Includes faculty video presentations and slides Provides detailed information about target audience, learning objectives, and accreditation Provide faculty disclosure information and biographies Provides a bibliography of relevant topics by author Includes instructions and CME enrollment procedures, CME posttest and evaluation
Contains a PDF version of the program syllabus

Chair
J. Donald Easton, MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Brown Medical School
Neurologist in Chief
Rhode Island Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island

Faculty
Deepak L. Bhatt, MD
Interventional Cardiology
Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship
Associate Director, Cardiovascular Fellowship
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Cleveland, Ohio

Lawrence M. Brass, MD
Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology & Public Health
Chief of Neurology Services, Department of Veterans Affairs
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut

Reviewer
Todd M. Koelling, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan

In meeting the requirements of full disclosure and in compliance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Essentials, Standards for Commercial Support, and Guidelines, our faculty has provided the following information regarding potential conflicts of interest.

Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, has received honoraria from Sanofi-Synthelabo Inc.

Lawrence M. Brass, MD, is a consultant to or has received research grant support from Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Sanofi-Synthelabo Inc., and Glaxo Wellcome Inc.

J. Donald Easton, MD, serves on advisory boards for Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Sanofi-Synthelabo Inc., and Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Deepak L. Bhatt, MD
DR BHATT is Associate Program Director for the Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship, interventional cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio, and Director for the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship. After graduating as valedictorian from the Boston Latin School, Dr Bhatt obtained his undergraduate science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while also serving as a research associate at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He received his medical doctorate from the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City. Dr Bhatt served his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. His cardiovascular training was completed with Dr Eric J. Topol at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Dr Bhatt is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, and interventional cardiology. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Association, and the New York Academy of Sciences. Dr Bhatt's research interests include the study of both oral and intravenous antithrombotic medications as well as the optimal management of patients with acute coronary syndromes, including myocardial infarction. He also has research interests in advanced techniques in coronary, carotid, and peripheral angiography and intervention. Dr Bhatt has written numerous book chapters on these topics and has published articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Journal, American Journal of Cardiology, American Journal of Medicine, and Journal of Invasive Cardiology, among others. He has presented major research findings at the annual meetings of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the European Society of Cardiology.

Lawrence M. Brass, MD
DR BRASS is Professor of Neurology and of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Cerebrovascular Center at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. He is also Chief of Neurology Service for the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System in West Haven. After earning his medical degree from Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, he completed a fellowship at Columbia University in New York and a neurology residency and cerebrovascular fellowship at the Neurological Institute of New York. A recipient of numerous awards, Dr Brass has been listed in several Who's Who and Best Doctors indexes, most recently Who's Who in the World. Dr Brass is a Fellow of the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association, an Executive Committee member of the Section on Vascular Neurology of the American Academy of Neurology, as well as active in many professional organizations, which include the American Society of Neuroimaging and the National Stroke Association. He actively lectures and is the author of more than 100 articles and abstracts, as well as 20 books and book chapters. Currently, Dr Brass serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. A principal investigator for numerous studies, his interest in devising improved management strategies and better defining stroke risk has led to the Women's Estrogen for Stroke Trial and the Hemorrhagic Stroke Project, both recently completed.

J. Donald Easton, MD
DR EASTON is Professor and Chairman, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, at Brown University School of Medicine and Neurologist-in-Chief at the Rhode Island Hospital, both in Providence, Rhode Island. He received his medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, was a medicine intern and neurology resident at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, and is board certified in neurology. Dr Easton has received numerous national and international awards and honors. He was repeatedly chosen by his students and residents as an outstanding teacher and was named an honorary member by the Stroke Society of Australasia, the Austrian Society for Stroke Research, and the Belgian Stroke Society. Dr Easton has also been a Director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, a Councilor of the American Neurological Association, Chairman of the Residency Review Committee for Neurology, Chairman of the American Heart Association Stroke Council, Chairman of the Neurological Disorders Program, Project Review Committee-A (National Institutes of Health), and a member of the Antithrombotic Trialists' Collaboration. In addition, he has been a member of numerous steering, advisory, organizing, and monitoring committees for many clinical stroke trials and congresses. Dr Easton has served on the editorial boards of a number of journals including Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, and has published more than 200 journal articles, books, chapters, and miscellaneous publications in his areas of expertise.



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