Vera Bittner, MD, MSPH, FACC, has been named the new editor-in-chief of ACCSAP, ACC's flagship self-assessment program covering the entire field of adult clinical cardiology. As the new editor, Bittner will lead the program's development by working with the editorial board and editors of comparable programs to create and maintain content development standards and ensure desired content objectives.

Bittner is an academic cardiologist with more than 30 years of experience as a clinician, researcher, educator, mentor and administrator with a primary interest in cardiovascular disease prevention. She has been with the Division of Cardiovascular Disease at the University of Alabama at Birmingham since 1987, where she is currently a professor of medicine and head of general cardiology, prevention and imaging.

Having a long history of leadership within the College, Bittner was most recently the ACCSAP Prevention Topic Editor and previously served as chair of the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Council and a member of the Scientific Session Program Committee, Guidelines Implementation Working Group and COCATS Task Force.

"Dr. Bittner is an outstanding clinician-educator and dedicated academician," said Patrick T. O'Gara, MD, MACC, editor-in-chief of the Collaborative Maintenance Pathway programs and ACC past president. "Her vast experience will ensure the continued strength of the ACCSAP program for general cardiology for keeping cardiovascular disease clinicians up-to-date in our continuously evolving field."

Bittner's five-year term as ACCSAP editor-in-chief begins June 1. Click here for more information on ACCSAP.

Keywords: Leadership, Mentors, Self-Assessment, Medicine

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