Authors

• JoAnne M. Foody, MD (Physician, Boston, MA)
  I am the Prevention Moderator at CardioExchange. I am a practicing cardiologist at The Shapiro Cardiovascular Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where I am Director of the Cardiovascular Wellness Center. I am a preventive cardiologist and health outcomes researcher who focuses on how to best provide improved preventive cardiovascular care to appropriate individuals. In particular, my work focuses on disparities in care to older individuals and women.
• Juan Rivera, MD, MHS (Physician, Miami Beach, FL)
  I am a practicing Cardiologist in sunny Miami Beach, FL. My practice is mainly focused on the prevention and early detection of heart disease. I maintain academic affiliations with The Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease and the University of Miami Cardiovascular Division. I operate a cardiovascular health blog for Hispanics, Corazon Hispano, and do a weekly television health segment for Telemundo's news show "Al Rojo Vivo." My research focuses on the impact of atherosclerosis imaging on risk stratification and prevention efforts.
• Joseph Ross, MD, MHS (Physician, New Haven, CT)
  I am an Assistant Professor in the Section of General Internal Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. My research uses health services research methods to examine health care quality and delivery, particularly for older adults.
• Larry Husten, PhD (Other, New York, NY)
  In addition to writing the news right here for CardioExchange, I write a blog at CardioBrief.Org. From 1999 through 2008 I was the news and features editor of TheHeart.Org. I have a PHD in English, spent a year as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and-- by far my most impressive achievement-- I drove a taxicab in New York City for several years to support my education.
• Nihar Desai, MD, MPH (Fellow in Training, Boston, MA)
• Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM (Physician, New Haven, CT)
• James de Lemos, MD (Physician, Dallas, TX)
  I am the co-moderator of the fellowship discussions at CardioExchange. I am the Cardiology Service Chief at Parkland Hospital and formerly directed the Cardiology Fellowship at UT Southwestern. I split my time between clinical practice and teaching in general cardiology, administrative work, and clinical and population research. My research interests are in screening and risk assessment, particularly using cardiac biomarkers, as well as in clinical trials evaluating new treatments for patients with acute and chronic coronary disease.
• Richard A. Lange, MD, MBA (Physician, San Antonio, TX)
  I am Executive Vice Chairman of Medicine and Director of the Office of Educational Programs at the Univ of Texas HSC in San Antonio. I previously worked at UT Southwestern Med Ctr as director of the fellowship training program and the cardiac catheterization laboratory and at Johns Hopkins Hospital as the Chief of Clinical Cardiology. I maintain an academic affiliation with Johns Hopkins, where I record a weekly medical podcast. I have a long-standing interest in interventional cardiology and adult congenital heart disease. I currently practice general cardiology and bicycle with my long-time friend and colleague, Dr. L. David Hillis, with whom I co-moderate the Interventional discussions on CardioExchange.
• Brahmajee Kartik Nallamothu, MD, MPH (Physician, Ann Arbor, MI)
  I'm a health services researcher and interventional cardiologist at the University of Michigan and the Ann Arbor VA Medical Ctr.
• Martin Gallagher, MBBS MPH PhD
  I'm a clinical nephrologist and researcher, based at The George Institute for Global Health in Sydney. My interests are clinical nephrology trials (esp in acute kidney injury), clinical guidelines and the measurement of health systems.
• Andrew M. Kates, MD (Physician, St. Louis, MO)
  I am co-moderator of the Cardiology Fellowship discussions in CardioExchange. I am the program director of the Cardiovascular Fellowship program at Washington University in St. Louis. I am a general cardiologist with an interest in preventive cardiology and am the director of the Heart Disease Prevention Program. I am co-investigator in several clinical trials, including those looking at novel treatments for acute coronary syndromes.
• Philip Marsden, MD
  I am a Physician Scientist with a keen interest in the biology of the vascular endothelium. My lab uses basic research tools to probe mechanism-based questions that are relevant to diseases of human blood vessels. The clinical implications of basic research into the causes of kidney and heart disease is my lodestar. I have been an Editorial Board member of the New Engl J Med since 2002. I am also a strong advocate for Physicians showing leadership in living a healthy lifestyle with the "right" balance between work and home.
• John Spertus, MD, MPH (Physician, Kansas City, MO)
  I am a cardiologist at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart institute and serve as the Lauer Endowed Chair and Professor at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. Academically, I am an outcomes researcher who focuses on understanding and improving patients' symptoms, function and quality of life. My dream is to help realize a healthcare system that provides care that is customized to patients' individualized preferences and values. I believe that this will be achieved by using risk-stratification models at the point of care to project patients' outcomes (survival and quality of life) so that the evidence is available to enable doctors and patients to appropriately individualize and apply therapy.
• Thomas Morgan, M.D. (Physician, Nashville, TN)
  I completed a combined BA/MD program at Boston University School of Medicine, a residency in Family Medicine at at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and subsequently, fellowships in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (epidemiology), and in Clinical Genetics, at Yale University. I am board certified in Clinical Genetics as well as Family Medicine. My research is focused on cardiovascular genetics. I received a K23 award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the NIH.
• Cheuk-Man Yu, MD, FRCP, FRACP
• Kirsten Fleischmann, MD, MPH (Physician, San Francisco, CA)
  I am a cardiologist whose major research interests include development and evaluation of efficient diagnostic and treatment strategies in acute ischemic syndromes, use of noninvasive testing (especially echocardiography) in cardiology and its relation to outcomes, and implementation of evidence-based practice in cardiology.
• L. David Hillis, MD (Physician, San Antonio, TX)
  I am Co-Moderator for Interventional discussions. After completing my cardiology training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston in 1978, I served for 30 years on the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where I worked actively in the Catheterization Laboratory at Parkland Memorial Hospital, UT Southwestern's major teaching hospital. From 1993 to 2008, I was Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine and Director of the Residency Training Program. In 2008, I assumed the position of Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Since 1993, I have been a member of the Editorial Board of the New England Journal of Medicine.
• Vincent Bufalino, MD (Physician, Naperville, IL)
• Thomas Tsai, MD, MSc (Physician, Denver, CO)
  An academic interventional cardiologist focused clinically on complex coronary and peripheral interventions with protected research time devoted to our Colorado Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (CCOR) group focused on health services research in cardiology. Our group is an affiliated collaborative of investigators from the Denver VAMC, University of Colorado Denver, Denver Health Medical Center, and Kaiser Permanente. Specifically I focus on health outcomes related to patients who receive PCI, peripheral vascular interventions and aortic diseases.
• Samuel Goldhaber, MD (Physician, Boston, MA)
• Anju Nohria, MD (Physician, Boston, MA)
  I am an Instructor in the Cardiovascular Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. My clinical area of expertise is heart failure and transplantation and I also run a clinic dedicated to taking care of the cardiac complications of cancer therapy.
• Philip Kalra, MD
  I am a Consultant Nephrologist, Salford Royal Hospital Trust and the University of Manchester. I have longstanding interests in atherosclerotic renovascular disease (ARVD), and I am co-originator and lead nephrologist for the recently published ASTRAL trial. Other research interests include CKD epidemiology and CKD-related vascular calcification. I have also played a significant role in amalgamating Cardio-Renal education and research within the UK.
• Paul S. Chan, MD, MS (Physician, Kansas City, MO)
• Christopher Paul Cannon, MD (Physician, Boston, MA)
  I am an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and member of the TIMI Study Group in the Cardiovascular Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. My clinical area of interest is in acute coronary syndromes and prevention.
• Frederick Masoudi, MD, MSPH (Physician, Denver, CO)
  I am an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado, Denver. I am a general cardiologist and a health outcomes researcher with interests in quality of care, comparative effectiveness, and cardiovascular registries. Clinically, my research is primarily focused on acute coronary syndromes, heart failure, and implantable cardioverter defebrillators.
• Sanjay Kaul, MD (Physician, Los Angeles, CA)
  I am a Professor in the Cardiovascular Division at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and at UCLA. My clinical area of expertise is stable and unstable CAD and I am also interested in clinical trial design and interpretation.
• Pamela S. Douglas, MD (Physician, Durham, NC)
• Henry N Ginsberg, MD (Physician, New York, NY)
  I an a professor of Medicine and Director of the irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Columbia University Medical Center (home of our CTSA). My research is in lipid and lipoprotein metabolism. I work with cultured liver cells, mouse models, and humans.
• John McMurray, MbChB MD
  I am Professor of Medical Cardiology at the University of Glasgow, Head of the Section of Academic Cardiology and Deputy Director of the Glasgow British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Research at the University of Glasgow. I am also a Consultant Cardiologist at the Western Infirmary Glasgow. I have a special interest in heart failure and in clinical trials in cardiovascular disease.
• John Mandrola, MD, FACC (Physician, Louisville, KY)
  I am a clinical electrophysiologist in Louisville, KY, practicing with Louisville Cardiology, PSC. My areas of expertise are in catheter ablation, cardiac device implantation and the hands-on care of people. My AF ablation involves many hundred cases dating back to 2004. Private practice has taught me much, and in recent years medical commentary has afforded me an opportunity to teach, which has always been a keen interest of mine.
• Mikhail Kosiborod, MD (Physician, Kansas City, MO)
• Rita F Redberg, MD, MSc (Physician, S.f., CA)
  I am a Professor of Medicine at UCSF Medical Center, and the Editor of Archives of Internal Medicine. My research interests are in technology assessment and use of new technology - cardiac CT, stents, new cardiovascular devices.
• Ash Sehgal, MD (Physician, Cleveland, OH)
• Kim G. Smolderen, PhD
  I am a PhD psychologist and I work as an assistant professor at Tilburg University in The Netherlands, and I am affiliated with the Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, MO as a research scientist in outcomes research. My areas of expertise are behavioral factors, depression, peripheral arterial disease, and outcomes assessment in CVD.
• Allan Brett, MD (Physician, Columbia, SC)
  I am the director of the General Internal Medicine division at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, and serve as editor-in-chief of the literature review publication Journal Watch General Medicine. I am clinically active in both outpatient and inpatient settings, and have academic interests in clinical decision-making, bioethics, and critical review of the literature.
• Gust H Bardy, MD (Physician, Seattle, WA)
• David Rind, MD (Physician, Boston, MA)
• Héctor Bueno, MD, PhD
• Steve Marso, MD (Physician, Kansas City, MO)
• Ibee Grumpy, MD (Physician, Suburbantown, KS)
  I’m a neurologist, and although I practice in an upscale suburban area, I sometimes seem to attract some remarkably “special” folks. I have no idea why. It just seems that weird crap happens to me or my patients. So I write about it here: Dr. Grumpy in the House, a blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
• Susan Cheng, MD (Physician, Boston, MA)
  I am an Instructor in the Cardiovascular Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. I am also an investigator at the Framingham Heart Study in Framingham, MA.
• Guillaume Pare, MD, MSc
  I am Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine; Joint Appointment in Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Director, Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory at McMaster University. I am also currently a visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School.
• Shanti Bansal, MD (Physician, Los Angeles, CA)
• Steve DeMaio, MA, MSEd (Other, Cambridge, MA)
• Mary Knudson, Health Journalist (Other, Silver Spring, MD)
  I am a health journalist who is co-author of Living Well with Heart Failure, the Misnamed, Misunderstood Condition http://livingwellwithheartfailure.com/ and I write a new blog on heart failure and other heart issues called HeartSense http://heartsenseblog.com/. I was a medical writer for 17 years at The Sun in Baltimore, MD and spent a year as a journalism fellow in Advanced Studies in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. I am co-editor of A Field Guide for Science Writers used widely in teaching science and medical writing at universities and I teach medical and science writing at Johns Hopkins University. Currently I am teaching Writing Health Stories for the Public to medical faculty. I served on the board of the National Association of Science Writers for 10 years and helped create the NASW annual professional workshops which I co-chaired in their first and second years. I am a former president of the D.C. Science Writers Association (DCSWA), was Freedom Forum Medical Journalist-in-Residence at Ithaca College in New York , and sit on the Managing Committee for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Journalism Awards. I was diagnosed with heart failure in 2003 and the problems I experienced during my three-and-a-half month search for good care prompted me to ask my fourth cardiologist, Edward Kasper, who has cared for heart failure patients for 20 years and is now Director of Clinical Cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, to write the book with me about heart failure. I wanted to alert the public to this mushrooming health problem that catches many of us unaware. I recovered from heart failure.
• John Ryan, MD (Physician, Salt Lake City, UT)
  I am Assistant Professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. My clinical and research interests are in diastolic heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. I am also Associate Editor of CardioExchange and co-moderator of the Fellowship Training discussions.
• Steven E Nissen, MD (Physician, Cleveland, OH)
• Micah Eimer, MD (Physician, Glenview, IL)
  I am a partner in a busy 8 member cardiology practice in the northern suburbs of Chicago. I practice general cardiology. I am involved in the teaching program for medical students and residents from the University of Chicago.
• Barry M. Massie, BA (Harvard), MD (Columbia P&S) (Physician, San Francisco, CA)
  Was very active with PNHP advocated for single payer system, but we missed our best chance in decades. Great working in the VA system where quality of care is generally excellent and there are no perverse incentives.
• Thad F Waites, MD, FACC (Physician, Hattiesburg, MS)
  Chair, Board of Governors, ACC
• John E Brush, MD (Physician, Virginia Beach, VA)
  Professor of Medicine Eastern Virginia Medical School
• Paul Ridker, MD, MPH (Physician, Boston, MA)
• Westby G Fisher, MD (Physician, Evanston, IL)
• David Cohen, MD MSc (Physician, Kansas City, MO)
• Eric Jose Velazquez, MD (Physician, Durham, NC)
• Martin Than, MBBS
• Justin M Vader, M.D. (Fellow in Training, St Louis, MO)
• Sandeep Mangalmurti, MD, JD (Fellow in Training, Chicago, IL)
  I'm a cardiology fellow at University of Chicago, originally from New York. I have a particular interest in cardiology, health policy and the law.
• Hansie Mathelier, MD (Fellow in Training, Philadelphia, PA)
  First Year Cardiology Fellow
• Amit Shah, MD, MSCR (Fellow in Training, Atlanta, GA)
  I am a cardiology fellow in the clinical investigator track at Emory University. My research interests include preventive cardiology, epidemiology, depression/PTSD, and gender disparities.
• Ted Feldman, MD (Physician, Evanston, IL)
• Scott Wright, MD (Physician, Rochester, MN)
  Married, four great children who are inquisitive, hobbies include amateur radio, travel, golf
• Michael Mack, M.D. (Physician, Dallas, TX)
• Peter B Berger, MD (Physician, Danville, PA)
  I am the Director of the Center for Clinical Studies at Geisinger Clinic. I am also an interventional cardiologist.
• Jean-Pierre Usdin, MD
• Eric Rimm, ScD (Other health care professional, Boston, MA)
  Eric Rimm is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Womens Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is the Director of the Program in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research is focused on the health effects of alcohol, micronutrients, antioxidants and fatty acids and also on plasma and genetic markers of heart disease. Dr. Rimm recently served on the 2010 USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans Committee and previously served on the Institute of Medicine’s Dietary Reference Intakes for Macronutrients Committee, and is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Epidemiology and Prevention Council of the American Heart Association and serves on the Board of Directors for Project Bread -The Walk for Hunger. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed manuscripts in such journals as the Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, the Lancet, Circulation,the British Medical Journal, and the Journal of the National Cancer Institute
• David Martin, M.D. (Physician, Sacramento, CA)
• William Borden, MD (Physician, New York, NY)
• Tariq Ahmad, MD, MPH (Fellow in Training, Durham, NC)
  I am a 3rd year cardiology fellow at Duke University Medical Center. I plan to pursue advanced training in heart failure/transplant. I am currently spending my research years (3rd and 4th years) at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) focusing on the use of biomarkers in HF.
• Faiza Hashmi, MD (Resident, Chicago, IL)
• Judith S. Hochman, MD (Physician, New York, NY)
• Beth Waldron, MA (Other, Chapel Hill, NC)
  Beth Waldron is Program Director of the UNC Blood Clot Outreach Program and Clot Connect project in the Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Khurram Nasir, MD MPH (Physician, Miami Beach, FL)
  I am interested in epidemiological outcome research, especially related to evaluation of cardiovascular imaging modalities & its potential role in identifying low risk individuals in whom aggressive treatment strategies can be safely witheld.
• Stephen Fleet, MD (Physician, Peabody, MA)
• Daniela J Lamas, MD (Fellow in Training, Brookline, MA)
• William Kent Cornwell, MD (Fellow in Training, Dallas, TX)
• Aaron Earles, DO, MS (Fellow in Training, Olympia Fields, IL)
• Alison Bass, MLA and BA (Other, Cambridge, MA)
  I am an award-winning journalist, blogger and author of Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, winner of the NASW Science in Society Award. I teach journalism at Brandeis University and Mount Holyoke College. I blog on health care at www.alison-bass.com.
• Thierry Legendre, MD
• Christopher Seymour, MBA (Other, Jacksonville, FL)
• Jersey Chen, MD MPH (Physician, New Haven, CT)
  Research in cardiovascular outcomes, cost-effectiveness, quality of care, particularly in cardiac imaging.
• Norman Silverman, MD (Physician, detroit, MI)
  cofounder of www.heartsurgeryguide.net
• Eiman Jahangir, MD (Physician, New Orleans, LA)
• Reva Balakrishnan, MD, MPH (Fellow in Training, New York, NY)
  I am a currently a general cardiology fellow at NYU. I completed my residency training at Mount Sinai and did an additional year in general preventive medicine. My interest is in Preventive Cardiology.
• Erica Sarah Spatz, MD, MHS (Physician, New Haven, CT)
  I recently returned to clinical training for cardiology. Prior to this I was a practicing internist as well as a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. As an early investigator, I have taken advantage of different research modalities to pursue my 2 main areas of interest: quality outcomes for people with cardiovascular disease, and access to care for vulnerable populations. I am ultimately interested in bridging research with policy to improve care delivery and outcomes, as well as the overall patient experience with our health care system. I am a relatively new Mom (which I savor everyday), and am fortunate to have a supportive family to help with the work/home balance.
• Bruce M Psaty, MD, PhD (Physician, Seattle, WA)
• Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
• Indu Poornima, MD (Physician, Pittsburgh, PA)
• Steven Bailey, MD (Physician, San Antonio, TX)
• Fred H Edwards, MD, MS (Physician, Jacksonville, FL)
• Marilyn Mann, J.D. (Other, Kensington, MD)
• Edward Janszen Schloss, MD (Physician, Cincinnati, OH)
• J Aaron Grantham, MD, FACC (Physician, kansas City, MO)
  Program director CV disease fellowship University of Missouri Kansas City
• Karen Dorsey, MD, PhD (Physician, New Haven, CT)
• Aakriti Gupta, MD (Physician, New Haven, CT)
• Roger Blumenthal, M.D. (Physician, Baltimore, MD)
  I direct the Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease.
• Larry Allen, MD, MHS (Physician, Denver, CO)
• Behnood Bikdeli, M.D. (Physician, New Haven, CT)
• Megan Coylewright, MD MPH (Fellow in Training, Rochester, MN)
  I am currently in a 2 year interventional fellowship, with a focus on structural heart disease, at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota (thus, the warm coat). My research focus is in shared decision-making, creating and evaluating decision aids for stable coronary disease and severe aortic stenosis.
• Jeremiah Depta, MD (Fellow in Training, Saint Louis, MO)
• Jonathan Simon Steinberg, MD (Physician, New York, NY)
• Nicholas Downing, AB (Medical Student, New Haven, CT)
• Edward McNulty, MD (Physician, San Francisco, CA)
  Interventional and general cardiologist at Kaiser San Francisco and Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF
• Lisa Rosenbaum, MD (Fellow in Training, Portland, OR)
• Kathryn Jesseca Lindley, MD (Fellow in Training, St. Louis, MO)
• Gregg W Stone, MD (Physician, New York City, NY)
  I am the Director of Cardiovascular Research and Education of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapies at Columbia University Medical Center, and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York, NY.
• John A. Dodson, MD (Physician, Boston, MA)
  I am a board-certified cardiologist and am currently in a postdoctoral research fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital's Division of Aging. My research focuses on the outcomes of cardiovascular interventions in the very elderly, as well as the incorporation of geriatric impairments into informed decision-making. I am concurrently pursuing training in advanced cardiac imaging.
• Betsy Bradley, Ph.D. (Other, New Haven, CT)
• Shelby Kutty, MD (Physician, Omaha, NE)
• Harry Peled, MD (Physician, los angeles, CA)
  Haealthy skepticism of many RCT's masquerading as EBM. We need better science when we make major decisions
• Justin E Davies, MD, PhD
  I am a practicing interventional cardiologist, with my major research interest in the development of algorithms for the assessment and quantification of hemodynamic variables.
• Paul Sax, MD (Physician, Brookline, MA)
• Steven Coca, DO, MS (Physician, New Haven, CT)
• D H Newman, MD (Physician, NYC, NY)
• Emily M Abramsohn, MPH (Other health care professional, Chicago, IL)
• Larry M. Baddour, MD (Physician, Rochester, MN)
• Yoni Freedhoff, MD
• John W McEvoy, MB BCh BAO (Fellow in Training, Baltimore, MD)
• Alexis L Beatty, MD (Physician, San Francisco, CA)
  I am a cardiology research fellow at UCSF. Currently, I am working on projects related to novel markers of cardiovascular risk within the Heart and Soul Study, a prospective cohort study of outpatients with stable coronary heart disease. I am also interested developing new approaches to secondary prevention of coronary heart disease.
• Patrick Serruys, MD, PhD
• Daniel B Mark, MD, MPH (Physician, Chapel Hill, NC)
• Eric Joseph Oligino, M.D. (Physician, New Haven, CT)
• James H Stein, MD (Physician, Madison, WI)
  I am a Professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison, Wisconsin. I am Director of the Preventive Cardiology Program at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. I also am Director of the University of Wisconsin Atherosclerosis Imaging Research Program.
• Druin Burch, BM BCh MA MSc
• Samuel S. Gidding, MD (Physician, Wilmington, DE)
  Interested in jazz, classical music, food, baseball, and the English Premier League
• Kevin Lomangino, BA (Other, Portland, ME)
  I edit Clinical Nutrition Insight, a monthly newsletter that frequently covers research on nutrition/diet and heart disease. I also review and blog at healthnewsreview.org, a site dedicated to improving coverage of medicine in the media.
• Mark Dayer, MD PhD FRCP
  I am a consultant with a particular interest in heart failure and devices. My work is largely clinical and much of it is general cardiology. I have also developed an interest in infective endocarditis, particularly around the issue of antibiotic prophylaxis
• Holger Thiele, MD
• J Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH (Physician, Boston, MA)
• Stewart Mann, DM (Oxon), FRCP(UK), FRACP
• Benjamin Howard Freed, MD (Physician, Chicago, IL)
• Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH (Physician, Boston, MA)
  Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Cardiology at VA Boston Healthcare System. He is a Senior Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Director of the Integrated Interventional Cardiovascular Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and VA Boston Healthcare System. He is also a Senior Investigator in the TIMI Study Group. Dr. Bhatt’s research interests include preventive cardiology as well as the optimal management of patients with acute coronary syndromes. He also has research interests in advanced techniques in cardiac, cerebral, and peripheral intervention.
• Xiao Xu, PhD (Other, New Haven, CT)
• Jeff Dickey, MD (Physician, Northampton, MA)
• Sripal Bangalore, MD, MHA (Physician, New York, NY)
• Michael Tempelhof, MD MSc (Fellow in Training, chicago, IL)
• Ajay J Kirtane, MD, SM (Physician, New York, NY)
  I am Chief Academic Officer of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy, Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), and serve as Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Training Program and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at CUMC. I am an active practicing Interventional Cardiologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital / CUMC with an interest in coronary and peripheral intervention.
• Morten Lamberts, MD
• Arthur J. Moss, MD (Physician, Rochester, NY)
  Arthur J. Moss, MD University of Rochester Medical Center Box 653 University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY 14642 Tel: 585-275-5391 Fax: 585-273-5283 E-mail: heartajm@heart.rochester.edu Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease Education: Undergraduate School: Yale University 1953, BA Graduate School: Harvard Medical School 1957, MD Medical Training: Medical Internship and Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Cardiology: University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY Academic Position: Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) Past Director, Heart Research Follow-up Program University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry Rochester, NY Current activities: American Heart Association; American College of Cardiology; and Heart Rhythm Society Author: Over 550 scientific medical articles and four medical books. Editor-in-Chief: Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology Editorial Board: Journal of the American College of Cardiology, American Journal of Cardiology, Heart Rhythm, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, Folia Cardiologica Brief Summary: Major areas of interest are in genetic and acquired heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmias), acute and chronic coronary heart disease, prevention of sudden cardiac death, clinical trials involving drugs and devices (MADIT trials), and consultant to the FDA for drugs used in the prevention and treatment of heart disease. Major scientific accomplishments involve the study of mechanical and electrical risk factors in coronary heart disease, investigations into lipid and clotting factors that contribute to coronary disease, clinical trials involving the implanted defibrillator and resynchronization therapy in high-risk cardiac patients, electrocardiology, phenotype/genotype investigations of the inherited long QT syndrome, and studies of drug-induced ventricular repolarization and heart rhythm disorders.
• Gilles Montalescot, MD, PhD
• Heather M Johnson, MD, MS (Physician, Madison, WI)
• Robert H. Schneider, MD, FACC (Physician, Maharishi Vedic City, IA)
• Valentin Fuster, MD
• Øystein Horgmo, BSc
• William Edward Boden, MD (Physician, albany, NY)
• Peter Paul Toth, MD, PhD (Physician, Sterling, IL)
• Thomas Marwick, MBBS, PhD, MPH
• Payal Kohli, M.D. (Fellow in Training, San Francisco, CA)
  Interests: regulation of inflammation and inflammatory biomarkers in heart disease.
• Christine Sadlowski, MS (Other, Waltham, MA)
• Leslie Curry, PhD, MPH (Other, New Haven, CT)
• Sarah C. Hull, MD, MBE (Master of Bioethics) (Fellow in Training, Shelton, CT)
• Murray David Esler, MBBS PhD
• Robert George Hauser, BS MD (Physician, Minneapolis, MN)
• Anita Vashi, MD, MPH (Fellow in Training, New Haven, CT)
• Monika Safford, MD (Physician, Birmingham, AL)
• James Fang, MD (Physician, Salt Lake City, OH)
  My primary clinical and academic interest is heart failure/transplant/circulatory assist. I also have a broad general cardiology interest in my role as the Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Utah Health Sciences Medical Center.
• Robert McKinnon Califf, MD (Physician, Durham, NC)
• Walter Willett, MD, MPH, DrPH (Physician, Boston, MA)
• Joseph Aloysius Walsh, MD (Fellow in Training, Chicago, IL)
• Kumar Dharmarajan, MD MBA (Fellow in Training, New York, NY)
  I'm a third year fellow in cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center. Through my research, I hope improve patient outcomes in the high risk period immediately following hospitalization.
• Frans van de Werf, MD,PhD
• Richard Joseph Kovacs, MD (Physician, Indianapolis, IN)
• Michelle Gurvitz, MD MS (Physician, Boston, MA)
• Kasia Lipska, MD, MHS (Physician, New Haven, CT)
• Gervasio Antonio Lamas, MD (Physician, Key Biscayne, FL)
• Sandeep K Goyal, MD (Fellow in Training, Nashville, TN)
• Sanjiv Shah, MD (Physician, Chicago, IL)
• Stacie Luther Daugherty, MD, MSPH (Physician, Denver, CO)
• Rory B Weiner, MD (Physician, Boston, MA)
• Gerard J Fahy, MD
• Kenneth John McConnell, PhD (Other, Portland, OR)
  I am a health economist with an interest in management practices, quality improvement, and policy and delivery system changes that can slow health care spending.
• Ian Neeland, MD (Fellow in Training, Dallas, TX)
• Eric Lindley, MD (Fellow in Training, Salt Lake City, UT)
  I am a Fellow in Training at the University of Utah. I am doing further training in interventional cardiology also in Utah. My interests beyond intervention include resident education and I know way more about European soccer than anyone should.
• Sana M Al-Khatib, MD, MHS (Physician, Durham, NC)
• Luis Garcia, MD (Fellow in Training, Brooklyn, NY)
• Amit Mehrotra, MD, MBA (Fellow in Training, Chicago, IL)
• Carolyn Ho, MD (Physician, Boston, MA)
• Jonathan L Halperin, M.D. (Physician, New York, NY)
• Mori Jacob Krantz, MD (Physician, Denver, CO)
  Like good food and exercise
• Jeffrey Lance Anderson, MD (Physician, Salt Lake City, UT)
• Simon Redwood, MB BS MD FRCP FACC FSCAI
• Chris Smith, RN (Other health care professional, Columbus, GA)
  RN since 1991, CV ICU thru 97, PACU thru 2000, cardiac cath lab to present in a research and quality data collection role. Track care issues related to cath lab and AMI
• Cynthia M Carlsson, MD, MS (Physician, Madison, WI)
  My clinical and research training background is in geriatrics and dementia, with a focus on preventing Alzheimer's disease. My outpatient clinical practice is in the VA Memory Assessment Clinic at the Madison VA Hospital. My clinical research focuses on the effects of vascular risk factors, specifically dyslipidemia, and the effects of treating those risk factors on risk for Alzheimer's disease.
• Sarwat Chaudhry, MD (Physician, New Haven, CT)
  I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Yale. My research focuses on improving the care and outcomes of older heart failure patients.
• Philip John Barter, MD, PhD
• Elaine Marie Hylek, MD, MPH (Physician, Boston, MA)
• Cynthia Jackevicius, BScPhm, PharmD, MSc (Other health care professional, Los Angeles, CA)
• Arthur Agatston, MD (Physician, Miami Beach, FL)
• Thomas Ryan, MD (Physician, Boston, MA)
• Christian Thomas Ruff, MD, MPH (Physician, Boston, MA)
• Justin P Zachariah, MD MPH (Physician, Boston, MA)
  Dr. Justin Zachariah was awarded an NIH T32 training grant which enabled him to be the first pediatric cardiology trained visiting research fellow at the NHLBI’s Framingham Heart Study. He concurrently obtained a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. His areas of interest are in identifying biophysical and biochemical predictors of atherosclerotic disease in high risk children, including those with congenital heart disease. He is currently on staff at Children's Hospital Boston in Pediatric Preventive Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease.
• Sarah D. de Ferranti, MD, MPH (Physician, Boston, MA)
• Cecilia Becattini, MD, PhD
• Sabet W Hashim, MD (Physician, BRANFORD, CT)
• Zachary Goldberger, MD, MS (Physician, Seattle, WA)
• John A. Bittl, M.D. (Physician, Ocala, FL)
  My avocation has been to interpret the content and context of current cardiovascular research. When not in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, I review manuscripts for medical journals, work as a member of the writing committee for the PCI guidelines, write an occasional article or editorial comment, or go surfing.
• Robert Harrington, MD (Physician, Durham, NC)
• Robert W. Yeh, MD MSc MBA (Physician, Boston, MA)
  I am an interventional cardiologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital. I also serve as the Medical Director of Trial Design at the Harvard Clinical Research Institute, where we design, execute and analyze clinical trials and registries of cardiovascular therapeutics. Finally, I have an interest in outcomes research and quality of care, and work closely with my research mentors and colleagues at Department of Healthcare Policy at Harvard Medical School.
• John Stephen Yudkin, MB BChir MD FRCP
• Marion Marjorie Mafham, MBChB MD
• David Kandzari, MD (Physician, Rancho Santa Fe, CA)
• Amit Khera, MD, MSc (Physician, Dallas, TX)
  I am an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, Director of the Preventive Cardiology Program, and Program Director of the Cardiology Fellowship Program. I am also Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation. My clinical and research interests are in preventive cardiology.
• Andrew E. Epstein, MD, FAHA, FACC, FHRS (Physician, Philadelphia, PA)
• Kamalendu Kanu Chatterjee, MBBS,FRCP (Physician, Iowa City, IA)
  I am interested in teaching, clinical research and patient care
• Rick Akira Nishimura, MD (Physician, Rochester, MN)
• Donald M Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM (Physician, Chicago, IL)
• Alice H. Lichtenstein, D.Sc. (Other health care professional, Boston, MA)
• Christine Goertz, DC, PhD (Other health care professional, Davenport, IA)
• Robin Boineau, M.D., M.A. (Physician, Washington, DC)
• Kerry L. Lee, Ph.D. (Other, Durham, NC)
  I have been engaged in the design, conduct, and analysis of cardiovascular clinical trials for 30 years.
• Rajan Sacha Bhatia, MD/MBA (Physician, Boston, MA)
• Niamh O'Hanlon, BPharm MSc Grad Dip Risk Mgmt Cert Pharm Prac
  Deputy Chair Irish Medication Safety Network - a voluntary, independent group of hospital pharmacy based specialists (public and private hospitals) with an interest in medication safety. Check out our publications at www.imsn.ie