Scientific and Medical Advisors
Prof. Michael A. Acker, M.D., Prof. of Surgery, Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Pennsylvania
Prof. Reiner Bauernschmitt, M.D., Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart and Vascular Surgery Clinic, German Heart Center – Munich
Prof. Mark Cunningham, M.D., Prof. of Clinical Surgery, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
Prof. Robert D. Dowling, M.D., Prof. of Surgery, University of Louisville Medical School
Julius M. Guccione, Jr., Ph.D., Associate Prof. Dept. of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
Prof. Randall J. Lee, M.D., Prof. of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Cardiac Electrophysiology
Prof. Douglas L. Mann, M.D., Director of the Cardiovascular Div., Dept. of Medicine at Washington University, St. Louis. Cardiologist-in-chief at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
Thomas Mattioni, M.D., Arizona Arrhythmia Consultants, P.L.C.
Prof. Nicholas Peters, M.D., Prof. of Cardiology, Imperial College of Medicine, London, St. Mary’s Hospital
Prof. Hani Sabbah, Ph.D., Prof. of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University and Director of Cardiovascular Research, Henry Ford Health System
Prof. Benjamin J. Scherlag, Ph.D., The Hellen Webster Chair in Arrhythmia Research, University of Oklahoma
Randall Starling, M.D., Section Head, Heart Failure & Cardiac Transplant Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic
Norman A. Silverman, M.D., (retired) Division Head, Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital
Swaminathan Jayaraman, CEO, Vascular Concepts Group

