From the Experts

Morton J. Kern, with contributions from Sam Butman, Scottsdale, Arizona; George Dangas, New York, New York; Tim Henry, Cincinnati, Ohio; Ajay Kirtane, New York, New York; Lloyd Klein, Sonoma, California; Kreton Mavromatis, Atlanta, Georgia; Phillip Mumford, Houston, Texas; Jeffrey Moses, New York, New York; Srihari S. Naidu, Westchester, New York; Kimberly A. Skelding, Seattle, Washington; George Vetrovec, Richmond, Virginia; Peter Ver Lee, Bangor, Maine; Bonnie Weiner, Worchester, Massachusetts

Gregg W. Stone, MD, FACC, MSCAI

From the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York

Michael K. W. Lichtenberg, MD

Department of Angiology, Arnsberg Medical Center, Arnsberg, Germany

Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA

Clinical Editor; Chief of Cardiology, Long Beach VA Medical Center, Long Beach, California; Professor of Medicine, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California

Disclosures: Dr. Morton Kern reports he is a consultant for Abiomed, Abbott Vascular, Philips Volcano, ACIST Medical, and Opsens Inc.

Dr. Kern can be contacted at mortonkern2007@gmail.com

On Twitter @MortonKern

Khedija Soumer, MD; Nadia Azabou, MD; Chaker Jaber, MD; Houcine Horchani, MD; Mouna Bousnina, MD; Amine Jemel, PhD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Abderrahman Mami Pneumology and Phtisiology Hospital, Ariana, Tunisia

CLD talks with Karim Al-Azizi, MD, Interventional Cardiology and Structural Heart Disease; Associate Program Director, Cardiology Fellowship, Baylor Scott & White Health - The Heart Hospital Plano; Clinical Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Plano, Texas.