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PRESENTATIONS FROM THE 2008 SYMPOSIUM
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The Leptin Story
Lili Barouch, MD   (PDF,click here)
How to Evaluate Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease
Matthews Chacko, MD    (PDF,click here)
Genetics of Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Daniel Judge, MD   (PDF, click here)

Acute Pericarditis
Richard Lange, MD    (PDF,click here)
Sleep Apnea Syndromes and the Heart
Nancy Collop, MD    (PDF,click here)
Managing Carotid Disease
Bruce Perler, MD    (PDF,click here)
Clinical Rounds
Roy Ziegelstein, MD    (PDF,click here)
Curmudgeon Rounds: Functional Testing for Coronary Ischemia in Asymptomatic Patients
David Thiemann, MD    (PDF,click here)
Acquired and Congenital Prolongation of the QT: When to Worry
Gordon Tomaselli, MD    (PDF,click here)
More Stent Controversy: COURAGE and the Clinician
Edward Kasper, MD    (PDF,click here)
A Piece of My Mind: Platelets & Neurons
Charles Lowenstein, MD    (PDF,click here)
Non-sustained Ventricular Tachycardia: A Perennial Clinical Challenge
Joseph Marine, MD    (PDF,click here)
New Interventional Procedures in the Cath Lab
Jon Resar, MD    (PDF,click here)
Drugs That Hurt the Heart
Stuart Russell, MD    (PDF,click here)
What a Cardiologist Should Know about Thyroid Disease
MA Sussman    (PDF,click here)
Anticoagulation in Older Adults: To Bleed or Not to Bleed
Susan Zieman, MD    (PDF,click here)
Cardiac Resynchronization
David Kass, MD    (PDF,click here)
Pulmonary Vascular Disease and RV Failure: New Diagnostics & Treatments for a Devestating Disease
Hunter Champion, MD, PhD    (PDF,click here)
Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
David Yuh, MD    (PDF,click here)