Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD; Michael R. Gold, MD, PhD; Timothy E. Meyer, PhD;
Ignacio Ferna´ndez Lozano, MD; Suneet Mittal, MD; Alan D. Waggoner, MHS;
Bernd Lemke, MD; Jagmeet P. Singh, MD, PhD; Francis G. Spinale, MD, PhD;
Jennifer E. Van Eyk, PhD; Jeffrey Whitehill, MD; Stanislav Weiner, MD; Maninder Bedi, MD;
Joshua Rapkin, MS; Kenneth M. Stein, MD

Emma J. Birks, FRCP, PhD; Robert S. George, BSc, BM, MRCS; Mike Hedger, RN;
Toufan Bahrami, FRCS; Penny Wilton, FRACS; Christopher T. Bowles, PhD; Carole Webb, BSc;
Robert Bougard, BSc; Mohammed Amrani, FRCS; Magdi H. Yacoub, FRS;
Gilles Dreyfus, FRCS; Asghar Khaghani, FRCS

Carl R. Reynolds, MD; Michael R. Gold, MD, PhD

W.H. Wilson Tang, MD; Gary S. Francis, MD

Quirino Ciampi, MD, PhD,a Lorenza Pratali, MD, PhD,b Rodolfo Citro, MD,c Bruno Villari, MD, PhD,a
Eugenio Picano, MD, PhD,b and Rosa Sicari, MD, PhDb Benevento, Pisa, and Salerno, Italy

Allan J. Walkey, MD, MSc; Todd W. Rice, MD, MSc; Jason Konter, MD; Noriyuki Ouchi, MD, PhD;
Rei Shibata, MD, PhD; Kenneth Walsh, PhD; Bennett P. deBoisblanc, MD; Ross Summer, MD

Shin-ichi Oka, PhD; Wenrui Liu, MD, PhD; Eiji Yoshihara, MS; Md. Kaimul Ahsan, MD, PhD;
Dorys Adriana Lopez Ramos, BS; Aoi Son, DDS, PhD; Hiroaki Okuyama, MD, PhD; Li Zhang, MD;
Hiroshi Masutani, MD, PhD; Hajime Nakamura, MD, PhD; Junji Yodoi, MD, PhD

Julie Toubiana, MD; Emilie Courtine, FCCP; Fre´ de´ ric Pe` ne, MD, PhD; Vivian Viallon, PhD;
Pierre Asfar, MD, PhD; Ce´ dric Daubin, MD; Christophe Rousseau; Claire Chenot; Fatah Ouaaz, PhD;
David Grimaldi, MD; Alain Cariou, MD; Jean-Daniel Chiche, MD, PhD; Jean-Paul Mira, MD, PhD

Helmy M. Siragy