FACULTY
FOUNDER & CONGRESS CHAIRMAN
Asher Kimchi, USA
SECTION CHAIRMENJeffrey S. Borer, USA
DIAGNOSTIC METHODS
Mihai Gheorghiade, USA
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
Uri Elkayam, USA
HEART FAILURE
Michael E. Cain, USA
ARRHYTHMIAS
John A. Elefteriades, USA
CARDIAC SURGERY
SCIENTIFIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Jeffrey S. Borer, USA (Chairman)
Ettore Ambrosioni, Italy |
Martin B. Leon, U.S.A. |
SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Osama Abdel-Aziz, Egypt Paolo G. Camici, U.K. A. John Camm, U.K. Christopher P. Cannon, U.S.A. Richard O. Cannon, III, U.S.A. Avraham Caspi, Israel Ward Casscells, U.S.A. Fatima Ceia, Portugal Roman Cerbak, Czech Republic Mario Cerqueira-Gomes, Portugal Yzhar Charuzi, U.S.A. Valeri S. Chekanov, U.S.A. Jie Cheng, U.S.A. John S. Child, U.S.A. Pierre Chouraqui, Israel Nicolas Chronos, U.S.A. J. Campbell Cowan, U.K. Alan J. Cowley, U.K. Michael J. Cowley, U.S.A. James L. Cox, U.S.A. Mark A. Creager, U.S.A. Harry JGM Crijns, Netherlands David C. Cumberland, U.K. Bjorn Dahlof, Sweden Daniel David, Israel Ivan K. De Scheerder, Belgium John E. Deanfield, U.K. Timothy A. Denton, U.S.A. Katherine M. Detre, U.S.A. Robert DiBianco, U.S.A. Gerald Dorros, U.S.A. Jean Luc Dubois-Rande, France Elazar R. Edelman, U.S.A. Leon Eijsman, Netherlands Michael L. Epstein, U.S.A. Raimund Erbel, Germany Erland Erdmann, Germany Michael D. Ezekowitz, U.S.A. Lameh Fananapazir, U.S.A. Jeronimo Farre, Spain Gregory K. Feld, U.S.A. Victor J. Ferrans, U.S.A. Giora Feuerstein, U.S.A. Loren J. Field, U.S.A. Michael A. Fifer, U.S.A. Desmond Fitzgerald, U.K. Peter J. Fitzgerald, U.S.A. Gisa Fleckenstein-Grun, Germany Ferenc Follath, Switzerland Gregg C. Fonarow, U.S.A. Gregory P. Fontana, U.S.A. Keith A. A. Fox, U.K. Mira Frand, Israel Mary Moore Free, U.S.A. Anthony P. Furnary, U.S.A. Eli S. Gang, U.S.A. Junbo Ge, Germany A. H. Gershlick, U.K. Herbert J. Geschwind, France Tal Geva, U.S.A. Michael Gibson, U.S.A. A.C. Gittenberger-de-Groo, Neth. Robert P. Giugliano, U.S.A. Uri Goldbourt, Israel Gunter Gorge, Germany Barry Greenberg, U.S.A. Richard A. Grimm, U.S.A. Jagdish Gulati, U.S.A. Steven R. Gundry, U.S.A. Rory Hachamovitch, U.S.A. Siegfried Hagl, Germany Alistair Hall, U.K. Donald Hall, Germany Christian W. Hamm, Germany John R. Hampton, U.K. Joshua M. Hare, U.S.A. Robert A. Harrington, U.S.A. Gerd Hasenfuss, Germany Yonathan Hasin, Israel David L. Hayes, U.S.A. Zuo-Xiang He, U.S.A. Otto M. Hess, Switzerland Roland Hetzer, Germany Bernd Heublein, Germany Gerd Heusch, Germany Richard R. Heuser, U.S.A. Michael B. Higginbotham, U.S.A. Robert E. Hobbs, U.S.A. Hanoch Hod, Israel Hans Martin Hoffmeister, Germany David R. Holmes, Jr., U.S.A. Masatsugu Hori, Japan Albert L. Hyman, U.S.A. David G. Iosseliani, Russia Thomas A. Ischinger, Germany Ami E. Iskandrian, U.S.A. Jeffrey M. Isner, U.S.A. Sriram Iyer, U.S.A. Seigo Izumo, U.S.A. Jose Jalife, U.S.A. Robert B. Jennings, U.S.A. Maryl R. Johnson, U.S.A. Richard A. Jonas, U.S.A. Bodh I. Jugdutt, Canada Werner Jung, Germany Hanjorg Just, Germany Karl R. Karsch, Germany Nevin M. Katz, U.S.A. Sanjay Kaul, U.S.A. Sanjiv Kaul, U.S.A. Ralph A. Kelly, U.S.A. Matyas Keltai, Hungary Andre Keren, Israel Morton J. Kern, U.S.A. Steven S. Khan, U.S.A. Yasuki Kihara, Japan Nodar N. Kipshidze, Georgia Yehezkiel Kishon, Israel Neal S. Kleiman, U.S.A. M. Kneussl, Austria Walter J. Koch, U.S.A. Jerzy Korewicki, Poland Robert L. Kormos, U.S.A. Peter R. Kowey, U.S.A. Howard S. Kruth, U.S.A. Henri E. Kulbertus, Belgium Richard E. Kuntz, U.S.A. Antione Lafont, France Avijit Lahiri, U.K. John Laird, U.S.A. Nasser Lakkis, U.S.A. Roberto M. Lang, U.S.A. Shlomo Laniado, Israel Jeffrey M. Leiden, U.S.A. Eran Leitersdorf, Israel Amir Lerman, U.S.A. Herbert J. Levine, U.S.A. Robert A. Levine, U.S.A. Theodore Barry Levine, U.S.A. |
Daniel Levy, U.S.A. Samuel Levy, France Howard C. Lewin, U.S.A. Philip R. Liebson, U.S.A. C. C. Liew, Canada A. Michael Lincoff, U.S.A. William C. Little, U.S.A. Peter P. Liu, Canada Daniel Loisance, France Berndt Luderitz, Germany Thomas F. Luscher, Switzerland Carlos Macaya, Spain Michael J. Mack, U.S.A. Aldo P. Maggioni, Italy John J. Mahmarian, U.S.A. Giuseppe Mancia, Italy Warren J. Manning, U.S.A. Eduardo Marban, U.S.A. Robert J. March, U.S.A. Vyacheslav Yu. Mareev, Russia James R. Margolis, U.S.A. Paolo Marino, Italy Barry J. Maron, U.S.A. Gerald R. Marx, U.S.A. Mario Marzilli, Italy Paolo Marzullo, Italy Dean T. Mason, U.S.A. Jack M. Matloff, U.S.A. Gerald Maurer, Austria Patrick M. McCarthy, U.S.A. William J. McKenna, U.K. Jawahar L. Mehta, U.S.A. Thomas Meinertz, Germany Bruno M. Meiser, Germany George A. Mensah, U.S.A. Dan M. Meyer, U.S.A. Leslie W. Miller, U.S.A. Israel Mirsky, U.S.A. David J. Moliterno, U.S.A. Rainer G. H. Moosdorf, Germany James P. Morgan, U.S.A. Jeffrey W. Moses, U.S.A. A. Mugelli, Italy Navin C. Nanda, U.S.A. Patrick Nataf, France Gian Gastone Neri Serneri, Italy A. C. Newby, U.K. Steven E. Nissen, U.S.A. Kenneth Nordstrand, Norway Daniel R. Nul, Argentina Eliot H. Ohlstein, U.S.A. Altan Onat, Turkey Igor Palacios, U.S.A. Carlo Palombo, Italy J. Gy. Papp, Hungary John O. Parker, Canada Richard C. Pasternak, U.S.A. Kaushik P. Patel, U.S.A. Walter J. Paulus, Belgium J. Perk, Sweden William Piccione, U.S.A. Ileana L. Piņa, U.S.A. Fausto J. Pinto, Portugal C. Pitsavos, Greece Philip J. Podrid, U.S.A. Gerald M. Pohost, U.S.A. Francisco J. Puga, U.S.A. Miguel Quinones, U.S.A. Babeth Rabinowitz, Israel Albert E. Raizner, U.S.A. Stephen R. Ramee, U.S.A. Dubois Rande, France Andrew C. Rankin, U.K. Eldad Rechavia, Israel Margaret M. Redfield, U.S.A. Johan H. C. Reiber, Netherlands Bruno Reichart, Germany Mark Reisman, U.S.A. Joseph G. Reves, U.S.A. David Richmond, Australia Howard A. Rockman, U.S.A. Joe L. Rod, U.S.A. Eric A. Rose, U.S.A. Michael R. Rosen, U.S.A. Allan Michael Ross, U.S.A. Robert D. Ross, U.S.A. Marcos A. Rossi, Brazil Arie Roth, Israel Jacques E. Roussouw, U.S.A. Stanley A. Rubin, U.S.A. Israel Rubinstein, U.S.A. W. Ruzyllo, Poland David J. Sahn, U.S.A. Sanjeev Saksena, U.S.A. Jukka T. Salonen, Finland Timothy A. Sanborn, U.S.A. Massimo Santini, Italy Saul Schaefer, U.S.A. Richard A. Schatz, U.S.A. Melvin M. Scheinman, U.S.A. Heinrich R. Schelbert, U.S.A. Tommy Schonfeld, Israel Henning Schroeder, Germany John S. Schroeder, U.S.A. Helmut Schuhlen, Germany H. P. Schultheiss, Germany Markus Schwaiger, Germany Ketty Schwartz, France Robert R. Sciacca, U.S.A. Samuel Sclarovsky, Israel Leonard M. Shapiro, U.K. D. Norman Sharpe, New Zealand Michael Shechter, U.S.A. Avraham Shotan, Israel Robert J. Siegel, U.S.A. Marc A. Silver, U.S.A. Rudiger W. R. Simon, Germany Pawan K. Singal, Canada Richard W. Smalling, U.S.A. Frank W. Smart, U.S.A. Nicholas G. Smedira, U.S.A. Sidney C. Smith, Jr., U.S.A. Burton E. Sobel, U.S.A. William H. Spencer, III, U.S.A. David H. Spodick, U.S.A. Martin G. St. John Sutton, U.S.A. Randall C. Starling, U.S.A. Ph. Gabriel Steg, France Yehezkiel Stein, Israel Shlomo Stern, Israel Allan D. Struthers, U.K. Valavanur A. Subramanian, U.S.A. H. Robert Superko, U.S.A. George C. Sutton, U.K. Luigi Tavazzi, Italy Stanley H. Taylor, U.K. James E. Tcheng, U.S.A. Ulrich Tebbe, Germany Udho Thadani, U.S.A. E. Thaulow, Norway Gaetano Thiene, Italy James D. Thomas, U.S.A. Gianni Tognoni, Italy Gordon F. Tomaselli, U.S.A. Pavlos K. Toutouzas, Greece Ronald Trent, Australia Ernst E. van der Wall, Netherlands L. Ron van der Wieken, Netherlands Paul M. Vanhoutte, France Douglas E. Vaughan, U.S.A. Freek W.A. Verheugt, Netherlands Isidro Vilacosta, Spain Renu Virmani, U.S.A. Cees A. Visser, Netherlands Wolfram Voelker, Germany Hans-Peter Vosberg, Germany Lars Wallentin, Sweden Andrew S. Wechsler, U.S.A. Judah Weinberger, U.S.A. Matthew R. Weir, U.S.A. A. Teddy Weiss, Israel Christopher J. White, U.S.A. Harvey D. White, New Zealand Patrick L. Whitlow, U.S.A. E. Douglas Wigle, Canada John R. Wilson, U.S.A. Christian Wolpert, Germany Magdi H. Yacoub, U.K. Hirofumi Yasue, Japan Alan C. Yeung, U.S.A. Seppo Yia-Herttuala, Finland Paul G. Yock, U.S.A. James B. Young, U.S.A. Doron Zahger, Israel Alberto Zanchetti, Italy Piero Zardini, Italy James P. Zidar, U.S.A. Irving H. Zucker, U.S.A. |
SCIENTIFIC ABSTRACT REVIEW COMMITTEE
| Osama Abdel-Aziz, Egypt Kirkwood F. Adams, Jr., USA Denis Agostini, France Joseph S. Alpert, USA Ezra A. Amsterdam, USA Jeffrey L. Anderson, USA Nestor J. Angomachalelis, Greece Manuel De Jesus Antunes, Portugal Charles Antzelevitch, USA Piero Anversa, USA Paul W. Armstrong, Canada Christie M. Ballantyne, USA Manel Ballester, Spain John B. Barlow, South Africa Carlos Blanche, USA Raoul Bonan, Canada Jeffrey S. Borer, USA Harisios Boudoulas, USA Ayrton Pires Brandao, Brazil Jeffrey A. Brinker, USA Maurice Buchbinder, USA Christian Cabrol, France Michael E. Cain, USA Antonio M. Calafiore, Italy Paolo G. Camici, UK A. John Camm, UK Christopher P. Cannon, USA Richard O. Cannon, III, USA Avraham Caspi, Israel Fatima Ceia, Portugal Bojan Cercek, USA Leszek Ceremuzynski, Poland Yzhar Charuzi, USA Kanu Chatterjee, USA Valeri S. Chekanov, USA John S. Child, USA Pierre Chouraqui, Israel Nicolas Chronos, USA J. Campbell Cowan, UK Harry J.G.M. Crijns, The Netherlands David C. Cumberland, UK Sergio Dalla-Volta, Italy Ivan K. De Scheerder, Belgium Prakash Deedwania, USA Timothy A. Denton, USA Katherine M. Detre, USA Robert DiBianco, USA Gerald Dorros, USA Jean-Luc Dubois-Rande, France Elazar R. Edelman, USA Neal Eigler, USA Leon Eijsman, The Netherlands John A. Elefteriades, USA Uri Elkayam, USA Michael L. Epstein, USA Raimund Erbel, Germany Erland Erdmann, Germany Georg Ertl, Germany Michael D. Ezekowitz, USA Lameh Fananapazir, USA Gregory K. Feld, USA Victor J. Ferrans, USA Giora Z. Feuerstein, USA Michael A. Fifer, USA Gisa Fleckenstein-Grun, Germany Gregg C. Fonarow, USA Gregory P. Fontana, USA Kieth A.A. Fox, UK Mira Frand, Israel Mary Moore Free, USA Anthony P. Furnary, USA William H. Gaasch, USA William Ganz, USA Junbo Ge, Germany A. H. Gershlick, UK Mihai Gheorghiade, USA Robert P. Giugliano, USA Sidney Goldstein, USA Gunter Gorge, Germany Richard A. Grimm, USA Steven R. Gundry, USA Donald Hall, Germany Christian W. Hamm, Germany John R. Hampton, UK Joshua M. Hare, USA Gerd Hasenfuss, Germany Roland Hetzer, Germany Bernd Heublein, Germany Gerd Heusch, Germany Richard R. Heuser, USA Michael B. Higginbotham, USA Robert E. Hobbs, USA Hanoch Hod, Israel Hans Martin Hoffmeister, Germany Christian Holubarsch, Germany Masatsugu Hori, Japan Albert L. Hyman, USA Thomas A. Ischinger, Germany Ami E. Iskandrian, USA Jeffrey M. Isner, USA Sriram Iyer, USA Maryl R. Johnson, USA Richard A. Jonas, USA Bodh I. Jugdutt, Canada Werner Jung, Germany Karl R. Karsch, Germany Nevin M. Katz, USA Sanjay Kaul, USA Sanjiv Kaul, USA Ralph A. Kelly, USA Morton J. Kern, USA Steven S. Khan, USA Yasuki Kihara, Japan Nodar N. Kipshidze, Georgia Werner Klein, Austria |
Walter J. Koch, USA Jerzy Korewicki, Poland Peter R. Kowey, USA Howard S. Kruth, USA Henri E. Kulbertus, Belgium Avijit Lahiri, UK Roberto M. Lang, USA Shlomo Laniado, Israel Amir Lerman, USA Samuel Levy, France Philip R. Liebson, USA A. Michael Lincoff, USA Frank Litvack, USA Peter P. Liu, Canada Berndt Luderitz, Germany Carlos Macaya, Spain Aldo P. Maggioni, Italy John J. Mahmarian, USA Raj R. Makkar, USA Giuseppe Mancia, Italy Warren J. Manning, USA Mario F.C. Maranhao, Brazil Eduardo Marban, USA James R. Margolis, USA Barry J. Maron, USA Mario Marzilli, Italy Paolo Marzullo, Italy Patrick McGuane McCarthy, USA William J. McKenna, UK Jawahar L. Mehta, USA Thomas Meinertz, Germany Bruno M. Meiser, Germany Dan M. Meyer, USA David J. Moliterno, USA Rainer G.H. Moosdorf, Germany James P. Morgan, USA Jeffrey W. Moses, USA Harald Mudra, Germany Elizabeth G. Nabel, USA Navin C. Nanda, USA Masakiyo Nobuyoshi, Japan Daniel R. Nul, Argentina Altan Onat, Turkey Igor Palacios, USA Carlo Palombo, Italy John O. Parker, Canada Kaushik P. Patel, USA Walter J. Paulus, Belgium William Piccione Jr., USA Fausto J. Pinto, Portugal Christos E. Pitsavos, Greece Bertram Pitt, USA Philip J. Podrid, USA Francisco J. Puga, USA Eldad Rechavia, Israel Bruno Reichart, Germany Ariel J. Reyes, Uruguay Robert Roberts, USA William C. Roberts, USA Joe L. Rod, USA Michael R. Rosen, USA Clive Rosendorff, USA Robert D. Ross, USA Marcos A. Rossi, Brazil Arie Roth, Israel Stanley A. Rubin, USA Israel Rubinstein, USA Hani N. Sabbah, USA David J. Sahn, USA Saul Schaefer, USA Melvin M. Scheinman, USA John S. Schroeder, USA Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Germany Markus Schwaiger, Germany Robert R. Sciacca, USA Samuel Sclarovsky, Israel Ricardo J. Seabra-Gomes, Portugal D. Norman Sharpe, New Zealand Michael Shechter, Israel Robert J. Siegel, USA Rudiger W.R. Simon, Germany Pawan K. Singal, Canada Richard W. Smalling, USA Frank W. Smart, USA Edmund H. Sonnenblick, USA David H. Spodick, USA Martin G. St. John Sutton, USA Ph. Gabriel Steg, France Yehezkiel Stein, Israel Shlomo Stern, Israel Allan D. Struthers, UK H. Robert Superko, USA Harold J.C. Swan, USA Luigi Tavazzi, Italy E. Thaulow, Norway Gaetano Thiene, Italy James D. Thomas, USA Gordon Tomaselli, USA Pavlos K. Toutouzas, Greece Ronald J.A. Trent, Australia Gideon Uretzky, Israel Paul M. Vanhoutte, France Freek W.A. Verheught, The Netherlands Isidro Vilacosta, Spain Wolfram Voelker, Germany Judah Weinberger, USA Matthew R. Weir, Israel A. Teddy Weiss, Israel Harvey D. White, New Zealand James T. Willerson, USA John R. Wilson, USA Christian Wolpert, Germany Alan C. Yeung, USA Doron Zahger, Israel Irving H. Zucker, USA |