tajik, USA Udho Thadani, USA Jeffrey A. Towbin, USA Ronald J. A. Trent, Australia Barry F. Uretsky, USA James T. Willerson, USA James B. Young, USA Irving H. Zucker, USA

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Jonathan Abrams, USA Kirkwood F. Adams, Jr., USA Giuseppe Ambrosio, Italy Ettore Ambrosioni, Italy Inder S. Anand, USA Nestor J. Angomachalelis, Greece Charles Antzelevitch, USA Piero Anversa, USA C. Noel Bairy Merz, USA Christie M. Ballantyne, USA Jutta Bergler-Klein, Austria Rafael Beyar, Israel Daniel G. Blanchard, USA Roger S. Blumenthal, USA Claudio Borghi, Italy Neil Bowles, USA Ayrton Pires Brandao, Brazil Pedro Brugada, Belgium Dirk L. Brutsaert, Belgium Andrew Burger, USA Francois Cambien, France Roman Cerbak, Czech Republic Pierre Chouraqui, Israel Nicolas Chronos, USA Dennis V. Cokkinos, Greece Leslie Cooper, USA Michael J. Cowley, USA Edward B. Diethrich, USA Vasken Dilsizian, USA Gerald Dorros, USA Andrea Eckhart, USA Leon Eijsman, The Netherlands Erland Erdmann, Germany Georg Ertl, Germany Lameh Fananapazir, USA Jeronimo Farre, Spain Michael A. Fifer, USA Daniel Flammang, France Anthony P. Furnary, USA William H. Gaasch, USA Rami A. Gal, USA Julius Gardin, USA Kirk N. Garratt, USA Junbo Ge, P.R. China Borut Gersak, Slovenia Bernard J. Gersh, USA A. H. Gershlick, UK W. Brian Gibler, USA MIchael R. Gold, USA James Goldstein, USA John S. Gottdiener, USA Eberhard Grube, Germany Steven R. Gundry, USA Markus Haass, Germany Christian W. Hamm, Germany Peter Hanrath, Germany Joshua M. Hare, USA Gerd Hasenfuss, Germany Denise Hermann, USA Otto M. Hess, Switzerland Denise M. Heublein, USA Gerd Heusch, Germany Masatsugu Hori, Japan Albert L. Hyman, USA Joanne Ingwall, USA Thomas A. Ischinger, Germany Ami E. Iskandrian, USA Warren M. Jackman, USA Hanjorg Just, Germany Alan H. Kadish, USA Sanjay Kaul, USA Ulrich Keil, Germany Matyas Keltai, Hungary Yasuki Kihara, Japan Yehezkiel Kishon, Israel Volker Klauss, Germany Neal S. Kleiman, USA Stephen L. Kopecky, USA Michaela Kozakova, Italy Itzhak Kronzon, USA Howard S. Kruth, USA Horst Kuhn, Germany Arthur J. Labovitz, USA Nasser Lakkis, USA Roberto M. Lang, USA Richard A. Lange, USA Chu-Pak Lau, Hong Kong Jonathan Leor, Israel Norman Lepor, USA Peter C. Levendag, The Netherlands Herbert J. Levine, USA Robert A. Levine, USA Theodore Barry Levine, USA Frank Litvack, USA Peter P. Liu, Canada Daniel Loisance, France Chaim Lotan, Israel Charles Y. Lui, USA	Per Lund-Johansen, Norway Raj R. Makkar, USA Warren J. Manning, USA Eduardo Marban, USA James R. Margolis, USA Jonathan D. Marmur, USA Barry J. Maron, USA Gerald R. Marx, USA Jose L. Merino, Spain Leslie W. Miller, USA Michael Motro, Israel Harald Mudra, Germany Navin C. Nanda, USA Danilo Neglia, Italy Masakiyo Nobuyoshi, Japan Robert A. O'Rourke, USA Celia M. Oakley, UK Jae K. Oh, USA Brian Olshansky, USA Ali Oto, Turkey Ilya Eli Ovsyshcher, Israel Douglas L. Packer, USA Luigi Padeletti, Italy Igor Palacios, USA Carlo Palombo, Italy Natesa G. Pandian, USA Rodolfo Paoletti, Italy Vasilios Papademetriou, USA J. Gy. Papp, Hungary Richard C. Pasternak, USA William Piccione, Jr., USA Burkert Pieske, Germany Fausto J. Pinto, Portugal Christos Pitsavos, Greece Bertram Pitt, USA Philip J. Podrid, USA Francisco J. Puga, USA Arshed A. Quyyumi, USA Marlene Rabinovitch, Canada Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola, USA Jai Raman, Australia Stephen R. Remmee, USA Richard J. Rodeheffer, USA Todd K. Rosengart, USA Robert D. Ross, USA Marcos A. Rossi, Brazil Arie Roth, Israel Israel Rubinstein, USA Jeremy Ruskin, USA Massimo Santini, Italy Heinrich R. Schelbert, USA Helmut Schuhlen, Germany Markus Schwaiger, Germany Ricardo J. Seabra-Gomes, Portugal Leonard M. Shapiro, UK D. Norman Sharpe, New Zealand Fayaz Shawl, USA Michael Shechter, Israel Clarence Shub, USA Robert J. Siegel, USA Rudiger W. R. Simon, Germany Americo Simonini, USA Frank W. Smart, USA Nicholas G. Smedira, USA Francis G. Spinale, USA David H. Spodick, USA Brigitte Stanek, Austria Ph. Gabriel Steg, France William G. Stevenson, USA Allan D. Struthers, Scotland Valavanur A. Subramanian, USA Martin G. St. John Sutton, USA Bernard Swynghedauw, France Walter Tan, USA Jean-Francois Tanguay, Canada Jean-Claude Tardif, Canada Luigi Tavazzi, Italy Doris Taylor, USA Pierre Theroux, Canada Gordon F. Tomaselli, USA Zoltan G. Turi, USA Dan Tzivoni, Israel Arnoud van der Laarse, The Netherlands Marc Vanderheyden, Belgium Paul M. Vanhoutte, France Panagiotis E. Vardas, Greece Mario S. Verani, USA Cees A. Visser, The Netherlands A. Teddy Weiss, Israel Nanette Kass Wenger, USA Rene R. Wenzel, Germany James Whiting, USA Yoshio Yazaki, Japan Alberto Zanchetti, Italy Piero Zardini, Italy Robert Zelis, USA Michael R. Zile, USA William A. Zoghbi, USA