• Title: HFSA Preview: Focus on Novel Therapeutic Approaches in Heart Failure
• Artist: Zangani Investor Community(TM)
• Year: 2007
• Length: 56:31 minutes (12.94 MB)
• Format: Mono 22kHz 32Kbps (CBR)

Rodman & Renshaw and MedKnowledge present the latest in a series of medical expert conference calls.

Senior biotechnology analyst Michael G. King Jr. hosts the call, featuring Marc. A. Silver MD.

Dr. Marc A. Silver is Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Director of the Heart Failure Institute at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, IL, and is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Medicine. He has a long, established interest in heart failure, patient care, and nonpharmacologic therapy. His current research interests include the impact of heart failure education on functional status and quality of life; early detection, noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring; left ventricular assist devices as an alternative to heart transplantation; the newer inotropic and vasodilatory agents for decompensated heart failure; disease prevention; and resource utilization in cardiac disease. Dr. Silver is a founding member of the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) and was its initial membership chairman. He authored Success with Heart Failure, now in its 3rd edition, which explains heart failure to patients and their families in simple language and provides practical strategies for living well, along with information about the most recent treatments available and being researched.

Dr. Silver serves on major heart failure guideline projects, including those of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA), and the HFSA. He has been a principal investigator in more than 200 large-scale clinical trials and is published in a wide variety of peer-reviewed journals. He serves on the editorial boards of many professional journals, including The American Journal of Cardiology and Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and is a reviewer for Circulation and American Heart Journal, amongst others. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the ACC, the AHA, the American College of Geriatric Cardiology, and the American College of Chest Physicians.