Conference Faculty

Course Directors

• George G. Klee, MD, PhD

  Chair
  Division of Experimental Pathology
  Mayo Clinic
  Professor of Laboratory Medicine
  Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
  Rochester, Minnesota

• Iftikhar J. Kullo, MD

  Consultant
  Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
  Mayo Clinic
  Associate Professor of Medicine
  Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
  Rochester, Minnesota

Mayo Clinic Faculty

• John C. Burnett Jr., MD

  Consultant
  Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
  Mayo Clinic
  Professor of Medicine and Physiology
  Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
  Rochester, Minnesota

• Cheryl A. Conover, PhD

  Consultant, Endocrine Research Unit
  Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, Nutrition
  Professor of Medicine Mayo Clinic College o
  f Medicine
  Rochester, Minnesota

• Thomas C. Gerber, MD, PhD, FACP, FACC, FAHA

  Consultant
  Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Diagnostic Radiology
  Mayo Clinic
  Associate Professor of Medicine and Radiology
  Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
  Jacksonville, Florida

• Raymond J. Gibbons, MD

  Immediate Past President
  American Heart Association
  Arthur M. and Gladys D. Gray Professor of Medicine
  Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
  Rochester, Minnesota

• Joseph P. McConnell, PhD

  Consultant, Cardiovascular Laboratory Medicine
  Division of Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology
  Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology
  Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
  Rochester, Minnesota

• Robert D. Simari, MD

  Vice Chair, Cardiovascular Research
  Consultant, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
  Professor of Medicine
  Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
  Rochester, Minnesota
  

Guest Faculty

• Frank J. Accurso, MD

  Director, Cystic Fibrosis Center
  Professor of Pediatrics
  University of Colorado School of Medicine
  Denver, Colorado

• Nancy R. Cook, ScD

  Associate Professor of Medicine
  Harvard Medical School
  Boston, Massachusetts

• Robert E. Gerszten, MD

  Cardiology Division and
  Center for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases
  Associate Professor of Medicine
  Harvard Medical School
  Boston, Massachusetts

• Steven I. Gutman, MD, MBA

  Office Director
  Office of In Vitro Diagnostic Device Evaluation and Safety
  Food and Drug Administration
  Rockville, Maryland

• Glen L. Hortin, MD, PhD

  Chief of Clinical Chemistry
  Department of Laboratory Medicine
  National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
  Bethesda, Maryland

• Mehmood Khan, MD, FACE

  Senior Vice President
  Medical & Scientific Affairs
  Takeda Pharmaceuticals
  Lincolnshire, Illinois

• Christopher M. Kramer, MD

  Professor of Radiology and Medicine
  Director, Cardiovascular Imaging Center
  University of Virginia Health System
  Charlottesville, Virginia

• Teri Manolio, MD, PhD

  Senior Advisor to the Director, NHGRI, for Population Genomics
  Director, Office of Population Genomics
  National Human Genome Research Institute
  Professor of Medicine
  F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine
  Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
  Bethesda, Maryland

• Willie E. May, PhD

  Director
  Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  Gaithersburg, Maryland

• John A. Moon, PhD

  Vice President, Technology
  Illumina Corporation
  Wallingford, Connecticut

• Fred E. Regnier, MD

  J. H. Law Distinguished Professor
  Analytical Chemistry
  College of Science – Department of Chemistry
  Purdue University
  West Lafayette, Indiana

• Paul M. Ridker, MD

  Reynolds Investigator & Center Co-Director
  Director, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
  Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  Boston, Massachusetts

• John A. Rumberger, PhD, MD, FACC

  Director of Cardiac Imaging
  The Princeton Longevity Center
  Medical Director
  PrevaHealth Wellness Diagnostic Center
  Professor of Medicine (Clinical)
  Department of Medicine
  The Ohio State University
  Columbus, Ohio

• Marc S. Sabatine, MD, MPH

  TIMI Study Group
  Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  Assistant Professor of Medicine
  Harvard Medical School
  Boston, Massachusetts

• Michel E. Safar, MD

  Professor
  Paris Descartes University
  Hypertension and Cardiovascular Prevention Unit
  Diagnosis Center
  Hospital Hotel-Dieu
  Paris, France

• Pothur R. Srinivas, PhD, MPH

  Program Director
  Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
  National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
  Bethesda, Maryland

• Jennifer Van Eyk, PhD

  Director, Center Investigator
  Johns Hopkins University
  Bayview Proteomics Center
  Baltimore, Maryland

• Renu Virmani, MD

  President and Medical Director
  CVPath Institute, Inc.
  Gaithersburg, Maryland

• Lorraine B. Ware, MD

  Assistant Professor
  Allergy/Pulmonary & Critical Care Medical Division
  Vanderbilt University
  Nashville, Tennessee

Faculty Disclosure

As a provider accredited by ACCME, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine (Mayo School of CME) must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in its educational activities. Course director(s), Planning Committee Members, Faculty, and all others who are in a position to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest related to the subject matter of the educational activity. Safeguards against commercial bias have been put in place. Faculty also will disclose any off-label and/or investigational use of pharmaceuticals or instruments discussed in their presentation. Disclosure of this information will be published in course materials so that participants in the activity may formulate their own judgments regarding the presentation.