Vincent E. Friedewald, MD a, ⁎ , Peter Ganz, MD b, Joel M. Kremer, MD c, Philip J. Mease, MD d, James R. O'Dell, MD e, Thomas A. Pearson, MD f, C. Venkata S. Ram, MD g, Paul M. Ridker, MD h, Jane E. Salmon, MD i, William C. Roberts, MD j
a Associate Editor, The American Journal of Cardiology, Research Professor, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, and Clinical Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas
b Chief, Division of Cardiology, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, and Maurice Eliaser, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
c “Pfaff Family” Professor and Chair in Medicine, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, and Director of Research, Center for Rheumatology, Albany, New York
d Clinical Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, and Chief, Swedish Hospital Rheumatology Clinical Research Division, Seattle, Washington
e Larson Professor of Medicine and Chief, Section of Rheumatology and Immunology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
f Professor of Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York
g Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
h Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, and Director, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
i Collete Kean Research Chair, Hospital for Special Surgery, and Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York
j 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, Dallas, Texas, and Dean, A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Health Care System, Dallas, Texas