Alfred Bove, MD, PhD — Dr. Bove is the current president of the American College of Cardiology and a professor emeritus at Temple University Medical School in Philadelphia. Dr. Bove practices clinical cardiology with particular expertise in heart failure and heart transplantation, undersea medicine and sports medicine. Previously, Dr. Bove served as Temple’s cardiology section chief.
Dr. Bove received his medical degree and a PhD in physiology from Temple University Medical School. He completed his residency at Temple and a post-doctoral fellowship at Temple and the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Bove also served two years in the U.S. Navy as an undersea medical officer and retired from the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1998 after 33 years of service including active duty at the Naval Medical Research Institute in 1971 and as a member of a mobile hospital staff in Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
Dr. Bove has published more than 200 original research papers and is the author of texts on coronary disease, exercise medicine and diving medicine. His research includes coronary endothelial function, myocardial function in valvular heart disease and heart failure, exercise physiology, diving and hyperbaric medicine and medical informatics. His current research involves Internet-based medical information systems for management of chronic heart disease.
Ralph Brindis, MD — Dr. Brindis is the senior advisor for cardiovascular disease for Northern California Kaiser and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Brindis is a practicing interventional cardiologist with an active practice of consultative cardiology. He is interested in process measures and outcomes assessment in cardiovascular care and has helped with the creation and implementation of various cardiovascular guidelines for Northern California Kaiser.
Dr. Brindis completed a master’s in public health at UCLA and graduated from Emory Medical School. He completed his residency and a fellowship in cardiology at UCSF. Dr. Brindis presently serves as the vice president of the American College of Cardiology and is the president-elect for 2009-2010. He was the 2007 recipient of the national ACC Distinguished Fellow Award and is also active as a volunteer with the American Hospital Association. Presently, he serves on the steering committee of the national AHA Quality of Care and Outcomes Conference and on the VA Hospital National Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Quality Oversight Committee.
John G. Harold, MD — Dr. Harold is an attending physician at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles in the hospital’s Heart Institute and served as Cedars-Sinai’s chief of staff from 2004-2006. He is a clinical professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He previously served as vice chief of staff, secretary of the medical staff and clinical chief of medicine and cardiology at Cedars-Sinai. Dr. Harold obtained his medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, completed an internal medicine residency at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and a fellowship in cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he joined the staff in 1985.
Dr. Harold currently serves as the chair of the American College of Cardiology Board of Governors and is a member of the board of directors of numerous organizations including Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the Los Angeles affiliate of the American Heart Association.
Douglas L. Mann, MD — Dr. Mann is the director of the cardiovascular division in the department of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and cardiologist-in-chief at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He also serves as director of the new Heart and Vascular Institute at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University. Dr. Mann previously served as the chief of cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr. Mann specializes in the field of congestive heart failure and has made numerous contributions to the understanding of cardiac remodeling and cardiac dysfunction. His research focuses on the molecular and cellular basis of heart failure, especially on the role of inflammatory mediators in the progression of heart failure and has appeared in more than 180 publications. He is currently coeditor of Braunwald’s Heart Disease, a leading text for cardiovascular medicine.
Dr. Mann earned his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine and completed his residency in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital. He completed fellowship training in cardiology at the University of California, San Diego, and a research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Pamela Morris, MD — Dr. Morris is director of preventive cardiology and co-director of women’s heart care at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, where she also serves an assistant professor of medicine in the division of cardiology. Ms. Morris has previously served as the medical director of the Duke University Preventive Approach to Cardiology Program (now the Duke Center for Living) and as a consultant to the Mayo Clinic Cardiovascular Health Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where she helped to develop the Mayo Clinic Women’s Heart Program.
Dr. Morris attended medical school at the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C., and completed her residency and fellowship at Duke Medical Center, where she later served as an attending physician in cardiology.
Douglas B. Sawyer, MD, PhD — Dr. Sawyer is the chief of the division of cardiovascular medicine at Vanderbilt University and physician-in-chief at Vanderbilt Heart & Vascular Institute. Dr. Sawyer is an active researcher whose interests include the mechanisms of congestive heart failure and myocardial remodeling and developing new therapeutic strategies for cardiovascular disease. His specific areas of interest and ongoing research focuse on the role of the cardiac growth factor neuregulin in cardioprotection, repair and regeneration, determining mechanisms for and identifying strategies that prevent chemotherapeutic cardiotoxicity, and identifying molecular mechanisms that regulate the turnover of sarcomere proteins in the beating my myocyte.
Dr. Sawyer received his medical degree and a PhD in physiology and biophysics from Cornell University. He completed post doctoral training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and at Cornell University. His research has been published in a number of academic journals including the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology and Journal of Cardiac Failure.
Gordon Tomaselli, MD — Dr. Tomaselli was recently named director of the division of cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-director of the school’s Heart and Vascular Institute. He also serves as co-director of the Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center at Hopkins, which was funded in 2003 to carry out research into the causes of sudden cardiac death. Dr. Tomasell is considered a leading expert on sudden cardiac death and heart rhythm disturbances and has been with Johns Hopkins since 1986.
Dr. Tomaselli earned his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and completed his residency at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Tomaselli began his career in the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute as a research fellow before moving to the fellowship program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and joining the faculty three years later.
Dr. Tomaselli has authored more than 150 articles and several book chapters on various aspects of arrhythmia. His most recent research focuses on new therapies aimed at warding off the potentially fatal heart arrhythmias and the effectiveness implanted cardiac defibrillators in various patient populations. Dr. Tomaselli has served as program chair for the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions, a leading conference for cardiologists, and chairs the AHA’s strategic planning task force.
Jeffrey Towbin, MD — Dr. Towbin is the chief of pediatric cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital. His clinical focus is on diagnostic and therapeutic advances for cardiomyopathy, transplant care and clinical cardiac genetics. His research has been published in more than 270 peer-reviewed journals and has provided new information about genes responsible for congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathies, arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. His work has resulted in several diagnostic tests and therapies for both children and adults with congenital heart diseases.
Dr. Towbin earned his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati. He completed his pediatric residency at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati and a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, where he later joined the faculty in 1989.
Dr. Towbin is the recipient of several national and international honors including the 2007 Distinguished Scientist Award (Basic) by the American College of Cardiology, which recognizes major contributions to the advancement of scientific knowledge in the field of cardiovascular disease.
W. Douglas Weaver, MD — Dr. Weaver is the division head of cardiovascular medicine, the Darin Chair of Cardiology and director of the Henry Ford Cardiovascular Institute at the Henry Ford Health System. He is also a professor of medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Dr. Weaver received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston and completed internal medicine and cardiology training at the University of Washington. Dr. Weaver served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps for three years and previously served as a professor at the University of Washington.
Dr. Weaver’s research interests include cardiac resuscitation, heart failure and acute coronary syndromes. He has been an active leader of multi-center clinical trials and has published more than 250 original articles. Dr. Weaver is also a former president of the American College of Cardiology and has served on several committees for the ACC.
David J. Wilber, MD — Dr. Wilber is director of the Cardiovascular Institute, division director of cardiology and medical director of clinical electrophysiology at Loyola University Health System in Chicago. He also serves as the George M. Eisenberg Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences for Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
Dr. Wilber completed medical school and his residency at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. He completed a fellowship in cardiology at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor and a fellowship in clinical cardiac electrophysiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Wilber’s research interests include ablation catheter applications for complex arrhythmias, ablation of atrial fibrillation, alternatives to anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation, electrophysiology and heart failure. He has co-authored research that has been published in a number of medical journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and Heart Rhythm.
