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Benjamin Scirica MD Cardiologist and Director, Innovation, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s

Professor, Professor Emeritus of Medicine,

of Medicine, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota

Pharmacology and Toxicology; Emeritus Director, Division of Cardiology and Krannert Institute of Cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, Indiana

Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Advisory Board

Deepak Bhatt MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, FESC

Paul Thompson MD Physician Co-Director, Hartford Healthcare Cardiovascular Institute, Hartford, Connecticut; Professor of Medicine, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut James Udelson MD Chief, Division of Cardiology; Director, Nuclear Cardiology Laboratory; Professor, Medicine and Radiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts Gary Webb MD Editor-in-Chief, ChiP Network and ACHD Learning Center; Consultant, Cincinnati Adult Congenital Heart Program; Emeritus Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Ohio Clyde Yancy MD, MSc, MACC, FAHA, MACP, FHFSA Chief of Cardiology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine; Associate Director, Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Executive Director, Interventional Cardiovascular Programs, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart & Vascular Center; Senior Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Peter Libby MD

Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

J WilliamMcEvoy MB BCh BAO, MEHP, MHS, FRCPI Professor of Preventive Cardiology, National University of Ireland; Medical and Research Director, National Institute for Preventive Cardiology, Ireland; Adjunct

Faculty Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland Maurice E. Sarano MD, FACC Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota

Editorial Contributors

Ashish Aggarwal MD Staff Physician, Interventional Cardiology, Providence Holy Cross Medical

Samer Ajam MD Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Community Care Network, Inc, Munster, Indiana

Jason Garlie MD Staff Cardiologist; Electrophysiologist, Metropolitan Heart and Vascular Institute,

Center, Mission Hills, California

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Associate Editors

Silvio E. Inzucchi MD Professor of Medicine

Richard E. Pratley MD Senior Investigator, Florida Hospital /Sanford–Burnham Translational Research Institute for Metabolism and Diabetes; Associate Medical Director, Florida Hospital Diabetes

(Endocrinology); Clinical Director, Section of Endocrinology; Director, Yale Diabetes Center; Director, Endocrinology and Metabolism Fellowship, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

Institute, Orlando, Florida Deborah Wexler MD, MSc

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Clinical Chief of the Diabetes Unit, Co-Clinical Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Diabetes Center; Associate Program Director for Clinical Research, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE FACULTY Editor-in-Chief Gary Webb MD

Associate Editors

George Ofori- Amanfo MD Chief, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System, Kravis Children’s Hospital, New York, New York

Christopher Spurney MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC

Editor-in-Chief, ChiP Network and ACHD Learning Center; Consultant, Cincinnati Adult Congenital

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Heart Program; Emeritus Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, Ohio