This Symposium is sponsored by the Long Island Jewish Medical Center,
The Long Island Campus for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Monday, May 17, 1999
7:30 – 9:30 pm
Omni Shoreham Hotel - The Blue Room
Washington, DC

ATHEROSCLEROSIS UPDATE: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND CLINICAL MANAGEMENT OF CORONARY DISEASE

Program Chairman:

Monty Bodenheimer, MD
Chief of Adult Cardiology
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Professor of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New Hyde Park, New York

INTRODUCTION
Monty Bodenheimer, MD

THE AGING HEART: CURRENT CONCEPTS AND CLINICAL COROLLARIES IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY DISEASE
Christopher M. O'Connor, MD
Associate Professor of medicine
Division of Cardiology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina

TRADITIONAL AND NEWER IMAGING TECHNIQUES IN THE EVALUATION OF CORONARY DISEASE AND ITS TREATMENT
Steven Nissen, MD
Section Head, Clinical Cardiology
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio

NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS CLINICAL TRIAL UPDATE
Bertram Pitt, MD
Professor and Associate Chairman
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Cardiology
University of michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan

NEW MECHANISMS OF CYTOPROTECTION IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
R. Preston Mason, PhD
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine
Director, Membrane Biophysics Laboratory
Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research Institute
MCP Hahnemann University School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

DISCUSSION

CONCLUDING REMARKS
Monty Bodenheimer, MD

This Symposium is made possible in part by an unrestricted educational grant from Pfizer Inc.