Speakers

Bonnie Arkus, RN
Founder and Exectutive Director, Women’s Heart Foundation

Kathleen Blake, MD, MPH
Senior Research Director, Center for Medical Technology Policy

Ralph Brindis, MD, MPH
Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California – San Francisco
Immediate Past President, American College of Cardiology

Nancy Davenport-Ennis
Chief Executive Officer, National Patient Advocate Foundation

Pamela Douglas, MD
Director, CV Imaging Program, Duke Clinical Research Institute
Professor of Medicine in Cardiology and Ursla Geller Professorship for Research in Cardiovascular Diseases, Duke Clinical Research Institute

David Holmes, MD
President, American College of Cardiology
Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Consultant, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic

Louis Jacques, MD
Director, Coverage and Analysis Group, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Michael Lauer, MD
Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences (DCVS), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Michael Mack, MD, PhD
President, Society of Thoracic Surgeons

David Naftel, PhD, MS
Professor of Surgery and Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Eric Peterson, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center
Associate Director, Duke Clinical Research Institute

Matha Radford, MD
Chief Quality Officer
New York University Langone Medical Center
Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
NYU School of Medicine

Gilbert Raff, MD
Director, Beaumont Hospital’s Ministrelli Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging
Member, Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging Consortium of Michigan

Rita Redberg, MD, MSC
Director, Women’s Cardiovascular Services, UCSF Medical Center
Editor in Chief, Archives of Internal Medicine

Lawrence Sadwin
President, Friends of the World Heart Federation

Art Sedrakyan, MD, PhD
Director, Comparative Effectiveness Program, Weill Cornell Medical College

Joe Selby, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

James Tcheng, MD
Professor of Medicine and Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University Medical Center

Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Health Care Management,
Director, Center for Health Incentives, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Director, Penn CMU Roybal P30 Center in Behavioral Economics and Health

Armin Weinberg, PhD
Chief Executive Officer, Life Beyond Cancer
Clinical Professor, Baylor College of Medicine

William Weintraub, MD
Director, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Christiana Care Health Services

Janet Wright, MD
Senior Vice President for Science and Quality, American College of Cardiology

Clyde Yancy, MD
Chief, Division of Cardiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Magerstadt Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine