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

Roger S. Blumenthal, M.D. FACC FCCP
Associate Professor of Medicine in Division of
CardiologyDirector of Preventive Cardiology
Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, MD

Mathew 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

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

George A. Diamond, MD,

Recipient of the ACC Distinguished Service Award

Regional Medical Director at Cedars-Sinai MedicalCenter

in Los Angeles, CA

Erling Falk, M.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

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

Sanjay Kaul, M.D.

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

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

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)

Morteza Naghavi, M.D.
Founder and President, AEHA,
Director, American Heart Technologies
Houston, TX

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

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

P.K. Shah, M.D.
Professor and Director,Cardiology Division
a nd 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