Confirmed faculty to date

as of May 2010

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all members of the faculty for their dedication and commitment to put together this comprehensive scientific programme.

World Heart Federation Board 

Pekka Puska, FINLAND (President)
Sidney Smith Jr, UNITED STATES (President elect)
Shahryar Sheikh, PAKISTAN (Past President)
Hans Stam, NETHERLANDS (Vice-President Elect)
Trevor Hassell, BARBADOS (Past Vice-President)
Akira Matsumori, JAPAN (Secretary)
Srinath Reddy, INDIA (Chairman, Foundations' Advisory Board)
Andy Wielgosz, CANADA  (Editor-in-Chief, "Prevention and Control")
Valentin Fuster, UNITED STATES (Editor-in-Chief, Nature Journal)
Kingsley Akinroye, NIGERIA (Representative Africa)
Albert Amoah, GHANA (Representative Africa)
Cheng-Wen Chiang, TAIWAN, CHINA (Representative Asia-Pacific)
Wistremundo Dones, PUERTO RICO (Representative Inter-America)
Santharaj W.S., SRI LANKA (Representative Asia-Pacific)
William Wijns, BELGIUM (Representative Europe)

Congress Management Committee  

Runlin Gao, CHINA    
Tak Fu Tse, HONG KONG, CHINA   

Scientific Programme Committee

Jean-Pierre Bassand, FRANCE
Chung Seung Chiang, HONG KONG, CHINA   
Edgardo Escobar, CHILE    
Horacio Faella, ARGENTINA    
Dayi Hu, CHINA
Chuen-Den Tseng, TAIWAN, CHINA    
Dong Zhao, CHINA

Scientific Programme Advisors  

Luis Alday, ARGENTINA    
Jeroen Bax, NETHERLANDS
Masao Endoh, JAPAN
Dong-Feng Gu, CHINA    
Yonghao Gui, CHINA    
Zuoxiang He, CHINA  
Nancy Houston Miller, UNITED STATES    
Dejia Huang, CHINA    
Rutai Hui, CHINA    
Spencer I I I King, UNITED STATES    
Issei Komuro, JAPAN    
Christopher Levi, AUSTRALIA    
Peter Liu, CANADA    
Lisheng Liu, CHINA   
Hong Lu, CHINA
Changsheng Ma, CHINA    
George Mensah, UNITED STATES    
Satoshi Ogawa, JAPAN    
Lionel Opie, SOUTH AFRICA    
Weifeng Shen, CHINA    
Alec Vahanian, FRANCE    
Yongjun Wang, CHINA    
Yang-Feng Wu, CHINA    
Cheuk-Man Yu, CHINA    
Salim Yusuf, CANADA    
Zhi-Jie Zheng, UNITED STATES    
Junren Zhu, CHINA    

Main faculty    

Haruhiko Abe, JAPAN
Monica Acevedo, CHILE
Harry Acquatella, VENEZUELA
Kirkwood Adams, UNITED STATES
Stefan Agewall, NORWAY
Mira Aghi, INDIA
Teiji Akagi, JAPAN
Takashi Akasaka, JAPAN
Yoshirio Akashi, JAPAN
Wael Al Mahmeed, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Erick Alexánderson Rosas, MEXICO
Adel Allam, EGYPT
Kevin Allman, AUSTRALIA
Angeles Alonso Garcia, SPAIN
Joseph Alpert, UNITED STATES
Ala Alwan, SWITZERLAND
Keiko Amano, JAPAN
Pierre Amarenco, FRANCE
Amanda Amos, UNITED KINGDOM
Luis María Amuchástegui, ARGENTINA
Li-Bin An, CHINA
Noel Bairey Merz, UNITED STATES
Victor Balestrini, ARGENTINA
Philip J Barter, AUSTRALIA
Matthias Bauer, GERMANY
George Beller, UNITED STATES
Adolfo B. Bellosillo, PHILIPPINES
Daniel Berman, UNITED STATES
Kathy Berra, UNITED STATES
Douglas Bettcher, SWITZERLAND
Judy Bezanson, UNITED STATES
Deepak Bhatnagar, UNITED KINGDOM
Eduardo Bianco, URUGUAY
Stefan Blankenberg, GERMANY
Robert Bonow, UNITED STATES
Ron Borland, AUSTRALIA
Frieder Braunschweig, SWEDEN
Ralph Brindis, UNITED STATES
W. Virgil Brown, UNITED STATES
Vince Bufalino, UNITED STATES
Raffaele Bugiardini, ITALY
Jing Jing Cai, CHINA
Jaime Calderón Herrera, COLOMBIA
Mary Canobbio, UNITED STATES
Jonathan Carapetis, AUSTRALIA
Antonio Casella-Filho, BRAZIL
Antonio Chagas, BRAZIL
Chi Wo Chan, HONG KONG, CHINA
Ngai Yin Chan, HONG KONG, CHINA
Carmen Chan, HONG KONG, CHINA
Joseph Yat-Sun Chan, HONG KONG, CHINA
Sophia Chan, HONG KONG, CHINA
Yundai Chen, CHINA
Keji Chen, CHINA
Chunming Chen, CHINA
Yi-Jen Chen, TAIWAN, CHINA
Shih-Ann Chen, TAIWAN, CHINA
Boron Cheng, HONG KONG, CHINA
Bernard Cheung, HONG KONG, CHINA
Yiu-Fai Cheung, HONG KONG, CHINA
Fu-Tien Chiang, TAIWAN, CHINA
Chern-En Chiang, TAIWAN, CHINA
Yeon Hyeon Choe, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Dong-Hoon Choi, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Byoung Wook Choi, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Terrance Chua, SINGAPORE
Sumeet Chugh, UNITED STATES
Andrew Coats, UNITED KINGDOM
Susan Connolly, UNITED KINGDOM
Richard Conti, UNITED STATES
Leslie T. Cooper, UNITED STATES
Ada Cuevas, CHILE
Zhaohui Cui, CHINA
Protasio Da Luz, BRAZIL
Sulan Dai, CANADA
Albertino Damasceno, MOZAMBIQUE
Nicolas Danchin, FRANCE
Diego Delgado, CANADA
Walter Dembitsky, UNITED STATES
Milind Desai, UNITED STATES
Horacio Di Nunzio, ARGENTINA
Yu-An Ding, TAIWAN, CHINA
Jiandong Ding, CHINA
Saul Drajer, ARGENTINA
Xin Du, CHINA
Junbao Du, CHINA
Jie Du, CHINA
Robert Eckel, UNITED STATES
Andrew Einstein, UNITED STATES
Uri Elkayam, UNITED STATES
Joseph Emmerich, FRANCE
Mario Evora, MACAO, CHINA
Majid Ezzati, UNITED STATES
Toakase Fakakovikaetau, TONGA
Katherine Fan, HONG KONG, CHINA
Michael Farkouh, UNITED STATES
Valery Feigin, NEW ZEALAND
Roberto Ferrari, ITALY
Gerald Fletcher, UNITED STATES
Barbara Fletcher, UNITED STATES
George Fodor, CANADA
Geoffrey Fong, CANADA
Joanne M Foody, UNITED STATES
Olaf Forster, KENYA
Gerry Fowkes, UNITED KINGDOM
Alan Fraser, UNITED KINGDOM
Sohrab Fratz, GERMANY
Jean Charles Fruchart, FRANCE
Hua Fu, CHINA
Jeffrey Wh Fung, HONG KONG, CHINA
Hu Gang, UNITED STATES
Maurizio Gasparini, ITALY
Thomas Gaziano, UNITED STATES
Shuping Ge, UNITED STATES
Junbo Ge, CHINA
Yong-Jian Geng, UNITED STATES
Alfredo Germain, CHILE
Bernard Gersh, UNITED STATES
Victor M Gil, PORTUGAL
Anselm Gitt, GERMANY
Thomas Glynn, UNITED STATES
Lynn Goldman, UNITED STATES
Miguel Gonzalez, ARGENTINA
Nina Gotcheva, BULGARIA
Anne Granelli, SWEDEN
Lorraine Greaves, CANADA
Rohan Greenland, AUSTRALIA
Diego Grinfeld, ARGENTINA
Liliana Grinfeld, ARGENTINA
Hong Gu, CHINA
Lan Guo, CHINA
Thomasz Guzik, POLAND
Dariush Haghi, GERMANY
Margaretha Haglund, SWEDEN
Christian Hamm, GERMANY
Yaling Han, CHINA
Ling Han, CHINA
Phillip Harris, AUSTRALIA
Juha Hartikainen, FINLAND
Koji Hasegawa, JAPAN
Mohammad Haykal, EGYPT
Laura Hayman, UNITED STATES
Ben He, CHINA
Yulong He, CHINA
Judith Hochman, UNITED STATES
Rury Holman, UNITED KINGDOM
Johannes Holzmeister, SWITZERLAND
Yuling Hong, UNITED STATES
Tsui-Lieh (paul) Hsu, TAIWAN, CHINA
Shengshou Hu, CHINA
Wei Hua, CHINA
Guoying Huang, CHINA
Jing Huang, CHINA
Marilyn Hunn, UNITED STATES
Yong Huo, CHINA
Yoshito Iesaka, JAPAN
Takanori Ikeda, JAPAN
Massimo Imazio, ITALY
Nobukazu Ishizaka, JAPAN
Wael Jaber, AUSTRALIA
Tazeen Jafar, PAKISTAN
Catriona Jennings, UNITED KINGDOM
Mariell Jessup, UNITED STATES
Yong Jiang, CHINA
Shiliang Jiang, CHINA
Yuan Jiang, CHINA
Zhicheng Jing, CHINA
Robert Jones, UNITED STATES
Luis Juncos, ARGENTINA
Petr Kala, CZECH REPUBLIC
Tim Chan Kam, HONG KONG, CHINA
Juan Kaski, UNITED KINGDOM
Chuichi Kawai, JAPAN
Yuannan Ke, CHINA
David Kelly, AUSTRALIA
Mehmood Khan, UNITED STATES
Young-Hoon Kim, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Dennis T Ko, CANADA
Kwang Koh, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Kornelia Kotseva, UNITED KINGDOM
Henry Krum, AUSTRALIA
Hajime Kubo, JAPAN
Yiu Wong Chris Kwok, HONG KONG, CHINA
Tai-Hing Lam, HONG KONG, CHINA
Patricia Lambert, UNITED STATES
Harry Lando, UNITED STATES
Lisa Lau, HONG KONG, CHINA
Suet-Ting Lau, HONG KONG, CHINA
Wai Luen Stephen Lee, HONG KONG, CHINA
Michael Kang-Yin Lee, HONG KONG, CHINA
Kathy Lee, HONG KONG, CHINA
Zhenglong Lei, CHINA
Dominic Y Leung, AUSTRALIA
Patrick Levy, FRANCE
John C Lewin, UNITED STATES
Shu Kin Li, HONG KONG, CHINA
Jian-Ming Li, UNITED STATES
Hong Wei Li, CHINA
Liming Li, CHINA
Xinhua Li, CHINA
Chunsheng Li, CHINA
Jian'An Li, CHINA
Yuhua Liao, CHINA
Peter Libby, UNITED STATES
Yean L. Lim, AUSTRALIA
Swee Han Lim, SINGAPORE
Shing-Jong Lin, TAIWAN, CHINA
Jiunn-Lee Lin, TAIWAN, CHINA
Gregory Lip, UNITED KINGDOM
Steven Lipshultz, UNITED STATES
Meilin Liu, CHINA
Jing Liu, CHINA
Depei Liu, CHINA
Xiu-Jie Liu, CHINA
Liping Liu, CHINA
Ping-Yen Liu, TAIWAN, CHINA
Wenling Liu, CHINA
Susanne Logstrup, BELGIUM
Beatriz Londoño, COLOMBIA
Gary D. Lopaschuk, CANADA
Lip Ping Low, SINGAPORE
Yong Xin Lu, CHINA
Hung-Chi Lue, TAIWAN, CHINA
Russell Luepker, UNITED STATES
Yitong Ma, CHINA
Washington Ricardo Macias Cornejo, ECUADOR
Judith Mackay, HONG KONG, CHINA
Hugo Madeira, PORTUGAL
Hector Maisuls, ARGENTINA
Shigeru Makita, JAPAN
Mário Maranhao, BRAZIL
Pablo Marantz, ARGENTINA
José Antônio Marin Neto, BRAZIL
Flavio Marques, BRAZIL
Felipe Martinez, ARGENTINA
Carlos Martínez-Sanchez, MEXICO
Bongani Mayosi, SOUTH AFRICA
Eduardo Mele, ARGENTINA
Shanthi Mendis, SWITZERLAND
Nicolas Meneveau, FRANCE
Hideo Mitamura, JAPAN
Katsuyuki Miura, JAPAN
Shunichi Miyazaki, JAPAN
Yoshiko Mizuno, JAPAN
Ana Olga Mocumbi, MOZAMBIQUE
Helge Möllmann, GERMANY
Jose Moltedo, ARGENTINA
Shin-Ichi Momomura, JAPAN
Philip Moons, BELGIUM
João Morais, PORTUGAL
Andrew Moran, UNITED STATES
Carlos A Morillo, CANADA
Paul Mounsey, UNITED STATES
Thomas Muenzel, GERMANY
Kona Samba Murthy, INDIA
Ken Nagao, JAPAN
Mathew Naughton, AUSTRALIA
Holger Nef, GERMANY
Hany Negm, EGYPT
Jose Nicolau, BRAZIL
Haik Nikogosian, SWITZERLAND
Ryosuke Nishio, JAPAN
Koichiro Niwa, JAPAN
Hiroshi Nonogi, JAPAN
Peter A Odhiambo, KENYA
Martin O'Donnell, CANADA
Okechukwu S Ogah, NIGERIA
Elijah Ogola, KENYA
Churchill Onen, BOTSWANA
Marcelo Orias, ARGENTINA
Michael O'Rourke, AUSTRALIA
Ali Oto, TURKEY
Seung-Jung Park, KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Mark W Parsons, AUSTRALIA
Dorothy D Pearson, UNITED STATES
Thomas A. Pearson, UNITED STATES
Markus Perola, FINLAND
Armando Peruga, SWITZERLAND
Nicholas Peters, UNITED KINGDOM
Ileana Piña, UNITED STATES
Fausto Pinto, PORTUGAL
Gerald M Pohost, UNITED STATES
Dorairaj Prabhakaran, INDIA
Mike Pratt, UNITED STATES
Jielin Pu, CHINA
Chiu-On Pun, HONG KONG, CHINA
Shubin Qiao, CHINA
Yongwen Qin, CHINA
Cristina Rabadan-Diehl, UNITED STATES
Jose Ramires, BRAZIL
Asif Rasheed, PAKISTAN
Anis Jr Rassi, BRAZIL
A Mark Richards, NEW ZEALAND
Paul Ridker, UNITED STATES
Eduardo Rivas Estany, CUBA
Robert Roberts, CANADA
Rose Marie Robertson, UNITED STATES
Emilio Ros, SPAIN
Raphael Rosenhek, AUSTRIA
Wilhelm Rutishauser, SWITZERLAND
Witold Ruzyllo, POLAND
Michel Safar, FRANCE
Keijiro Saku, JAPAN
Hajime Sakuma, JAPAN
Danish Saleheen, UNITED KINGDOM
Veikko Salomaa, FINLAND
Ana Salvati, ARGENTINA
John Sanderson, HONG KONG, CHINA
Susana Sans, SPAIN
Shigetake Sasayama, JAPAN
Higa Satoshi, JAPAN
Anita Saxena, INDIA
Heinrich Schelbert, UNITED STATES
François Schiele, FRANCE
Yackoob Seedat, SOUTH AFRICA
Joseph Selvanayagam, AUSTRALIA
Leslee Shaw, UNITED STATES
Dazhuo Shi, CHINA
Xiaoming Shi, CHINA
Toshio Shimada, JAPAN
Ichiro Shiojima, JAPAN
Avinoam Shiran, ISRAEL
Kui Hian Sim, MALAYSIA
Karen Sliwa, SOUTH AFRICA
Henry Solomon, UNITED STATES
Savitri Srivastava, INDIA
Sylvie Stachenko, CANADA
Hisayoshi Suma, JAPAN
Yihong Sun, CHINA
Yingxiang Sun, CHINA
Francis P Sutter, UNITED STATES
Isshiki Takaaki, JAPAN
Jun Takeuchi, JAPAN
Nagara Tamaki, JAPAN
Teruhisa Tanabe, JAPAN
Kai Tang, CHINA
Kathryn Taubert, SWITZERLAND
Wee Siong Teo, SINGAPORE
David Thompson, UNITED KINGDOM
Sergio Timerman, BRAZIL
Imad Tleyjeh, SAUDI ARABIA
Brian Tomlinson, HONG KONG, CHINA
Adam Torbicki, POLAND
Dimitris Tousoulis, GREECE
Jorge Trainini, ARGENTINA
Damras Tresukosol, THAILAND
Chia-Ti Tsai, TAIWAN, CHINA
Hung Fat Tse, HONG KONG, CHINA
Marcel Th. B. Twickler, NETHERLANDS
Hideki Uemura, UNITED KINGDOM
Hirotsugu Ueshima, JAPAN
Richard Underwood, UNITED KINGDOM
Frans Van De Werf, BELGIUM
Arnoud Van Der Laarse, NETHERLANDS
Wiek Van Gilst, NETHERLANDS
Rajesh Vedanthan, UNITED STATES
Christian Veltmann, GERMANY
Freek Verheugt, NETHERLANDS
Fabio Vilas-Boas, BRAZIL
Lars Wallentin, SWEDEN
Rongfu Wang, CHINA
Yangfang Wang, CHINA
Zengwu Wang, CHINA
Dao Wen Wang, CHINA
Ling Wang, CHINA
Hao Wang, CHINA
Qing Wang, SWITZERLAND
Jou-Kou Wang, TAIWAN, CHINA
Chun-Chieh Wang, TAIWAN, CHINA
Jiguang Wang, CHINA
Chen Wang, CHINA
Le Min Wang, CHINA
Nanette Wenger, UNITED STATES
Harvey White, NEW ZEALAND
Peter Wilson, UNITED STATES
Ka Sing Wong, HONG KONG, CHINA
Nathan Wong, UNITED STATES
Kam Sang Woo, HONG KONG, CHINA
David Wood, UNITED KINGDOM
Janet Wright, UNITED STATES
Ying Wu, CHINA
Xue-Si Wu, CHINA
Zhaosu Wu, CHINA
Hao Xu, CHINA
Anding Xu, CHINA
Xiping Xu, CHINA
Bernard Yan, AUSTRALIA
Lijing Yan, CHINA
Bryan P Yan, HONG KONG, CHINA
Clyde Yancy, UNITED STATES
Yuejin Yang, CHINA
Yuejin Yang, CHINA
Gonghuan Yang, CHINA
Yanzong Yang, CHINA
Ping Ye, CHINA
Huijun Yin, CHINA
Gabriel Wk Yip, HONG KONG, CHINA
Mitsuhiro Yokoyama, JAPAN
Ulysses Dorotheo Yul, PHILIPPINES
Carlos Zabal, MEXICO
Robaayah Zambahari, MALAYSIA
Zhengpei Zeng, CHINA
Xu Ming Zhang, MACAO, CHINA
Hao Zhang, CHINA
Wei-Li Zhang, CHINA
Qing Zhang, CHINA
Xinghua Zhang, CHINA
Yun Zhang, CHINA
Li Zhang, UNITED STATES
Zhaoqi Zhang, CHINA
Shu Zhang, CHINA
Zhiwei Zhang, CHINA
Wenhua Zhao, CHINA
Shihua Zhao, CHINA
Yuanli Zhao, CHINA
Bingfeng Zhou, CHINA
Xian-Yang Zhu, CHINA
Yi Zhu, CHINA
Tiangang Zhu, CHINA
Zhiming Zhu, CHINA
Paulo Zielinsky, BRAZIL
Jack Ziffer, UNITED STATES
Yangchun Zou, CHINA
Horacio Zylberxtejn, ARGENTINA