Vol 8 • No 2 • Winter 2010


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Ralph Brindis, MD, MPH San Francisco, CA


George Broderick, Jr, MD Dayton, OH


Charles A Bush, MD Columbus, OH


Joseph Cacchione, MD Erie, PA


James Chesebro, MD Worcester, MA


W Randolph Chitwood, Jr, MD Greenville, NC


Jamie Beth Conti, MD Gainesville, FL


Pamela Douglas, MD Durham, NC


Paul Douglass, MD Atlanta, GA


Harvey Feigenbaum, MD Indianapolis, IN


Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD New York, NY


Bernard Gersh, MD, ChB, Rochester, MN


Raymond Gibbons, MD Rochester, MN


Editor in Chief Sylvan Lee Weinberg, MD Editorial Board


David Holmes, Jr, MD Rochester, MN


Adolph Hutter, Jr, MD Boston, MA


Wayne Isom, MD New York, NY


C David Joffe, MD Dayton, OH


Elizabeth Klodas, MD Edina, MN


Irving Kron, MD Charlottesville, VA


Carl Leier, MD Columbus, OH


Majid Maleki, MD, FACC Tehran, Iran


Thomas Mattioni, MD Phoenix, AZ


Thomas McLean, MD, JD Shawnee, KS


Rohit Mehta, MD Columbus, OH


Joseph Messer, MD Glencoe, IL


Michael Douglas Moran, MD Laguna Hills, CA


Gerald Naccarelli, MD Hershey, PA


Steven Nissen, MD Cleveland, OH


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Alan Pearlman, MD Seattle, WA


Juan Rivera, MD Baltimore, MD


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