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SHAPE Task Force and Scientific Advisory Board

SHAPE Task Force and Scientific Advisory Officers
Morteza Naghavi, M.D. – Executive Chairman
PK Shah, M.D. – Chair of Scientific Board
Erling Falk, M.D., Ph.D. – Chief of Editorial Committee

SHAPE Task Force and Scientific Advisory Members

Arthur Agatston
Author of "The South Beach Heart Program"
Chairman of the Agatston Research Foundation
Board member of the Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation
Board member of the American Diabetic Association

 

Dan Arking, Ph.D.
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine,
John's Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

 

John J. Badimon, Ph.D.
Director of Cardiovascular Biology Research Laboratory,
Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute
New York, NY

 

Raymond Bahr, M.D.
Founder and Member of the Board,
Society of Chest Pain Centers,
St. Agnes Hospital Baltimore, MD

 

Daniel S. Berman, M.D.
Director of Cardiac Imaging and Nuclear Cardiology
Cedars-Sinai, Medical Center,
Los Angeles, CA

 

Matthew J. Budoff, M.D.
Vice President, Society of Atherosclerosis Imaging,
Professor of Medicine and Director of Preventive Cardiology,
UCLA Hardbor,
Los Angeles, CA

 

Jay N. Cohn, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Director,
Rasmussen Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention,
Department of Medicine,
University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN

 

Michael H. Davidson, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Director, Preventive Cardiology
University of Chicago

 

Jasenka Demirovic, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Epidemiology NTR,
UT School of Public Health,
Houston, TX

 

George A. Diamond, M.D.
Recipient of the ACC Distinguished Service Award
Regional Medical Director at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
in Los Angeles, CA

 

Jim Ehrlich, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor,
University of Colorado,
Denver, CO

 

Raimund Erbel, M.D.
Professor of Medicine/Cardiology,
European Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, West-German Heart Center,
University Duisburg-Essen

 

Erling Falk, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Cardiovascular Pathology,
Aarhus University Hospital,
Aarhus, Denmark

 

Zahi Fayad, Ph.D.
Director, Cardiovascular Imaging Research,
Associate Professor, Departments of Radiology and Medicine,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

 

Steven B. Feinstein, M.D.
Professor of medicine and director of echocardiography
Section of Cardiology, Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL

 

Kirk Geter, D.P.M.
Division of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery
Howard University Hospital
Washington, D.C.

 

Craig Hartley, Ph.D.
Professor
Adjunct Professor, Bioengineering,
Rice University
Houston, TX

 

Harvey S. Hecht, M.D.
Director of Preventive Cardiology
Beth Israel Medical Center & Continuum Heart Institute,
NY Professor of Clinical Medicine,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

 

Howard Hodis, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Director, Atherosclerosis Research Unit
Harry Bauer & Dorothy Bauer Rawlins Professorship in Cardiology
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

 

Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, PhD.
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Professor Depts. of Computer Science, ECE, and Biomedical Engineering Director, Computational Biomedicine Lab
University of Houston
Houston, TX

 

Sanjay Kaul, M.D., M.P.H.
Director of the Vascular Physiology and Thrombosis
Research Laboratory at the Burns and Allen
Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai MedicalCenter
in Los Angeles, CA

 

Wolfgang Koenig, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Cardiology,
Ulm University
Ulim, Germany

 

Iftikhar J. Kullo, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

 

Daniel Lane, M.D., Ph.D.
Consultant on Detection, Evaluation and
Treatment of Lipid Disorders in Adults and Children,
San Antonio, TX

 

Marge Lovell, R.N.
Clinical Trials Nurse
London Health Sciences Center
London, Ontario, Canada

 

Roxana Mehran, M.D.
Director of Clinical Research and the Data Coordinating &
Analysis at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation
and Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University
Medical Center (CUMC)

 

Ralph Metcalfe, Ph.D.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
University of Houston
Houston, TX

 

Morteza Naghavi, M.D.
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the SHAPE Task Force
Director, American Heart Technologies
Houston, TX

 

Tasneem Z. Naqvi, M.D.
Associate Director, Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory,
Director, Interventional Echocardiography,
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,
Los Angeles, CA

 

Paolo Raggi, M.D.
Professor of Medicine-Cardiology and Radiology
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA

 

George P. Rodgers, M.D.
Cardiologist
Seton Heart Institute
Austin, TX

 

John A. Rumberger, PhD, M.D.
Professor of Medicine Ohio State University
Medical Director, Health Wellness Diagnostics Center,
Cloumbus, OH

 

Robert S. Schwartz, M.D.
Professor of Medicine at University of Minnesota Medical School,
Medical Director at the Minnesota Cardiovascular Research Institute,
Minneapolis Heart Institute,
Minneapolis, MN

 

PK Shah, M.D.
Professor and Director,Cardiology Division
and Atherosclerosis Research Center,
Cedars-Sinai, Medical Center,
Los Angeles, CA

 

Leslee Shaw, Ph.D.
Director of Outcomes Research at the
American Cardiovascular Research Institute,
Atlanta, GA

 

Henrik Sillesen, M.D., Ph.D.

 

David Spence, M.D.
Director, Stroke Prevention & Atherosclerosis Research Centre
Robarts Research Institute
London, Ontario Canada

 

H. Robert Superko, M.D.
Chairman, Molecular,Genetic, and Preventive Cardiology
Berkeley Heartlab
Alameda, CA

 

Pierre-Jean Touboul, M.D.
Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology and Stroke Center
AP-HP Bichat University Hospital
Paris, France

 

Distinguished SHAPE Task Force Advisor:

Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D.
DIRECTOR Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute
Mount Sinai Medical Center
New York, NY

SHAPE Centers of Excellence Executive Manager:

Jeff Fine, M.S., Ph.D.
President
J&J Medical, LLC
Columbia, SC

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