20th WCHD - Scientific Committees

FOUNDER AND CONGRESS CHAIRMAN
Asher Kimchi, USA

SCIENTIFIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Takashi Akasaka, Japan Matthew A. Allison, USA Martin A. Alpert, USA Ezra Amsterdam, USA Francisco Arabia, USA Wilbert S. Aronow, USA Subhash Banerjee, USA Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, USA Gregory W. Barsness, USA Lewis C. Becker, USA Dan S. Berman, USA Deepak L. Bhatt, USA Robert W.W. Biederman, USA Yochai Birnbaum, USA Burns C. Blaxall, USA William Bommer, USA Jeffrey S. Borer, USA Eduardo Bossone, Italy Neil E. Bowles, USA Sorin J. Brener, USA Michael E. Cain, USA Yzhar Charuzi, USA Kanu Chatterjee, USA (deceased) Anne B. Curtis, USA Lawrence S. Czer, USA Sergio Dalla-Volta, Italy Alexander H. J. Danser, The Netherlands Thomas Deneke, Germany Naranjan S. Dhalla, Canada John A. Elefteriades, USA Uri Elkayam, USA Michael Farkouh, Canada Michael A. Fifer, USA Janos G. Filep, Canada Gordon L. Fung, USA Zorina Galis,USA Feng Gao, China Julius Gardin, USA A. Martin Gerdes, USA S. David Gertz, Israel Sidney Goldstein, USA Paul A. Heidenreich, USA Donald D. Heistad, USA Charles H. Hennekens, USA Timothy D. Henry, USA Ramon C. Hermida, Spain Roland Hetzer, Germany Daniela Jezova, Slovakia Maryl R. Johnson, USA Bodh I. Jugdutt, Canada Edo Kaluski, USA Ilan Kedan, USA Ali Khoynezhad, USA Lorrie A. Kirshenbaum, Canada	Arthur Klatsky, USA Anne A. Knowlton, USA Stephen L. Kopecky, USA Adarsh Kumar, India Lih Kuo, USA Stephanie Lehoux, Canada Carlin S. Long, USA Gary Lopaschuk, Canada John J. Mahmarian, USA Kenneth Maiese, USA Tadeusz Malinski, USA Roberto Manfredini, Italy James D. Marsh, USA Ariane J. Marelli, Canada Jawahar L. Mehta, USA Luisa Mestroni, USA Dan M. Meyer, USA Leslie Miller, USA James K. Min, USA Freny V. Mody, USA Samia Mora, USA Mohammad-Reza. Movahed, USA Sherif F. Nagueh, USA Mohamad Navab, USA Kailash Pandey, USA Kaushik P. Patel, USA Patricia A. Pellikka, USA Louis P. Perrault, Canada Maria Vittoria H. Pitzalis, USA Maria Prokudina, Russia Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola, USA Nalini M. Rajamannan, USA Hanumanth K. Reddy, USA Robert Roberts, Canada Robert S. Rosenson, USA Hani N. Sabbah, USA Masood Sadiq, Pakistan Tiziano M. Scarabelli, USA Saul Schaefer, USA Howard D. Sesso, USA Jamshid Shirani, USA Horst Sievert, Germany Pawan K. Singal, Canada Dinender K. Singla, USA Laurence Sperling, USA Francis Spinale, USA Jean-Francois Tanguay, Canada Udho Thadani, USA Takanobu Tomaru, Japan Suresh C. Tyagi, USA Barry F. Uretsky USA George W. Vetrovec, USA Nanette K. Wenger, USA Nathan D. Wong, USA

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
Mazen S. Abu-Fadel, USA Chris Adamopoulos, Greece Ali Ahmed, USA Elena Aikawa, USA Masanori Aikawa, USA Kannayiram Alagiakrishnan, Canada Fernanado Alfonso, Spain Aman Amanullah, USA Guiseppe Ambrosio, Italy Madhu B. Anand-Srivastava, Canada Dominick J. Angiolillo, USA Nestor Angomachalelis, Greece Charles Antzelevitch, USA Juan M. Aranda, Jr., USA Eloisa Arbustini, Italy Pankaj Arora, USA Dan Atar, Norway Diana E. Ayala, Spain Luigi P. Badano, Italy Lina Badimon, Spain Maciej Banach, Poland Philip Barter, Australia Alexei G. Basnakian, USA Ronen Beeri, Israel Jonathan N. Bella, USA Gerald S. Berenson, USA Charles I. Berul, USA Luigi M. Biasucci, Italy Vera Bittner, USA Ron Blankstein, USA Peter C. Block, USA William E. Boden, USA Vicente Bodi, Spain Leonardo Bolognese, Italy Michiel L. Bots, The Netherlands Harisios Boudoulas, Greece Robert C. Bourge, USA Thomas Braun, Germany Eugene Braunwald, USA John C. Burnett, Jr., USA Gianfranco Butera, Italy Samuel Butman, USA Hua Linda Cai, USA Duncan J. Campbell, Australia Ugur Canpolat, Turkey Noel M. Caplice, Ireland Hari P. Chaliki, USA Julie Y.H. Chan, Taiwan Farooq A. Chaudhry, USA Asim N. Cheema, Canada Changyi (Johnny) Chen, USA Jaw-Wen Chen, Taiwan Shih-Ann Chen, Taiwan Yi-Jen Chen, Taiwan Yingjie Chen, USA Xian Wu Cheng, Japan Yiu-Fai Cheung, China Anand Chockalingam, USA Kee-Joon Choi, Korea Pierre Chouraqui, Israel Christina Chrysohoou, Greece Shorena Chumburidze, Rep. of Georgia Quirino Ciampi, Italy Domenico Corrado, Italy Filippo Crea, Italy Luciano Daliento, Italy Michael Dandel, Germany Sandra T. Davidge, Canada Giuseppe De Luca, Italy Christopher DeSouza, USA Giovanni de Simone, Italy Alan Y. Deng, Canada Milind Desai, USA Yvan Devaux, Luxembourg André Diedrich, USA Luc Djousse, USA Dobromir Dobrev, Germany Stavros G. Drakos, USA Heinz Drexel, Germany Anique Ducharme, Canada Samuel C. Dudley, USA Daniel A. Duprez, USA Vladimir D�av�k, Canada Thor Edvardsen, Norway Mohaned Egred, UK Andrew J. Einstein, USA Abdou Elhendy, USA Costanza Emaneuli, UK Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, USA Georg Ertl, Germany Guo-Chang Fan, USA Mohamed Eid Fawzy, Egypt Nikolaos G. Frangogiannis, USA Stanley S. Franklin, USA Tohru Fukai, USA Joel A. Garcia, USA Peter Gaskin, USA Guido Germano, USA Bernard J. Gersh, USA J. Rod Gimbel, USA Uri Goldbourt, Israel Jonathan Gollege, Australia Michael H. Gollob, Canada Diana A Gorog, UK Shmuel Gottlieb, Israel Peter J. Grant, UK Rajiv Gulati, USA Mariann Gyongyosi, Austria Abdul Hakeem, USA Ashraf Hamdan, Israel Jihong Han, China Stanley L. Hazen, USA Zuo-Xiang He, China Charles A. Henrikson, USA Michel Henry, France Gerd Heusch, Germany Paul C. Ho, USA Brian D. Hoit, USA Myeong-Ki Hong, South Korea Masatsugu Hori, Japan Gang Hu, USA Heikki V. Huikuri, Finland Mansoor Husain, Canada Randolph Hutter, Germany Borja Ib��ez, Spain Massimo Imazio, Italy Takafumi Ishida, Japan Allan S. Jaffe, USA Farouc Jaffer, USA Deepak J. Jain, Germany Jesper K. Jensen, Denmark Kai Jiao, USA Xueting Jin, USA Hanjoong Jo, USA Erik Jorgensen, Denmark J. Wouter Jukema, The Netherlands Alan H. Kadish, USA Andreas Kalogeropoulos, USA Duk-Hyun Kang, South Korea Samir Kapadia, USA Juan Carlos Kaski, UK Masaya Kato, Japan Demosthenes G. Katritsis, Greece Osami Kawarada, Japan Amir Kazory, USA Matyas Keltai, Hungary Bijoy K. Khandheria, USA Yong-Jin Kim, Korea Kwang Kon Koh, South Korea Igor E. Konstantinov, Australia Ran Kornowski, Israel Smadar Kort, USA Santhosh K.G. Koshy, USA Thomas Krasemann, UK Rungroj Krittayaphong, Thailand Henry Krum, Australia Howard S. Kruth, USA Rakesh C. Kukreja, USA Sudhir Kurl, Finland Roger Laham, USA Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, USA Roberto M. Lang, USA Alexandra Lansky, USA Gaetano A. Lanza, Italy Martin J. LaPage, USA Harold L. Lazar, USA Stephan E. Lehnart, Germany Robert A. Levine, USA T. Barry Levine, USA Qiangrong Liang, USA Philip R. Liebson, USA	Shing-Jong Lin, Taiwan Wolfgang A. Linke, Germany Steven E. Lipshultz, USA Jennifer Liu, USA Chaim Lotan, Israel Harry C. Lowe, Australia Alexandra Lucas, USA Xin-Liang Ma, USA Paolo Madeddu, UK Mohammad Madjid, USA Felix Mahfoud, Germany Bernhard Maisch, Germany Shaista Malik, USA Giuseppe Mancia, Italy Antonio Martinez Rubio, Spain Nilanjana Maulik, USA Pascal McKeown, Ireland Bruce M. McManus, Canada Issam Mikati, USA James C. Moon, UK Bassem Mora, USA Henning Morawietz, Germany Carlos A. Morillo, Canada Toshisuke Morita, Japan Alexander Morss, USA Marjan Mujib, USA Thomas Muenzel, Germany Barbara J. Mulder, The Netherlands Nandini Nair, USA Toshiaki Nakajima, Japan Khurram Nasir, USA Andrea Natale, USA Christopher Newton-Cheh, USA Arnold C.T. Ng, Australia Jens C. Nielsen, Denmark Yasushi Oginosawa, Japan Kenji Okumura, Japan Niels T. Olsen, Denmark Brian Olshansky, USA Torbjørn Omland, Norway Noriyuki Ouchi , Japan Ramdas G. Pai, USA Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, Greece John T. Parissis, Greece Louis P. Perrault, Canada Jan J. Piek, The Netherlands Luc A. Pierard, Belgium Cristina Pislaru, USA Sorin Pislaru, USA Laurent Pison, The Netherlands Jorge Plutzky, UK Sunny S. Po, USA Don Poldermans, The Netherlands Kailash Prasad, Canada Karin Przyklenk, USA Aniket Puri, New Zealand Vijay Puri, UK Lu Qi, USA Jeffrey J. Rade, USA Mohan K. Raizada, USA Satish R. Raj, USA Shahzad G. Raja, UK Tienush Rassaf, Germany Judith G. Regensteiner, USA James A. Reiffel, USA Jun Ren, USA William C. Roberts, USA Joe L. Rod, USA Giuseppe M.C. Rosano, Italy Clive Rosendorff, USA Eric Rosenthal, UK Martin H.H. Ruwald, USA Rajesh Sachdeva, USA Christoph H. Saely, Austria Flora Sam, USA Habib Samady, USA Nilesh J. Samani, UK Maria J. Sanz, Spain Hiroshi Sato, Japan Naveed Sattar, Scotland Heinrich R Schelbert, USA Ingolf Schimke, Germany Roland E. Schmieder, Germany Paul Schoenhagen, USA Karlheinz Seidl, Germany Roxy Senior,UK Rajat Sethi, USA Madhan Shanmugasundaram, USA Rakesh K. Sharma, USA Fayaz Shawl, USA Michael Shechter, Israel Win-Kuang Shen, USA Guo-Ping Shi, USA Avraham Shotan, Israel Rosa Sicari, Italy Mandeep S. Sidhu, USA Robert J. Siegel, USA Marc A. Silver, USA Jean-S�bastien Silvestre, France Alain Simon, France Christopher S. Snyder, USA Virend K. Somers, USA Jae-Kwan Song, South Korea Yiqing Song, USA Fabiola Sozzi, Italy V. S. Srinivas, USA Ashok K. Srivastava, Canada Deepak Srivastava, USA Komandoor Srivathsan, USA Paul Steendijk, The Netherlands Bodo E. Strauer, Germany Phyllis G. Supino, USA Jesper H. Svendsen, Denmark Masahiko Takagi, Japan Masafumi Takahashi, Japan Akira Tamura, Japan L�szl� Tank�, Switzerland Paramjit S. Tappia, Canada Ahmed Tawakol, USA Andrew J. Taylor, USA Mitsuyasu Terashima, Japan Bernard Thibault, Canada Liza Thomas, Australia Dimitris Tousoulis, Greece Steven Tracy, USA Ronald J.A. Trent, Australia Quynh A. Truong, USA Masahiko Tsuchiya, Japan Balwant S. Tuana, Canada Dan Tzivoni, Israel Yasunori Ueda, Japan Mark K. Urman, USA Masuko Ushio-Fukai, USA Peter van der Meer, The Netherlands Orly Vardeny, USA Hector O. Ventura, USA Francesco Violi, Italy Johannes Waltenberger, Germany Da-Zhi Wang, USA Lu Wang, USA Qin Wang, USA Shi-Qiang Wang, China Xuejun Wang, USA Yibin Wang, USA S. Goya Wannamethee, UK Hiroshi Watanabe, Japan John Webb, Canada A. Teddy Weiss, Israel Cornelia M. Weyand, USA Harvey D. White, New Zealand Scott Wright, USA Joseph C. Wu, USA Qingbo Xu, UK Sho-ichi Yamagishi, Japan Zhong-Qun Yan, Sweden Clyde W. Yancy, USA Baofeng Yang, China Qinglin Yang, USA Masafumi Yano, Japan Jian (James) Ye, Canada Ertan Yetkin, Turkey Mitsuhiro Yokota, Japan Hiroshi Yoshida, Japan Cheuk-Man Yu, Hong Kong Xi-Yong Yu, China Maliha Zahid, USA Alberto Zanchetti, Italy Robert Zelis, USA Zhixin (Jason) Zhang, USA Youhua Zhang, USA Xi-Long Zheng, Canada Ming-Hui Zou, USA

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