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Dr. Fuster is the director of the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health and the Richard Gorlin MD/Heart Research Foundation Professor of Cardiology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is past-President of the American Heart Association President of the World Heart Federation a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences a former member of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Advisory Council and former Chairman of the Fellowship Training Directors Program of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Fuster is the recipient of three major ongoing NIH grants. He has published more than 400 articles on the subjects of coronary artery disease atherosclerosis and thrombosis and he has recently been appointed the lead Editor of two major textbooks on cardiology 'The Heart' (previously edited by Dr. J. Willis Hurst) and "Atherothrombosis and Coronary Artery Disease" (with Dr. Eric Topol and Dr. Elizabeth Nabel). Thirteen distinguished universities throughout the world have granted him honoris causa. He has also received the Andreas Gruntzig Scientific Award of the European Society of Cardiology the Lewis A. Conner Memorial Award for scientific accomplishments by the American Heart Association and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American College of Cardiology. Prince Felipe of the Asturias awarded Dr. Fuster the 1996 Principe de Asturias Award of Science and Technology the highest award given to Spanish-speaking scientists. In 2001 Dr. Fuster received the James B. Herrick Achievement Award from the Council of Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association. Most recently he was selected as a Distinguished Scientist of the American Heart Association one of the highest awards given by the Association presented to a few scientists for their work in cardiovascular research over the last few years. Following an exhaustive search Dr. Fuster has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of a new Nature journal that focuses on cardiovascular medicine. | 