Congratulations: ACC Names New Annual Scientific Session Leadership for 2015 and Beyond

The ACC has announced the appointments of Athena Poppas, MD, FACC, and Jeffrey T. Kuvin, MD, FACC, to the newly created positions of ACC Annual Scientific Session chair and vice chair, respectively.  Both positions will start in 2015. I personally can’t think of two better people to fill these new and vitally important roles at the College. Dr. Poppas is a member of the ACC’s Board of Trustees and chair of the ACC Sections Steering Committee. She, like me, also served on the Board of Governors. In her “spare time,” she is director of the Echocardiography Laboratory at Rhode Island Hospital, director of Cardiovascular Imaging at Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute and is an associate professor of medicine at Brown Medical School. Her clinical and research expertise in echocardiography, valvular heart disease and heart disease during pregnancy is unparalleled. Dr. Kuvin is an associate professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. At Tufts Medical Center, he serves as associate chief medical officer for graduate medical education, associate chief of the division of cardiology, director of cardiovascular education and fellowship training, and co-director of the Center for Adults with Congenital Heart Disease. He is widely recognized as an expert in preventive cardiology and adult congenital heart disease. The ACC Annual Scientific Session is the world’s premiere meeting for cardiovascular medicine. For more than 60 years it h...
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