ACC
relies upon its volunteer members to accomplish its mission
and support its goals. ACC's member volunteers are the
College's greatest asset. They govern the organization,
are the driving force behind the development of educational
programming, products and guidelines, and shape ACC positions
on both state and federal legislation. The
College is governed by the Officers
and the Board of Trustees who are responsible for transacting
all the business required to carry out the goals and
mission of the College. Elected at the annual business
meeting, the Board of Trustees consists of 30 Fellows
of the College. Incoming Trustees are elected yearly at
the Annual Business Meeting to serve five-year terms
on the Board. The
President of ACC leads the Trustees for a one-year
term.
Members
of the Board
of Governors serve a three-year term and are the
grassroots liaisons between the local chapters, or established
geographical areas, and the College headquarters. The
chair, chair-elect and immediate past chair of the Board
of Governors serve on the Board of Trustees.
Officers
and Trustees
The election of 2008-2009 Officers and Trustees
was held at the March 2008 Annual Business Meeting during
the 57th Annual Scientific Session in Chicago.
Officers (2008-2009):
W. Douglas Weaver, M.D., F.A.C.C. , was installed as president on March 31, 2008 at the 57th Annual Scientific Sessions in New Orleans. Dr. Weaver is the Division Head of Cardiovascular Medicine, the Darin Chair of Cardiology, Director of the Henry Ford Cardiovascular Institute at the Henry Ford Health System and Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University.
Alfred
A. Bove, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.C.,
was
appointed as president-elect. Dr. Bove is an emeritus
professor of medicine at Temple University where he
also serves as section chief of cardiology. He practices
clinical cardiology with particular expertise in heart
failure and heart transplantation, undersea medicine
and sports medicine.
Ralph G. Brindis, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.C., F.S.C.A.I. ,
was elected vice president. Dr. Brindis is the Senior Advisor for Cardiovascular Disease for Northern California Kaiser and a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Five-year Trustees (2008-2013):
Eric R. Bates, M.D., F.A.C.C., is professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. A member of the ACC task force on clinical expert consensus documents, he was chair of the writing committee for the Clinical Expert Consensus Document on Carotid Stenting. He is chair of the ACC Ethics and Discipline Committee, a member of the Live Programs Committee, and he served on writing committee for the 2007 Focused Update of the ACC/AHA 2004 Guidelines for the Management of Patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction. He has been on the ACC Board of Governors and is a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine Interventional Cardiology Test Committee. He serves on the editorial boards of several medical journals, including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the JACC-Cardiovascular Interventions.
Robert A. Guyton, M.D., F.A.C.C., is professor and chief, division of cardiothoracic surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, and director, Emory University Thoracic Surgery Residency Program, Atlanta. He is a past president of the Society for Thoracic Surgeons. He served as the surgeon co-chair of the initial planning summit of the Surgeon-Interventional Cardiology Collaboration. The summit was hosted by the ACC in December 2007. The goal of the summit was to bring interventional cardiologists and surgeons together to discuss potential areas of collaboration for developing educational programs. Guyton served as co-chair of the CABG Guidelines writing committee from 1995 to 2006 and was instrumental in developing the Coalition of Cardiovascular Organizations in 2002.
C. Michael Valentine, M.D., F.A.C.C., is an interventional cardiologist with Cardiovascular Associates of Central Virginia, Lynchburg, Va. He is the past chair of the ACC Board of Governors and served as a governor of Virginia from 2003 to 2006. He has also served as co-chair of the Advocacy Committee and helped to develop the ACC’s Cardiac Cath Lab Toolkit. Valentine was chair of the 2004-2005 Medical Directors Institute, which is a program designed to promote better collaboration between payers and physicians. He is currently working on efforts to establish cardiovascular leadership and health care policy institutes for the College. Cardiovascular Associates of Central Virginia, has been active in more than 40 clinical trials and is often among the top enrolling centers. They are currently engaged in three quality and pay-for-performance programs sponsored by the ACC.
Mary Norine Walsh, M.D., F.A.C.C., is medical director of the heart failure and transplantation program at St. Vincent Hospital, director of nuclear cardiology at The Care Group, LLC, in Indianapolis, Ind., and clinical associate professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. Walsh has been very active in American College of Cardiology, both locally and nationally. She is immediate past president of the Indiana chapter and has been a longstanding member and past chair of the Women in Cardiology Committee. She currently serves on the Workforce and Training and Heart Failure/Transplantation committees and is chair of the Cardiac Care Associates committee. Her areas of expertise include nuclear cardiology, congestive heart failure (CHF) and cardiac transplantation with a special interest in women and heart disease. She lectures frequently on CHF, heart disease in women and topics in nuclear cardiology. She is actively involved in clinical research in CHF, nuclear cardiology and systems approaches for quality initiatives in the practice setting.
Members—Board of Trustees
2008-2009
Elliott M. Antman, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Eric R. Bates, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Alfred A. Bove, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.C.
Ralph G. Brindis, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.C.
A. John Camm, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Richard A. Chazal, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Pamela S. Douglas, M.D., M.A.C.C.
Paul L. Douglass, M.D., F.A.C.C.
James T. Dove, M.D., M.A.C.C.
James W. Fasules, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Michael D. Freed, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Robert A. Guyton, M.D., F.A.C.C.
John G. Harold, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Robert A. Harrington, M.D., F.A.C.C.
David R. Holmes, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.C.
Jerry D. Kennett, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Charles R. McKay, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Michael J. Mirro, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Rick A. Nishimura, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Steven E. Nissen, M.D., M.A.C.C.
Patrick T. O’Gara, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Miguel A. Quinones, M.D., F.A.C.C.
George P. Rodgers, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Jane E. Schauer, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.C.
James E. Udelson, M.D., F.A.C.C.
C. Michael Valentine, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Mary N. Walsh, M.D., F.A.C.C.
W. Douglas Weaver, M.D., F.A.C.C.
Kim Allan Williams, M.D., F.A.C.C.
William A. Zoghbi, M.D., F.A.C.C. |
