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FOUNDER & CONGRESS   CHAIRMAN 

Asher Kimchi, USA

SECTION CHAIRMEN

Pawan K. Singal, Canada
BASIC RESEARCH

Jeffrey S. Borer, USA
VALVULAR HEART DISEASE

Mihai Gheorghiade, USA
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE

Michael E. Cain, USA
ARRHYTHMIAS

John A. Elefteriades, USA
CARDIAC SURGERY

Uri Elkayam, USA
CLINICAL TRIALS

SCIENTIFIC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Uri Elkayam, USA (Chairman)
Ettore Ambrosioni, Italy
Ezra A. Amsterdam, USA
Nestor J. Angomachalelis, Greece
John B. Barlow, South Africa
Daniel S. Berman, USA
Robert O. Bonow, USA
Jeffrey S. Borer, USA
Eugene Braunwald, USA
John C. Burnett, Jr., USA
Christian Cabrol, France
Michael E. Cain, USA
Leszek Ceremuzynski, Poland
Kanu Chatterjee, USA
James H. Chesebro, USA
Dennis V. Cokkinos, Greece
Wilson S. Colucci, USA
Sergio Dalla-Volta, Italy
Prakash C. Deedwania, USA
Anthony N. DeMaria, USA
Timothy A. Denton, USA
Victor J. Dzau, USA
John A. Elefteriades, USA
Michael D. Ezekowitz, USA
Gregg C. Fonarow, USA
James S. Forrester, USA
William H. Gaasch, USA
Peter Ganz, USA
William Ganz, USA
Robert N. A. Gasser, Austria
Herbert J. Geschwind, France
Mihai Gheorghiade, USA
Sidney Goldstein, USA
Mervyn S. Gotsman, Israel
Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., USA
Hans Martin Hoffmeister, Germany
Christian Holubarsch, Germany
Jeffrey M. Isner, USA
Bodh I. Jugdutt, Canada
Nevin M. Katz, USA
Sanjay Kaul, USA
Peter R. Kowey, USA
Jeffrey M. Leiden, USA

Martin B. Leon, USA
Amir Lerman, USA
Philip R. Liebson, USA
Frank Litvack, USA
Thomas F. Luscher, Switzerland
Bernhard Maisch, Germany
Mario F.C. Maranhao, Brazil
Barry M. Massie, USA
Robert A. O'Rourke, USA
John O. Parker, Canada
C. Thomas Peter, USA
Bertram Pitt, USA
Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola, USA
Ariel J. Reyes, Uruguay
Robert Roberts, USA
William C. Roberts, USA
Eric A. Rose, USA
Clive Rosendorff, USA
John Ross, Jr., USA
Stanley A. Rubin, USA
Hani N. Sabbah, USA
Ricardo J. Seabra-Gomes, Portugal
Prediman K. Shah, USA
Marc A. Silver, USA
Americo Simonini, USA
Pawan K. Singal, Canada
Bramah N. Singh, USA
Sidney C. Smith, Jr., USA
Michael J. Sole, Canada
Edmund H. Sonnenblick, USA
Shlomo Stern, Israel
Harold J.C. Swan, USA
A. Jamil Tajik, USA
Udho Thadani, USA
Ronald J.A. Trent, Australia
Alfredo Trento, USA
Dan Tzivoni, Israel
Gideon Uretzky, Israel
Nanette K. Wenger, USA
James T. Willerson, USA
Barry L. Zaret, USA
Robert Zelis, USA

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

Osama Abdel-Aziz, Egypt
William T. Abraham, USA
Kirkwood F. Adams, Jr., USA
Dan Admon, Israel
Enrico Agabiti-Rosei, Italy
Denis Agostini, France
Etienne Aliot, France
Joseph S. Alpert, USA
Martin A. Alpert, USA
Eckhard U. Alt, Germany
Inder S. Ananad, USA
Manuel De Jesus Antunes, Portugal
Charles Antzelevitch, USA
Piero Anversa, USA
Paul W. Armstrong, Canada
Najam A. Awan, USA
Christie M. Ballantyne, USA
Manuel Ballester, Spain
Solomon Behar, Israel
Rafael Beyar, Israel
Leonard C. Blieden, Israel
Paul E. Bloch-Thomsen, Denmark
Peter C. Block, USA
Roberto Bolli, USA
Claudio Borghi, Italy
Harisios Boudoulas, USA
Ayrton Pires Brandao, Brazil
Daniel Burkhoff, USA
Antonio M. Calafiore, Italy
Avraham Caspi, Israel
Roman Cerbak, Czech Republic
Bojan Cercek, USA
Mario Cerqueira-Gomes, Portugal
Yzhar Charuzi, USA
Valeri S. Chekanov, USA
John S. Child, USA
Pierre Chouraqui, Israel
J. Campbell Cowan, UK
Mark A. Creager, USA
Bjorn Dahlof, Sweden
Daniel David, Israel
Ivan K. De Scheerder, Belgium
John Dernellis, Greece
Naranjan S. Dhalla, Canada
Raphael Diaz, Argentina
Robert DiBianco, USA
Daniel Diver, USA
Gerald Dorros, USA
Jean Luc Dubois-Rande, France
Elazar R. Edelman, USA
Leon Eijsman, The Ne therlands
Shpend Elezi, Germany
Michael L. Epstein, USA
Raimund Erbel, Germany
Erland Erdmann, Germany
Michael D. Ezekowitz, USA
Lameh Fananapazir, USA
Jeronimo Farre, Spain
Giora Z. Feuerstein, USA
Michael A. Fifer, USA
Tim A. Fischel, USA
Peter J. Fitzgerald, USA
Daniel Flammang, France
Gisa Fleckenstein-Grun, Germany
Marcus Flesch, USA
Ferenc Follath, Switzerland
Gregory P. Fontana, USA
Mary Moore Free, USA
Anthony P. Furnary, USA
Junbo Ge, Germany
A.H. Gershlick, UK
A.C. Gittenberger-De-Groo, The Netherlands
Uri Goldbourt, Israel
Gunter Gorge, Germany
Richard A. Grimm, USA
Steven R. Gundry, USA
Siegfried Hagl, Germany
Donald Hall, Germany
Christian W. Hamm, Germany
John R. Hampton, UK
Peter Hanrath, Germany
Joshua M. Hare, USA
Gerd Hasenfuss, German
Joerg Hausleiter, USA
Zuo-Xiang He, China
Denise Hermann, USA
Otto M. Hess, Switzerland
Roland Hetzer, Germany
Bernd Heublein, Germany
Gerd Heusch, Germany
Richard R. Heuser, USA
Michael B. Higginbotham, USA
Thomas H. Hintze, USA
Robert E. Hobbs, USA
Masatsugu Hori, Japan
Albert L. Hyman, USA
Joanna Ingwall, USA
David Iosseliani, Russia
Thomas A. Ischinger, Germany
Jose Jalife, USA
Robert B. Jennings, USA
Maryl R. Johnson, USA
Werner Jung, Germany
F.J.G.H. Hanjoerg Just, Germany
Lukas Kappenberger, Switzerland
Karl R. Karsch, Germany
Matyas Keltai, Hungary
Morton J. Kern, USA
Steven S. Khan, USA
Yasuki Kihara, Japan
Nodar N. Kipshidze, Georgia
Lorrie A. Kirshenbaum, Canada
Yehezkiel Kishon, Israel
Volker Klauss, Germany
Neal S. Kleiman, USA
Walter J. Koch, USA
Jerzy Korewicki, Poland
Howard S. Kruth, USA
Horst J. Kuhn, Germany
Henri E. Kulbertus, Belgium
Antonio L'Abbate, Italy
Antione Lafonte, France
Avijit Lahiri, UK
Nasser Lakkis, USA
Roberto M. Lang, USA
Shlomo Laniado, Israel
Alexandra Lansky, USA
Victor Legrand, Belgium
Eran Leitersdorf, Israel
Jonathan Leor, Israel
Amir Lerman, USA
Herbert J. Levine, USA
Robert A. Levine, USA
Theodore B. Levine, USA
Samuel Levy, France
William C. Little, USA
Peter P. Liu, Canada
Daniel Loisance, France
Chaim Lotan, Israel

Fernando Luccese, Brazil
Berndt Luderitz, Germany
Per Lund-Johansen, Norway
Carlos Macaya, Spain
Michael J. Mack, USA
Aldo P. Maggioni, Italy
John J. Mahmarian, USA
Raj R. Makkar, USA
Giuseppe Mancia, Italy
Warren J. Manning, USA
Eduardo Marban, USA
Vyacheslav Y. Mareev, Russia
James R. Margolis, USA
Paolo Marino, Italy
Barry J. Maron, USA
Gerald R. Marx, USA
Mario Marzilli, Italy
Paolo Marzullo, Italy
Dean T. Mason, USA
Gerald Maurer, Austria
Patrick M. McCarthy, USA
Jawahar L. Mehta, USA
Bruno M. Meiser, Germany
George A. Mensah, USA
Jose L. Merino, Spain
Dan M. Meyer, USA
Israel Mirsky, USA
Rainer G.H. Moosdorf, Germany
James P. Morgan, USA
Jeffrey W. Moses, USA
Harald Mudra, Germany
Thomas Muenzel, Germany
Navin C. Nanda, Germany
Patrick Nataf, France
Petros Nihoyannopoulo, UK
Daniel R. Nul, Argentina
Celia M. Oakley, UK
Eliot H. Ohlstein, USA
Jan-Erik Otterstad, Norway
Richard Pacher, Austria
Igor Palacios, USA
Carlo Palombo, Italy
Kailash N. Pandey, USA
Natesa G. Pandian, USA
J.G. Papp, Hungary
Richard C. Pasternak, USA
Kaushik P. Patel, USA
William Piccione, Jr., USA
L. Pierard, Beligum
Burkert Pieske, Germany
Fausto J. Pinto, Portugal
Christos Pitsavos, Greece
Gerald M. Pohost, USA
Babeth Rabinowitz, Israel
Eldad Rechavia, Israel
Bruno Reichart, Germany
Joseph G. Reves, USA
David Richmond, Australia
Paolo Rizzon, Italy
Joe L. Rod, USA
Todd K. Rosengart, USA
Robert D. Ross, USA
Marcos A. Rossi, Brazil
Arie Roth, Israel
Israel Rubinstein, USA
David J. Sahn, USA
Sanjeev Saksena, USA
Mitchell Saltzberg, USA
Massimo Santini, Italy
Saul Schaefer, USA
Hartzell V. Schaff, USA
Richard A. Schatz, USA
Heinrich R. Schelbert, USA
Zwi, Schlesinger, Israel
Tommy Schonfeld, Israel
Henning Schroeder, Germany
Helmut Schuhlen, Germany
Heinz P. Schultheiss, Germany
Ketty Schwartz, France
Ralph Shabetai, USA
Leonard M. Shapiro, UK
D. Norman Sharpe, New Zealand
Michael Shechter, Israel
Avraham Shotan, Israel
Robert J. Siegel, USA
Paul Simon, Austria
Rudiger W.R. Simon, Germany
Frank W. Smart, USA
Nicholas G. Smedira, USA
William M. Smith, USA
Burton E. Sobel, USA
David H. Spodick, USA
Martin G. St. John Sutton, USA
Brigitte Stanek, Austria
Randall C. Starling, USA
Yehezkiel Stein, Israel
Konrad K. Steinbach, Austria
William G. Stevenson, USA
Bodo-Eckhard Strauer, Germany
Valavanur A. Subramanian, USA
George C. Sutton, UK
Luigi Tavazzi, Italy
Ulrich Tebbe, Germany
Erik Thaulow, Norway
Gaetano Thiene, Italy
Gianni Tognoni, Italy
Pavlos K. Toutouzas, Greece
Barry F. Uretsky, USA
Ernst E. van der Wall, The Netherlands
Marc Vanderheyden, Belgium
Paul M. Vanhoutte, France
J.L. Vanoverschelde, Belgium
Douglas E. Vaughan, USA
Mario S. Verani, USA
Isidro Vilacosta, Spain
Cees A. Visser, The Netherlands
Hugh Watkins, UK
Judah Weinberger, USA
William S. Weintraub, USA
A. Teddy Weiss, Israel
Harvey D. White, New Zealand
E. Douglas Wigle, Canada
John R. Wilson, USA
Christian Wolpert, Germany
Magdi H. Yacoub, UK
Hirofumi Yasue, Japan
Seppo Yla-Herttuala, Finland
James B. Young, USA
Doron Zahger, Israel
Alberto Zanchetti, Italy
Piero Zardini, Italy
Michael R. Zile, USA
Irving H. Zucker, USA

SCIENTIFIC ABSTRACT REVIEW COMMITTEE
Osama Abdel-Aziz, Egypt
William T. Abraham, USA
Kirkwood F. Adams, Jr., USA
Denis Agostini, France
Martin A. Alpert, USA
Ettore Ambrosioni, Italy
Nestor J. Angomachalelis, Greece
Charles Antzelevitch, USA
Peter C. Block, USA
Claudio Borghi, Italy
Harisios Boudoulas, USA
Michael E. Cain, USA
Bojan Cercek, USA
Leszek Ceremuzynski, Poland
Mario Cerqueira-Gomes, Portugal
Yzhar Charuzi, USA
Kanu Chatterjee, USA
Valeri S. Chekanov, USA
Dennis V. Cokkinos, Greece
Sergio Dalla-Volta, Italy
Ivan K. De Scheerder, Belgium
Timothy A. Denton, USA
Jean Luc Dubois-Rande, France
Elazar R. Edelman, USA
Leon Eijsman, The Ne therlands
John A. Elefteriades, USA
Uri Elkayam, USA
Michael L. Epstein, USA
Raimund Erbel, Germany
Erland Erdmann, Germany
Michael D. Ezekowitz, USA
Giora Z. Feuerstein, USA
Michael A. Fifer, USA
Daniel Flammang, France
Marcus Flesch, USA
Gregg C. Fonarow, USA
James S. Forrester, USA
Anthony P. Furnary, USA
William H. Gaasch, USA
William Ganz, USA
Robert N. A. Gasser, Austria
Junbo Ge, Germany
Herbert J. Geschwind, France
Mihai Gheorghiade, USA
Uri Goldbourt, Israel
Sidney Goldstein, USA
Mervyn S. Gotsman, Israel
Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., USA
Siegfried Hagl, Germany
Donald Hall, Germany
John R. Hampton, UK
Gerd Hasenfuss, Germany
Denise Hermann, USA
Roland Hetzer, Germany
Bernd Heublein, Germany
Gerd Heusch, Germany
Michael B. Higginbotham, USA
Robert E. Hobbs, USA
Hans Martin Hoffmeister, Germany
Masatsugu Hori, Japan
Albert L. Hyman, USA
David Iosseliani, Russia
Maryl R. Johnson, USA
Bodh I. Jugdutt, Canada
Saibal Kar, USA
Nevin M. Katz, USA
Morton J. Kern, USA
Steven S. Khan, USA
Yasuki Kihara, Japan
Asher Kimchi, USA
Nicholas N. Kipshidze, USA
Nodar N. Kipshidze, Georgia
Lorrie A. Kirshenbaum, Canada
Volker Klauss, Germany
Walter J. Koch, USA
Peter R. Kowey, USA
Howard S. Kruth, USA
Horst J. Kuhn, Germany
Antonio L'Abbate, Italy
Avijit Lahiri, UK
Roberto M. Lang, USA
Alexandra Lansky, USA
Victor Legrand, Belgium
Jonathan Leor, Israel
Theodore B. Levine, USA
Philip R. Liebson, USA
Frank Litvack, USA
Peter P. Liu, Canada
Fernando Luccese, Brazil
Berndt Luderitz, Germany
Raj R. Makkar, USA
Giuseppe Mancia, Italy
Paolo Marzullo, Italy
Patrick M. McCarthy, USA
Jawahar L. Mehta, USA
Bruno M. Meiser, Germany
Dan M. Meyer, USA
Jeffrey W. Moses, USA
Harald Mudra, Germany
Thomas Muenzel, Germany
Navin C. Nanda, Germany
Robert A. O'Rourke, USA
Jan-Erik Otterstad, Norway
Richard Pacher, Austria
Carlo Palombo, Italy
Kailash N. Pandey, USA
John O. Parker, Canada
Kaushik P. Patel, USA
C. Thomas Peter, USA
William Piccione, Jr., USA
L. Pierard, Beligum
Burkert Pieske, Germany
Christos Pitsavos, Greece
Bertram Pitt, USA
Eldad Rechavia, Israel
Bruno Reichart, Germany
Ariel J. Reyes, Uruguay
Robert Roberts, USA
Clive Rosendorff, USA
Todd K. Rosengart, USA
Robert D. Ross, USA
Arie Roth, Israel
Stanley A. Rubin, USA
Israel Rubinstein, USA
Hani N. Sabbah, USA
David J. Sahn, USA
Mitchell T. Saltzberg, USA
Saul Schaefer, USA
Hartzell V. Schaff, USA
Henning Schroeder, Germany
Ketty Schwartz, France
Ricardo J. Seabra-Gomes, Portugal
Ralph Shabetai, USA
D. Norman Sharpe, New Zealand
Michael Shechter, Israel
Marc A. Silver, USA
Americo Simonini, USA
Pawan K. Singal, Canada
Bramah N. Singh, USA
Frank W. Smart, USA
Michael J. Sole, Canada
David H. Spodick, USA
Martin G. St. John Sutton, USA
Brigitte Stanek, Austria
Shlomo Stern, Israel
Luigi Tavazzi, Italy
Udho Thadani, USA
Pavlos K. Toutouzas, Greece
Ronald J.A. Trent, Australia
Alfredo Trento, USA
Barry F. Uretsky, USA
Marc Vanderheyden, Belgium
Cees A. Visser, The Netherlands
William S. Weintraub, USA
A. Teddy Weiss, Israel
Nanette K. Wenger, USA
Harvey D. White, New Zealand
Christian Wolpert, Germany
James B. Young, USA
Barry L. Zaret, USA
Robert Zelis, USA
Irving H. Zucker, USA