Thank you to the following contributors to ACC.org Clinical Topic Collections in 2015:

Abdelhai Abdelqader, MD
Mutasim Abu-Hasan, MD
Ahmed Abuzaid, MD
Aaron W. Aday, MD
Karima Addetia, MD
Eric Elsner Adelman, MD
Rana Afifi, MD
Kia Afshar, MD, FACC
Bhuvnesh Aggarwal, MD
Ameer Ahmed, MD
Aryan N. Aiyer, MD
Abhilash Akinapelli, MBBS
Kevin Michael Alexander, MD
Othman Abdu A. Aljohani, MD
Venkata Mahesh Alla, MD
Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, MD, FACC
M. Chadi Alraies, MD
Rene J. Alvarez Jr., MD, FACC
Jossef Amirian, MD
Andrea Angelozzi, MD
Brian H. Annex, MD, FACC
Elliott M. Antman, MD, MACC
Ani C. Anyanwu, MD
Apostolos Kontzias
Claudio Gil S. Araujo, MD, PhD
Ross Arena, PT, PhD
Ehrin J. Armstrong, MD, FACC
William F. Armstrong, MD, FACC
Lisbeth Garcia Arguello, MD
Irfan M. Asif, MD
Karen E. Aspry, MD, MS, FACC
Auras R. Atreya, MD
Talal T. Attar, MD, FACC
Hrayr Attarian, MD
R. Nisha Aurora, MD
Ayman Ayache, MD

David S. Bach, MD, FACC
Aaron L. Baggish, MD, FACC
George L. Bakris, MD
Prakash Balan, MD, FACC
Ragavendra R. Baliga, MBBS, FACC
Christie M. Ballantyne, MD, FACC
Maciej Banach, MD
Avantika Banerjee, BS
Rui Baptista
Geoffrey D. Barnes, MD, FACC
Thomas Bashore, MD, FACC
Amy Basken, MS
Jeffrey Todd Bates, MD
Sarosh P. Batlivala, MD, FACC
Anthony A. Bavry, MD, MPH, FACC
Debra Beck, BS
Brian Bergmark, MD
Ronaldo Sevilla Berrios, MD
Colin Berry, MB, CHB, FACC
Jarett D. Berry, MD
Ami B. Bhatt, MD, FACC
Raymond Bietry, III, MD
Ozlem Bilen, MD
Gurur Biliciler-Denktas, MD, FACC
Kim K. Birtcher, PharmD, AACC
Steven D. Blair
Michael J. Bloch, MD
Roger S. Blumenthal, MD, FACC
Harm Jan Bogaard, MD
Ritin Bomb
Robert O. Bonow, MD, MACC
Pierre Bordachar
Georgeanne Botek, DPM
Alfred A. Bove, MD, PHD, MACC
Alan C. Braverman, MD, FACC
Katia Bravo, MD
Khadijah Breathett, MD
Emmanouil S. Brilakis, MD, PhD, FACC
Ellen Brinza, BS
Meredith Ann Brisco, MD, FACC
Robert D. Brook, MD
Matthew J. Budoff, MD, FACC
Joseph Michael Bunch
Luke James Burchill, MD
Denee Burgess
Neel Butala, MD
Thomas H. Byrnes, Jr., MD

William F. Campbell, MD, FACC
Sean Caples, D.O.
Anthony Carnicelli, MD
Edward T. Carreras, MD
Adam Castano, MD
Ilaria Cavallari, MD
Matthew Cavender, MD
Manuel D. Cerqueira, MD, FACC
Joshua L. Chan, MD
John Chapman, PhD
Konstantinos Charitakis, MD, FACC
Efstratios I Charitos, MD
Preety Chawla, MD
Denis Chemla, MD
Leslie Cho, MD, FACC
Gaurav Choudhary, MBBS, FACC
Devyani Chowdhury, MBBS, FACC
Aman Chugh, MD, FACC
Matthew J Chung, MD
Colin Church
Timothy W. Churchill, MD
Donald Clark, III, MD
Julie Marie Clary, MD, MBA, FACC
Joseph C. Cleveland, Jr., MD, FACC
Jeremy Close, MD
Randy Cohen, MD, FACC
Karen Collins, MS, RDN, CDN
Monica M. Colvin, MD
Jennifer Cook, MD
Howard A. Cooper, MD, FACC
Robert S Copeland-Halperin, MD
Rana Marie Costa
Timothy B. Cotts, MD, FACC
Jennifer Cowart, MD
Thomas C. Crawford, MD, FACC
Filippo Crea, MD, FACC
Paul Cremer, MD
Russell R. Cross, MD, FACC

Chanukya R. Dahagam, MD
Abdellaziz Dahou, MD
Abdulla Damluji, MD
Peter N. Dean, MD
Raffaele De Caterina, MD, PhD
Andrew P. DeFilippis, MD
Cristian Delgado-Domínguez, MD
Ali E. Denktas, MD, FACC
Teresa De Marco, MD, FACC
Chintan S. Desai, MD
Shashank S. Desai, MD, FACC
Anita Deswal, MD, MPH, FACC
Suzanne de Waha, MD
Larry Diaz-Sandoval
Sanjay Dixit, MBBS, FACC
John A. Dodson, MD, FACC
Bethany Doran, MD
Unnati Doshi, MD
Pamela S. Douglas, MD, MACC
Stavros Drakos
Justin M. Dunn, MD
Daniel A. Duprez, MD, PhD, FACC
Danny Dvir, MD
Aeshita Dwivedi, MD

Alon Eisen, MD
Howard J. Eisen, MD, FACC
Daniel T. Eitzman, MD
Mackram F. Eleid, MD, FACC
Lydia R. Engwenyu, MD
Phillip Allen Erwin, MD, PhD, FACC
Anthony L. Estrera, MD

Zaher Fanari, MD
James C. Fang, MD, FACC
Christina Fanola, MD
MaryJane A. Farr, MD, FACC
Peter M. Farrehi, MD, FACC
William Fuller Fearon, MD, FACC
Matthew Feinstein, MD
David Feldman, BS
Dmitry N. Feldman, MD, FACC
Ted Feldman, MD, FACC
Brian A. Ference, MD, MPhil, MSc, FACC
Valerian Fernandes, MD, FACC
Antonio Benicio Fernandez, MD, FACC
Aloke V. Finn, MD
Michael S. Firstenberg, MD, FACC
Jennifer Fleming, MS
Kelsey M Flint, MD
Roberta Florido, MD
Peter Flueckiger, MD
T. Raymond Foley, MD
Vivian Fonseca
JoAnne M. Foody, MD, FACC
Daniel E. Forman, MD, FACC
John T. Fox, MD, FACC
James V Freeman, MD
Rosario V. Freeman, MD, FACC
Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, MACC

Hanna Kim Gaggin, MD, MPH, FACC
Mario J. Garcia, MD, FACC
Santiago Garcia, MD, FACC
Stephane Garrigue, MD
Robert Garofano, EDD
Sabiha Gati, MBBS
Mario Gaudino, MD
James L Gentry III, MD
Michael Ghannam, MD
Giuseppe Guiacchi, MD
Samuel S. Gidding, MD, FACC
Lauren Gray Gilstrap, MD
Amy Gin, MD
Leonard N Girardi, MD
Robert P. Giugliano, MD, FACC
Timothy J Glew
Julie S. Glickstein, MD, FACC
Bill D. Gogas, MD, FACC
Zachary Goldberger, MD, FACC
Nahikari Salterain Gonzalez, MD

Aditya Goud, MD
Kevin Greason, MD, FACC
Robert S. Greenfield, MD, FACC
Igor D. Gregoric, MD
Shawn Gregory, MD
Michelle A. Grenier, MD, FACC
Cindy L. Grines, MD, FACC
Gary Grunkemeier, PhD
Dipankar Gupta, MD
Kamal Gupta, MBBS, FACC
Sanjaya K. Gupta, MD, FACC
Saurabh Gupta, MBBS, FACC
Hitinder S. Gurm, MBBS, FACC
Luis A. Guzman, MD, FACC

Anwer Habib
Rebecca T. Hahn, MD, FACC
Sumaya Hammami, MD, MPH
Tanner Harmon, MED
Reema Hasan, MD, FACC
Rana Hejal, MD
Gary V. Heller, MD, PhD, FACC
Anna Hemnes, MD
Philippe Herve, MD
Charles A. Herzog, MD, FACC
Terence Hill, MD
Anthony A. Hilliard, MD, FACC
Glenn A. Hirsch, MD, MHS, FACC
Brian D. Hoit, MD, FACC
David R. Holmes, Jr., MD, MACC
Jana Hoffmeister, MD
Keith A. Horvath, MD, FACC
Jennifer Host, CNP, CHFN
Christopher James Huffman, MD
Claire B. Hunter, MD, FACC
Ruchika Husa, MD

Nkechinyere Ijioma, MBBS
Onyedika J Ilonze, MD
Massimo Imazio, MD
Frank F. Ing, MD
Silvio E. Inzucchi, MD
Affan Irfan
Hussain A. Ismaeel

Ramez Jabaji, MD
Elizabeth A. Jackson, MD, FACC
Jeffrey P. Jacobs, MD, FACC
Craig T. January, MD, Ph.D, FACC
James L. Januzzi Jr., MD, FACC
Sogol Javaheri
Christine Louise Jellis, MBBS, PhD, FACC
Anitha S. John, MD, FACC
Marc E. Jolicoeur, MD, FACC
Sanjit S. Jolly, MD
Peter H. Jones, M.D
Richard A. Josephson, MD, FACC

Firas Kaddaha, MD
Talwinderdeep S Kahlon, MD
Ankur Kalra, MD
Matthew M Kalscheur, MD
Lauren Christine Kane, MD, FACC
Yumiko Kanei, MD, FACC
Arun Kanmanthareddy, MD
Lilit Karapetyan, MD
Jacob P. Kelly, MD
Morton J. Kern, MD, FACC
Manoj Kesarwani, MD, FACC
Amit Nilam Keswani, MD, FACC
Khaled Khalaf
Mirza Umari Khalid
Faris Khan, MD
Shamruz Khan
Sameed Ahmed Khatana, MD
John J. Kelleman, MD, FACC
Amit Khera, MD, MSc, FACC
Ali Khoynezhad, MD
Nick H. Kim, MD
Sun Moon Kim, MD
Iris Kindt
Vinay Kini, MD
George Kipel, MD, FACC
Michelle Maya Kittleson, MD, FACC
Allan L. Klein, MD, CM, FACC
Bradley P. Knight, MD, FACC
Susheel K. Kodali, MD, FACC
Luke Kohan, MD
Apostolos Kontzias
Mark Kozak, MD, FACC
Eric V. Krieger, MD, FACC
Penny M. Kris-Etherton, PhD, RD
Ashok Krishnaswami, MBBS, FACC
Itzhak Kronzon, MD, FACC
Jill Kropa, MD
Aaron D. Kugelmass, MD, FACC
Marrick L. Kukin, MD, FACC
Arnav Kumar, MD
Gautam Kumar, MD, FACC
Sachin Kumar, MD
Dharam J. Kumbhani, MD, SM, FACC
Howard I. Kurz, MD, FACC
Shelby Kutty, MD, FACC
Deborah Kwon, MD, FACC Troy M LaBounty, MD, FACC
Andre La Gerche, PhD
Rony Lahoud, MD
Morten Lamberts, MD
Brent Lampert, DO, FACC
Rachel J. Lampert, MD, FACC
Jeffrey S. Lander, MD, FACC
Richard Lange, MD, FACC
M. Regina Lantin-Hermoso, MD, FACC
Gaetano A. Lanza, MD
Martin LaPage, MD
Warren K. Laskey, MD, FACC
Kusum Lata, MD
Christopher Lau, MD
Edmund Lau
Carl J. Lavie Jr., MD, FACC
Duk-Chul Lee, PhD
Laurel Lee, MD, PhD
Stamatios Lerakis, MD, FACC
Thibault Lhermusier, MD
Thosaphol Limpijankit, MD, FACC
Charles K Lin, MD
Jonathan R. Lindner, MD, FACC
Gregory Y. H. Lip, MD, FACC
Amir S. Lotfi, MD
Justin B. Lundbye, MD, FACC
Robert J. Lundstrom, MD, FACC
Michael J. Mack, MD, FACC
Thomas M. Maddox, MD, MSc, FACC
Anthony Magalski, MD, FACC
Giulia Magnani, MD
Vaikom S Mahadevan, MD
Shaista Malik, MD, FACC
Jaya Reddy Mallidi, MBBS, MHS
Giuseppe Mancia, MD
John M. Mandrola, MD, FACC
Barry J. Maron, MD, FACC
Christine Marschilok, MD
Seth Shay Martin, MD, MHS, FACC
Matthew Martinez, MD, FACC
Lena Mathews, MD
Mathew S. Maurer, MD, FACC
Christopher May, MD, FACC
David C. May, MD, PhD, FACC
Peter McCartney
John W. McEvoy, MB, BCh, BAO, MHS
Patricia McGettigan
Darren K. McGurie, MD, MHSc, FACC
Vallerie V. McLaughlin, MD, FACC
Hirsch Mehta, MD, FACC
Nehal N. Mehta, MD
Nishaki Mehta, MBBS
Robert J. Mentz, MD
Michele Mercuri, MD
Carlos M. Mery, MD, FACC
Tesfaldet T Michael, MD
Constantinos Michaelidis, MD
Erin D. Michos, MD, FACC
J. Ronald Mikolich, MD, FACC
Nicole Mims
Camille Michael Minder
Victor Moles, MD
Silvana Molossi, MD, PhD, FACC
Farouk Mookadam, MB, BCh, FACC
Fred Morady, MD, FACC
Jacqueline Morris, DO
Pamela Bowe Morris, MD, FACC
Ryan Morrissey, MD
Jose Moura
Blaz Mrevlje, DR
Anja Muehle, MD
Debabrata Mukherjee, MD, FACC
Tanvi H. Mukundan, MD
Sudhir Mungee, MD, FACC
Paul Muntner, PhD
Venkatesh Locharla Murthy, MD, PHD, FACC
Jihad A. Mustapha, MD, FACC

Gerald V. Naccarelli, MD, FACC
Srihari S. Naidu, MD, FACC
Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, MD, FACC
Karthiek R Narala, MD
David Narotsky, MD
Smita I. Negi
Nicole Nicolosi, DPM
Christoph A. Nienaber, MD
Lisa Nguyen, PharmD
Thomas B. Nguyen, MD, PhD
Tom C. Nguyen
Prabhjot Nijjar, MD
Rick A. Nishimura, MD, MACC
Andrew Noll, MD

Brandon S Oberweis, MD
Emily Claire O’Brien, PhD
Jae K. Oh, MD, FACC
Patrick T. O'Gara, MD, MACC
Anne-Marie Schjerning Olsen, MD
Alaa Mabrouk Salem Omar, MD, PhD
Razali Omar, MD, FACC
Peter Ong, MD

Sasha Opotowsky, MD, FACC
Kate M. Orland, MS
Carl E. Orringer, MD, FACC
David A. Orsinelli, MD, FACC
Catherine M. Otto, MD, FACC
David S. Owens, MD
Paola Overall, MD

Bimal Padaliya, MD
Stephen Pan, MD
Alex Panday, CCRN
Ambarish Pandey, MD
Julio A. Panza, MD, FACC
Ankit Dineshkant Parikh, MD, FACC
Sahil A. Parikh, MD, FACC
Rod S. Passman, MD, FACC
Amit R. Patel, MD, FACC
Aneet Patel, MD, FACC
Dilesh Patel, MD
Jayendrakumar S Patel, MD
Pranav M. Patel, MD, FACC
Shivani Govind Patel, MD
Shreya Patel, PharmD
Harshal R. Patil
Andrew Peacock, MD, MPhil
Gail D. Pearson, MD, Sc.D, FACC
Mariano Pego
Akshay Pendyal, MD
Gila Perk, MD, FACC
Frederic Perros, PhD
Philippe Pibarot, DVM, PhD, FACC
Adam Pleister, MD
Yashashwi Pokharel, MD
Donna M. Polk, MD, MPH, FACC
Thomas A. Ports, MD, FACC
David L. Prior, MBBS, PhD, FACC
Leon M. Ptaszek, MD, FACC

Arman Qamar, MD
Atif Qasim, MD

Syed Tanveer Rab, MBBS, FACC
Gregorio Rabago, MD
Keshava Rajagopal, MD, PhD
Kannan Ramar, MD
Stephen R. Ramee, MD, FACC
Rajni K. Rao, MD, FACC
Nina Rashedi, MD
John F. Rashid, MD, FACC
Pasala S. Ravichandran, MBBS, FACC
Chad Eric Raymond, DO
Farhan Raza, MBBS
Susan Redline, MD, MPH
Grant W. Reed, MD
Vaughan W. Rees, PhD
Giulia Renda, MD, PhD
Ken Resnicow, PhD
Mark J. Ricciardi, MD, FACC
Jennifer Robinson, MD, MPH
Fatima Rodriguez, MD
Matthew T. Roe, MD, FACC
Clive Rosendorff, MD, PhD, FACC
Julie Rosenthal, MD
Azhari Rosman, MD, DM, FACC
Robert D. Ross, MD, FACC
Joseph William Rossano, MD, FACC
Alan Rozanski, MD, FACC
Melvyn Rubenfire, MD, FACC
Jack Rychik, MD

Fadi Saab, MD, FACC
Manel Sabate, MD
Manpreet Singh Sabharwal, MD
Negar Salehi, MD
Jack C. Salerno, MD, FACC
Saira Samani, MBBS
Amneet Sandhu, MD
David C. Sane, MD
Manuel Santos, MD
Muhamed Saric, MD, PhD
Amy Sarma
William H. Sauer, MD, FACC
John Thomas Saxon, MD
Stephen Schaal, MD, FACC
Erik B. Schelbert, MD, FACC
Alex Schevchuck, MD
J. William Schleifer, MD
Theodore L. Schreiber, MD, FACC
Shmuel Schwartzenberg, MD
Paul (Pavol) Schweitzer, MD, FACC
Maria Sciammarella, MD, FACC
Nandita S. Scott, MD, FACC
Udo P. Sechtem, MD, FACC
Alpana Senapati, DO
Partho P. Sengupta, MD, FACC
Binita Shah, MD, FACC
Palak Shah, MD, FACC
Rahman Shah, MBBS, FACC
Zubair Shah, MBBS
Mohsen Sharifi, MD, FACC
Kavita Sharma, MD, FACC
Sanjay Sharma, MD
Win-Kuang Shen, MD, FACC
Meir Shinnar, MD, PhD, FACC
David M. Shipon, MD, FACC
Mehdi H. Shishehbor, DO, MPH, FACC
Gautam R. Shroff, MBBS, FACC
Geeta Sikand, MA
Michael G. Silverman, MD
Gardar Sigurdsson, MD
Tracey Simon, MD
Jaspal Singh, MD
Shashank Sinha, MD
Adam H. Skolnick, MD, FACC
James N. Slater, MD, FACC
Ahmad Slim, MD, FACC
Richard W. Smalling, MD, PhD, FACC
Aiman Miloud Smer, MD
David N. Smith, MD
George Davey Smith, DSs
Gbemiga Sofowora, MB, CHB, FACC
Sumit Som, MBBS, MD
Luis Daniel Mejias Sosa, MD
Zebulon Spector, MD
Michael T Spooner, MD, FACC
Komandoor S. Srivathsan, MBBS
Randall C. Starling, MD, MPH, FACC
Susan Steigerwalt, MD
Ricardo Stein, MD
Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, FACC
B. Fendley Stewart, MD, FACC
Patrick Sullivan, MD
Jeffrey T. Sugimoto, MD, FACC
Julia C. Swanson
Aaron Swedberg, BS
Kristopher Swiger, MD

Emmanouil Tampakakis, MD
Balaji Tamarappoo, MD, PhD
Carmela D. Tan, MD
Muhammad Umer Tariq, MD
Addison A. Taylor, MD
Allen J. Taylor, MD, FACC
Montoya Taylor, MD
Ryan James Tedford, MD, FACC
Anjali Thakkar, BS
Holger Thiele, MD
Paul A. Thompson, MD, FACC
Sarah E Thordsen
Nicholas Timpson, MSc, PhD
Jennifer Elizabeth Tingo, MD
Todd Tomson, MD
Peter P. Toth, MD, PhD, FACC
Jeffrey A. Towbin, MD, FACC
Robert J. Tozzi, MD, FACC
Mark I. Travin, MD, FACC
Allison L Tsao, MD
Poyee Tung
C. Vaughan Tuohy, MD
Gaurav Tyagi, MBBS

Dhanan Umadevan, MD

Thorsten Peter Vahl III, MD Prashant Vaishnava, MD
Javier Valle
Anubodh Varshney, MD
Bradley V. Vaughn, MD
Gladys Palacio Velarde, MD, FACC
Juan Villafane, MD, FACC
Alec Vishnevsky

Kaitlin Hazel Wade, BS
Ron Waksman, MD, FACC
Stephen W. Waldo, MD, FACC
Mansen Wang, MS, PhD
Gerald Watts
James A. Watts, MD
Rory B. Weiner, MD
Terrence Welch, MD, FACC
Mary Ellen Wells, PhD
David Welsh
James Wever-Pinzon
Albert Wiegman, MD
Katherine Wilemon
Kim Allan Williams Sr., MD, MACC
Mathew Williams, MD, FACC
Timothy C. Wong, MD

Haiyan Xu, MD

David Yaffee, MD
Jing Yang, MD
Hirad Yarmohammadi, MD
Joseph Yeboah, MB CHB, MS, FACC
Robert W. Yeh, MD, FACC
Angela T. Yetman, MD, FACC
Edlira Yzeiraj, MD

Alan Zajarias, MD, MSC, FACC
Khaled M. Ziada, MD, FACC
Sanford Zeigler, MD
Yanglu Zhao, MD
Paul Ziegler, MS
Peter J. Zimetbaum, MD, FACC
Sarah Zukkoor, PharmD