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FOUNDER AND CONGRESS CHAIRMAN
Asher Kimchi, USA

SCIENTIFIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Kumar Adarsh, India Ali Ahmed, USA Elena Aikawa, USA Masanori Aikawa, USA Martin A. Alpert, USA Ezra A. Amsterdam, USA Nestor J. Angomachalelis, Greece Wilbert S. Aronow, USA Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, USA Gregory W. Barsness, USA Lewis C. Becker, USA Jonathan N. Bella, USA Ori Ben-Yehuda, USA Gerald S. Berenson, USA Daniel Berman, 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 Michael E. Cain, USA Yzhar Charuzi, USA Kanu Chatterjee, USA Changyi (Johnny) Chen, USA James H. Chesebro, USA Michael H. Criqui, USA Anne B. Curtis, USA Lawrence S. Czer, USA Sergio Dalla-Volta, Italy Dipak K. Das, USA Naranjan S. Dhalla, Canada Anique Ducharme, Canada John A. Elefteriades, USA Uri Elkayam, USA Timothy F. Feltes, USA Janos G. Filep, Canada Ulrich Forstermann, Germany Valentin Fuster, USA William H. Gaasch, USA S. David Gertz, Israel Herbert J. Geschwind, France Sidney Goldstein, USA Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., USA Otto M. Hess, Switzerland Roland Hetzer, Germany Gerd Heusch, Germany Robert E. Hobbs, USA Brian D. Hoit, USA Masatsugu Hori, Japan Maryl R. Johnson, USA Bodh I. Jugdutt, Canada Saibal Kar, USA Ulrich Keil, Germany Lorrie Kirshenbaum, Canada	Arthur Klatsky, USA Anne A. Knowlton, USA Rungroj Krittayaphong, Thailand Lih Kuo, USA Hillel Laks, USA Philip R. Liebson, USA Chaim Lotan, Israel Kenneth Maiese, USA Rajendra Makkar, USA Tadeusz Malinski, USA Roberto Manfredini, Italy James D. Marsh, USA Verghese Mathew, USA Jawahar L. Mehta, USA Luisa Mestroni, USA Dan M. Meyer, USA Wayne L. Miller, USA Mohammad-Reza Movahed, USA Harald Mudra, Germany Sherif F. Nagueh, USA John N. Nanas, Greece Navin C. Nanda, USA Brian Olshansky, USA Kailash N. Pandey, USA Cam Patterson, USA Louis P. Perrault, Canada Fausto J. Pinto, Portugal Bertram Pitt, USA Mariavittoria H. Pitzalis, USA Karin Przyklenk, USA Nalini M. Rajamannan, USA James A. Reiffel, USA William C. Roberts, USA Clive Rosendorff, USA Geoffrey L. Rosenthal, USA Marcos A. Rossi, Brazil Israel Rubinstein, USA Hani N. Sabbah, USA Tatsuya Sawamura, Japan Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Germany Prediman K. Shah, USA Horst Sievert Germany Pawan K. Singal, Canada Francis G. Spinale, USA Randall C. Starling, 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 Rene R. Wenzel, Austria Mark A. Wood, USA Qingbo Xu, UK Angela T. Yetman, USA Mitsuhiro Yokota, Japan

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Stephan Achenbach, Germany Chris Adamopoulos, Greece Takashi Akasaka, Japan Fernanado Alfonso, Spain Sana M. Al-Khatib, USA Matthew Allison, USA Miguel Alvarez, Spain Guiseppe Ambrosio, Italy Dominick J. Angiolillo, USA Charles Antzelevitch, USA Juan M. Aranda Jr., USA Maria R.G. Araneta, USA Vignendra Ariyarajah, Canada Nadir Askenasy, Irsael Mehnaz Atiq , Pakistan Subhash Banerjee, USA Giuseppe Barbaro, Italy Philip Barter, Australia Alexei G. Basnakian, USA Ronen Beeri, Israel Lars Berglund, USA Deepak L. Bhatt, USA Robert W.W. Biederman, USA Riccardo Bigi, Italy Burns C. Blaxall, USA Vicente Bodi, Spain Leonardo Bolognese, Italy William J. Bommer, USA Eduardo Bossone, Italy Michiel L. Bots, The Netherlands Sorin J. Brener, USA David L. Brown, USA Gianfranco Butera, Italy Marcella A. Calfon, USA Duncan J. Campbell, Australia Alessandro Capucci, Italy Filip P.A. Casselman, Belgium Erdal Cavusoglu , USA Turgay Celik, Turkey Roman Cerbak, Czech Republic Julie Y.H. Chan, Taiwan-R.O.C. Farooq A. Chaudhry, USA Shih-Ann Chen, Taiwan-R.O.C. Yingjie Chen, USA Yiu-Fai Cheung, China Nip Chiamvimonvat, USA Julio A. Chirinos, USA Shorena Chumburidze, Rep. of Georgia Edward J. Ciaccio,USA Pamelyn Close,USA Leslie Cooper, USA Francois Dagenais, Canada Luciano Daliento, Italy Alexander H.J. Danser, The Netherlands Harold Dauerman, USA Sandra T. Davidge, Canada Raffaele De Caterina, Italy Giovanni De Simone, Italy Dick De Zeeuw, The Netherlands Prakash C. Deedwania, USA Thomas Deneke, Germany Alan Y. Deng, Canada Milind Y. Desai, USA Rienzi Diaz, Chile Robert DiBianco, USA Luc Djousse, USA Dobromir Dobrev, Germany Daniel Duprez, USA Firat Duru, Switzerland Vladimir Dzavik, Canada Jesus Egido, Spain Abdou Elhendy, USA Georg Ertl, Germany Michael Farkouh, Canada Mohamed Eid Fawzy, Egypt Francesco Fedele, Italy David Fedida, Canada Arthur M. Feldman, USA Victor Ferrari, USA Carlos M. Ferrario, USA Gerasimos Filippatos, Greece Avi Fischer, USA John D. Fisher, USA Daniel Flammang, France Ferenc Follath, Switzerland Nikolaos G. Frangogiannis, USA Tohru Fukai, USA Gordon L. Fung, USA Feng Gao, China Julius Gardin, USA Peter Gaskin, USA Jacob George, Israel Bernard J. Gersh, USA J. Rod Gimbel, USA Andreas Goette, Germany Larry B. Goldstein, USA Jonathan Golledge, Australia Agnes Gorlach, Germany Shmuel Gottlieb, Israel Ramesh K. Goyal, India Kathy K. Griendling, USA Peter G. Guerra, Canada Sandeep Gupta, UK Finn Gustafsson, Denmark Mariann Gyongyosi, Austria Majid Haghjoo, Iran Jennifer L. Hall, USA Goran Hansson, Sweden Louise Harris, Canada David G. Harrison, USA 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 Shungo Hikoso, Japan Yoshitaka Hirooka, Japan John S. Ho, USA Paul C. Ho, USA Paul Holvoet, Belgium Masatsugu Horiuchi, Japan Gang Hu, USA Ignatios Ikonomidis, Greece Massimo Imazio, Italy Davide Imberti, Italy Takafumi Ishida, Japan Carsten W. Israel, Germany Christopher Jackson, UK Allan S. Jaffe, USA Farouc Jaffer, USA Deepak J. Jain, Germany Jesper K. Jensen, Denmark Daniela Jezova, Slovakia Wei Jiang, USA Luis J. Jimenez-Borreguero, Spain Hanjoong Jo, USA Eric Jorgensen, Denmark J. Wouter Jukema, The Netherlands Hanjoerg Just, Germany Alan H. Kadish, USA Hideo Kanaide, Japan Bharat Kantharia, USA Samir Kapadia, USA Juan Carlos Kaski, UK Demosthenes K. Katritsis, Greece Osami Kawarada, Japan Amir Kazory, USA Henning Kelbaek, Denmark Ijaz Khan, USA Ahmed A. Khattab, Switzerland Yasuki Kihara, Japan Ichiro Kishimoto, Japan Masafumi Kitakaze, Japan Richard Kitsis, USA Lloyd W. Klein, USA Wolfgang Koenig, Germany Kwang K. Koh, South Korea Masashi Komeda, Japan Igor Konstantinov, Australia 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 Snehal Kulkarni, India	Edward G. Lakatta, USA Rachel Lampert, USA Ulf Landmesser, Germany Roberto M. Lang, USA Alexandra Lansky, USA Chu-Pak Lau, Hong Kong Gail Laughlin, USA Harold L. Lazar, USA Scott Lear, Canada Mu Lee, USA Stephanie Lehoux, Canada Stamatios Lerakis, USA Robert A. Levine, USA Jian Li, USA Shing-Jong Lin, Taiwan-R.O.C. Steven E. Lipshultz, USA Peter P. Liu, Canada Carlin S. Long, USA Gary Lopaschuk, Canada Douglas W. Losordo, USA Harry C. Lowe, Australia Mohammad Madjid, USA John J. Mahmarian, USA Ehtisham Mahmud, USA Bernhard Maisch, Germany Fabio Manfredini , Italy Warren J. Manning, USA Mario Maranhao, Brazil Francis E Marchlinski, USA Nassir F. Marrouche, USA Antonio Martinez Rubio, Spain Masunori Matsuzaki, Japan Brian McCrindle, Canada Pascal McKeown, UK James B. Meigs, USA Jose L. Merino, Spain Tetsuji Miura, Japan Werner Mohl, Austria Henning Morawietz, Germany Raul Moreno, Spain Ryuichi Morishita, Japan Marjan Mujib, USA Satoshi Nakatani, Japan Aravinda Nanjundappa, USA Mohamad Navab, USA Arnold C.T. Ng, Australia Alexander Niessner, Austria Robby Nieuwlaat, The Netherlands Kevin D. O’Brien, USA Daniel T. O’Connor, USA Kenji Okumura, Japan Torbjorn Omland, Norway Dean Ornish, USA Kinay Otsu, Japan Ilka Ott, Germany Noriyuki Ouchi , Japan Gavin Y. Oudit, Canada I. Eli Ovsyshcher, Israel Salpy V. Pamboukian, USA Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Greece John Parissis, Greece Gerard Pasterkamp, The Netherlands Kaushik P. Patel, USA Daniel F. Pauly, USA Patricia A. Pellikka, USA Joseph K. Perloff, USA Luc A. Pierard, Belgium Cristina Pislaru, USA Sorin Pislaru, USA Christos Pitsavos, Greece Kailash Prasad, Canada Domenico Pratico, USA Kirkwood A. Pritchard, USA Maria Prokudina, Russia Aniket Puri, India Vijay Puri, UK Babeth Rabinowitz, Israel Mohan K. Raizada, USA Sanjay Rajagopalan, USA Jamal S. Rana, USA P. Syamasundar Rao, USA Anis Rassi Jr., Brazil Hanumanth K. Reddy, USA Muredach P. Reilly, USA Xiushui Ren, USA Paul M. Ridker, USA Joe L. Rod, USA Ivan C. Rokos, USA Giuseppe Rosano, Italy Eric Rosenthal, UK Arie Roth, Israel Marc Ruel, Canada Carlos E. Ruiz, USA Cyril Ruwende, USA Frederic Sacher, France Masood Sadiq, Pakistan Guy Salama, USA Flora Sam, USA George Sandor, Canada Raul D. Santos, Brazil Hiroshi Sato, Japan Naveed Sattar, UK Anita Saxena, India Tiziano M. Scarabelli, USA Saul Schaefer, USA Hartzell V. Schaff, USA Heinrich R. Schelbert, USA Thomas M. Schiele, Germany Samuel Sears, USA Yoshihiko Seino, Japan Frank W. Sellke, USA Joseph B. Selvanayagam, Australia Roxy Senior, UK Howard D. Sesso, USA Arti N. Shah, USA Fayaz Shawl, USA Robert S. Sheldon, Canada Win-Kuang Shen, USA Guo-Ping Shi, USA Jamshid Shirani, USA Avraham Shotan, Israel Rosa Sicari, Italy Maria Siebes, The Netherlands Robert J. Siegel, USA Jean-Sebastien Silvestre, France Alain Simon, France Dinender Singla, USA Jane Somerville, UK Yiqing Song, USA Guru Srinivas, USA V. S. Srinivas, USA Komandoor Srivathsan, USA Paul Steendijk, The Netherlands Ralph Stewart, New Zealand Martin Stockburger, Germany George A. Stouffer, USA Phyllis G. Supino, USA Jesper H. Svendsen, Denmark Csaba Szabo, USA Masahiko Takagi, Japan Masafumi Takahashi, Japan Akira Tamura, Japan W.H. Wilson Tang, USA Laszlo B. Tanko, Denmark Paramjit S. Tappia, Canada Luis Tercedor Sanchez, Spain Bernard Thibault, Canada Dimitris Tousoulis, Greece Ronald J.A. Trent, Australia Teresa Tsang, USA Belma Turan, Turkey Suresh C. Tyagi, USA Yasunori Ueda, Japan Masuko Ushio-Fukai, USA Stephen F. Vatner, USA Johannes Waltenberger, The Netherlands Jou-Kou Wang, Taiwan-R.O.C. Lu Wang, USA Sven Wassmann, Canada Hiroshi Watanabe, Japan Nanette K. Wenger, USA Cornelia M. Weyand, USA Harvey White, New Zealand Norbert Wilke, USA Nathan D. Wong, USA Scott Wright, USA Joseph Wu, USA Takumi Yamada, USA Shizuya Yamashita, Japan Zhong-Qun Yan, Sweden Phillip C. Yang, USA Masafumi Yano, Japan Jian Ye, Canada Xi-Yong Yu, China Maliha Zahid, USA Doron Zahger, Israel Dong Zhao, China Xi-Long Zheng, Canada Xinghua Zhou, Sweden Ming-Hui Zou, USA Irving H. Zucker, USA