Volume 23 - Issue 5 - May, 2015

John Carroll, CEO, Cardiac Partners, Tucson, Arizona

Michael Robbins, BSN, RN-BC, Clinical Nurse Educator, Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Miami, Florida

Vincent J. Pompili, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Professor of Internal Medicine, Director, Interventional Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiac Catherization Laboratories, The Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio

CLI Perspectives is headed by section editor J.A. Mustapha, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Metro Health Hospital, Wyoming, Michigan. 

This month, Dr. Mustapha talks with Craig M. Walker, MD, FACC, FACA, FACP, FSCAI, FASCI, FCCP, FICA, Clinical Professor of Medicine, LSU School of Medicine; Clinical Professor of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana; Founder, President and Medical Director, Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Houma, Louisiana.

Endorsed by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI).

Introduction written by Jeff Davis, RRT, RCIS, FSICP, Educational Guidelines Committee Chair, Florida SouthWestern State College, Fort Myers, Florida.

Rhonda Long, Director, Corazon, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Compiled by Morton J. Kern from contributions by Robert Applegate, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Malcolm Bell, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Samuel M. Butman, Heart & Vascular Center of Northern Arizona, Cottonwood, Arizona; David J. Cohen, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri; Mauricio G. Cohen, University of Miami, Miami, Florida; John McB Hodgson, Cincinnati, Ohio; Kirk Garratt, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City, New York; David Kandzari, Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia; Aaron Kaplan, Dartmouth, New Hampshire;  Prashant Kaul, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Ajay Kirtane, Columbia University/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, New York; Michael Krucoff, Wake Forest University, North Carolina; August Pichard, Washington Heart Center, Washington, D.C.; Ramon Quesda, Miami, Florida; Fred Resnick, Boston, Massachusetts; Peter Ver Lee, Eastern Maine Medical Center, Bangor, Maine; Mladen I. Vidovich, Chicago, Illinois; Chris White, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, Louisiana.