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5 unusual facts about American College of Cardiology


American College of Cardiology

As early as the 1980s, the ACC partnered with the American Heart Association (AHA) to develop the first clinical practice guidelines for cardiovascular practice.

James K. Gilman

He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology.

Provena St. Mary's Hospital

This award recognizes the hospital's standard of care for heart attack patients, in accordance with those standards outlined by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association clinical guidelines and recommendations.

Signal-averaged electrocardiogram

PMID 8522703 - American College of Cardiology Expert Consensus Document (1996): Signal-averaged Electrocardiography, J Am Coll Cardiol.

Željko Reiner

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.


Abdul Jamil Tajik

Dr. A. Jamil Tajik is an active member of several professional societies and organizations including the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, American Society of Echocardiography, International Society of Cardiovascular Ultrasound and Heart Valve Society of America.

Harvey N. Middleton

Middleton was a member of several national, state, and local medical associations: the American Medical Association, the National Medical Association, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American College of Physians, the American Thoracic Society, the Indiana State Medical Association, the Aesculapian Society, the Indiana Thoracic Society, and the Marion County Medical Society.

John S. Rumsfeld

In 2005, he was named the Chief Science Officer for the American College of Cardiology’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) Program.

He is a member of the American College of Cardiology Board of Trustees, and is the current Chair of the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Council.

Lourdes Heart institute

George Thayil MD FAMA(Card) FCCP FACC


see also

Randolph Chitwood

He is a member of 25 professional societies which include the American College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, the Society of University Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the Cardiac Surgery Biology Club.

Regeneron

The medicine, one in a class of drugs targeting the PCSK9 gene, reduced patients’ average LDL cholesterol levels to as little as 34 milligrams per deciliter after 12 weeks in the mid- stage study, presented today at the American College of Cardiology meeting in Chicago.