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CCS Executive Committee and Council

Mario Talajic, President (Montréal)Heather Ross, Vice President (Toronto)Blair J. O’Neill, Past President (Edmonton)Christopher Buller, Treasurer (Toronto)Ross A. Davies, Secretary (Ottawa)Christopher S. Simpson, Member-at-Large (Kingston)Thomas G. Parker, CCS Annual Meeting Chair (Toronto)David J. Bewick, Council Member (Saint John)Kenneth Gin, Council Member (Vancouver)Michelle Graham, Council Member (Edmonton)Camille Hancock-Friesen, Council Member (Halifax)

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Andrew D. Krahn, Council Member, SPC Chair (Vancouver)Eva Lonn, Council Member (Hamilton)Frank Nigro, Council Member (Thunder Bay)Andrew Warren, Council Member (Halifax)Michel White, Council Member (Verdun)Rodney Zimmermann, Council Member (Regina)Brian J. Potter, Trainee Representative (Boston)Stanley Nattel, Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Journal of Cardiology

(Montréal)Anne E. Ferguson, Chief Executive Officer (Ottawa)

CCS Scientific Program Committee

Andrew D. Krahn, Chair (Vancouver)Thomas G. Parker, Annual Meeting Chair (Toronto)Howard M. Leong-Poi, In-Coming Scientific Program Com-

mittee Chair (Toronto)Todd Anderson, In-Coming Annual Meeting Chair (Calgary)Matthew Bennett, SPC Member (Vancouver)David J. Bewick, SPC Member (Saint John)David Birnie, SPC Member (Ottawa)Sébastien Bonnet, SPC Member (Québec)Ian Burwash, SPC Member (Ottawa)Jafna Cox, SPC Member (Halifax)Vladimír D�zavík, SPC Member (Toronto)Anne Fournier, SPC Member (Montréal)Nicholas Giacomantonio, SPC Member (Halifax)Chris Glover, SPC Member (Ottawa)Mike Gollob, SPC Member (Ottawa)Michelle Graham, SPC Member (Edmonton)Paul J. Hendry, SPC Member (Ottawa)Jonathan Howlett, SPC Member (Calgary)Dakshina Murthy, SPC Member (Regina)Parvathy Nair, SPC Member (Vancouver)Gavin Y. Oudit, SPC Member (Edmonton)Louis Perrault, SPC Member (Montréal)

Brian J. Potter, SPC Member (Montréal)Carolyn Pullen, HSFC Representative, SPC Member (Ottawa)Damian Redfearn, SPC Member (Kingston)Jean L. Rouleau, SPC Member (Montréal)Erick Schampaert, SPC Member (Montréal)Surita Sidhu, SPC Member (Edmonton)Jean-Fran2ois Tanguay, SPC Member (Montréal)Geoff Werstuck, SPC Member (Hamilton)James White, SPC Member (London)Graham C. Wong, SPC Member (Vancouver)Sandra Matheson, Observer (Halifax)Bill O’Reilly, Observer (Saint-John)Glenda Ryan, Observer (St. John’s)Karen Schaus, Observer (Fredericton)Blair Tryon, Observer (Ottawa)Melissa Keown, Associate Director, Congress (Ottawa)Robin Kinch, Manager, Continuing Professional Development

(Ottawa)Danielle Hurtubise, Events and Logistics Coordinator, Con-

gress (Ottawa)Gillian Bentley, Data Coordinator, Congress (Ottawa)Kaytlin Mullen, Guideline Program Coordinator (Ottawa)Susan Oliver, Director, Knowledge Translation (Ottawa)

CCS Congress Advisory Committee

Mary Elizabeth Harriman, Co-Chair (Ottawa)Thomas G. Parker, Co-Chair (Toronto)Todd Anderson, Incoming Annual Meeting Chair (Calgary)Andrew D. Krahn, Member e CCS Scientific Program

Committee Chair (Vancouver)Howard Leong-Poi, Member e In-Coming Scientific Program

Chair (Toronto)Anne Fournier, Member e Canadian Pediatric Cardiology

Association (Montréal)Stacy Grocholski, Member e Canadian Association of Cardiac

Rehabilitation (Winnipeg)John Guest, Member e Servier Canada Inc (Laval)Sandra Matheson, Member e Canadian Council of Car-

diovascular Nurses (Halifax)MaryBeth McKenzie, Member e Medtronic of Canada Ltd

(Mississauga)

Bill O’Reilly, Member e Canadian Society of Clinical Perfu-sion (Saint-John)

Louis Perrault, Member e Canadian Society of Cardiac Sur-geons (Montréal)

Brian J. Potter, Member e Trainee Representative (Montréal)Glenda Ryan, Member e Canadian Association of Cardio-

Pulmonary Technologists (St. John’s)Karen Schaus, Member e Canadian Society of Cardiology

Technologists (Fredericton)Geoff Werstuck, Member e Canadian Society of Athero-

sclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (Hamilton)Jane-Diane Fraser, Observer e HSFC (Ottawa)Rozanne Lyons, Observer e CCC Secretariat (Ottawa)Blair Tryon, Observer e CCC Secretariat (Ottawa)Leslie Wood, Observer e HSFC (Ottawa)Anne E. Ferguson, Staff e Chief Executive Officer (Ottawa)

CCS Congress Advisory Committee (cont’d)

Melissa Keown, Staff e Associate Director, Congress (Ottawa)

Susan Oliver, Staff e Director, Knowledge Translation(Ottawa)

CCS Workshop Committee

Paul J. Hendry, Chair (Ottawa)David J. Bewick, Member (Saint John)Michelle Graham, Member (Edmonton)Andrew D. Krahn, Member (Vancouver)Howard Leong-Poi, Member (Toronto)

Louis Perrault, Member (Montréal)Brian Potter, Member (Montréal)Parvathy Nair, Member (Vancouver)Melissa Keown, Staff e Associate Director, Congress (Ottawa)

CCS Learning Track Captains

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ASO e Geoff Werstuck (Hamilton)CAD e Erick Schampaert (Montréal)CAD e Jean-Fran2ois Tanguay (Montréal)CAD e Graham C. Wong (Vancouver)CONG e Anne Fournier (Montréal)EP e Mike Gollob (Ottawa)EP e Damian Redfearn (Kingston)

HF e Dakshina Murthy (Regina)HTN e Gavin Y Oudit (Edmonton)IMAG e Ian Burwash (Ottawa)PREV e Nicholas Giacomantonio (Halifax)SURG e Louis Perrault (Montréal)CLINICAL CASE e Christopher Glover (Ottawa)

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Jafna Cox, Chair (Halifax)Matthew Bennett, Member (Vancouver)Vladimír D�zavík, Member (Toronto)

Erick Schampaert, Member (Montréal)Melissa Keown, Staff e Associate Director, Congress (Ottawa)

CCS Staff

Anne E. Ferguson, Chief Executive Officer (Ottawa)Gillian Bentley, Data Coordinator, Congress (Ottawa)Julie Graves, Coordinator, Marketing and Communications

(Ottawa)Danielle Hurtubise, Event and Logistics Coordinator, Congress

(Ottawa)Melissa Keown, Associate Director, Congress (Ottawa)Robin Kinch, Manager, Continuing Professional Development

(Ottawa)Andrea Lee, Manager, Finance and Administration (Ottawa)Lauren Mann, Affiliates Manager (Ottawa)Odette McNeely, Programs Coordinator, Membership Services

and Trainee Programs (Ottawa)

Nick Neuheimer, Director, External Relations (Ottawa)Susan Oliver, Director, Knowledge Translation (Ottawa)Linda Palmer, Director, Membership Services and TraineePrograms (Ottawa)

Carissa Piercey, Membership Services Coordinator (Ottawa)Huei-Ling Tsuei, Team Assistant, Knowledge Translation(Ottawa)

Kaytlin Mullen, Coordinator, Guideline Programs (Ottawa)Danielle Graham, Governance Coordinator (Ottawa)Leona Lacroix, Finance and Administration Coordinator(Ottawa)

CCS Trainee Research Award Committee

David Birnie, Chair (Ottawa)Patrick Burgon, Judge (Ottawa)Éric Larose, Judge (Québec)

Howard Leong-Poi, Judge (Toronto)Subodh Verma, Judge (Toronto)Melissa Keown, Staff e Associate Director, Congress (Ottawa)

CCS Young Investigator Award Committee

Howard M. Leong-Poi, Chair (Toronto)Sébastien Bonnet, Member (Québec)Jafna Cox, Member (Halifax)

Thomas G. Parker, Member (Toronto)James White, Member (London)Melissa Keown, Staff e Associate Director, Congress (Ottawa)

CCS Continuing Professional Development Committee

Paul J. Hendry, Chair (Ottawa)David J. Bewick, Member (Saint John)Michael Chan, Member (Edmonton)

Chi-Ming Chow, Member (Toronto)Jonathan B. Choy, Member (Edmonton)Simon Douglas Jackson, Member (Halifax)

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CCS Continuing Professional Development Committee (cont’d)

Eric B. Fretz, Member (Victoria)Vikas Kuriachan, Member (Calgary)Serge LePage, Manager, Continuing Professional Development

(Sherbrooke)

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Atul Verma, Member (Toronto)Mehrdad Golian, Trainee Representative (Winnepeg)Robin Kinch, Manager, Continuing Professional Development(Ottawa)

CCS Guidelines Committee

Michelle Graham, Chair (Edmonton)Iqbal Bata, Member (Halifax)Luc Beauchesne, Member (Ottawa)Kim A. Connelly, Member (Toronto)Michael H. McGillion, Member (Toronto)Michael Sean McMurtry, Member (Edmonton)

Robert Sheldon, Member (Calgary)Kenneth J. Yvorchuk, Member (Victoria)Jeremy Paikin, Trainee Representative (Hamilton)Susan Oliver, Staff - Director, Knowledge Translation(Ottawa)

CCS Year in Review Planning Committee

David J. Bewick, Chair (Saint John)Atul Verma, Member (Toronto)James Cherry, Member (Toronto)Simon Kouz, Member (Joliette)Evan E. Lockwood, Member (Edmonton)Frank Nigro, Member (Thunder Bay)

Stephen Pearce, Member (Surrey)Franco Sandrin, Member (L’Ile Bizard)Randall G. Williams, Member (Edmonton)Jason Yung, Member (Dartmouth)Melissa Keown, Staff e Associate Director, Congress (Ottawa)

Abstract Reviewers

Hoshiar Abdollah (Kingston)Kamran Ahmad (Toronto)Elnazeer O. Ahmed (Mekkah)Abdul Al-Hesayen (Toronto)Katherine S. Allan (Toronto)Mushabab Al-Murayeh (Khamis Mushayt)Gregor Andelfinger (Montréal)Malcolm Arnold (London)Rakesh C. Arora (Winnipeg)Felix Ayala-Paredes (Sherbrooke)Simon Bacon (Montréal)Kevin Bainey (Ancaster)Christina Bancej (Ottawa)Adrian M. Baranchuk (Kingston)Arsène J. Basmadjian (Montréal)Harald Becher (Edmonton)Olivier F. Bertrand (Québec)Simon Bérubé (Sherbrooke)David Bewick (Saint John)Filio Billia (Toronto)David Birnie (Ottawa)Munir Boodhwani (Ottawa)Robert H. Boone (Vancouver)Natalie A. Bottega (Montréal)Timothy J. Bradley (Toronto)Neil Brass (Edmonton)Myriam Brassard (Montréal)Patrick Burgon (Ottawa)Jeffrey Burton (Edmonton)Jane Caldwell (Kingston)Warren Joseph Cantor (Newmarket)Renzo Cecere (Montréal)Mohamed Chahine (Sainte-Foy)

Subhadeep Chakrabarti (Edmonton)Albert Chan (New Westminster)Kwan-Leung Chan (Ottawa)Michael Chan (Edmonton)Sammy Chan (Vancouver)Vincent Chan (Ottawa)François Charbonneau (Calgary)Asim N. Cheema (Toronto)Philippe Chetaille (Sainte-Foy)Anson Cheung (Vancouver)Po-Yin Cheung (Edmonton)Benjamin J. Chow (Ottawa)Chi-Ming Chow (Toronto)Jonathan Choy (Burnaby)Michael W.A. Chu (London)Alex Clark (Edmonton)Brian Clarke (Halifax)Marie-Annick Clavel (Québec)Robin Clegg (Calgary)Lyne Cloutier (Trois-Rivières)Eric Alan Cohen (Toronto)Kim A. Connelly (Toronto)Jafna Cox (Halifax)Eugene Crystal (Toronto)Bibiana Cujec (Edmonton)François Dagenais (Sainte-Foy)Gilles Dagenais (Sainte-Foy)Nagib Dahdah (Montréal)Sulan Dai (Ottawa)Frederic Dallaire (Québec City)Adrian Dancea (Montréal)Benoit Daneault (Sherbrooke)Sandra Davidge (Edmonton)

Abstract Reviewers (cont’d)

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Ross Davies (Ottawa)Darryl R. Davis (Ottawa)Simon de Denus (Montréal)Denis deBlois (Montréal)Robert DeKemp (Ottawa)Diego H. Delgado (Toronto)Catherine Demers (Hamilton)Jean-Pierre Dery (Québec)P.J. Devereaux (Hamilton)Angela M. Devlin (Vancouver)Kushal J. Dighe (Toronto)Hisham Dokainish (Hamilton)Paul Dorian (Toronto)Michel Doucet (Westmount)Pierre Douville (Québec)Anique Ducharme (Montréal)Lloyd Duchesne (Ottawa)Todd Duhamel (Winnepeg)Girish Dwivedi (Ottawa, ON)Jason Dyck (Edmonton)Vladimir D�zavík (Toronto)Ismail El-Hamamsy (Montréal)Jack Elstein (Montréal)Vidal Essebag (Montréal)Derek Exner (Calgary)Justin Ezekowitz (Edmonton)Neil Fam (Toronto)Carlos Fernandez-Patron (Edmonton)Darren H. Freed (Winnipeg)Michael Freeman (Toronto)Christopher Glover (Ottawa)Jean-François Gobeil (Montréal)Michael Gollob (Ottawa)Shaun Goodman (Toronto)Avrum Gotlieb (Toronto)Robert Gow (Ottawa)John J. Graham (Toronto)Michelle Graham (Edmonton)Christopher Gray (Halifax)Martin Green (Ottawa)Ronald Gregor (Halifax)Robert Gros (London)Lorne Gula (London)Milan Gupta (Brampton)Jolanta Gutkowska (Montréal)Paula Harvey (Toronto)Ansar Hassan (Rothesay)Jeff Healey (Hamilton)Robert Hegele (London)Paul Hendry (Ottawa)Scott Heximer (Toronto)Jennifer Higgins (Vancouver)Zsuzsanna Hollander (Vancouver)Jonathan G. Howlett (Calgary)Tomasz Hruczkowski (Edmonton)Jaroslav Hubacek (Halifax)

Murray Huff (London)William Hui (Edmonton)Derek Human (Vancouver)Dennis Humen (London)Tilman Humpl (Toronto)Farrukh Hussain (Winnipeg)Debra Isaac (Calgary)Robert Iwanochko (Toronto)Cynthia Jackevicius (Los Angeles)Nadia Jahroudi (Edmonton)Davinder S. Jassal (Winnipeg)Amer Johri (Kingston)Marc E. Jolicoeur (Montréal)Sanjit Jolly (Hamilton)John Jue (Vancouver)Paul Jurasz (Edmonton)Henri Justino (Houston)Michal J. Kantoch (Edmonton)Zamaneh Kassiri (Edmonton)Padma Kaul (Edmonton)Katherine M. Kavanagh (Calgary)Yaariv Khaykin (Newmarket)Nee Scze Khoo (Edmonton)Bob Kiaii (London)George Klein (London)Merril Knudtson (Calgary)Dennis Ko (Toronto)Jan Kornder (Burnaby)Sheri Koshman (Edmonton)Andrew Krahn (London)Marino Labinaz (Ottawa)B-Khanh Lam (Ottawa)Pierre Larochelle (Montréal)Éric Larose (Québec)Shahar Lavi (Toronto)Scott A Lear (Vancouver)Douglas Lee (Toronto)Stephanie Lehoux (Montréal)Mark Lemstra (Saskatoon)Howard Leong-Poi (Toronto)Evan Lockwood (Edmonton)Eva Lonn (Hamilton)Michael P. Love (Halifax)Honglin Luo (Vancouver)Hung Q. Ly (Montréal)Martha H. Mackay (Vancouver)Laurent Macle (Montréal)Kenneth M. Madden (Vancouver)Susanna Mak (Toronto)Iqwal Mangat (Toronto)Rabban Mangat (Edmonton)Samer Mansour (Montréal)Dante Manyari (Surrey)Jean François Marquis (Ottawa)Patrick Mathieu (Québec)Michael Sean McMurtry (Edmonton)

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Abstract Reviewers (cont’d)

Shamir Mehta (Hamilton)Luc Mertens (Toronto)Kevin A. Michael (Kingston)Seema Mital (Toronto)François-Pierre Mongeon (Montréal)Carlos Morillo (Hamilton)Emmanuel Moss (Montréal)John Mullen (Edmonton)Masato Mutsuga (Edmonton)Syed Nadeem (Halifax)Ali Naheed (Richmond Hill)Parvathy Nair (Vancouver)Madhu Natarajan (Hamilton)Stanley Nattel (Montréal)Anil Nigam (Montréal)Nicolas Noiseux (Montréal)Robert P. Nolan (Toronto)Karmin O (Winnipeg)Stacy B. O’Blenes (Halifax)Edward O’Brien (Calgary)Erwin N. Oechslin (Toronto)Eileen O’Meara (St-Laurent)Gavin Y. Oudit (Edmonton)Maral Ouzounian (Toronto)Christopher B. Overgaard (Toronto)Alfredo Pantano (Newmarket)Ratika Parkash (Halifax)Glen Pearson (Edmonton)Louis P. Perrault (Montréal)Peter Pflugfelder (London)François Philippon (Ste-Foy)J. Geoffrey Pickering (London)Nancy C. Poirier (Montréal)Brian J. Potter (Montréal)Manu Prabhakar (Montréal)F.R. Quinn (Calgary)Ata ur Quraishi (Halifax)Simon Rabkin (Vancouver)Marie Josée Raboisson (Lachine)Dominic Raco (McKinney)Krishnan Ramanathan (Vancouver)Margaret L. Rand (Toronto)Vivek Rao (Toronto)Shirya Rashid (Hamilton)Damian Paul Redfearn (Kingston)Donald Ricci (Vancouver)Stéphane Rinfret (Québec)Simon D. Robinson (Victoria)Charles Rohlicek (Montréal)Herschel Rosenberg (London)Jean-François Roux (Sherbrooke)Terrence Ruddy (Ottawa)Lawrence Rudski (Montréal)Marc Ruel (Ottawa)Omid Salehian (Hamilton)John Sapp (Halifax)

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Jean-François Sarrazin (Québec)Jon-David R. Schwalm (Hamilton)Colette Seifer (Winnipeg)Miriam Shanks (Edmonton)Marlene F. Shehata (Ottawa)Robert Sheldon (Calgary)Richard Sheppard (Montréal)Christopher Simpson (Kingston)Derek So (Ottawa)Louis-Mathieu Stevens (Montréal)Alexandre Stewart (Ottawa)Duncan Stewart (Ottawa)Neville Suskin (London)Bruce Sussex (St. John’s)Jaffer Syed (London)James Tam (Winnipeg)Jean-François Tanguay (Montréal)Patrick Teefy (London)Robert Teskey (Saint John)Edythe B. Tham (Edmonton)Pierre Théroux (Montréal)Eric Thorin (Montréal)Sheldon Tobe (Toronto)Mustafa Toma (Vancouver)Dean Traboulsi (Calgary)Irene L. Travale (Hamilton)Bernardo L. Trigatti (Hamilton)Sebastien Trop (Toronto)Stanley K. Tung (Vancouver)Michele Turek (Ottawa)Penelope Turton (Ottawa)James L. Velianou (Hamilton)Atul Verma (Toronto)Sean A. Virani (Vancouver)Isabelle F. Vonder Muhll (Edmonton)J. Wayne Warnica (Calgary)Andrew Warren (Halifax)Lynn P. Weber (Saskatoon)Robert Welsh (Edmonton)Geoff H. Werstuck (Hamilton)Michel White (Montréal)Harindra C. Wijeysundera (Toronto)Thomas W. Wilson (Saskatoon)Stephen B. Wilton (Calgary)Gerald Wisenberg (London)Graham Wong (Vancouver)Kenny Wong (Halifax)Anna Woo (Toronto)David Wood (Vancouver)Michael Yamashita (Vancouver)Andrew T. Yan (Toronto)Jian Ye (Vancouver)Raymond Yee (London)Pollen K. Yeung (Halifax)Kenneth Yvorchuk (Victoria)Shelley Zieroth (Winnipeg)