Dr Gold is the Michael E. Assey Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina.
He has authored more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, in addition to over 30 book chapters. He has been the PI or served on the Steering Committee of more than 15 multi-national clinical trials. Dr. Gold sits on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals, includingAmerican…
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Author(s):
Paul S Chan
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3 years ago
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the leading cause of mortality in patients with ischemic heart disease and left ventricular dysfunction.1 The second Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial (MADIT-II) and the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT) have shown that implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) reduce mortality in patients with ischemic heart disease and…
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Dr. Christian Thomas Ruff, MD, MPH serves as the Director of the Genetics Core Laboratory and holds the position of Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, based at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.With a diverse educational background, Dr. Ruff graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Neurobiology before earning his medical degree at…
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Tze-Fan Chao is an Associate Professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan and attending physician at the Division of Cardiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. He was trained in medicine and cardiology at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Dr Chao’s clinical interest is cardiac electrophysiology, including implantation of permanent…
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Job title: Consultant Cardiologist
Prof Pier Lambiase, PhD, FRCP, BMBCh, is a consultant cardiologist specialising in the treatment of heart rhythm disorders and pacemaker implantation. He graduated from Oxford University in 1992 and trained in cardiology at St Thomas’ and Hammersmith Hospitals. Following completion of a PhD in 2002, he undertook higher specialist training in electrophysiology and became a consultant cardiologist…
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Job title: Head of Cardiology and Electrophysiology
Dr Joachim R Ehrlich, MD is Head of Cardiology and Electrophysiology at St Josefs-Hospital, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Dr Ehrlich completed his internship and residency training in medicine in 2001 at Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany and gained a fellowship in basic cardiac electrophysiology at the Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Canada. Following a fellowship in cardiology at Goethe…
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Job title: President IC-OS and Co-Director Cardio-Oncology Duke, Duke University Durham, US
Dr Susan F Dent is amedical oncologist and professor of medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, US.Dr. Dent completed her medical education at McMaster University Medical School in Hamilton, Canada. Following this, she undertook residency training in internal medicine and medical oncology at the Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Her commitment to…
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Author(s):
Sandeep Nathan,
Rajiv Swamy
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3 years ago
The spectrum of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) encompasses a broad array of clinical characteristics and risk strata, ranging from unstable angina (UA) and non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) to ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and sudden cardiac death (SCD). In this article, UA and NSTEMI will be considered together as non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary…
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Author(s):
W Kevin Tsai,
Kathleen M Holohan,
Kim Allan Williams
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3 years ago
Coronary artery disease (CAD) represents a tremendous financial and health burden as the leading cause of death in the US.1 Acute coronary syndrome and its subsequent manifestations, including heart failure and need for cardiac transplantation, are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Hypertension, dyslipidemia, tobacco abuse, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and family history…
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