ANN ARBOR, MI - The University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center has announced its national advisory board, whose 34 members will help the center promote the understanding of how cardiovascular diseases develop, and how they can be diagnosed, prevented and treated.

From former U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello, and U.S. Representative John Dingell to Weight Watchers founder Florine Mark and former U-M football coach Bo Schembechler, the panel includes representatives from many areas of medicine, science, industry, government and academia.

The board met for the first time last Friday in Ann Arbor, and heard presentations from some of the U-M’s top cardiovascular physicians and researchers. They will meet periodically to guide the center’s four co-directors and administrator.

The U-M Cardiovascular Center, part of the U-M Health System, was established in 2000 to bring together all areas of heart and vascular medicine and surgery at UMHS. Construction is under way on its future home, a $199 million, 350,000-square-foot clinical facility in the heart of the U-M medical center complex.

The center is led by Kim A. Eagle, M.D., clinical director; David J. Pinsky, M.D., scientific director; Richard L. Prager, M.D., cardiac surgery director; James C. Stanley, M.D., vascular surgery director; and Linda Larin, MBA, Administrative Director.

The U-M Cardiovascular Center National Advisory Board:

Noreen M. Clark, PhD
Dean and Marshall H. Becker Professor of Public Health,
U-M School of Public Health

Ronald Cresswell, DSc
Adjunct Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, U-M College of Pharmacy
Chair, Advisory Board, U-M Life Sciences Institute
Former president and chairman, Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research
Former senior vice president and chief scientific officer, Warner-Lambert Company

Jack L. Cronenwett, MD
Chair, Section of Vascular Surgery, Professor of Surgery
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Editor, Journal of Vascular Surgery

Edward B. Diethrich, MD
Founder, Medical Director & Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, Arizona Heart Institute

The Honorable John Dingell
U.S. Representative, 16th District of Michigan

Lee A. Fleisher, MD
Vice Chair for Clinical Investigation, Professor of Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Cyrus Farrehi, MD
Cardiologist, former chief of staff, McLaren Regional Medical Center, Flint, MI
Clinical professor of medicine, Michigan State University

Robben Wright Fleming
President Emeritus, University of Michigan

Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD
Director, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute & Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health; Richard Gorlin, MD/Heart Research Foundation Professor of Cardiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Otto Gago, MD
Surgeon, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons of Ann Arbor at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Michigan Heart & Vascular Institute
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, Section of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan

Martha N. Hill, RN, PhD, FAAN
Dean, The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
The Johns Hopkins University
Former president, American Heart Association

Gertrude (Trudy) Huebner
Regent Emerita, University of Michigan

Irving L. Kron, MD
Chairman, Department of Surgery,
Chief, Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Univ. of Virginia Health System William H. Muller, Jr. Professor of Surgery, University of Virginia Hospital
Editor, Mastery of Cardiothoracic Surgery

W.T. Longstreth, Jr., MD, MPH
Chief of Neurology, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle
Professor, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, University of Washington

Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD
Physician-in-Chief, Boston Medical Center, Professor and Chairman, Dept. of Medicine
Director, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine
Editor-elect, Circulation

Florine Mark
President & Chair, The WW Group, Inc.
Largest franchise holder of Weight Watchers International, currently operating Weight Watchers meetings in regions throughout Michigan and Ontario

Woodrow A. Myers, Jr., MD, MBA
Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer
WellPoint Health Networks
Former director of healthcare management, Ford Motor Company

Roger S. Newton, PhD, FAHA
President & CEO, Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.
Former chair, Atherosclerosis Drug Discovery Team, Parke-Davis
Co-discoverer, product champion of atorvastatin (Lipitor)
Adjunct associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology, U-M Medical School

Antonia Coello Novello, MD, MPH, DrPH
New York State Health Commissioner
President of Health Research, Inc.
14th Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service

William C. Nugent, MD
Chief, Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Professor of Surgery and Community/Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School

Suzanne Oparil, MD
Director, Vascular Biology & Hypertension Program
Professor of Medicine, Physiology & Biophysics, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Former president, American Federation of Clinical Research, American Heart Association

Matthew O’Donnell, PhD
Chair, Biomedical Engineering Department,
Jerry W. and Carol L. Levin Professor of Engineering
University of Michigan college of Engineering

Gary M. Owen
Former State Representative, State of Michigan House of Representatives

Larry J. Robson, MD
Vascular Surgeon, Spectrum Health
Former president, Michigan Vascular Society and Michigan Chapter, American College of Surgeons

Norma J. Sarns
Co-Owner, Nu-Step, Inc.
2003 Ann Arbor News Citizen of the Year
Heart of Gold award recipient, American Heart Association

Richard N. Sarns
President & Founder, NuStep, Inc.
Heart of Gold award recipient, American Heart Association

John (Joe) J. H. Schwarz, MD
Former State Senator, State of Michigan
Otolaryngologist, Battle Creek Health System
Former Mayor, Battle Creek, MI

Glenn E. “Bo” Schembechler
Professor Emeritus, Former Athletic Director & Head Football Coach, University of Michigan
Author, public speaker

Robert W. Thompson, MD
Professor of Surgery, Radiology, Cell Biology & Physiology
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

Helmut F. Stern
President, Arcanum Corporation

Jonathan Seidman, PhD
Henrietta B. & Frederick H. Bugher Professor of Cardiovascular Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Co-recipient (with his wife Christine), 2003 Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cardiovascular Research

Robert A. Vogel, MD, FACC
Director of Clinical Vascular Biology, Professor of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Frank J. Veith, MD
Vice Chairman, Clinical Programs of the Department of Surgery
The William J. Von Liebig Chair in Vascular Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center
Recipient, National Institutes of Health Vascular Disease Academic Award

Kenneth Whipple
Chairman & CEO, CMS Energy Corporation
Heart of Gold award recipient, American Heart Association

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