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credo Advisory Board

credo - Coalition to Reduce Disparities in CV Outcomes

Advisory Board-Co-Chairs

Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, MACP
Magerstadt Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Cardiology
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL

Disclosures
Non-Commercial Interests: Officer, Director, Trustee or other Fiduciary Role of American Heart Association

Tracy Y. Wang, MD, MHS, MSc, FACC
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Durham, NC

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria from Johnson and Johnson; Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd. Research Grants from Eli Lilly/Daiichi Sankyo Alliance; Schering Plough (now Merck); Bristol Myers Squibb; Heartscape, Inc.; The Medicines Company

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Hector O. Ventura, MD, FACC, FACP, FASH
Co-Chair, National Hispanic Cardiologists Leadership Network
Section Head, Cardiomyopathy and Heart Transplant
Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute
New Orleans, LA

Disclosures
Speaker's Bureau for Actelion; Gilead

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Advisory Board Members

Dee Baker Amos
National Senior Manager, Health Equity & Multicultural Initiatives
American Heart Association
Dallas, TX

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Paul N. Casale, MD, FACC
Medical Director of Quality
Chief, Division of Cardiology
Medical Director of Cardiology
Lancaster General Hospital
Lancaster, PA

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

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Paul S. Chan, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine
St. Luke's Mid America Heart and Vascular Institute
Kansas City, MO

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Marshall Chin, MD, MPH
Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change
National Program Office
Professor of Medicine
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Disclosures
Research Grants from NIDDK; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; American Diabetes Association; Merck Company Foundation; The Commonwealth Fund; John A. Hartford Foundation; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Adolph Falcón, MPP
Senior Vice President
National Alliance for Hispanic Health
Washington, DC

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, FACC, FAHA
Adjunct Clinical Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine
Clinical Professor, Emory University
Chief Science Officer
Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC), Inc.
Atlanta, GA

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria from AstraZeneca; Forest; Merck; Roche; Takeda. Research Grants from Daiichi Sankyo; Novartis

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Gordon L. Fung, MD, MPH, PhD, FACC
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Director, UCSF Asian Heart & Vascular Center
Former Governor, Northern CA, ACC
Immediate Past President, California Chapter, ACC
San Francisco, CA

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria from Novartis; UCSF. Speaker's Bureau from Abbott Cardiovascular; Glaxo Smith Kline. Research Grants from Roche Pharmaceuticals.

Tawara D. Goode, MA
Assistant Professor & Director
National Center for Cultural Competence
Center for Child and Human Development
Georgetown University Medical Center
Washington, DC

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

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Marcia Jackson, PhD
President
CME by Design
Santee, SC

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria from Medscape CME. Ownership Interest in CME by Design

Christopher J.W.B. Leggett, MD, FACC
Interventional Cardiologist
Medical Associates of North Georgia
Canton, GA

Disclosures

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Robert C. Like, MD, MS
Professor and Director
Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
New Brunswick, NJ

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria from Medscape/UMDNJ Center for Continuing and Outreach Education Cultural Competency/Health Disparities CME and Educational Programs; Pfizer. Speaker's Bureau for Schering-Plough (now Merck)

Laxmi Mehta, MD, FACC
Clinical Director of the Women's Cardiovascular Health Program
Associate Program Director for Education, Center for Women's Health
Assistant Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine
The Ohio State University Medical Center
Columbus, OH

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

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Aravinda Nanjundappa, MD, FACC, FSCAI, RVT
Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery
West Virginia University
Charleston, WV

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA
Professor of Medicine
Associate Vice Chair for Quality
Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center
Associate Director and Director of CV Research
Duke Clinical Research Institute
Durham, NC

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria from Tethysbio; Astra-Zeneca. Research Grants from Merck/Schering; Johnson and Johnson; Eli Lilly; BMS/Sanofi Aventis

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Ileana L. Piña, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA
Chair of Science and Policy Workgroup of the
National Hispanic Cardiologists Leadership Network
Professor of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Associate Chief of Academic Affairs
Montefiore Medical Center
New York, NY

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria from GE HealthCare; FDA

Yabiz Sedghi, MD
Chief Cardiology Fellow
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
New Orleans, LA

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

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Joanna D. Sikkema, MSN, ARNP
Director, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program, University of Miami
Clinical Nurse Practitioner, Whole Health Management
Miami, FL

Disclosures
Nothing to disclose

Lisa M. Tate
Chief Executive Officer
WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease
Washington, DC

Disclosures

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Krishnaswami Vijayaraghavan, MD, MS, FACC, FACP
ACC Governor for Arizona
Medical Director, CV Research and Education
Scottsdale Healthcare
Director, Heart Failure Program, Scottsdale CV Center
Scottsdale, AZ

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria from Daichii Sankyo; Gilead. Speaker's Bureau for Sanofi - Aventis; Novartis

Mary Norine Walsh, MD, FACC
Medical Director, Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation
St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana
Indianapolis, IN

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria from BioControl; Emerge; Medtronic; United Health Care

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Karol E. Watson. MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA
Director, Center for Lipid and Hypertension Management
Co-Director, Program in Preventive Cardiology
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Disclosures
Consultant Fees/Honoraria from Astra Zeneca; Merck; Daiichi-Sankyo; Pfizer; Novartis

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