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29th Annual International Congress on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

Update 2020
From Intervention to Prevention
“One Ounce of Early Cardiovascular Disease Prevention is better than Pounds of Late Cure”

May 30, 2020 - June 7, 2020
Japan
Sponsored by: The International Society for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention [ISCVDP];
The Cardiovascular Health Assessment Center of Sarasota, The Cardiovascular Center of Sarasota Foundation for Research and Education.

In cooperation with
University of Minnesota, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Association of Black Cardiologists [ABC]

FACULTY MEMBERS

Mahfouz El Shahawy, MD, MS, FACP, FESC, FASPC, FASH, FSCCT, FAHA, FACC,

Program Director
  • President International Society for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (ISCVDP)
  • Fellow American Society of Preventive Cardiology
  • Clinical Professor of Medicine, Universities of Florida and South Florida, Golden Doctor Diploma University of Vienna Austria 2014
  • Past Member Board of Trustee American society of Preventive Cardiology [ASPC]
  • Past Member Board of Trustees Association of Black Cardiologists [ABC]
  • Medical Director, Cardiovascular Health Assessment Center
  • President, Cardiovascular Center of Sarasota
  • Medical Director and Founder SMH Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Center 2007 - 2010 Sarasota, Florida

Michael E. Cain, MD, FHRS, FACC, FAHA

  • Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering
  • Past President Heart Rhythm Society
  • Vice President for Health Sciences and Dean, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences University at Buffalo Buffalo, New York

Anne B. Curtis, MD, MACP, FACC, FHRS, FAHA

Program Co-Director
  • Board Member International Society for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (ISCVDP)
  • Past President Heart Rhythm Society
  • Past President of the Association of University of Cardiologists
  • Past President of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society
  • SUNY Distinguished Professor
  • Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and Chair Department of Medicine
  • Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences University at Buffalo Buffalo, New York

Anthony DeMaria, MD, FACC

Program Co-Director
  • Vice President International Society for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (ISCVDP)
  • Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, U.C. San Diego, CA
  • President American College of Cardiology 1989-1990
  • Editor in Chief of American Journal of Cardiology 2002-2014 San Diego, California

Thomas Kelly, MD, FACS

  • Secretary/Treasurer International Society for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (ISCVDP)
  • Cardiovascular Surgeon, Sarasota Memorial Hospital Sarasota, Florida

Chamberlain Obialo, MD

  • Professor of Medicine and Chief Nephrology Section
  • Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

Elizabeth O. Ofili, MD, FACC

Program Co-Director
  • Board Member International Society for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (ISCVDP)
  • Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Morehouse School of Medicine
  • President Elect ABC Board of Trustees
  • Past President, Association of Black Cardiologists Atlanta, Georgia

Bola Sogade, MD, FACOG

  • Forsyth, Georgia

Felix Sogade, MD, FACC, FHRS

  • Georgia Arrhythmia Consultant Research Institute
  • Past Chairman of the Board, Association of Black Cardiologists(ABC) Macon, Georgia

Sidney C. Smith, Jr. MD MACC, FAHA, FESC

  • Professor of Medicine
  • Heart and Vascular CenterUniversity of North Carolina
  • Past President, American Heart Association
  • Past President, World Heart Federation Chapel Hill, NC

Nanette K. Wenger, MD, MACC, MACP, FAHA

Program Co-Director
  • Vice President International Society for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (ISCVDP)
  • Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) Emeritus Emory University School of Medicine
  • President Society of Geriatric Cardiology 1994-1995
  • AHA Chair, Task Force, Heart Education for Women 1990-1999
  • Past Chief of Cardiology Grady Memorial Hospital
  • Consultant, Emory Heart and Vascular Center Atlanta, Georgia

INTERNATIONAL FACULTY

Fausto Pinto, MD, FESC, FACC, FSCAI, FASE

  • Board Member International Society for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (ISCVDP]
  • Professor of Medicine, Chief of Cardiology and Dean Lisbon School of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • President Elect World Heart Federation (WHF)
  • Past President European Soc. of Cardiology (ESC) Lisbon, Portugal

Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, FRS, FACE

  • Board Member International Society for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (ISCVDP)
  • Imperial College London, Heart Science Center
  • Harefield, Middlesex, United Kingdom.