Hospitalization for Heart Failure

Contributors

CONSULTING EDITORS

MANDEEP R. MEHRA, MD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical

School; Co-Director, BWHCardiovascular; and

Executive Director, Center for Advanced Heart

Disease, Brigham and Women’s Hospital,

Boston, Massachusetts

JAVED BUTLER, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine; Director, Heart Failure

Research, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

EDITORS

MIHAI GHEORGHIADE, MD, FACC

Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Director

of Experimental Therapeutics, Center for

Cardiovascular Innovation, Northwestern

University Feinberg School of Medicine,

Chicago, Illinois

SAVINA NODARI, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Spedali

Civili Hospital of Brescia, University School

of Medicine, Brescia, Italy

AUTHORS

STEFAN D. ANKER, MD, PhD

IRCCS San Raffaele, Center for Clinical and

Basic Research, Rome, Italy; Applied Cachexia

Research, Department of Cardiology, Campus

Virchow Klinikum, Charite – Universitatsmedizin

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

ROBERT O. BONOW, MD, MS

Center for Cardiovascular Innovation,

Northwestern University Feinberg School of

Medicine, Chicago, Illinois

JAVED BUTLER, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine; Director, Heart Failure

Research, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

SEAN P. COLLINS, MD, MSc

Associate Professor, Department of

Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University,

Nashville, Tennessee

G. MICHAEL FELKER, MD, MHS

Division of Cardiology, Department of

Medicine, Duke University Medical Center,

Durham, North Carolina

GREGORY J. FERMANN, MD

Associate Professor and Executive Vice

Chairman, Department of EmergencyMedicine,

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

GREGG C. FONAROW, MD, FACC

Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of

Cardiology, Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy

Center, Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center,

Los Angeles, California

VASILIKI V. GEORGIOPOULOU, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of

Cardiology, Emory Clinical Cardiovascular

Research Institute, Emory University School of

Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

MIHAI GHEORGHIADE, MD, FACC

Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Director

of Experimental Therapeutics, Center for

Cardiovascular Innovation, Northwestern

University Feinberg School of Medicine,

Chicago, Illinois

Contributorsiv

MATTHEW E. HARINSTEIN, MD

Heart and Vascular Institute, University of

Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania

ANDREAS P. KALOGEROPOULOS,MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of

Cardiology, Emory Clinical Cardiovascular

Research Institute, Emory University School of

Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

BRADLEY P. KNIGHT, MD, FACC

Northwestern University Feinberg School of

Medicine, Chicago, Illinois

STUART KUPFER, MD

Takeda Global Research and Development

Center, Inc., Deerfield, Illinois

MARC K. LAHIRI, MD, FACC

Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford

Hospital, Edith and Benson Ford Heart and

Vascular Institute, Detroit, Michigan

CATHERINE N. MARTI, MD

Cardiology Fellow, Division of Cardiology,

Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research

Institute, Emory University School of Medicine,

Atlanta, Georgia

ROBERT J. MENTZ, MD

Division of Cardiology, Department of

Medicine, Duke University Medical Center,

Durham, North Carolina

MARCO METRA, MD

Cardiology, Department of Medical and

Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences

and Public Health, University of Brescia,

Brescia, Italy

FRANK MISSELWITZ, MD, PhD

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, Berlin,

Germany

JONATHAN P. PICCINI, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of

Cardiology, Duke Clinical Research Institute,

Duke University Medical Center, Durham,

North Carolina

MITCHELL A. PSOTKA, MD, PhD

Clinical Cardiology Fellow, Department

of Medicine, University of California,

San Francisco, San Francisco, California

TIFFANY RANDOLPH, MD

Fellow in Cardiovascular Diseases, Division of

Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center,

Durham, North Carolina

GIUSEPPE M.C. ROSANO, MD, PhD

Division of Cardiology, IRCC San Raffaele,

Rome, Italy

AMI N. SHAH, MD

Center for Cardiovascular Innovation,

Northwestern University Feinberg School of

Medicine, Chicago, Illinois

ARJUN SHARMA, MD

Career Scientists, Ontario Ministry of Health

and Long-Term Care, Ontario, Canada

SCOTT TAYLOR, RPh, MBA

Geisinger Health System, Danville,

Pennsylvania

JOHN R. TEERLINK, MD, FACC, FAHA,

FESC, FRCP(UK)

Professor of Medicine, Section of Cardiology,

San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical

Center and School of Medicine, University of

California San Francisco, San Francisco,

California

TOBIAS D. TRIPPEL

Department of Cardiology, Campus Virchow

Klinikum, Charite – Universitatsmedizin Berlin,

Berlin, Germany

MUTHIAH VADUGANATHAN, MD, MPH

Resident Physician, Department of Medicine,

Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard

Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

STEPHAN VON HAEHLING, MD, PhD

Applied Cachexia Research, Department of

Cardiology, Campus Virchow Klinikum,

Charite – Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin,

Germany

NORMAN C. WANG, MD

Heart and Vascular Institute, University of

Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania