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President
William A. Zoghbi, MD, FACC, was born in Beirut, Lebanon. After receiving his B.Sc. in Biology and Chemistry from the American University of Beirut, he entered medical school there only to have his plans interrupted by the outbreak of war. He completed medical school in the United States, trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Baylor College of Medicine and joined the faculty in 1985. His tenure at Baylor was from 1985 to 2005. He was the John S. Dunn Professor of Medicine and served as Director of the Echocardiography laboratory and echocardiography research at the Methodist Hospital. In 2005, he was appointed as Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Institute and received the William L. Winters endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Imaging at the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, now affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical College.
Zoghbi is a leader in the field of echocardiography and Doppler ultrasound for heart disease. He has developed new techniques to evaluate valvular disorders and cardiac function. Studies in Zoghbi’s laboratory improved the non-invasive evaluation of diastolic function with Doppler and refined the use of stress and contrast echocardiography for detection of ischemic heart disease. Zoghbi also is known for his research on myocardial hibernation and his development of 3D Doppler techniques to measure valvular regurgitation. He has authored more than 200 original publications in the field of cardiovascular imaging and has been invited to lecture on his work at every major cardiology conference around the globe. He chaired the development of national guidelines for evaluating native and artificial heart valves with cardiac ultrasound which have also been endorsed internationally; he also co-chaired the ACC committee that wrote a monograph on how to best to train the new generation of cardiologists in cardiovascular imaging. He is credited for having established the first Cardiovascular Imaging Institute in the U.S. whereby all cardiovascular imaging modalities are co-located and integrated for enhanced patient care, education and research.
Zoghbi has been actively involved with the ACC and the American Heart Association for more than two decades. Zoghbi has served as chair of the ACC Annual Scientific Session Program Committee, served on the ACC Board of Trustees and was until recently the Treasurer of the ACC. He also has exerted considerable influence in recent years in the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) through many educational endeavors, committees and leadership roles, not the least of which was his recent tenure as ASE president. He has served on the board of directors of the ASE and chaired the Annual Scientific Sessions in 2005. Zoghbi has served on the editorial board of many prestigious medical journals including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology; he was associate editor of Circulation, and is currently associate editor of the new JACC-Cardiovascular Imaging.
President-Elect
John G. Harold, MD, MACC
A graduate of New York City's Stuyvesant High School, Dr. Harold received a BS in biomedical sciences from the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at the City College of New York. After earning his medical degree from the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, he performed his residency in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He completed a fellowship in cardiology in 1985 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he began his practice in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases.
As president-elect, Dr. Harold plans to address state and national issues affecting the management of cardiovascular disease. He filled the position of ACC governor from Southern California, chaired the ACC Board of Governors 2009-10, and was recognized with the ACC California Chapter's Leadership Award in 2009 after serving as the Chapter President. Dr. Harold facilitated the development of the International Twinning program by partnering the ACC California Chapter and the British Cardiovascular Society, which is now being expanded to additional chapters along with other International societies and ACC international chapters. Dr. Harold has also worked tirelessly to raise funds for the ACC and has been involved in the organization for the past three decades.
He sits on the ABIM Executive Committee. His involvement in both the ACC and the ABIM has allowed him to facilitate an expanded collaborative relationship between the two organizations on numerous fronts, including International activities. Dr. Harold serves on the board of directors of a variety of other organizations, including the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Save-A-Heart Foundation, the Bicuspid Aortic Foundation, the Heart Foundation at Cedars-Sinai and the UCLA Clinical Faculty Association. He is past-president of the Los Angeles County Division of the AHA, which he has actively supported for the past two decades. He contributes to the advancement of cardiovascular medicine by hosting and co-hosting fundraising events, such as the 2009 Los Angeles AHA Heart Awards Galas, and he was presented with the AHA Passion of the Heart Award in 2007. Dr. Harold was honored with the Master designation from both the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians and was named Stony Brook School of Medicine Alumnus of the Year in 2007.
Vice President
Patrick T. O’Gara, MD, FACC is director of clinical cardiology and the executive medical direcdtor of the Shapiro Cardiovascular Cenmter at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), as well as professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
O’Gara was a member of the ACC’s Board of Trustees from 2005-2010 and has served in several other leadership positions over the past 15 years, including co-chair of the ACC.12 Program Committee and editor of ACCSAP 8. He received the ACC’s Distinguished Fellowship Award in 2010. O’Gara has also held several leadership positions within the American Heart Association (AHA) and is the immediate past editor of Heart Insight magazine. He received the Distinguished Achievement Award and the Laennec Master Clinician Award of the Council on Clinical Cardiology in 2009 and 2011, respectively, as well as the 2011 Paul Dudley White Award of the Boston Division, Founder’s Affiliate. O’Gara serves as the Steering Committee co-chair of the NHLBI Cardiothoracic Surgery network, a research consortium of academic surgical centers performing randomized, proof of concept surgical trials in patients with valvular heart disease, atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease and heart failure.
In 2001, O’Gara received the Eugene Braunwald Clinical Teaching Award from the BWH CV Division fellows, as well as the BWH Department of Medicine’s Mentoring Award. O’Gara is co-director of the ACC Board Review Program for Certification and Re-certification, and the ACC Maintenance of Certification program, and the ACC Teaching Skills Workshop for Emerging Faculty. He has directed or co-directed several other post-graduate educational programsfor ACC, Pri-Med and Harvard Medical School. He is the current chair of the ACCF/AHA ST-Elevation MI Guideline Writing Committee and has participated in several other guideline, expert consensus and scientific advisories for both the ACC and AHA.
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Secretary
Dipti Itchhaporia, M.D., F.A.C.C., holds the Robert and Georgia Roth Chair for Excellence in Cardiac Care and is the medical director of disease management for Hoag Heart and Vascular Institute, a position she has held since 2001. In her role as director of Disease Management, Dr. Itchhaporia leads the congestive heart failure management program and the anticoagulation clinic at Hoag Heart and Vascular Institute. She joined the medical staff at Hoag Hospital and also established her private practice specializing in diagnostic and interventional cardiology in 1996.
Dr. Itchhaporia received her medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine and continued to complete her residency in internal medicine at Stanford University Medical Center. Subsequently, she joined the General Medicine Faculty at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) as assistant clinical professor and then went on to do a cardiology fellowship at Georgetown University and an interventional cardiology fellowship at Stanford University. She is board-certified in cardiology, interventional cardiology and nuclear cardiology.
Dr. Itchhaporia is the current chair for the ACC Board of Governors (BOG), having served previously as a governor for Southern California. In addition, she is chair of the ACC BOG Steering Committee, as well as the co-chair of the Practice Administrators Committee and a member of the Clinical Cardiology Council for the ACC. She holds many leadership positions with renowned organizations, including six years as a member of the Western Affiliates board of the AHA and past-president of the Orange County Chapter of the AHA. She has served on the National AHA Professional Educational Committee. In the past, she had been active in the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology as a member of the Government Relations Committee.
Dr. Itchhaporia has co-chaired the Controversies and Advances in Cardiology Meeting in the last several years. This meeting, which has hosted 550 participants is held in Beverly Hills early October. She is the director of the Annual Advances in Heart Failure Symposium held annually in Newport Beach. She has been guest editor for the journal Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine.
Treasurer
C. Michael Valentine, MD, FACC is an interventional cardiologist in Lynchburg, Va. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and named the University's outstanding senior. He attended the University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed his medicine and cardiology training at Emory University in Atlanta.
Dr. Valentine formerly served as governor of the ACC Virginia, and as chair of the ACC Board of Governors 2006-07. He was co-chair of the ACC Advocacy Committee, and served on the Task Force to Develop the Cardiac Cath Lab Tool Kit. He chaired the ACC Medical Directors' Institute in 2004, a program designed to promote collaboration between payers and physicians.
He is married to Shannon Valentine, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates. They have three young children and enjoy numerous activities. In his spare time, Dr. Valentine enjoys tennis and fly-fishing.
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Immediate Past President
David R. Holmes, Jr., MD, FACC is the Edward W. and Betty Knight Scripps Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and an interventional cardiologist in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and the Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He graduated from Princeton University in 1967 and from Marquette University in 1971. His internship was at the Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, and he completed his fellowship at Mayo Clinic in both internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases before beginning active duty naval service at the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md. Following completion of his tour of duty, he returned to Mayo Clinic as a consultant.
Holmes’ special areas of interest include acute coronary syndromes, interventional cardiology, restenosis, vascular biology, risk outcomes analysis, telemedicine and simulator technology. Early in his career, he was also director of pacing and cardiac electrophysiology. He is involved in the development of new catheter design and new approaches for the treatment of patients with coronary artery and vein graft disease, atrial fibrillation, and valvular heart disease. Finally, he is involved in the development and application of percutaneous coronary intervention technology to non-coronary vascular beds and in training physicians in new technology.
Holmes has been active in many ACC activities, including serving as a member of the ACC Board of Trustees. Holmes served as chair of the i2 Summit Programming Committee for 2009 and played a major role in the development of all i2 Summit meetings.
Holmes has received numerous awards, including the ACC Distinguished Scientist Award (Clinical Domain) in 2004, and is a past president of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention. He has published more than 695 peer-reviewed original publications and serves on the editorial boards of many journals, including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Interim Chief Staff Officer & General Counsel
Thomas E. Arend, Jr. Esq., CAE serves as the ACC’s Interim Chief Staff Officer. Prior to this interim role, Tom served as ACC’s General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer. Tom continues to serve as General Counsel. As the ACC General Counsel, Tom is responsible for all legal risk management for the organizations, ensuring compliance with applicable laws, internal governance processes and procedures, and for providing general legal oversight for all ACC/ACCF activities. Prior to joining the College in 2004, Tom worked in private practice for almost ten years In Washington, D.C. focusing exclusively in the area of nonprofit organizations, most recently with the office of Shaw Pittman (now Pillsbury) in its nonprofit organizations practice. Tom holds the Certified Association Executive designation from ASAE, as well as a law degree from the American University Washington College of Law, a Master’s degree from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and a Bachelor’s degree from Kenyon College magna cum laude. He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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