Robert O. Bonow, M.D.
I immediate past president of the American Heart Association for 2002-2003, Goldberg Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Cardiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Dr. Bonow is recognized for his research and teaching in a variety of cardiac diseases, including coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, and heart failure. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 published papers. He serves on the editorial boards of 12 medical journals including Circulation, Journal of the American Heart Association.

August O. Grant, M.D., Ph.D.
President of the American Heart Association, Professor of Medicine and Co-director of the Heart Station at Duke University.

William J. Groh, M.D.
Principal investigator of PARADE and PAD trials and assistant professor of medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine.

Keith March, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Integrative Physiology at Indiana University School of Medicine. Director, Indiana Center for Vascular Biology & Medicine, Cryptic Masons Medical Research Foundation Investigator.

Robert J. Myerburg, M.D.
Director Emeritus, Division of Cardiology and professor, Department of Medicine and Physiology, University of Miami School of Medicine.

Carl J. Pepine. M.D.
Eminent Scholar, American Heart Association - Suncoast Chapter Chair, Professor of Medicine and Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida, Former President American College of Cardiology.

Ruth Altherr Rench, M.S., R.N.
Present vice-president and incoming president of the Indiana chapter of the American Heart Association.