CCMD Co-Chairmen

Antonio M. Gotto, Jr, MD, DPhil Dean and Professor of Medicine Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University Provost for Medical Affairs Cornell University Robert H. Eckel, MD Professor of Medicine and of Physiology and Biophysics Charles A. Boettcher Endowed Chair in Atherosclerosis University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC) Program Director Adult General Clinical Research Center at UCHSC

Education Council

George L. Bakris, MD Professor of Medicine University of Chicago School of Medicine in Illinois Director of the Hypertension Center in the Diabetes Institute. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine and Medicine Chief, Division of Epidemiology University of California San Diego School of Medicine Keith C. Ferdinand, MD Adjunct Clinical Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine Clinical Professor, Cardiology, Emory University Chief Science Officer, Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC), Inc. JoAnne M. Foody, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director, Cardiovascular Fellowship Program Yale University, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut Peter Ganz, MD Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Director of Vascular Research and Associate Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Philip B. Gorelick, MD, MPH Professor, Head, and Director of the Center for Stroke Research in the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. Scott M. Grundy, MD, PhD Director of the Center of Human Nutrition and Chairman of the Department of Clinical Nutrition at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Chief of the Metabolic Unit, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in Dallas, Texas Steven M. Haffner, MD Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine and Clinical  Epidemiology, at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San  Antonio. Ronald M. Krauss, MD Director of Atherosclerosis Research at the Children's Hospital  Oakland Research Institute, and Senior Scientist in the Department of  Genome Sciences at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory John C. LaRosa, MD President of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York. Peter Libby, MD Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and  Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital,  Boston, Massachusetts Thomas A. Pearson, MD, MPH, PhD Albert D. Kaiser Professor and Chair of the Department of  Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester School  of Medicine in New York, where he is also Professor of Medicine