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FOUNDER AND CONGRESS CHAIRMAN
Asher Kimchi, USA

SECTION CHAIRMEN
Jawahar L. Mehta, USA Pawan K. Singal, Canada CELLULAR BIOLOGY OF THE HEART John C. Burnett, USA Henning Schroeder, Germany VASCULAR BIOLOGY Prediman K. Shah, USA PATHOGENESIS OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS Peter C. Block, USA George W. Vetrovec, USA CORONARY CIRCULATION Daniel S. Berman, USA Vasken Dilsizian, USA NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY Fausto J. Pinto, Portugal ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY Herbert J. Geschwind, France BIOETHICS Prakash C. Deedwania, USA Udho Thadani, USA CARDIOVASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY AND DRUG THERAPY Jeffrey S. Borer, USA VALVULAR HEART DISEASE Philip R. Liebson, USA Clive Rosendorff, USA HYPERTENSION AND THE HEART Hani N. Sabbah, USA Nestor J. Angomachalelis, Greece MYOCARDIAL AND PERICARDIAL DISEASES Uri Elkayam, USA Mihai Gheorghiade, USA HEART FAILURE David J. Wilber, USA ARRHYTHMIAS William T. Abraham, USA Brian Olshansky, USA PACING 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 Denis Agostini, France Martin A. Alpert, USA Ezra A. Amsterdam, USA Nestor J. Angomachalelis, Greece Jeroen J. Bax, The Netherlands Daniel S. Berman, USA Rafael Beyar, Israel Geetha Bhat, USA Peter C. Block, USA Harisios Boudoulas, Greece Robert C. Bourge, USA John C. Burnett, USA Michael E. Cain, USA Yzhar Charuzi, USA Kanu Chatterjee, USA James H. Chesebro, USA Sergio Dalla Volta, Italy Prakash C. Deedwania, USA Naranjan S. Dhalla, Canada Robert DiBianco, USA Vasken Dilsizian, USA Brian W. Duncan, USA Neal Eigler, USA Nabil E. El-Sherif, USA John A. Elefteriades, USA Uri Elkayam, USA Michael L. Epstein, USA Gordon A. Ewy, USA Daniel Flammang, France Gregg C. Fonarow, USA Guy Fontaine, France Gregory P. Fontana, USA James S. Forrester, USA Peter Ganz, USA William Ganz, USA Junbo Ge, PR China Anthony H. Gershlick, UK Herbert J. Geschwind, France Mihai Gheorghiade, USA Sidney Goldstein, USA Mervyn S. Gotsman, Israel Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., USA Joshua M. Hare, USA Roland Hetzer, Germany Robert E. Hobbs, USA David G. Iosseliani, Russia Maryl R. Johnson, USA Bodh I. Jugdutt, Canada	Lorrie A. Kirshenbaum, Canada Werner Klein, Austria Itzhak Kronzon, USA Howard S. Kruth, USA Horst Kuhn, Germany Amir Lerman, USA Philip R. Liebson, USA William C. Little, USA Raj R. Makkar, USA 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 Patrick Nataf, France Dean Ornish, USA C. Thomas Peter, USA Fausto J. Pinto, Portugal Gerald Pohost, USA Bruno Reichart, Germany Ariel J. Reyes, Uruguay Paul M. Ridker, USA William C. Roberts, USA Clive Rosendorff, USA Israel Rubinstein, USA Hani N. Sabbah, USA Saul Schaefer, 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 Michael J. Sole, Canada Shlomo Stern, Israel A. Jamil Tajik, USA Doris Taylor, USA Udho Thadani, USA Jeffrey A. Towbin, USA Ronald J. A. Trent, Australia Alfredo Trento, USA Barry F. Uretsky, USA George W. Vetrovec, USA Ron Waksman, USA Irving H. Zucker, USA

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Kirkwood F. Adams, Jr., USA Dan Admon, Israel Kumar Adrash, India Masood Akhtar, USA Etienne M. Aliot, France Maurits A. Allessie, Netherlands Jesus Almendral Garrote, Spain Joseph S. Alpert, USA `Salomon Amar, USA` Giuseppe Ambrosio, Italy Ettore Ambrosioni, Italy H. Vernon Anderson, USA Charles Antzelevitch, USA Piero Anversa, USA Eloisa Arbustini, Italy Gerd Assmann, Germany Angelo Auricchio, Germany U. Baandrup, Denmark Steven R. Bailey, USA C. Noel Bairy Merz, USA Christie M. Ballantyne, USA Manel Ballester-Rodes, Spain Greg Barsness, USA Ronen Beeri, Israel Solomon Behar, Israel Ulrike Beisiegel, Germany Bernard Belhassen, Israel Shlomo Ben-Haim, Israel Lee Benson, Canada Jutta Bergler-Klein, Austria Rafael Beyar, Israel Burns C. Blaxall, USA Leonard C. Blieden, Israel Jozsef Borbola, Hungary Claudio Borghi, Italy Mohamed Boutjdir, USA Neil Bowles, USA Ayrton Pires Brandao, Brazil Michele Brignole, Italy W. Virgil Brown, USA Pedro Brugada, Belgium Dirk L. Brutsaert, Belgium Maurice Buchbinder, USA Andrew Burger, USA Peter M. Buttrick, USA Francois Cambien, France Christopher P. Cannon, USA John G. Canto, USA Alessandro Capucci, Italy David M. Capuzzi, USA Sergio Castellani, Italy Roman Cerbak, Czech Republic Bojan Cercek, USA Leszek Ceremuzynski, Poland Peng-Sheng Chen, USA W. Randolph Chitwood, USA Pierre Chouraqui, Israel Peter F. Cohn, USA Dennis V. Cokkinos, Greece Steven Colan, USA Leslie Cooper, USA David C. Cumberland, UK Lawrence S. Czer, USA Daniel David, Israel Jeanne M. DeCara, USA Nabil Dib, USA Gerald Dorros, USA Anique Ducharme, Canada Mercedes, K.C. Dullum, USA Andrea Eckhart, USA Elazar R. Edelman, USA Eric Eeckhout, Switzerland Leon Eijsman, The Netherlands Paul R. Eisenberg, USA Erland Erdmann, Germany Georg Ertl, Germany Lameh Fananapazir, USA Francesco Fedele, Italy Carlos M. Ferrario, USA Gerasimos S. Filippatos, Greece Tim A. Fischell, USA Gregg C. Fonarow, USA Elyse Foster, USA Francesco Furlanello, Italy Anthony P. Furnary, USA William H. Gaasch, USA Julius Gardin, USA Kirk N. Garratt, USA Guido Germano, USA Borut Gersak, Slovenia Bernard J. Gersh, USA Jalal K. Ghali, USA Linda D. Gillam, USA Robert P. Giugliano, USA Robert Goldberg, USA Nora F. Goldschlager, USA Steven R. Goldsmith, USA Steven A. Goldstein, USA Gunter Gorge, Germany John S. Gottdiener, USA Shmuel Gottlieb, Israel Scott M. Grundy, USA Peter Guerra, Canada Gerard Marcel Guiraudon, Canada Gabriel B. Habib, USA David E. Haines, USA Donald Hall, Germany Christian W. Hamm, Germany Peter Hanrath, Germany Gerd Hasenfuss, Germany Michael Haude, Germany Christian C. Haudenschild, USA Zuo-Xiang He, China Charles H. Hennekens, USA Michel Henry, France Otto M. Hess, Switzerland Bernd Heublein, Germany Denise M. Heublein, USA Gerd Heusch, Germany Richard R. Heuser, USA Michael B. Higginbotham, USA Judith S. Hochman, USA Hans Martin Hoffmeister, Germany Vinzenz Hombach, Germany Masatsugu Hori, Japan Keith A. Horvath, USA Donald B. Hunninghake, USA Joanne Ingwall, USA Thomas A. Ischinger, Germany Ami E. Iskandrian, USA Shirish Jani, USA Luis J. Jimenez-Borreguero, Spain Alan H. Kadish, USA John J. Kar, USA Saibal Kar, USA David Kass, USA Sanjay Kaul, USA Ulrich Keil, Germany Daniel P. Kelly, USA Matyas Keltai, Hungary Kenneth M. Kent, USA Steven S. Khan, USA Bijoy Khandheria, USA Yasuki Kihara, Japan Nodar N. Kipshidze, Rep. Georgia Yehezkiel Kishon, Israel John Kjekshus, Norway Marc Klapholz, USA Volker Klauss, Germany Helmut Klein, Germany Juhani Knuuti, Finland Stephen L. Kopecky, USA Litsa Kranias, USA Henry Krum, Australia Wolfgang Kubler, Germany Henri E. Kulbertus, Belgium Antonio L'Abbate, Italy Philippe L. L'Allier, Canada Jean-Marc Lablanche, France Roger Laham, USA Avijit Lahiri, UK Nasser Lakkis, USA Roberto M. Lang, USA Richard A. Lange, USA Alexandra Lansky, USA Philippe Lechat, France Robert J. Lederman, USA Eran Leitersdorf, Israel Jonathan Leor, Israel Norman Lepor, USA Paul A. Levine, USA Robert A. Levine, USA Theodore Barry Levine, USA	Samuel Levy, France Martin M. LeWinter, USA Choong-Chin Liew, USA Shih-Chung Lin, Taiwan A. Michael Lincoff, USA Frank Litvack, USA Peter P. Liu, Canada Daniel Loisance, France Chaim Lotan, Israel Reginald Low, U.S.A Charles Y. Lui, USA Thomas F. Luscher, Switzerland Carlos Macaya, Spain W. Robb MacLellan, USA Jamshid Maddahi, USA `Kenneth Maiese, USA` Bernhard Maisch, Germany Alan S. Maisel, USA Warren J. Manning, USA James R. Margolis, USA Antonio Martinez-Rubio, Spain Mario Marzilli, Italy Peter A. McCullough, USA Bruce M. McManus, Canada Bruno M. Meiser, Germany Joao Melo, Portugal George A. Mensah, USA Jose L. Merino, Spain Evangelos Michelakis, Canada Emile R. Mohler, USA Gilles Montalescot, France Rainer G. H. Moosdorf, Germany Michael Motro, Israel Harald Mudra, Germany Thomas Muenzel, Germany Navin C. Nanda, USA Tasneem Naqvi, USA Danilo Neglia, Italy Thomas Netticadan, Canada Robert A. O'Rourke, USA Jae K. Oh, USA Brian Olshansky, USA Joseph P. Ornato, USA Ali Oto, Turkey Ilya Eli Ovsyshcher, Israel Douglas L. Packer, USA Luigi Padeletti, Italy Igor Palacios, USA Carlo Palombo, Italy Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Greece Kailash Pandey, USA Natesa G. Pandian, USA J. Gy. Papp, Hungary Richard C. Pasternak, USA Kaushik P. Patel, USA Matthias Pauschinger, Germany Luc A. Pierard, Belgium Burkert Pieske, Germany Christos Pitsavos, Greece Bertram Pitt, USA Jorge Plutzky, USA Brian N.C. Prichard, UK Silvia G. Priori, Italy Marlene Rabinovitch, Canada Babeth Rabinowitz, Israel Daniel J. Rader, USA Ninoslav Radovanovic, Yugoslavia Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola, USA Jai Raman, Australia Anis Rassi Jr., Brazil Antonio Raviele, Italy Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Germany Joseph G. Reves, USA Joe L. Rod, U.S.A Richard J. Rodeheffer, USA Suzanne Roedler, Austria Todd K. Rosengart, USA `Geoffrey L. Rosenthal, USA` Robert D. Ross, USA Marcos A. Rossi, Brazil Arie Roth, Israel Martin T. Rothman, UK Stanley A. Rubin, USA David J. Sahn, USA Jukka T. Salonen, Finland Mitchell Saltzberg, USA Gianmario Sambuceti, Italy Timothy A. Sanborn, USA Massimo Santini, Italy Hartzell V. Schaff, USA Heinrich R. Schelbert, USA Nelson B. Schiller, U.S.A Tommy Schonfeld, Israel Helmut Schuhlen, Germany Ronald G. Schwartz, USA Ricardo J. Seabra-Gomes, Portugal Frank W. Sellke, USA Jochen Senges, Germany Peter S. Sever, UK Neil S. Shachter, USA Leonard M. Shapiro, UK D. Norman Sharpe, New Zealand Michael Shechter, Israel Win-Kuang Shen, USA Avraham Shotan, Israel Robert J. Siegel, USA Rudiger W. R. Simon, Germany Gianfranco Sinagra, Italy Bramah N. Singh, USA Mark S. Slaughter, USA J. Graeme Sloman, Australia Frank W. Smart, USA Kirk T. Spencer, USA Francis G. Spinale, USA David H. Spodick, USA Brigitte Stanek, Austria Randall C. Starling, USA Christodoulos Stefanadis, Greece Yehezkiel Stein, Israel William G. Stevenson, USA Bodo-Eckehard Strauer, Germany Allan D. Struthers, Scotland Valavanur A. Subramanian, USA Martin G. St. John Sutton, USA Bernard Swynghedauw, France Henrich Taegtmeyer, USA Jean-Francois Tanguay, Canada Paramjit S. Tappia, Canada Jean-Claude Tardif, Canada Luigi Tavazzi, Italy Gaetano Thiene, Italy Takanobu Tomaru, Japan Andrew M. Tonkin, Australia On Topaz, USA Paul Touboul, France Teruhiko Toyo-oka, Japan Steven Tracy, USA Gideon Uretzky, Israel Ernst E. van der Wall, Netherlands L. Ron van der Wieken, Netherlands Marc Vanderheyden, Belgium Paul M. Vanhoutte, France Joannis Vassiliadis, Greece `Matteo Vatta, USA` Douglas E. Vaughan, USA Hector O. Ventura, USA Zvi Vered, Israel Isidro Vilacosta, Spain Cees A. Visser, The Netherlands Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Greece Wolfram Voelker, Germany Lynne E. Wagoner, USA Johannes Waltenberger, Germany Judah Weinberger, USA Myron L. Weisfeldt, USA A. Teddy Weiss, Israel Nanette Kass Wenger, USA Rene R. Wenzel, Germany Harvey D. White, New Zealand James Whiting, USA E. Douglas Wigle, Canada David J. Wilber, USA Josiah N. Wilcox, USA Christian Wolpert, Germany Scott Wright, USA Xiaoming Yang, USA Yoshio Yazaki, Japan Doron Zahger, Israel Alberto Zanchetti, Italy Piero Zardini, Italy Wojciech Zareba, USA Barry L. Zaret, USA Robert Zelis, USA