About the Author

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Zachary R. Healy, MD, PhD, the series editor, is a faculty member in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at Duke University in Durham, NC. Prashant Vaishnava, MD, is Director of Quality Assurance of Mount Sinai Heart and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in NewYork, NY. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Echocardiography.Rajeev Samtani, MD, is a physician in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, NY.