^a Associate Editor, The American Journal of Cardiology, Clinical Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas and Research Professor, College of Science, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 

^b Hubbard Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 

^c President, Cardiothoracic Surgery PC, Elkhart, Indiana, President, Cascade Partners LLC, Granger, Indiana, Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Memorial Hospital, Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, South Bend, Indiana, and Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Elkhart General Hospital, Elkhart, Indiana 

^d President and Chief Executive Officer, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, and Director, Ruddy Canadian Cardiovascular Genetics Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 

^e Vice Dean, Texas A&M College of Medicine, College Station, Texas, and Chief Academic Officer, Scott and White Healthcare, Temple, Texas 

^f President and Medical Director, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas 

^g Medical Director, Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, Chief of Cardiothoracic Transplantation, Baylor University Medical Center, and President, American Heart Association, Dallas, Texas 

^h Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Cardiology and Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, Executive Director, Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, and Dean, A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Health Care System, Dallas, Texas