Editorial board

Editor in Chief 

William C. Roberts, md

Baylor Heart & Vascular Hospital

Baylor University Medical Center

Wadley Tower No. 457

3600 Gaston Avenue

Dallas, Texas 75246

(214)826-8252

Fax: (214)826-2855

Associate Editor 

Paul A. Grayburn

ASSISTANT EDITORS

Calixto A. Romero

Robert C. Kowal

Carlos E. Velasco

Editorial board 

CARDIOVASCULAR

MEDICINE

In Adults

Jonathan Abrams

Joseph S. Alpert

Martin A. Alpert

Ezra A. Amsterdam

Jeffrey Anderson

Richard W. Asinger

Donald S. Baim

Gary John Balady

Thomas M. Bashore

Eric Bates

Jeroen J. Bax

George A. Beller

William E. Boden

Monty M. Bodenheimer

Robert O. Bonow

Jeffrey S. Borer

Harisios Boudoulas

Martial G. Bourassa

Eugene Braunwald

Jeffrey A. Brinker

Bruce R. Brodie

David L. Brown

Alfred E. Buxton

Michael E. Cain

Richard O. Cannon III

Bernard R. Chaitman

Kanu Chatterjee

John S. Child

Robert J. Cody

Lawrence S. Cohen

Marc Cohen

C. Richard Conti

Michael H. Crawford

Gregory J. Dehmer

Efthymios N. Deliargyris

James A. de Lemos

Anthony N. DeMaria

Pablo Denes

Nicholas L. DePace

George A. Diamond

John P. DiMarco

Michael J. Domanski

Gerald Dorros

Pamela S. Douglas

Mark J. Eisenberg

Uri Elkayam

Kenneth A. Ellenbogen

Myrvin H. Ellestad

Stephen G. Ellis

Toby R. Engel

Andrew E. Epstein

N. A. Mark Estes, III

Michael Ezekowitz

Rodney H. Falk

John A. Farmer

David P. Faxon

Ted Feldman

Jack Ferlinz

Jerome L. Fleg

Gerald F. Fletcher

Nancy C. Flowers

James S. Forrester

Joseph A. Franciosa

Gary S. Francis

W. Bruce Fye

William H. Gaasch

William Ganz

Julius M. Gardin

Bernard J. Gersh

Mihai Gheorghiade

Raymond Gibbons

D. Luke Glancy

Stephen P. Glasser

Michael R. Gold

Samuel Z. Goldhaber

Robert E. Goldstein

Sidney Goldstein

Steven A. Goldstein

J. Anthony Gomes

Antonio M. Gotto, Jr.

K. Lance Gould

Donald C. Harrison

Richard H. Helfant

Philip D. Henry

L. David Hillis

David R. Holmes, Jr.

Mun K. Hong

William G. Hundley

Abdulmassih S. Iskandrian

Allan S. Jaffe

Norman M. Kaplan

Joel S. Karliner

John A. Kastor

Sanjiv Kaul

Kenneth M. Kent

Richard E. Kerber

Dean J. Kereiakes

Morton J. Kern

Spencer B. King III

Robert E. Kleiger

George J. Klein

Lloyd W. Klein

Paul Kligfield

Robert A. Kloner

John B. Kostis

Charles Landau

Richard L. Lange

Carl J. Lavie

Carl V. Leier

Joseph Lindsay, Jr.

Gregory Y.H. Lip

Joseph Loscalzo

G.B. John Mancini

Francis E. Marchlinski

Frank I. Marcus

Barry J. Maron

Randolph P. Martin

Attilo Maseri

Dean T. Mason

Michael D. McGoon

Darren K. McGuire

Raymond G. McKay

Jawahar L. Mehta

Richard S. Meltzer

Franz H. Messerli

Eric L. Michelson

Richard V. Milani

Alan B. Miller

Gary S. Mintz

Fred Morady

Arthur J. Moss

James E. Muller

Robert J. Myerburg

Gerald B. Naccarelli

Navin C. Nanda

Christopher O’Connor

Robert A. O’Rourke

Erik Magnus Ohman

Antonio Pacifico

Richard L. Page

Eugene R. Passamani

Alan S. Pearlman

Carl J. Pepine

Joseph K. Perloff

Bertram Pitt

Don Poldermans

Philip J. Podrid

Arshed A. Quyyumi

Charles E. Rackley

C. Venkata Ram

Nathaniel Reichek

Robert Roberts

William J. Rogers

Melvin M. Scheinman

David J. Schneider

John S. Schroeder

Pravin M. Shah

Prediman K. Shah

Jamshid Shirani

Robert J. Siegel

Marc A. Silver

Mark E. Silverman

Ross J. Simpson, Jr.

Steven N. Singh

Sidney C. Smith, Jr.

Burton E. Sobel

John C. Somberg

David H. Spodick

Lynne W. Stevenson

John R. Stratton

Jonathan M. Tobis

Eric J. Topol

Teresa S. M. Tsang

Byron F. Vandenberg

Hector O. Ventura

George W. Vetrovec

Robert A. Vogel

Ron Waksman

David D. Waters

Nanette K. Wenger

Robert Wilensky

James T. Willerson

Miguel Zabalgoitia

Barry L. Zaret

Douglas P. Zipes

In Infants and Children

Hugh D. Allen

Bruce S. Alpert

Arthur Garson, Jr.

Stanley J. Goldberg

Warren G. Guntheroth

Howard P. Gutgesell

John D. Kugler

James E. Lock

John W. Moore

Lowell W. Perry

David J. Sahn

Richard M. Schieken

CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

Eugene H. Blackstone

Lawrence I. Bonchek

Lawrence H. Cohn

John A. Elefteriades

Thomas L. Spray

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