CVC announces advisory board

The Cardiovascular Center has announced its national advisory board, whose 34 members will help the center promote the understanding of how cardiovascular diseases develop, and how they can be diagnosed, prevented and treated.

From U.S. Rep. John Dingell and former U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello to Weight Watchers founder Florine Mark and former U-M football coach Bo Schembechler, the panel includes representatives from many areas of medicine, science, industry, government and academia.

Among the members with a University connection are Noreen Clark, dean and Marshall H. Becker Professor at the School of Public Health; Ronald Cresswell, an adjunct professor of medicinal chemistry in the College of Pharmacy and chair of the Life Sciences Institute advisory board; Robben Wright Fleming, president emeritus; Otto Gago, a St. Joseph Mercy Hospital cardiac surgeon and U-M clinical associate professor of surgery; Gertrude (Trudy) Huebner, regent emerita; Roger Newton, president and CEO of Esperion Therapeutics Inc. and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the Medical School; and Matthew O'Donnell, chair of Biomedical Engineering and Levin Professor in the College of Engineering.

For a complete list of board members, visit http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/2003/cvcboard.htm.

The board met for the first time Oct. 24 in Ann Arbor and heard presentations from some of U-M's top cardiovascular physicians and researchers. They will meet periodically to guide the center's four co-directors and administrator.

The Cardiovascular Center was established in 2000 to bring together all areas of heart and vascular medicine and surgery at the U-M Health System. Construction is underway on its future home, a $199 million, 350,000-square-foot clinical facility in the heart of the medical center complex.

The center is led by Dr. Kim Eagle, clinical director; Dr. David Pinsky, scientific director; Dr. Richard Prager, cardiac surgery director; Dr. James Stanley, vascular surgery director; and Linda Larin, administrative director.

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