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FOUNDER AND CONGRESS CHAIRMAN
Asher Kimchi, USA

SCIENTIFIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
William T. Abraham, USA Martin A. Alpert, USA Ezra Amsterdam, USA Nestor J. Angomachalelis, Greece Dan Atar, Norway Stephen R. Bailey, USA Elizabeth L. Barrett-Connor, USA Gregory Barsness, USA Lewis Becker, USA Jonathan N. Bella, USA Gerald S. Berenson, USA Vera Bittner, USA Peter C. Block, USA Robert O. Bonow, USA Jeffrey S. Borer, USA Harisios Boudoulas, Greece Robert C. Bourge, USA Mohamed Boutjdir, USA Neil E. Bowles, USA Michael E. Cain, USA Yzhar Charuzi, USA Kanu Chatterjee, USA Denton A. Cooley, USA Lawrence S. Czer, USA Sergio Dalla-Volta, Italy Naranjan S. Dhalla, Canada Vasken Dilsizian, USA Anique Ducharme, Canada Brian Duncan, USA John A. Elefteriades, USA Uri Elkayam, USA Francesco Fedele, Italy James S. Forrester, USA Ulrich Forstermann, Germany Valentin Fuster, USA S. David Gertz, Israel Herbert J. Geschwind, France Sidney Goldstein, USA John Gordon Harold, USA Otto M. Hess, Switzerland Roland Hetzer, Germany Robert E. Hobbs, USA Brian Hoit, USA Masatsugu Hori, Japan Ami E. Iskandrian, USA Maryl R. Johnson, USA Bodh I. Jugdutt, Canada Nodar N. Kipshidze, Georgia Anne A. Knowlton, USA Rungroj Krittayaphong, Thailand Adarsh Kumar, India Roger Laham, USA Avijit Lahiri, UK Nasser Lakkis, USA Philip R. Liebson, USA	Chaim Lotan, Israel Kenneth Maiese, USA Eduardo Marban, USA James D. Marsh, USA Paolo Marzullo, Italy Verghese Mathew, USA Jawahar L. Mehta, USA Dan M. Meyer, USA Wayne L. Miller, USA Daria Mochly-Rosen, USA James P. Morgan, USA Hidezo Mori, Japan Harald Mudra, Germany Brian Olshansky, USA Rodolfo Paoletti, Italy Cam Patterson, USA Fausto J. Pinto, Portugal Betram Pitt, USA Gerald Pohost, USA Karin Przyklenk, USA Robert Roberts, Canada William C. Roberts, USA Clive Rosendorff, USA Geoffrey L. Rosenthal, USA Marcos A. Rossi, Brazil Israel Rubinstein, USA Hani N. Sabbah, USA Ronald G. Schwartz, USA Patrick W.J.C. Serruys, The Netherlands Prediman K. Shah, USA Fayaz Shawl, USA Horst Sievert, Germany Pawan K. Singal, Canada Virend K. Somers, USA Francis G. Spinale, USA Shlomo Stern, Israel Csaba Szabo, USA Jean-Francois Tanguay, Canada Udho Thadani, USA Takanobu Tomaru, Japan Rhian M. Touyz, Canada Jeffrey A. Towbin, USA Teruhiko Toyo-oka, Japan Dan Tzivoni, Israel Barry F. Uretsky, USA George W. Vetrovec, USA W. Douglas Weaver, USA Neil J. Weissman, USA Rene R. Wenzel, Austria Mark A. Wood, USA Salim Yusuf, Canada Douglas P. Zipes, USA

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Haruhiko Abe, Japan Ian Adatia, USA Jun-Ichi Abe, USA Bruce D. Adams, USA Ali Ahmed, USA Elena Aikawa, USA Masanori Aikawa, USA Fernando Alfonso, Spain Maurits Allessie, The Netherlands Matthew Allison, USA Jesus Almendral, Spain Salomon Amar, USA Ettore Ambrosioni, Italy Dominick J. Angiolillo, USA Juan M. Aranda, USA Eloisa Arbustini, Italy Vignendra Ariyarajah, Canada Wilbert Aronow, USA Euan A. Ashley, USA Nadir Askenasy, Israel J. Wells Askew, USA Richard C. Austin, Canada Lina Badimon, Spain Giuseppe Barbaro, Italy Philip Barter, Australia Jeroen J. Bax, The Netherlands Richard Becker, USA Ronen Beeri, Israel Solomon Behar, Israel Lee Benson, Canada Riccardo Bigi, Italy Yochai Birnbaum, USA Eugene H. Blackstone, USA Andrew Blann, UK Burns C. Blaxall, USA Vicente Bodi, Spain Andreas Bollmann, Germany Leonardo Bolognese, Italy Michiel L. Bots, The Netherlands Johannes Brachmann, Germany Beatrice Brembilla-Perrot, France Gregorio Brevetti, Italy Charles R. Bridges, USA Carlo Briguori, Italy David W. Brown, USA Hans Peter Brunner-la rocca, Switzerland Daniel Burkhoff, USA Giuseppina Caligiuri, France David J. Callans, USA John Camm, UK Duncan J. Campbell, Australia Alessandro Capucci, Italy Andrew J. Carter, USA Filip Casselman, Belgium Erdal Cavusoglu, USA Leszek Ceremuzynski, Poland John Chambers, England Julie Chan, Taiwan Kevin S. Channer, UK Keith M. Channon, UK Nora Chapman, USA Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, USA Farooq A. Chaudhry, USA Changyi Chen, USA Jaw-Wen Chen, Taiwan Shih-Ann Chen, Taiwan Xian Wu Cheng, Japan Yiu-Fai Cheung, China Julio Chirinos, USA Pierre Chouraqui, Israel Edward J. Ciaccio, USA Francesco Cipollone, Italy Dennis V. Cokkinos, Greece Leslie Cooper, USA Michael H. Criqui, USA Anne B. Curtis, USA Francois Dagenais, Canada Luciano Daliento, Italy Paresh Dandona, USA Haim Danenberg, Israel Alexander H.J. Danser, Netherlands James P. Daubert, USA Sandra T. Davidge, Canada Michael Davidson, USA Martha L. Daviglus, USA G. William Dec Jr., USA Prakash C. Deedwania, USA Giovanni De Simone, Italy Thomas Deneke, Germany Alan Y. Deng, Canada Christopher DeSouza, USA Anita Deswal, USA Michaela Diamant, The Netherlands Emanuele Di Angelantonio, UK Javier Diez, Spain Wolfgang Dillmann, USA Luc Djousse, USA Dobromir Dobrev, Germany Hisham Dokainish, USA Gerald W. Dorn, U.S.A Gerald Dorros, USA Helmut Drexler, Germany Daniel L. Dries, USA Firat Duru, Switzerland Vladimir Dzavik, Canada Jesus Egido, Spain John W. Eikelboom, Canada Daniel T. Eitzman, USA Abdou Elhendy, USA Stefan Engelhardt, Germany Marguerite Engler, USA Erland Erdmann, Germany Georg Ertl, Germany Javier Escaned, Spain Pompilio Faggiano, Italy Rodney H. Falk, USA Mohamed Eid Fawzy, Saudi Arabia Carlos M. Ferrario, USA Michael A. Fifer, USA Janos G. Filep, Canada Greg Flaker, USA Daniel Flammang, France Jerome L. Fleg, USA Ingrid Fleming, Germany Gregory P. Fontana, USA Thomas Forbes, USA James S. Forrester, USA Elyse Foster, USA Nikolaos Frangogiannis, USA Stanley S. Franklin, USA Vincent E. Friedewald, USA Tohru Fukai, USA Francesco Furlanello, Italy William H. Gaasch, USA Fiorenzo Gaita, Italy Manuel Galinanes, UK Feng Gao, China Arcadi Garcia Alberola, Spain Julius Gardin, USA Jacob George, Israel Guido Germano, USA Gina Gerosa, Italy Bernard J. Gersh, USA Edward Gerstenfeld, USA Satyendra Giri, USA Robert Goldberg, USA Uri Goldbourt, Israel Agnes Gorlach, Germany Shmuel Gottlieb, Israel Peter J. Grant, UK P. Michael Grossman, USA Marco Guazzi, Italy Peter G. Guerra, Canada Sandeep Gupta, UK Hitinder S. Gurm, USA Veena Guru, Canada Finn Gustafsson, Denmark Majid Haghjoo, Iran Graene J. Hankey, Australia Louise Harris, Canada Zuo-Xiang He, China Anthony M. Heagerty, UK Robert Hegele, Canada Hein Heidbuchel, Belgium Paul A. Heidenreich, USA Charles A. Hendrikson, USA Michel Henry, France Ramon C. Hermida, Spain Donald D. Heistad, USA Stephane Heymans, The Netherlands Yoshitaka Hirooka, Japan Siew Yen Ho, UK Paul Holvoet, Belgium Masatsugu Horiuchi, Japan Eric Horlick, Canada Frank Hu, USA Heikki Huikuri, Finland Daniela Husser, Germany Raisuke Iijima, Japan Ignatios Ikonomidis, Greece Massimo Imazio, Italy Joanne Ingwall, USA David G. Iosseliani, Russia Mitsuaki Isobe, Japan Carsten W. Israel, Germany Warren M. Jackman, USA Christopher Jackson, UK Deepak Jain, Germany Annemieke Jansen, The Netherlands Jesper Jensen, Denmark Wei Jiang, USA Man-Hong Jim, China Luis J. Jimenez-Borreguero, Spain Hanjoong Jo, USA Erik Jorgensen, Denmark J. Wouter Jukema, The Netherlands Hanjoerg Just, Germany Alan Kadish, USA Hideo Kanaide, Japan Birgit Kantor, USA Ganesan Karthikeyan, India Juan Carlos Kaski, UK Jens Kastrup, Denmark Masaya Kato, Japan Demosthenes K. Katritsis, Greece Elizabeth S. Kaufman, USA Osami Kawarada, Japan John F. Keaney, Jr., USA Mark T. Kearney, UK Ulrich Keil, Germany Henning Kelbaek, Denmark Matyas Keltai, Hungary Dean Kereiakes, USA Paul Khairy, Canada Ijaz Khan, USA Yasuki Kihara, Japan Masafumi Kitakaze, Japan Arthur L. Klatsky, USA Neal S. Kleiman, USA Allan L. Klein, USA Helmut Klein, Germany Juhani Knuuti, Finland Wolfgang Koenig, Germany Igor Konstantinov, Australia Smadar Kort, USA Spyridon N. Koulouris, Greece Hidenori Koyama, Japan Dara L. Kraitchman, USA Litsa Kranias, USA Leonard Kritharides, Australia Henry Krum, Australia Howard S. Kruth, USA Wolfgang Kubler, Germany Sudhesh Kumar, England Lih Kuo, USA Raymond Y. Kwong, USA Rachel Lampert, USA Ulf Landmesser, Germany Roberto M. Lang, USA	Gaetano A. Lanza, Italy John Larosa, USA Larry Latson, USA Chu-Pak Lau, Hong Kong Gail Laughlin, USA Carl J. Lavie, USA Thorsten Lawrenz, Germany Randall J. Lee, USA Stephanie Lehoux, France Giuseppe Lembo, Italy Norman Lepor, USA Paul Levine, USA Robert A. Levine, USA Samuel Levy, France Wilbur Lew, USA Thorsten Lewalter, Germany Ren-Ke Li, Canada Ronglih Liao, USA Joao Lima, USA Shing-Jong Lin, Taiwan Ming Liu, China Eva Lonn, Canada Gary Lopaschuk, Canada Harry C. Lowe, Australia Heyman Luckraz, UK Thomas Luscher, Switzerland Aldons J. Lusis, USA John E. Madias, USA Mohammad Madjid, USA John J. Mahmarian, USA William H. Maisal, USA Bernhard Maisch, Germany Tadeusz Malinski, USA Ichiro Manabe, Japan Fabio Manfredini, Italy Roberto Manfredini, Italy Eduardo Marban, USA Jonathan D. Marmur, USA Nassir F. Marrouche, USA Antonio Martinez-Rubio, Spain Masunori Matsuzaki, Japan Heinrich P. Mattle, Switzerland Brian McCrindle, Canada Pascal P. McKeown, Ireland George A. Mensah, USA Jose. L. Merino, Spain Luisa Mestroni, USA Heiko Methe, USA Evangelos D. Michelakis, Canada Tetsuji Miura, Japan Harry G. Mond, Australia Gilles Montalescot, France Pedro Moreno, USA Raul Moreno, Spain Ryuichi Morishita, Japan Henning Morwietz, Germany Michael Motro, Israel Mohammad-Reza Movahed, USA Debabrata Mukherjee, USA Sherif Nagueh, USA Yoshifumi Naka, USA Hiroshi Nakagawa, USA John N. Nanas, Greece Andrea Natale, USA Mohamad Navab, USA Danilo Neglia, Italy Kevin D. O'Brien, USA Jae K. Oh, USA Kenji Okumura , Japan Sven-Olof Olofsson, Sweden Torbjorn Omland, Norway Dean Ornish, USA I. Eli Ovsyshcher, Israel Kailesh Pandey, USA Demosthenes Pangagiotakos, Greece Julius Gy. Papp, Hungary John Parissis, Greece Seong-Wook Park, South Korea Guido Parodi, Italy Gerard Pasterkamp, The Netherlands Kaushik Patel, USA Maura Paul-Labrador, USA Daniel F. Pauly, USA Concepcion Peiro, Spain Patricia A. Pellikka, USA Louis P. Perrault, Canada Philippe Pibarot, Canada Luc A. Pierard, Belgium Cristina Pislaru, USA Maria Vittoria Pitzalis, USA Donna Polk, USA Domenico Pratico, USA Ross Prpic, Australia Shakeel A. Qureshi, UK Babeth Rabinowitz, Israel Mohan K. Raizada, USA Shahzad G. Raja, UK Sanjay Rajagopalan, USA Nalini Rajamannan, USA Jai Raman, USA Anis Rassi, Jr., Brazil Antonio Raviele, Italy Kausik K Ray, England Hanumanth K. Reddy, USA Flavio Ribichini, Italy Jeffrey Robbins, U.S.A Joe L. Rod, USA Richard J. Rodeheffer, USA Suzanne Roedler, Austria Giuseppe M.C. Rosano, Italy Robert S. Rosenson, USA Eric Rosenthal, UK Arie Roth, Israel Stanley Rubin, USA Marc Ruel, Canada Harjot K. Saini-Chohan, Canada Naritatsu Saito, Japan Guy Salama, USA Carlos F. Sanchez Ferrer, Spain Prashanthan Sanders, Australia Masataka Sata, Japan Hiroshi Sato, Japan Saul Schaefer, USA Hans-Joachim Schafers, Germany Hartzell V. Schaff, USA Heinrich R. Schelbert, USA Thomas M. Schiele, Germany Giuseppe Schillaci, Italy Roland Schmieder, Germany Henning Schroeder, USA Andreas Schuchert, Germany Markus Schwaiger, Germany Roldano Scognamiglio, Italy Frank W. Sellke, USA Patrick W. Serruys, The Netherlands Howard D. Sesso, USA Sanjay Sharma, UK Michael Shechter, Israel Robert Sheldon, Canada Win-Kuang Shen, USA Guo-Ping Shi, USA Hiroaki Shimokawa, Japan Takahiro Shiota, USA Kalyanam Shivkumar, USA Ralph V. Shohet, USA Avraham Shotan, Israel John Shyy, USA Dominic Sica, USA Rosa Sicari, Italy Maria Siebes, The Netherlands Marc A. Silver, USA Candice Silversides, USA Alain Simon, France Daniel I. Simon, USA Rudiger W.R. Simon, Germany Jagmeet P. Singh, USA Mark S. Slaughter, USA Alberto Smith, England Michael Sole, Canada Scott Solomon, USA Jan A. Staessen, Belgium Randall C. Starling, USA Paul Steendijk, The Netherlands Ulf Stenestrand, Sweden Duncan Stewart, Canada Ralph Stewart, New Zealand George A. Stouffer, USA Jesper Hastrup Svendsen, Denmark Hiroshi Tada, Japan David P. Taggart, UK Ching-Tai Tai, Taiwan Masahiko Takagi, Japan Masafumi Takahashi, Japan Akira Tamura, Japan Laszlo B. Tanko, Denmark Felix C. Tanner, Switzerland Paramjit S. Tappia, Canada Luigi Tavazzi, Italy Anne Taylor, USA Folkert J. Ten Cate, The Netherlands Luis Tercedor, Spain James D. Thomas, USA Marcello Tonelli, Canada Andrew M. Tonkin, Australia Dimitrios Tousoulis, Greece Kostantinos Toutouzas, Greece Steven Tracy, USA Ronald J.A. Trent, Australia Teresa Tsang, USA Masahiko Tsuchiya, USA Etsuko Tsuda, Japan Jack V. Tu, Canada Suresh C. Tyagi, USA Yasunori Ueda, Japan Gideon Uretzky, Israel Masuko Ushio-Fukai, USA Peter van der Meer, The Netherlands Stephen Vatner, USA Subodh Verma, Canada Hector O. Ventura, USA Francesco Violi, Italy Sami Viskin, Israel Massimo Volpe, Italy Clemens Von Birgelen, The Netherlands Johannes Waltenberger, The Netherlands Thomas Walther, Germany Hiroshi Watanabe, Japan David J. Webb, UK Judah Weinberger, USA A. Teddy Weiss, Israel Jeffrey Weitz, Canada Nanette K. Wenger, USA Stephen Wheatcroft, UK Peter Whittaker, USA Dan Wichterle, Czech Republic Heinrike Wilkens, Germany Jacqueline C.M. Witteman, Netherlands Nathan D. Wong, USA Y. Joseph Woo, USA Scott Wright, USA Alan Wu, USA Kenneth Wu, USA Rui-Ping Xiao, USA Shizuya Yamashita, Japan Zhong-Qun Yan, Sweden Phillip C. Yang, USA Masafumi Yano, Japan Angela T. Yetman, USA Mitsuhiro Yokota, Japan Chun Yuan, USA Doron Zahger, Israel Jose Luis Zamorano, Spain Alberto Zanchetti, Italy Robert Zelis, USA Uwe Zeymer, Germany Xinghua Zhou, Sweden William A. Zoghbi, UK Irving H. Zucker, USA