Robert M. Califf, MD - Director, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Professor , Donald F. Fortin, Professor of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
Dr. Califf is Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research, Director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Professor of Medicine and Donald F. Fortin Professor of Cardiology in the Division of Cardiology at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, a Fellow and member of the Board of Trustees of the American College of Cardiology, and one of the world’s leading authorities on acute coronary syndromes. As Director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Dr. Califf has been responsible for coordinating more than 100 randomized clinical trials. Dr. Califf has contributed more than 600 peer-reviewed journal articles to the medical literature and is an editor of several major textbooks and journals on heart disease, including theheart.org, an online information resource for academic and practicing cardiologists. He is Director of the coordinating center for the Centers for Education & Research in Therapeutics™ (CERTs), a public-private partnership among the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the FDA, academia, the medical products industry, and consumer groups. Dr. Califf also serves on the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines for Unstable Angina and Acute Myocardial Infarction.

Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD - Director, Cardiovascular Institute, Richard Gorlin, MD/Heart Research Foundation, Professor of Cardiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Norman M. Kaplan, MD - Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Dr. Kaplan is Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas where he has been on the faculty for more than forty years. For the last twenty, his teaching, writing and research have focused primarily upon clinical aspects of hypertension. He has lectured extensively and contributed over 500 papers to the medical literature. The ninth edition of his textbook, Kaplan’s Clinical Hypertension, was published in 2006. He was a member of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth Joint National Committees on Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. He has been made a Master of the American College of Physicians, given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Heart Association’s Council for High Blood Pressure Research, and received the Stevo Julius Award for Leadership in Medical Communication presented by the International Society of Hypertension. He served on the Executive Committees of the American Society of Hypertension and the AHA Council for High Blood Pressure Research. He is involved as either editor or reviewer with most of the journals which publish papers in the hypertension arena.

Christie M. Ballantyne, MD - Director, Section of Artherosclerosis, Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Kanu Chatterjee, FRCP - Professor of Medicine, Lucie Stern Professor of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, California

Stephen C. Hammill, MD - Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School, Electrocradiography and Electrophyisiology Laboratories, Mayo Clinic