Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Editor-in-Chief

Richard E. Shaw, PhD, FACC, FACA

CPMC Heart and Vascular Center
California Pacific Medical Center,
San Francisco, California

Editorial Board

Kul B. Aggarwal, MD
Columbia, Missouri

David E. Allie, MD
Lafayette, Louisiana

H. Vernon Anderson, MD
Houston, Texas

Azam Anwar, MD
Dallas, Texas

Robert J. Applegate, MD
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Thomas Bashore, MD
Durham, North Carolina

Deepak L. Bhatt, MD
Boston, Massachusetts

Rafael Beyar, MD, DSc
Haifa, Israel

James C. Blankenship, MD
Danville, Pennsylvania

Stanley D. Bleich, MD
Metairie, Louisiana

Peter Block, MD
Atlanta, Georgia

Raoul Bonan, MD
Montréal, Québec, Canada

Sorin J. Brener, MD
Brooklyn, New York

Matthew J. Budoff, MD
Los Angeles, California

Blase Carabello, MD
Houston, Texas

Joseph Carrozza Jr., MD
Boston, Massachusetts

Joseph Carver, MD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jack P. Chen, MD
Atlanta, Georgia

Paramjeet S. Chopra, MD
Madison, Wisconsin

Howard Cohen, MD
New York, New York

Marc Cohen, MD
Newark, New Jersey

Todd J. Cohen, MD
Mineola, New York

Antonio Colombo, MD
Milan, Italy

George Dangas, MD, PhD
New York, New York

Rajesh Dave, MD
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Luis M. de la Fuente, MD
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Joshua De Leon, MD
Mineola, New York

Ubeydullah Deligonul, MD
St. Louis, Missouri

Robert S. Dieter, MD
Maywood, Illinois

Gerald Dorros, MD
Wilson, Wyoming

Franz R. Eberli, MD
Zurich, Switzerland

Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD
Richmond, Virginia

Stephen G. Ellis, MD
Cleveland, Ohio

Ted Feldman, MD
Chicago, Illinois

James J. Ferguson III, MD
Houston, Texas

Tim Fischell, MD
Kalamazoo, Michigan

Peter J. Fitzgerald, MD
Stanford, California

Lawrence A. Garcia, MD
Boston, Massachusetts

Kirk N. Garratt, MD
New York, New York

Ruchira Glaser, MD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Punit Goel, MD
Columbia, Missouri

Sheldon Goldberg, MD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Steven L. Goldberg, MD
Seattle, Washington

Scott Goldman, MD
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania

Peter Gonschior, MD
Munich, Germany

Harvey S. Hecht, MD
New York, New York

Tarek Helmy, MD
Cincinnati, Ohio

Howard C. Herrmann, MD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Otto M. Hess, MD
Bern, Switzerland

Richard R. Heuser, MD
Phoenix, Arizona

Ziyad M. Hijazi, MD
Chicago, Illinois

Mark A. Hlatky, MD
Stanford, California

Kalon Ho, MD
Boston, Massachusetts

Paul C. Ho, MD
Honolulu, Hawaii

Angela Hoye, MD
Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Jui-Sung Hung, MD
Taichung, Taiwan

Deepak Jain, MD
Lübeck, Germany

Alice K. Jacobs, MD
Boston, Massachusetts

Dean J. Kereiakes, MD
Cincinnati, Ohio

Morton Kern, MD
St. Louis, Missouri

Ferdinand Kiemeneij, MD, PhD
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lloyd W. Klein, MD
Chicago, Illinois

William Knopf, MD
Atlanta, Georgia

Ronald J. Krone, MD
St. Louis, Missouri

Michael Landzberg, MD
Boston, Massachusetts

Jason Lazar, MD
Mineola, New York

David P. Lee, MD
Stanford, California

Martin B. Leon, MD
New York, New York

Michael J. Lim, MD
St. Louis, Missouri

A. Michael Lincoff, MD
Cleveland, Ohio

John P. Liuzzo, MD
Union City, New Jersey

Bruce W. Lytle, MD
Cleveland, Ohio

Jonathan D. Marmur, MD
New York, New York

Steven P. Marso, MD
Kansas City, Missouri

Shamir R. Mehta, MD
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Bernhard Meier, MD
Bern, Switzerland

Eric L. Michelson, MD
Haverford, Pennsylvania

Michael Mooney, MD
Minneapolis, Minnesota

John W. M. Moore, MD, MPH
Los Angeles, California

Marie-Claude Morice, MD
Antony, France

Srihari S. Naidu, MD
Mineola, New York

Ted M. Parris, MD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

David R. Ramsdale, MD
Liverpool, United Kingdom

Ronald N. Riner, MD,
St. Louis, Missouri

David Rizik, MD,
Scottsdale, Arizona

P. Syamasundar Rao, MD,
Houston, Texas

Satinder K. Sandhu, MD
Miami, Florida

Lowell F. Satler, MD
Washington, D.C.

Patrick W. Serruys, MD, PhD
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Nicolas W. Shammas, MD
Davenport, Iowa

Pinak Shah, MD
Boston, Massachusetts

Michael H. Sketch Jr., MD
Durham, North Carolina

Mandeep Singh, MBBS
Rochester, Minnesota

V.S. Srinivas, MD
Bronx, New York

Brian L. Strunk, MD
Larkspur, California

Zoltan G. Turi, MD
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Frank J. Veith, MD
New York, New York

George Vetrovec, MD
Richmond, Virginia

Ron Waksman, MD
Washington, D.C.

Craig Walker, MD
Houma, Louisiana

John G. Webb, MD
Vancouver, British Colombia

William S. Weintraub, MD
Atlanta, Georgia

Neil J. Weissman, MD
Washington, D.C.

Mark H. Wholey, MD
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Stephan Windecker, MD
Bern, Switzerland

Yarem Yeghiazarians, MD
San Francisco, California

John J. Young, MD
Seattle, Washington

Alex Zapolanski, MD
Newark, New Jersey

Chunyu Zeng, MD
Chongqing City, China