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Contributors

DAVID H. ADAMS, M.D.

Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Associate Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Medical Management of the Patient Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

JOSHUA ADLER, M.D.

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Director, Ambulatory Practices, University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center, San Francisco, California
General Anesthesia and Noncardiac Surgery in Patients with Heart Disease

NADIR M. ALI, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston; Interventional Cardiologist, Clear Lake Regional MedicalCenter, Webster, Texas
Hemostasis, Thrombosis, Fibrinolysis, and Cardiovascular Disease

ELLIOTT M. ANTMAN, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Samuel A. Levine Cardiac Unit, Cardiovascular Division,Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Acute Myocardial Infarction; Medical Management of the Patient Undergoing Cardiac Surgery

WILLIAM F. ARMSTRONG, M.D.

Professor of Internal Medicine and Director, Echocardiography Laboratory, University of Michigan Health System; AssociateClinical Chief, Division of Cardiology, and Associate Chair for Network Development, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Echocardiography

ARTHUR J. BARSKY, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Director of Psychosomatic Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston,Massachusetts
Psychiatric and Behavioral Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease

GEORGE A. BELLER, M.D.

RuthC. Heede Professor of Cardiology and Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine; Chief, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, University ofVirginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia
Relative Merits of Cardiovascular DiagnosticTechniques

JOHN BITTL, M.D.

Interventional Cardiologist, Ocala Heart Institute,Ocala, Florida
Coronary Angiography and Intravascular Ultrasonography

ROBERT O. BONOW, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School; Chief, Division of Cardiology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago,Illinois
Cardiac Catheterization; Chronic Coronary Artery Disease

HARISIOS BOUDOULAS, M.D.

Director,Overstreet Teaching and Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine andPublic Health; Staff Cardiologist, The Ohio State University Medical Center,Columbus, Ohio
Renal Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease

EUGENE BRAUNWALD, M.D., M.D. (hon), Sc.D. (hon), F.R.C.P.

Vice President for Academic Programs, Partners Health Care System; Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine and Faculty Dean for Academic Programs at Brigham and Women's Hospital and MassachusettsGeneral Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
The History; Physical Examination of the Heart and Circulation; Pathophysiology of Heart Failure; Clinical Aspects of Heart Failure: High-Output Heart Failure: Pulmonary Edema; Acute Myocardial Infarction; Unstable Angina; Chronic Coronary Artery Disease; Valvular Heart Disease; The Cardiomyopathies and Myocarditides

KENNETH R. BRIDGES, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Joint Center for Sickle Cell and Thalassemic Disorders, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Hematological-Oncological Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease

MICHAEL R. BRISTOW, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine and Head, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado
Treatment of Heart Failure: Pharmacological Methods; Management of Heart Failure

HUGH CALKINS, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University;Director of the Arrhythmia Service and Clinical Electrophysiology Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
Hypotensionand Syncope

CHRISTOPHER P. CANNON, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Unstable Angina

AGUSTIN CASTELLANOS, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine; Director, Clinical Electrophysiology, University of Miami Schoolof Medicine and Jackson Memorial Medical Center, Miami, Florida
Cardiac Arrest and Sudden Cardiac Death

BERNARD R. CHAITMAN, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, Cardiology Division, St. LouisUniversity School of Medicine; Chief of Cardiology, St. Louis University Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
Exercise Stress Testing

MELVIN D. CHEITLIN, M.D., M.A.C.C.

Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Former Chief of Cardiology, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California
Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly

STEVEN D. COLAN, M.D.

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Division of Noninvasive Cardiology, and Senior Associate in Cardiology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
AcquiredHeart Disease in Children

WILSON S. COLUCCI, M.D.

Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Boston University School of Medicine; Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Pathophysiology of Heart Failure; Clinical Aspects of Heart Failure; Primary Tumors of the Heart

MARK A. CREAGER, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Vascular Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Peripheral Arterial Diseases

ADNAN S. DAJANI, M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics, Wayne State University Schoolof Medicine; Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's HospitalofMichigan, Detroit, Michigan
Rheumatic Fever

MICHAEL D. DAKE, M.D.

Associate Professor of Radiology and Medicine (Pulmonary), Stanford University; Chief, Cardiovascular and InterventionalRadiology, Stanford Medical Center, Stanford, California
ExtracardiacVascular Interventions

CHARLES J. DAVIDSON, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School; Chief, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
Cardiac Catheterization

PAMELA S. DOUGLAS, M.D.

Dr.Herman and Aileen Tuchman Professor ofCardiovascular Medicine and Head, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Wisconsin–Madison Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin
Coronary Artery Disease in Women

URI ELKAYAM, M.D.

Professor of Medicine and Director, Heart Failure Program, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles,California
Pregnancy and Cardiovascular Disease

ANTHONY L. ESTRERA, M.D.

Chief Resident, Thoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Traumatic Heart Disease

JOHN A. FARMER, M.D.

Associate Professor, Section of Cardiology andAtherosclerosis, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Chiefof Cardiology, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas
Lipid-LoweringTrials

HARVEY FEIGENBAUM, M.D.

Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Director,Echocardiography Laboratories, Indiana University School of Medicine and Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indianapolis, Indiana
Echocardiography

STACY D. FISHER, M.D.

Instructor in Medicine/Cardiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry; Attending Physician and Fellow in Adult Congenital Heart Disease, University of Rochester Medical Center and Children's Hospital at Strong, Rochester, New York
Cardiovascular Abnormalities in HIV-Infected Individuals

GERALD F. FLETCHER, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School;Cardiovascular Disease, Prevention and Rehabilitation, Mayo Clinic,Jacksonville, Florida
Comprehensive Rehabilitation of Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

WILLIAM F. FRIEDMAN, M.D.

J.H. Nicholson Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) and Senior Dean for Academic Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
Congenital Heart Disease in Infancy and Childhood

PETER GANZ, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of Cardiovascular Research, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Coronary Blood Flow and Myocardial Ischemia

WILLIAM GANZ, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, University of California, LosAngeles (UCLA), School of Medicine; Senior Research Scientist, Cedars-SinaiMedical Center, Los Angeles, California
Coronary Blood Flow and Myocardial Ischemia

J. MICHAEL GAZIANO, M.D., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Co-Director, Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Director, Massachusetts Veterans' Epidemiology and Research Center, Boston VA Healthcare Systems, Boston, Massachusetts
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease; Primary and Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease

JACQUES GENEST, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, McGill University;Director, Division of Cardiology, McGill University Health Center, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Risk Factors for Atherosclerotic Disease

BERNARD J. GERSH, M.D., M.B., Ch.B., D.Phil.

Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical Center; Consultantin Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Chronic Coronary Artery Disease

MICHAEL M. GIVERTZ, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; Clinical Director, Cardiomyopathy Program, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Clinical Aspects of Heart Failure

ARY L. GOLDBERGER, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Margret and H.A. Rey Laboratory for Nonlinear Dynamics in Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Electrocardiography

SAMUEL Z. GOLDHABER, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Staff Cardiologist, Director of Cardiac Center's Anticoagulation Service, and Director of Venous Thromboembolism Research Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Pulmonary Embolism

LEE GOLDMAN, M.D., M.P.H.

Julius R. Krevans Distinguished Professor and Chair,Department of Medicine and Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Attending Physician,University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, California
General Anesthesia and Noncardiac Surgery in Patients with Heart Disease

ANTONIO M. GOTTO, JR., M.D., D.Phil.

The Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean and Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York
Lipid-LoweringTrials

WILLIAM J. GROH, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
Neurological Disordersand Cardiovascular Disease

DAVID L. HAYES, M.D.

Consultant, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases andInternal Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota
Cardiac Pacemakers and Cardioverter-Defibrillators

CHARLES B. HIGGINS, M.D.

Professor of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, California
Newer Cardiac Imaging Modalities:Magnetic ResonanceImaging and Computed Tomography

MARK A. HLATKY, M.D.

Professor of Health Research and Policy and of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), and Chair, Department of Health Researchand Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
Economics and Cardiovascular Disease

GARY S. HOFFMAN, M.D.

Harold C. Schott Chair for Rheumatic and ImmunologicDiseases and Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic/Ohio State University; Chairman, Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, and Director, Center forVasculitis Care and Research, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Rheumatic Diseases and the Cardiovascular System

ERIC M. ISSELBACHER, M.D.

Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School;Medical Director, Thoracic Aortic Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Diseases of the Aorta

NORMAN M. KAPLAN, M.D.

Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Systemic Hypertension:Mechanisms and Diagnosis; Systemic Hypertension: Therapy

ADOLF W. KARCHMER, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief,Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Infective Endocarditis

RALPH A. KELLY, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard University; Associate Physician, Division of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Treatment of Heart Failure: Pharmacological Methods

RICHARD E. KUNTZ, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Percutaneous Coronary and Valvular Intervention

THOMAS H. LEE, M.D., S.M.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Medical Director, Partners Community HealthCare, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Guidelines: Electrocardiography; Guidelines:Use of Exercise Tolerance Testing; Guidelines: Use of Echocardiography; Guidelines:Management of Heart Failure; Guidelines: Cardiac Radionuclide Imaging; Guidelines: Ambulatory Monitoring and Electrophysiological Testing; Guidelines:Use of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrhythmia Devices; Guidelines: DiagnosisandManagement of Acute Myocardial Infarction; Guidelines: Management of UnstableAngina/Non–ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction; Guidelines:Management of Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease; Guidelines: Management of Valvular Heart Disease; Guidelines: Prevention, Evaluation, and TreatmentofInfective Endocarditis; Guidelines: Summary of Guidelines for Reducing Cardiac Risk With Noncardiac Surgery; Guidelines: Management of Valvular DiseaseinPregnancy

JEFFREY M. LEIDEN, M.D., Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences, HarvardSchool of Public Health; Executive Vice President, Pharmaceuticals, and Chief Scientific Officer, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Illinois
Principlesof Cardiovascular Molecular Biology andGenetics

CARL V. LEIER, M.D.

Overstreet Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Division of Cardiology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health; Staff Cardiologist, The Ohio State University Hospitals,Columbus, Ohio
Renal Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease

GLENN N. LEVINE, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Houston VA Medical Center, Houston, Texas
Hemostasis, Thrombosis, Fibrinolysis,and Cardiovascular Disease

PETER LIBBY, M.D.

Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital,Boston, Massachusetts
Vascular Biology of Atherosclerosis;Risk Factors forAtherosclerotic Disease; Peripheral Arterial Diseases; Diabetes Mellitusand Cardiovascular Disease; Hematological-Oncological Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease

STEVEN E. LIPSHULTZ, M.D.

Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Oncology,University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry; Chief of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Rochester Medical Center and Children's Hospital at Strong, Rochester, New York
Cardiovascular Abnormalities in HIV-Infected Individuals

WILLIAM C. LITTLE, M.D.

Chiefof Cardiology and Professor of Medicine, WakeForest University School of Medicine, Bowman Gray Campus; Associate Chief of Professional Services, North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem, NorthCarolina
Assessment of Normal and Abnormal Cardiac Function

BRIAN F. MANDELL, M.D., Ph.D.

Clinical Professor of Medicine, Penn State University School of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania; Associate Professor of Medicine,Ohio State University School of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio; Education Program Director, Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Cleveland Clinic Foundation,Cleveland, Ohio
Rheumatic Diseases and the Cardiovascular System

JOANN E. MANSON, M.D., Dr.P.H.

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Chief,Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Primary and Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease

DANIEL B. MARK, M.D., M.P.H.

Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center;Director, Outcomes Research and Assessment Group, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina
Economics and Cardiovascular Disease

BARRY J. MARON, M.D.

Director,Cardiovascular Research Division, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Cardiovascular Disease in Athletes

KENNETH L. MATTOX, M.D.

Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery,Baylor College of Medicine; Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgery, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas
Traumatic Heart Disease

VALLERIE V. McLAUGHLIN, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Rush Medical College; Associate Director, Rush Heart Institute, Center for Pulmonary Heart Disease, Rush–Presbyterian–St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
Cor Pulmonale

JOHN M. MILLER, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine; Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Indiana UniversityMedical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana
Management of the Patient with Cardiac Arrhythmias

DOUGLAS N. MINIATI, M.D.

PostdoctoralResearch Fellow, Department ofCardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation

DAVID M. MIRVIS, M.D.

Professor of Preventive Medicine and Medicine, University of Tennessee; Director, The Center for Health Services Research, Memphis, Tennessee
Electrocardiography

ROBERT J. MYERBURG, M.D.

Professor of Medicine and Physiology, University of Miami School of Medicine; Director, Division of Cardiology, University of MiamiSchool of Medicine and Jackson Memorial Medical Center, Miami, Florida
Cardiac Arrest and Sudden Cardiac Death

RICHARD W. NESTO, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Chairman, Cardiovascular Medicine, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts
Diabetes Mellitus and the Cardiovascular System

JANE W. NEWBURGER, M.D., M.P.H.

Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Associate Cardiologist-in-Chief, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Acquired Heart Disease in Children

KEITH R. OKEN, M.D.

SeniorAssociate Consultant, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic,Jacksonville, Florida
Comprehensive Rehabilitation of Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

JEFFREY E. OLGIN, M.D

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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
Specific Arrhythmias: Diagnosis and Treatment

LIONEL H. OPIE, M.D., D.Phil., D.Sc., F.R.C.P.

Professor of Medicine, University of Cape Town; Director, Cape Heart Centre, University of Cape Town Medical School, CapeTown, South Africa
Mechanisms of Cardiac Contraction and Relaxation

JOSEPH K. PERLOFF, M.D.

Streisand/AmericanHeart Association Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, UCLACenter for the Health Sciences, Los Angeles, California
Physical Examination of the Heart and Circulation

WILLIAM S. PIERCE, M.D.

EvanPugh Professor of Surgery, The Pennsylvania StateUniversity College of Medicine; The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center,Department of Surgery, Section of Artificial Organs, Hershey, Pennsylvania
Treatment of Heart Failure: Assisted Circulation

JEFFREY J. POPMA, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Interventional Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Coronary Arteriography;Percutaneous Coronary and Valvular Intervention; Coronary Angiography and Intravascular Ultrasonography

J. DAVID PORT, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine/Cardiology and Pharmacology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado
Treatment of Heart Failure: Pharmacological Methods

REED E. PYERITZ, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Human Genetics, Medicine, and Pediatricsand Chair, Department of Human Genetics, MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease

BRUCE A. REITZ, M.D.

Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation

STUART RICH, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, Rush Medical College; Director,Rush Heart Institute Center for Pulmonary Heart Disease, Rush–Presbyterian–St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
Pulmonary Hypertension; Cor Pulmonale

WAYNE E. RICHENBACHER, M.D.

Professor of Surgery and Anatomy and Cell Biology andProfessor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
Treatment of Heart Failure:Assisted Circulation

PAUL M RIDKER, M.D., M.P.H.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of Cardiovascular Research, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Risk Factors for Atherosclerotic Disease; Primary and Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease

ROBERT C. ROBBINS, M.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine; Director of Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford,California
Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation

MICHAEL RUBART, M.D.

Assistant Scientist, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
Genesis of Cardiac Arrhythmias: Electrophysiological Considerations

ROBERT E. SAFFORD, M.D., Ph.D.

Barbara Woodward Lips Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota; Consultant in Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida
Comprehensive Rehabilitation of Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

SHAUN L. W. SAMUELS, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Division ofCardiovascular/Interventional Radiology, Stanford University Hospital, Stanford University, Stanford; Staff Physician, Department of Radiology, Palo Alto VA Medical Center, Palo Alto VA Health Care System, Palo Alto, California
Extracardiac Vascular Interventions

ANDREW I. SCHAFER, M.D.

The Bob and Vivian Smith Chair in Medicine and Chairman, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine; Chief, Internal Medicine Service, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas
Hemostasis,Thrombosis, Fibrinolysis, and Cardiovascular Disease

FREDERICK J. SCHOEN, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Vice-Chairman, Department of Pathology, and Director, Cardiac Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Primary Tumors of the Heart

ELLEN W. SEELY, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of Clinical Research, Endocrine-Hypertension Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
The Heartin Endocrine Disorders

NORMAN SILVERMAN, M.D., D.Sc. (Med)

Professor of Pediatrics and Radiology (Cardiology) and Director of Pediatric and Fetal Echocardiography, University of California, San Francisco, California
Congenital Heart Disease in Infancyand Childhood

ROBERT SOUFER, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine; Attending Physician and Chief, Cardiology, Yale–New Haven Hospital; VA New England Health Care Systems, West Haven, Connecticut
Nuclear Cardiology

DAVID H. SPODICK, M.D. D.Sc.

Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Director of Clinical Cardiology and Cardiovascular FellowshipTraining, Worcester Medical Center/St. Vincent's Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts
Pericardial Diseases

ROBERT M. STEINER, M.D.

Professor of Radiology, Weill Medical College ofCornell University; Attending Radiologist, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York
Radiology of the Heart and Great Vessels

RICHARD M. STONE, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Clinical Director, Adult Leukemia Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Instituteand Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Hematological-OncologicalDisorders and Cardiovascular Disease

JUDITH THERRIEN, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine, McGill University; Co-Director of Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinical, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Congenital Heart Disease in Adults

FRANS J. TH. WACKERS, M.D.

Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Medicine andDirector, Cardiovascular Nuclear Imaging and Stress Laboratories, Yale University School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Yale–New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
Nuclear Cardiology

MATTHEW J. WALL, JR., M.D.

Associate Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Traumatic Heart Disease

GARY D. WEBB, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto;Director, University of Toronto Congenital Cardiac Center for Adults, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Congenital Heart Disease in Adults

GORDON H. WILLIAMS, M.D.

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Clinical Research Center, and Chief, Endocrine-Hypertension Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
The Heart in Endocrine Disorders

JOSHUA WYNNE, M.D., M.B.A.

Professor of Medicine, Wayne State University; Attending Physician, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan
Cardiomyopathies and Myocarditides

BARRY L. ZARET, M.D.

Chief,Cardiovascular Medicine, and Associate Chairfor Clinical Affairs, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine; Medical Director, Heart Center, Yale–New Haven Hospital, NewHaven, Connecticut
Nuclear Cardiology

DOUGLAS P. ZIPES, M.D.

Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Toxicology; Director, Krannert Institute of Cardiology; and Director, Division of Cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine; Attending Physician, University Hospital, Wishard Memorial Hospital, and Roudebush Veterans Affairs Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana
Genesis of Cardiac Arrhythmias: ElectrophysiologicalConsiderations; Management of the Patient with Cardiac Arrhythmias; CardiacPacemakers and Cardioverter-Defibrillators; Specific Arrhythmias: DiagnosisandTreatment; Hypotension and Syncope; Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly; Neurological Disorders and Cardiovascular Disease

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