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FOUNDER AND CONGRESS CHAIRMAN
Asher Kimchi, USA

SCIENTIFIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Kumar A. Adarsh, India Ali Ahmed, USA Elena Aikawa, USA Masanori Aikawa, USA Martin A. Alpert, USA Salomon Amar, USA Ezra A. Amsterdam, USA Nestor J. Angomachaleelis, Greece Wilbert S. Aronow, USA Dan Atar, Norway Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, USA Gregory W. Barsness, USA Lewis C. Becker, USA Jonathan N. Bella, USA Gerald S. Berenson, USA Yochai Birnbaum, USA Vera Bittner, USA Peter C. Block, USA Jeffrey S. Borer, USA Harisios Boudoulas, Greece Robert C. Bourge, USA Mohamed Boutjdir, USA Neil E. Bowles, USA John Burnett, USA Peter M. Buttrick, USA Michael E. Cain, USA Yzhar Charuzi, USA Kanu Chatterjee, USA James H. Chesebro, USA Sumeet S. Chugh, USA Anne B. Curtis, USA Lawrence S. Czer, USA Sergio Dalla-Volta, Italy Naranjan S. Dhalla, Canada Anique Ducharme, Canada Brian W. Duncan, USA John A. Elefteriades, USA Uri Elkayam, USA Francesco Fedele, Italy Timothy F. Feltes, USA Daniel Flammang, France James S. Forrester, USA Ulrich Forstermann, Germany Valentin Fuster, USA William H. Gaasch, USA S. David Gertz, Israel Herbert J. Geschwind, France Sidney Goldstein, USA Mervyn Gotsman, Israel Antonio M. Gotto Jr., USA Donald Heistad, USA Otto M. Hess, Switzerland Roland Hetzer, Germany Robert E. Hobbs, USA Brian D. Hoit, USA Masatsugu Hori, Japan Maryl R. Johnson, USA Bodh I. Jugdutt, Canada Birgit Kantor, USA	Nodar N. Kipshidze, Georgia Anne A. Knowlton, USA Rungroj Krittayaphong, Thailand Hillel Laks, USA Philip R. Liebson, USA Chaim Lotan, Israel Kenneth Maiese, USA Roberto Manfredini, Italy Eduardo Marban, USA James D. Marsh, USA Verghese Mathew, USA Peter A. McCullough, USA Jawahar L. Mehta, USA Heiko Methe, USA Dan M. Meyer, USA Wayne L. Miller, USA James P. Morgan, USA Harald Mudra, Germany Sherif F. Nagueh, USA Brian Olshansky, USA Kailash N. Pandey, USA Rodolfo Paoletti, Italy Cam Patterson, USA Fausto J. Pinto, Portugal Mariavittoria H. Pitzalis, USA Gerald Pohost, USA Karin Przyklenk, USA Nalini M. Rajamannan, USA William C. Roberts, USA Clive Rosendorff, USA Marcos A. Rossi, Brazil Israel Rubinstein, USA Hani N. Sabbah, USA Martin A. Samuels, USA Shigetake Sasayama, Japan Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Germany Ronald G. Schwartz, USA Prediman K. Shah, USA Horst Sievert Germany Pawan K. Singal, Canada Virend K. Somers, USA Francis G. Spinale, USA Randall C. Starling, USA Shlomo Stern, Israel Csaba Szabo, USA Jean-Francois Tanguay, Canada Udho Thadani, USA Takanobu Tomaru, Japan Teruhiko Toyo-oka, Japan Dan Tzivoni, Israel Barry F. Uretsky USA George W. Vetrovec, USA A. Teddy Weiss, Israel Rene R. Wenzel, Austria Mark A. Wood, USA Qingbo Xu, UK

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Haruhiko Abe, Japan Jun-Ichi Abe, USA Bruce D. Adams, USA Takashi Akasaka, Japan Michelle A. Albert, USA Fernanado Alfonso, Spain Sana M. Al-Khatib, USA Matthew Allison, USA Guiseppe Ambrosio, Italy Ettore Ambrosioni, Italy Zahid Amin, USA Dominick J. Angiolillo, USA Charles Antzelevitch, USA Juan M. Aranda Jr., USA Eloisa Arbustini, Italy Vignendra Ariyarajah, Canada Muhammad Ashraf, USA Nadir Askenasy, Israel Richard Austin, Canada Peter H. Backx, Canada Subhash Banerjee, USA Giuseppe Barbaro, Italy Philip Barter, Australia Alexei G. Basnakian, USA Jeroen J. Bax, The Netherlands Ronen Beeri, Israel Ori Ben-Yehuda, USA Lars Berglund, USA Robert W.W. Biederman, USA Riccardo Bigi, Italy Burns C. Blaxall, USA Peris Vicente Bodi, Spain Raoul Bonan, Canada Eduardo Bossone, Italy Michiel L. Bots, The Netherlands Johannes Brachmann, Germany Adrian Brady, UK Beatrice Bremilla-Perrot, France David W. Brown, USA Duncan J. Campbell, Australia Alessandro Capucci, Italy Erdal Cavusoglu , USA Turgay Celik, Turkey Roman Cerbak, Czech Republic Leszek Ceremuzynski, Poland Julie Y.H. Chan, Taiwan-R.O.C. Nora Chapman, USA Farooq A. Chaudhry, USA Changyi Johnny Chen, USA Jaw-Wen Chen, Taiwan-R.O.C. Shih-Ann Chen, Taiwan-R.O.C. Yingjie Chen, USA Xian Wu Cheng, Japan Yiu-Fai Cheung, China Julio A. Chirinos, USA Pierre Chouraqui, Israel Shorena Chumburidze, Rep. of Georgia Edward J. Ciaccio,USA David Conen, Switzerland Leslie Cooper, USA Michael H. Criqui, USA Francois Dagenais, Canada Luciano Daliento, Italy Ramprasad Dandillaya, USA Haim D. Danenberg, Israel Alexander H.J. Danser, The Netherlands Dipak K. Das, USA James P. Daubert, USA Sandra T. Davidge, Canada Martha L. Daviglus, USA Giuseppe De Luca, Italy Giovanni De Simone, Italy Prakash Deedwania, USA Thomas Deneke, Germany Alan Y. Deng, Canada Christopher Desouza, USA Emanuele Di Angelantonio, UK Michaela Diamant, The Netherlands Rienzi Diaz, Chile Robert DiBianco, USA Luc Djousse, USA Dobromir Dobrev, Germany Gerald Dorros, USA Daniel L. Dries, USA Firat Duru, Switzerland Abdou Elhendy, USA Marguerite M. Engler, USA Erland Erdmann, Germany Ercan Eren, Turkey Georg Ertl, Germany Javier Escaned, Spain Mohamed Eid Fawzy, Saudi Arabia Arthur M., Feldman, USA Michael A. Fifer, USA Janos G. Filep, Canada Gerasimos Filippatos, Greece Avi Fischer, USA Jerome L. Fleg, USA Aaron R. Folsom, USA Nikolaos Frangogiannis, USA Stanley S. Franklin, USA Vincent Friedewald, USA Tohru Fukai, USA Gordon L. Fung, USA Jeffrey W.H. Fung, China Francesco Furlanello, Italy Anthony Furnary, USA Manual Galinanes, UK Eli S. Gang, USA Feng Gao, China Jacob George, Israel Guido Germano, USA Bernard J. Gersh, USA J. Rod Gimbel, USA Robert P. Giugliano, USA Andreas Goette, Germany Uri Goldbourt, Israel Larry B. Goldstein, USA Agnes Gorlach, Germany Shmuel Gottlieb, Israel Ramesh K. Goyal, India Peter J. Grant, UK P. Michael Grossman, USA Marco Guazzi, Italy Peter G. Guerra, Canada Sandeep Gupta, UK Vishal Gupta, USA Vivek Gupta, India Hitinder S. Gurm, USA Finn Gustafsson, Denmark Mariann Gyongyosi, Austria Steven Haffner, USA Louise Harris, Canada Zuo-Xiang He, China Anthony M. Heagerty, UK Paul A. Heidenreich, USA Donald Heistad, USA Charles H. Hennekens, USA Charles A. Henrikson, USA Michel Henry, France Ramon C. Hermida, Spain Adrian V. Hernandez, USA Gerd Heusch, Germany Yoshitaka Hirooka, Japan John S. Ho, USA Paul Holvoet, Belgium Masatsugu Horiuchi, Japan Masaaki Hoshiga, Japan Gang Hu, USA Heikki Huikuri, Finland Ignatios Ikonomidis, Greece Massimo Imazio, Italy Joanne Ingwall, USA David G. Iosselian, Russia Takafumi Ishida, Japan Carsten W. Israel, Germany Dipti Itchhaporia, USA Warren M. Jackman, USA Christopher Jackson, UK Deepak Jain, Germany Stefan Janssens, Belgium Jesper K. Jensen, Denmark Daniela Jezova, Slovakia Wei Jiang, USA Luis J. Jimenez-Borreguero, Spain Hanjoong Jo, USA James W. Jones, USA Eric Jorgenson, Denmark J. Wouter Jukema, The Netherlands Hanjoerg Just, Germany Hideo Kanaide, Japan Sheila Kar, USA Juan Carlos Kaski, UK Masaya Kato, Japan Demosthenes K. Katritsis, Greece Zvonimir S. Katusic, USA Sanjiv Kaul, USA Osami Kawarada, USA David M. Kaye, Australia Amir Kazory, USA Ulrich Keil, Germany Henning Kelbaek, Denmark Matyas Keltai, Hungary Yasuki Kihara, Japan Lorrie A. Kirshenbaum, Canada Arthur L. Klatsky, USA Juhani Knuuti, Finland Wolfgang Koenig, Germany Theodoros Kofidis, Singapore Bruce A. Koplan, USA Smadar Kort, USA Spyridon N. Koulouris, Greece Hidenori Koyama, Japan Dara L., Kraitchman, USA Zvonimir Krajcer, USA Leonard Kritharides, Australia Henry Krum, Australia Howard S. Kruth, USA Wolfgang Kubler, Germany Uwe Kuehl, Germany Lih Kuo, USA	Jean-Marc Lablanche, France Rachel Lampert, USA Ulf Landmesser, Germany Roberto M. Lang, USA Gaetano Antono Lanza, Italy Gail Laughlin, USA Stephanie Lehoux, Canada Amir Lerman, USA Eli I. Lev, Israel Samuel Levy, France Thorsten Lewalther, Germany Ren-Ke Li, Canada Shing-Jong Lin, Taiwan-R.O.C. Daniel Loisance, France Gary Lopaschuk, Canada Harry C. Lowe, Australia Fernando Lucchese, Brazil Heyman Luckraz, UK Carlos M. Macaya, Spain Mohammad Madjid, USA Bernhard Maisch, Germany Tadeusz Malinski, USA Ichiro Manabe, Japan Fabio Manfredini , Italy Antonis S. Manolis, Greece Mario Maranhao, Brazil Frank I. Marcus, USA Nassir Marrouche, USA Antonio Martinez Rubio, Spain Nikolaus Marx, Germany Masunori Matsuzaki, Japan Manuel Mayr, UK Brian McCrindle, Canada Pascal McKeown, UK George A. Mensah, USA Jose L. Merino, Spain Luisa Mestroni, USA Marco Metra, Italy Carmelo A. Milano, USA Tetsuji Miura, Japan Harry G. Mond, Australia Henning Morawietz, Germany Raul Moreno, Spain Ryuichi Morishita, Japan Michael Motro, Israel Mohammad-Reza Movahed, USA Toyoaki Murohara, Japan Hiroshi Nakagawa, USA Satoshi Nakatani, Japan John N. Nanas, Greece Navin Nanda, USA Mohamad Navab, USA Alexander Niessner, Austria Borge G. Nordestgaard, Denmark Michel Noutsias, Germany Kevin D. O’Brien, USA Kenji Okumura, Japan Sureyya Olgen, Turkey Torbjorn Omland, Norway Michael K. Ong, USA Dean Ornish, USA Kinay Otsu, Japan Phalla Ou, France Noriyuki Ouchi, USA I. Eli Ovsyshcher, Israel Carlo Palombo, Italy Salpy V. Pamboukian, USA Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Greece Vasilios Papademetriou, USA Julius G. Papp, Hungary John Parissis, Greece Gerard Pasterkamp, The Netherlands Kaushik P. Patel, USA Daniel F. Pauly, USA Concepcion Peiro, Spain Patricia A. Pellikka, USA Louis P. Perrault, Canada Luc A. Pierard, Belgium Cristina Pislaru, USA Christos Pitsavos, Greece Kailash Prasad, Canada Domenico Pratico, USA Kirkwood A. Jr. Pritchard, USA Ross Prpic, Australia Mohan K. Raizada, USA Shahzad G. Raja, UK Sanjay Rajagopalan, USA Anis Rassi Jr., Brazil Hanumanth K. Reddy, USA Xiushui Ren, USA Jennifer G. Robinson, USA Joe L. Rod, USA Josep Rodes-Cabau, Canada Ivan C. Rokos, USA Eric Rosenthal, UK Arie Roth, Israel Marc S. Sabatine, USA Naritatsu Saito, Japan Shubhayan Sanatani, Canada Carlis F. Sanchez Ferrer, Spain George Sandor, Canada Massimo Santini, Italy Raul D. Santos, Brazil Javier Sanz, USA Maria J. Sanz, Spain Hiroshi Sato, Japan Tatsuya Sawamura, Japan Saul Schaefer, USA Hartzell V. Schaff, USA Heinrich R. Schelbert, USA Thomas M. Schiele, Germany Giuseppe Schillaci, Italy Richard Schilling, UK Roland E. Schmieder, Germany Henning Schroeder, USA Ernst R. Schwarz, USA Samuel Sears, USA Yoshihiko Seino, Japan Frank W. Sellke, USA Roxy Senior, UK Howard D. Sesso, USA Michael Shechter, Israel Michael Shehata, USA Robert S. Sheldon, Canada Win-Kuang Shen, USA Guo-Ping Shi, USA Takahiro Shiota, USA Jamshid Shirani, USA Avraham Shotan, Israel Rosa Sicari, Italy Marc A. Silver, USA Alain Simon, France Mark S. Slaughter, USA Scott D. Solomon, USA Bart Staels, France Jan A. Staessen, Belgium Paul Steendijk, The Netherlands Ralph Stewart, New Zealand George A. Stouffer, USA Bodo-Eckehard Strauer, Germany Phyllis Supino, USA Jesper H. Svendsen, Denmark Masahiko Takagi, Japan Masafumi Takahashi, Japan Akira Tamura, Japan W.H. Wilson Tang, USA Laszlo B. Tanko, Denmark Paramjit S. Tappia, Canada Anne L. Taylor, USA Sanchez Luis Tercedor, Spain Marcello Tonelli, Canada Dimitris Tousoulis, Greece Konstantinos Toutouzas, Greece Steven Tracy, USA Ronald J.A. Trent, Australia Teresa Tsang, USA Masahiko Tsuchiya, Japan Belma Turan, Turkey Suresh C. Tyagi, USA Anne Tybjaerg-Hansen, Denmark Yasunori Ueda, Japan Gideon Uretzky, Israel Mark Urman, USA Masuko Ushio-Fukai, USA Peter Van Der Meer, The Netherlands Hector O. Ventura, USA Silvia Vidal, Canada Sami Viskin, Israel Johannes Waltenberger, The Netherlands Sven Wassmann, Canada Hiroshi Watanabe, Japan Judah Weinberger, USA Nanette Wenger, USA Harvey White, New Zealand Michel White, Canada Bryan Williams, UK Klaus K. Witte, UK Nathan D. Wong, USA Scott Wright, USA Joseph Wu, USA Ren Xiushui, USA Rui-Ping Xiao, USA Shizuya Yamashita, Japan Zhong-Qun Yan, Sweden Phillip C. Yang, USA Masafumi Yano, Japan Hirofumi Yasue, Japan Jian Ye, Canada Angela T. Yetman, USA Mitsuhiro Yokota, Japan Doron Zahger, Israel Maliha Zahid, USA Alberto Zanchetti, Italy Uwe Zeymer, Germany Xi-Long Zheng, Canada Xinghua Zhou, Sweden Irving H. Zucker, USA