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Lectures presented at the Opening Ceremony of Heart Failure meetings. Since 1997, the Opening Lecture has been presented as the Thomas W. Smith Memorial Lecture.

1989 HEART FAILURE: ETIOLOGICAL MODELS AND THERAPEUTIC IMPLICATIONS
Edmund H. Sonnenblick, USA
1993 THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF CARDIAC HYPERTROPHY AND FAILURE:
THE POTENTIAL FOR MOLECULAR INTERVENTION
Robert Roberts, USA
1995 CARDIOMYOPATHY OF OVERLOAD: AN UNNATURAL GROWTH RESPONSE IN THE FAILING HEART
Arnold M. Katz, USA
1996 PREVENTION OF HEART FAILURE - FEASIBLE AND DESIRABLE
Kanu Chatterjee, USA
1997 MORPHOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE LEFT VENTRICLE IN HEART FAILURE
Sidney Goldstein, USA
1998 PREVENTION OF CORONARY DISEASE EVENTS: MYTHS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Harold J.C. Swan, USA
2000 THE CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BASIS OF HEART FAILURE IN VALVULAR REGURGITATION:
RELATION TO CLINICAL OUTCOME
Jeffrey S. Borer, USA
2002 GENETIC MECHANISMS OF HEART FAILURE
Jeffrey A. Towbin, USA