The American Heart Association has chosen a president and president-elect.
Here are 10 things to know about the two leaders.
Cardiovascular disease specialist Mark Creager, MD, has been named president of the AHA for the 2015-16 fiscal year.
1. Dr. Creager begins his role July 1.
2. As president, Dr. Creager will be chief volunteer scientific and medical officer, responsible for medical, scientific and public health matters.
3. Dr. Creager is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston and director of Vascular Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, also in Boston.
4. Dr. Creager was recently appointed director of the Heart and VascularCenter at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., a role he will begin July 6.
5. Dr. Creager is a member of the AHA's board of directors and was chairman of the organization's research committee from 2011 to 2013. He served as inaugural chairman of the association's Council on Peripheral Vascular Disease from 2002 to 2005.
Steven R. Houser, PhD, has been elected to serve as president-elect.
6. Dr. Houser currently serves as senior associate dean of research, the Vera J. Goodfriend endowed chair of cardiovascular research and director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Dr. Houser is also professor and chairman of the department of physiology and professor of medicine at TUSM.
7. Dr. Houser's one-year term as president-elect begins July 1, 2015 and runs through June 30, 2016.
8. Dr. Houser will then serve a one-year term as president of the AHA beginning July 1, 2016.
9. Dr. Houser is an internationally respected cardiovascular researcher who has been a Temple faculty member for more than three decades. Dr. Houser's research group at Temple has helped define many fundamental features of the normal cardiac myocyte as well as identified defective molecular and cellular processes that produce abnormal cardiac myocyte function in cardiovascular disease.
10. Dr. Houser has a long association with the AHA, serving as a board member, chairman of the research committee and president of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Affiliate. He has also served on a number of national AHA committees.
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