Educational Review Manual in Cardiology

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Educational Review Manual in Cardiovascular Disease. 1st Edition

Editor-in-Chief: Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, Adjunct Clinical Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine and Clinical Professor Emory University, Chief Science Officer, The Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC)

The first edition of our comprehensive board review in Cardiovascular Disease, published in March of 2009, features a "who's who" faculty. Editor-in-Chief Keith C. Ferdinand, MD has produced a masterpiece in Cardiovascular Disease training.

Contributors include:

• William C. Roberts, MD, Executive Director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, on Cardiac Disease Morphology

• Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., MD, Professor of Medicine and Provost for Medical Affairs at Weill Cornell Medical College and John A. Farmer, MD, Professor of Medicine at Baylor Heart Clinic, on Dyslipidemia

• Robert O. Bonow, MD, Goldberg Distinguished Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Vera H. Rigolin, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine on Valvular Heart Disease

• Clyde W. Yancy, MD, Medical Director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, Chief of Cardiothoracic Transplantation at Baylor University Medical Center, and current President of the American Heart Association on Heart Failure

• Charles R. Bridges, MD, ScD, Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital and Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center with Drs. B. Reddy Dandolu, Ronald F. Parsons, and Arminder S. Jassar on Cardiac Surgery (Valve Repair and Replacement, CABG)

• Christopher P. Cannon, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and TIMI Study Group, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Amit Kumar, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School on Acute Coronary Syndrome /Non-ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Unstable Angina;

• Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, Chief of Cardiology at the VA Boston Healthcare System, Senior Investigator, TIMI Study Group and Adnan K. Chhatriwalla, MD, Chief Fellow, Interventional Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic on Cardiac Catheterization, Diagnostic Angiography and Intravascular Ultrasound.

This comprehensive review will be a priceless resource not only for cardiology board review certification and recertification review, but for ALL physicians, PAs, and NPs interested in staying current in the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.