President

Nathan D. Wong, PhD
Dr. Wong is Professor and Director of the Heart Disease Prevention Program, Division of Cardiology at University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. Read more

President

Nathan D. Wong, PhD
Dr. Nathan D. Wong is Professor and Director of the Heart Disease Prevention Program, Division of Cardiology at University of California, Irvine School of Medicine and also Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and UC Irvine and UCLA. He holds PhD and MPH degrees in epidemiology from Yale University and is also a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention. Dr. Wong has over 20 years experience as a cardiovascular epidemiologist, has edited or co-edited four textbooks, including two editions of Preventive Cardiology (McGraw-Hill) and more recently, Preventive Cardiology: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease (Elsevier). He has also authored or co-authored nearly 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts in his principal research areas of subclinical atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, lipids, and hypertension and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. Dr. Wong has also been an investigator or collaborator with large-scale NIH-sponsored studies, including the Framingham Heart Study, Women's Health Initiative, Antihypertensive Lipid-Lowering to Prevent Heart Attack Trial, and the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. He also regularly lectures locally, nationally and internationally on his research and on various topics in preventive cardiology and is a member of Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. Read less

Immediate Past President

Peter W.F., Wilson, MD
Peter W. F. Wilson, MD is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine and Professor of Public Health (Global Health, Epidemiology) in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, where he is Director of Epidemiology and Genomic Medicine at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. Read more

Immediate Past President

Peter W.F., Wilson, MD
Peter W. F. Wilson, MD is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine and Professor of Public Health (Global Health, Epidemiology) in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, where he is Director of Epidemiology and Genomic Medicine at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. He graduated with a B.S. from Yale University in 1970 and a medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio in 1974. His postgraduate medical training took place at Duke University and he is board certified in internal medicine and endocrinology. He was previously employed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (1978-1999), Director of Laboratories at the Framingham Heart Study (1983-2003), Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine (1999-2003) and Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (2003-2006). His research focuses on metabolic and cardiovascular disease in populations. He is an author or coauthor of more than 500 scientific articles and four books. Read less

President Elect/Secretary-Treasurer

Steve Kopecky, MD
Dr. Kopecky is a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. After his training at Mayo Medical School, he started in Mayo's Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory doing interventional procedures and treating myocardial infarctions in the Coronary Care Unit. Read more

President Elect/Secretary-Treasurer

Steve Kopecky, MD
Dr. Kopecky is a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. After his training at Mayo Medical School, he started in Mayo's Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory doing interventional procedures and treating myocardial infarctions in the Coronary Care Unit. After treating heart attacks for 18 years, he realized the best way to treat coronary artery disease is to prevent the disease before it has a chance to cause clinical symptoms. Dr. Kopecky currently works in Mayo Clinic's Cardiovascular Health Clinic, which is the prevention clinic in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases. He has written numerous articles for peer-reviewed journals and has received multiple "Teacher of the Year" awards from Mayo's Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and the Department of Internal Medicine. His research interests include the role of inflammation in cardiovascular disease and the role of lifestyle, including diet, exercise, and proper nutrition, in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Read less

At-Large Directors

Ezra Amsterdam, MD
University of California Davis Medical Center - Sacramento, CA
Wilbert S. Aronow, MD
New York Medical College - Valhala, NY
Roger S. Blumenthal, MD, FACC, FAHA
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Deb R. Levy, MD, MPH
Brigham & Women's Hospital - Boston, MA
Douglas Schocken, MD
Duke University Center for Living - Durham, NC

Committees

Membership Committee
Stephen Kopecky, MD
Deb R. Levy, MD, MPH
Nathan D. Wong, PhD

Program Committee
Wilbert S. Aronow, MD
Roger Blumenthal, MD
Stephen Kopecky, MD
Nathan Wong, PhD

Publications Committee
Deb R. Levy, MD, MPH
Ezra Amsterdam, MD
Stephen Kopecky, MD
Wilbert S. Aronow, MD

Executive Director

Christopher R. Seymour, MBA
Jacksonville, FL