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John D. Fisher, MD, FHRS, CCDSRichard I. Fogel, MD, FHRS, CCDSNahum A. Freedberg, MDRoger Freedman, MD, FHRS, CCDSPaul A. Friedman, MD, FHRSRichard A. Friedman, MD, MBA, FHRS, CCDSFiorenzo Gaita, MDApoor S. Gami, MD, FHRSLeonard I. Ganz, MD, FHRSHasan Garan, MDMaurizio Gasparini, MDEdward P. Gerstenfeld, MD, FHRSAnne M. Gillis, MD, FHRSMarye J. Gleva, MD, FHRSMichael Glikson, MDMichael R. Gold, MD, PhD, FHRSJeffrey J. Goldberger, MD, FHRSMichael H. Gollob, MDDavid E. Haines, MD, FHRSMohamed H. Hamdan, MD, MBA, FHRSRobert G. Hauser, MD, FHRS, CCDSDavid L. Hayes, MD, FHRS, CCDSJeffrey S. Healey, MD, FHRSRobert H. Helm, MDCharles A. Henrikson, MD, FHRSGerhard Hindricks, MD, PhDStefan H. Hohnloser, MD, FHRSPatrick Hranitzky, MD, FHRSShoei K. Stephen. Huang, MD, FHRS, CCDSThomas Hund, MDJodie L. Hurwitz, MD, FHRSCarsten W. Israel, MDWarren M. Jackman, MD, FHRSJason T. Jacobson, MDArshad Jahangir, MDPierre Jais, MDJose Jalife, MD, FHRSRobert C. Jones, MDMark E. Josephson, MDWerner Jung, MD, FHRS, FESCAlan H. Kadish, MDJonathan M. Kalman, MBBS, PhDRonald J. Kanter, MD, FHRS, CEPSPeter P. Karpawich, MD, FHRSElizabeth S. Kaufman, MD, FHRSJosef Kautzner, MD, PhDCharles Kennergren, MD, PhD, FHRSCharles R. Kerr, MD, FHRSYaariv Khaykin, MD, FHRSHelmut U. Klein, MD, FHRSBradley P. Knight, MD, FHRSTimothy K. Knilans, MD, FHRSPeter R. Kowey, MD, FHRSAndrew D. Krahn, MD, FHRSKarl-Heinz Kuck, MD, FHRSFred M. Kusumoto, MD, FHRSDhanujaya R. Lakkireddy, MD, FHRSLyle Larson, PhD, PA-CRoberto Latini, MDChu-Pak Lau, MD, FHRS, CCDSKenneth R. Laurita, PhDRobin A. Leahy, RN, BSN, FHRS, CCDSChristophe Leclercq, MD, PhDRobert Lemery, MD, FHRS, CCDSBruce Lerman, MD, FHRS, CCDSSamuel Levy, MDThorsten Lewalter, MD, PhDLars M. Lickfett, MD, FHRSL. Bing Liem, DO, CCDS

Cecilia M. Linde, MD, PhDBruce D. Lindsay, MD, FHRS, CCDSBarry London, MD, PhDCharles J. Love, MD, FHRS, CCDSJudith A. Mackall, MD, FHRSLaurent Macle, MDCalum A. MacRae, MDWilliam H. Maisel, MD, MPHMarek Malik, MD, PhD, FHRSAntonis S. Manolis, MD, FHRS, CCDSMoussa Mansour, MD, FHRSFrancis E. Marchlinski, MD, FHRSJoseph E. Marine, MD, FHRSHugh T. McElderry, MD, FHRSWilliam M. Miles, MD, FHRSJohn M. Miller, MD, FHRSSuneet Mittal, MD, FHRSFred Morady, MDCarlos A. Morillo, MD, FHRSDaniel Morin, MD, MPH, FHRSGregory E. Morley, PhDArthur J. Moss, MDJ. Paul Mounsey, MD, PhDThomas M. Munger, MDGerald V. Naccarelli, MD, FHRSKoonlawee Nademanee, MD, FHRS, CCDSSanjiv M. Narayan, MD, PhD, FHRSAndrea Natale, MD, FHRSStanley Nattel, MD, FHRSSaman Nazarian, MD, PhD, FHRSMark J. Niebauer, MD, PhD, FHRSBrian Olshansky, MD, FHRS, CCDSHakan Oral, MDLinda K. Ottoboni, RN, MS, CNS, FHRS, CCDSI. Eli Ovsyshcher, MD, PhD, FHRSDouglas Packer, MD, FHRSLuigi Padeletti, PhDRichard L. Page, MD, FHRSKristen K. Patton, MDNicholas S. Peters, MD, PhD, FHRSJonathan P. Piccini, MD, MHSVance J. Plumb, MDSunny S. Po, MD, PhDSteven Poelzing, PhDSteven M. Pogwizd, MDJeanne E. Poole, MD, FHRS, CCDSBrian D. Powell, MD, FHRSEric N. Prystowsky, MD, FHRSHelmut Puererfellner, MD, FHRSLaurie K. Racenet, ANP, FHRS, CCDS, CEPSBrian Ramza, MD, PhDRavi Ranjan, MD, PhDEric J. Rashba, MD, FHRSMichael J. Reiter, MD, PhDJill L. Repoley, MSN, NP, FHRS, CCDS, CEPSDwight W. Reynolds, MD, FHRSRobert W. Rho, MD, FHRSRenato Pietro Ricci, MDMichael R. Rosen, MD, FHRSLynda E. Rosenfeld, MD, FHRSSteven A. Rothman, MDDenis Roy, MD, FHRSYoram Rudy, PhD, FHRSJeremy N. Ruskin, MDAndrea M. Russo, MD, FHRSEduardo B. Saad, MD, FHRSSamir Saba, MD, FHRSJeffrey E. Saffi tz, MD, PhDSanjeev Saksena, MBBS, FHRS

Guy Salama, PhD, FHRSJack C. Salerno, MD, FHRS, CCDSWalid I. Saliba, MD, FHRSNadir Saoudi, MD, FHRSJohn L. Sapp, MD, FHRSWilliam H. Sauer, MD, FHRS, CCDSJ. Philip Saul, MD, FHRSLeslie A. Saxon, MD, FHRS, CCDSMartin J. Schalij, MD, PhDMelvin M. Scheinman, MD, FHRSMark H. Schoenfeld, MD, FHRS, CCDSUlrich Schotten, MD, PhDRichard Schuessler, PhDPeter J. Schwartz, MDRobert A. Schweikert, MD, FHRSDipen C. Shah, MD, FHRSRobin M. Shaw, MD, PhDJulie B. Shea, MS, RNCS, FHRS, CCDSRobert S. Sheldon, MD, PhD, FHRSWin Shen, MD, FHRSKalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD, FHRSMorio Shoda, MD, PhDStephen R. Shorofsky, MD, PhD, FHRSMichael J. Silka, MDSteven N. Singh, MDAllan Skanes, MD, FHRSKyoko Soejima, MDDavid D. Spragg, MD, FHRSBruce S. Stambler, MD, FHRSJonathan S. Steinberg, MD, FHRSPaul R. Steiner, MD, FHRSElizabeth A. Stephenson, MD, MSc, FHRS,

CCDS, CEPSWilliam G. Stevenson, MD, FHRSS. Adam Strickberger, MDCharles Swerdlow, MD, FHRS, CCDSCraig Swygman, FHRS, CEPSPatrick J. Tchou, MDGordon F. Tomaselli, MD, FHRSJohn K. Triedman, MD, FHRS, CCDS, CEPSGioia Turitto, MD, FHRSIsabelle C. Van Gelder, MD, PhDGeorge F. Van Hare, MD, FHRS, CCDS, CEPSDavid R. Van Wagoner, PhD, FHRSGeorge D. Veenhuyzen, MD, BSAtul Verma, MD, FHRSSami Viskin, MDStephen Vlay, MD, FHRS, CCDSMarc A. Vos, PhDAlbert L. Waldo, MD, FHRS, CCDSEdward P. Walsh, MD, FHRS, CCDSPaul J. Wang, MD, FHRS, CCDSJ. Peter Weiss, MD, MScJ. Marcus Wharton, MDKevin R. Wheelan, MD, FHRS, CCDSDavid J. Wilber, MD, FHRS, CCDSBruce L. Wilkoff, MD, FHRS, CCDSRoger Willems, MDJohn R. Windle, MD, FHRSStephen L. Winters, MD, FHRS, CCDSDeborah L. Wolbrette, MDD. George Wyse, MD, PhD, FHRSClyde W. Yancy, MD, MScRaymond Yee, MD, FHRS, CCDS, CEPSErica S. Zado, PA-C, FHRSWojciech Zareba, MD, PhDVicki L. Zeigler, RN, PhD, FHRS, CCDS, CEPSPeter J. Zimetbaum, MD, FHRSDouglas P. Zipes, MD, FHRS

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