Grand Rounds with Morton Kern, MD

Morton J. Kern, with contributions from Sam Butman, Scottsdale, Arizona; George Dangas, New York, New York; Tim Henry, Cincinnati, Ohio; Ajay Kirtane, New York, New York; Lloyd Klein, Sonoma, California; Kreton Mavromatis, Atlanta, Georgia; Phillip Mumford, Houston, Texas; Jeffrey Moses, New York, New York; Srihari S. Naidu, Westchester, New York; Kimberly A. Skelding, Seattle, Washington; George Vetrovec, Richmond, Virginia; Peter Ver Lee, Bangor, Maine; Bonnie Weiner, Worchester, Massachusetts

Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA

Clinical Editor; Chief of Cardiology, Long Beach VA Medical Center, Long Beach, California; Professor of Medicine, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California

Disclosures: Dr. Morton Kern reports he is a consultant for Abiomed, Abbott Vascular, Philips Volcano, ACIST Medical, and Opsens Inc.

Dr. Kern can be contacted at mortonkern2007@gmail.com

On Twitter @MortonKern

Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA

Clinical Editor; Chief of Cardiology, Long Beach VA Medical Center, Long Beach, California; Professor of Medicine, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California

Dr. Morton J. Kern, with contributions from Drs. Jim Blankenship, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Sam Butman, Scottsdale, Arizona; Mauricio G. Cohen, Weston, Florida; David Cox, Charlotte, North Carolina; Prashant Kaul, Atlanta, Georgia; Neal S. Kleiman, Houston, Texas; Lloyd Klein, Napa, California; Mitchell W. Krucoff, Durham, North Carolina; Jeffrey Moses, New York, New York; Matthew Price, La Jolla, California; Chet Rihal, Rochester, Minnesota; Kenneth Rosenfield, Boston, Massachusetts; Gurpreet Sandhu, Rochester, Minnesota; Barry Uretsky, Little Rock, Arkansas; Bonnie Weiner, Worchester, Massachusetts

Morton J. Kern, MD, with:

Kirk N. Garratt, MD, MSc, Christiana Care, Newark, Delaware;

Bonnie H. Weiner, MD, MSEC, MBA, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts;

Christopher J. White, MD, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA

Clinical Editor; Chief of Cardiology, Long Beach VA Medical Center, Long Beach, California; Professor of Medicine, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California

Morton J. Kern, MD, MSCAI, FACC, FAHA

Clinical Editor; Chief of Cardiology, Long Beach VA Medical Center, Long Beach, California; Professor of Medicine, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California