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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