From the Experts

Compiled by Morton J. Kern, MD, with contributions from Drs. James Blankenship, Geisinger Clinic, Danville, Pennsylvania; Sam Butman, Verde Valley Medical Center, Cottonwood, Arizona; John Hodgson, MetroHealth, Cleveland, Ohio; Allan Jeremias, Columbia University, New York City, New York; Aaron V. Kaplan, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire; Ajay Kirtane, Columbia University, New York City, New York; Lloyd Klein, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois; Mitchell W. Krucoff, Duke University, Raleigh, North Carolina; Jeffrey W. Moses, Columbia University, New York City, New York; Jeff Popma, Boston, Massachusetts; Gregg W. Stone, Columbia University, New York City, New York; Carl L. Tommaso, Chicago, Illinois; Barry Uretsky, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas; George Vetrovec, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; Bonnie Weiner, Worcester, Massachusetts.  

Morton Kern, MD
Clinical Editor; Chief of Medicine, 
Long Beach Veterans 
Administration Health Care 
System, Long Beach, California; 
Associate Chief Cardiology, 
Professor of Medicine, 
University of California Irvine, 
Orange, California
mortonkern2007@gmail.com

Morton J. Kern, MD, with contributions from Steve Bailey, MD, University of Texas Health Science Center at San  Antonio, Texas; Steve Balter, PhD, Columbia University, New York, New York; Charles Chambers, MD, Hershey, Pennsylvania; Prashant Kaul, MD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Ajay Kirtane, MD, SM, Columbia University, New York, New York; Mike Ragosta, MD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; Gurpreet Sandhu, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

Compiled by Morton J. Kern, MD with contributions from Drs. Steve Ramee, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans; Joseph D. Babb, Greenville, North Carolina; James Tcheng, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Charles Chambers, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 

Deborah Shorrock^1,2;  Georgios Christopoulos, MD¹;  Jedrek Wosik, MD¹;  Anna Kotsia, MD¹;  Bavana Rangan, BDS, MPH¹;  Shuaib Abdullah, MD¹;  Daisha Cipher, MD¹;  Subhash Banerjee, MD¹;  Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD¹  

Morton Kern, MD

Compiled by Morton J. Kern with contributions from Malcolm Bell, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Sam Butman, Verde Valley, Arizona; Kirk Garrett, New York City, New York; Allen Jeremias, Stony Brook, New York; Aaron Kaplan, Dartmouth, New Hampshire; Lloyd Klein, Chicago, Illinois; Ajay Kirtane, Columbia University, New York City,
New York; Mitchell Krucoff, Duke University, Raleigh, North Carolina; Michael Ragosta, Charlottesville, Virginia;
George Vetrovec, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia; Mladen Vidovich, University of Illinois, Chicago,
Illinois; Bonnie Weiner, University of Massachusetts, Worchester, Massachusetts.

Compiled by Morton J. Kern with contributions from: Robert Applegate, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; David Cohen, Kansas City, Missouri; Larry Dean, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Andrew Doorey, Christiana Hospital, Newark, Delaware; Kirk Garrett, Lenox Hill, New York City, New York; John Hirshfeld, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lloyd Klein, Chicago, Illinois; Mitch Krucoff, Raleigh, North Carolina; Gus Pichard, Washington, D.C.; Mike Ragosta, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; Molly Szerlip, Dallas, Texas; Barry Uretsky, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas; George Vetrovec, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia; Bonnie Weiner, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts; Alan Yeung, Stanford University, Stanford, California.