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Numbers in brackets refer to the chapter(s) written or cowritten by the contributor.
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Assistant Professor of Medicine;
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Director Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center,
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David Geffen School of Medicine,
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University of California,
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Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California [22]
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Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital;
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Associate Dean for Clinical/Translational Research,
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Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts [39, 41]
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Cardiology Division, Boston Medical Center,
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Boston, Massachusetts [29, 30]
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Professor of Clinical Medicine,
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Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine,
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Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,
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New York, New York [Appendix]
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Chief of Cardiology, VA Boston Healthcare System;
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Senior Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital;
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Senior Investigator, TIMI Study Group, Boston, Massachusetts [42]
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Eugene Braunwald, MD, MA (Hon), ScD (Hon), FRCP
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Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine,
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Founding Chairman, TIMI Study Group,
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Brigham and Women's Hospital,
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Boston, Massachusetts [7, 28, 40]
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Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine,
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Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care,
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Sleep and Occupational Medicine Indiana University,
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Indianapolis, Indiana [Review and Self-Assessment]
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Christopher P. Cannon, MD
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Senior Physician, Cardiovascular Division,
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Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts [40]
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Jonathan R. Carapetis, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FAFPHM
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Director, Telethon Kids Institute,
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The University of Western Australia,
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Crawley, Western Australia [32]
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Agustin Castellanos, MD, FACC, FAHA
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Director, Clinical Electrophysiology,
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University of Miami Miller School of Medicine,
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Cardiovascular Division, Miami, Florida [35]
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Associate Professor of Medicine,
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Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,
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Washington University School of Medicine,
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John S. Child, MD, FACC, FAHA, FASE
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Streisand Professor of Medicine and Cardiology;
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Director, Ahmanson-UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center;
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Director, UCLA Adult Noninvasive Cardiodiagnostics Laboratory Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center,
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Geffen School of Medicine, University of California,
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Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California [22]
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Wilson S. Colucci, MD, FAHA, FACC
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Thomas J. Ryan Professor of Medicine,
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Boston University School of Medicine;
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Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine,
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Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts [29, 30]
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Professor of Medicine and Surgery,
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Director, Heart and Vascular Center,
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
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Professor, Department of Radiology,
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Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging;
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Executive Director, Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging Program,
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Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts [12, 51]
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Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology,
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Professor of Physiology and Biophysics,
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Charles A. Boettcher, II Chair in Atherosclerosis,
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University of Colorado School of Medicine,
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Anschutz Medical Campus, Director Lipid Clinic,
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University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, Colorado [38]
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Andrew J. Einstein, MD, PhD
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Victoria and Esther Aboodi Assistant Professor of Medicine;
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Director, Cardiac CT Research;
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Co-Director, Cardiac CT and MRI, Department of Medicine,
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Cardiology Division, Department of Radiology,
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Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,
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New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York [Appendix]
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William Wikoff Smith Professor;
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Chair, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology;
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Scientific Director, Penn Cardiovascular Institute,
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Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania,
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [1]
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Vice Chair of Medicine for Strategic Planning,
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Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Senior Lecturer,
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Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts [13, 42, 53]
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J. Michael Gaziano, MD, MPH
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Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
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Chief, Division of Aging, Brigham and Women's Hospital;
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Director, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Center,
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Boston VA Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts [2]
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Thomas A. Gaziano, MD, MSc
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
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Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management,
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Center for Health Decision Sciences,
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Harvard School of Public Health;
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Faculty Co-Leader, Chronic and Cardiovascular Diseases Working Group,
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Harvard Institute for Global Health,
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Harvard University; Associate Physician in Cardiovascular Medicine,
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Department of Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts [2]
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Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering,
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
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Boston, Massachusetts [11, 50, 52]
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Director, Thrombosis Research Group,
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Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts [45]
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Professor, Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics,
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University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center;
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Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
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Harold Snyder Family Professor of Cardiology,
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Clinical Chief, Leon Charney Division of Cardiology,
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Co-Director, NYU-HHC Clinical and Translational Science Institute;
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Director, Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center,
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New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York [34]
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Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine,
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Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore,
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Maryland [Review and Self-Assessment]
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Stanford University, Palo Alto, California [21]
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Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Physiology;
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Director, Pulmonary Allergy,
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Critical Care and Sleep Division,
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University of Minnesota School of Medicine,
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Minneapolis, Minnesota [34]
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Roy M. John, MBBS, PhD, FRCP
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Assistant Professor of Medicine,
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Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital,
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Boston, Massachusetts [18]
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Division of Infectious Diseases,
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
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Boston, Massachusetts [31]
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Louis V. Kirchhoff, MD, MPH
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Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Epidemiology,
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University of Iowa; Staff Physician,
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Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center,
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine;
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Associate Dean for Clinical Research,
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Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin [43]
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Alexander Kratz, MD, MPH, PhD
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Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Cell Biology,
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Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons;
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Director, Core Laboratory,
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Columbia University Medical Center and the New York Presbyterian Hospital;
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Director, the Allen Hospital Laboratory, New York, New York [Appendix]
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Raymond Y. Kwong, MD, MPH
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Associate Professor of Medicine,
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Director of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging,
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Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts [12, 51]
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Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
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Associate Physician, Cardiovascular Medicine,
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Brigham and Women's Hospital;
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Boston VA Healthcare; Boston, Massachusetts [27]
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Associate Professor of Medicine,
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Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital,
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Boston, Massachusetts [13, 53]
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Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine,
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Chief, Cardiovascular Medicine,
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Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts [1, 36]
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Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine,
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Harvard Medical School; Chairman,
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Department of Medicine, and Physician-in-Chief,
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Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts [1, 3, 6-10, 23-27, 39, 41, 46-49]
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Associate Professor of Surgery and Chief,
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Division of Transplant and Assist Devices;
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Lester and Sue Smith Endowed Chair in Surgery,
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Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas [21]
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Cardiovascular Division; Professor of Medicine,
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Cell Biology and Physiology,
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Washington University School of Medicine,
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Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri [19]
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Mandeep R. Mehra, MD, FACC, FACP
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Harvard Medical School; Executive Director,
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Center for Advanced Heart Disease,
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Brigham and Women's Hospital;
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Co-Director, Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart and Vascular Center,
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Boston, Massachusetts [20]
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Assistant Professor of Medicine,
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Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women's Hospital,
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Boston, Massachusetts [17]
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Associate Professor of Medicine,
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Harvard Medical School; Director,
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Levine Cardiac Intensive Care Unit; Senior Investigator,
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Brigham and Women's Hospital,
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Boston, Massachusetts [4]
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Professor, Departments of Medicine and Physiology,
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Division of Cardiology; AHA Chair in Cardiovascular Research,
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University of Miami Miller School of Medicine,
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Miami, Florida Robert J. Myerburg [35]
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Harvard Medical School; Director,
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Clinical Cardiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital,
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Boston, Massachusetts [9, 10, 23-26]
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Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Cell Biology,
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Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Director,
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Biochemical Genetics Laboratory,
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Columbia University Medical Center,
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New York Presbyterian Hospital,
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New York, New York [Appendix]
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Seymour Gray Professor of Molecular Medicine; Chair,
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Department of Genetics; Chief,
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Division of Translational Medicine and Human Genetics,
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Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [37]
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Anis Rassi, Jr., MD, PhD, FACC, FACP, FAHA
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Anis Rassi Hospital, Goiânia, Brazil [33]
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Richard M. Schwartzstein, MD
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Ellen and Melvin Gordon Professor of Medicine and Medical Education,
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Harvard Medical School; Associate Division Chief,
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Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine,
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
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Boston, Massachusetts [5]
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Professor, Harvard Medical School; Director,
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Brigham and Women's Hospital,
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Boston, Massachusetts [12, 51]
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Johns Hopkins University; Director,
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Electrophysiology Laboratory,
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Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center,
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Baltimore, Maryland [14-16]
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Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD
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Harvard Medical School; Director,
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Brigham and Women's Hospital,
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Boston, Massachusetts [27]
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Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Program,
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Brigham and Women's Hospital; Cardiovascular Division,
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Boston, Massachusetts [17, 18]
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Division of Nephrology and Hypertension,
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Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota [44]
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Michel Mirowski, MD Professor of Cardiology;
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Professor of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine;
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Chief, Division of Cardiology,
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Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland [14-16]
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Aaron B. Waxman, MD, PhD, FACP, FCCP
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School;
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Executive Director, Center for Pulmonary-Heart Diseases,
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Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart and Vascular Center,
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Boston, Massachusetts [49]
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Vice President of Academic Affairs,
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Johns Hopkins Medicine International,
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Professor of Medicine and Physiology,
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Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,
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Baltimore, Maryland [Review and Self-Assessment]