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James Hoekstra, MD, Chair

Professor and Chairman
Department of Emergency Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

James Hoekstra, MD, graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor and was residency trained in emergency medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medincine in Ohio. He was appointed to the faculty at Ohio State University from 1988 to 2003, where he was also Associate Dean for Clinical Education. He was recruited to Wake Forest University Health Sciences in Winston-Salem, North Caronlina, in January 2003, where his is presently Professor of Emergency Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Dr Hoekstra’s area of expertise is emergency cardiology and the care of patients with ACS. He has done basic science research in cardiac resuscitation and is presently actively involved in clinical research on the diagnosis and management of patients with ACS. His research has included the emergency department use of serum markers of cardiac ischemia, short-stay protocols for the diagnosis of ACS, and the use of GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors and low-molecular- weight heparin in the treatment of non–ST-elevation MI. He is an active member of the multicenter Emergency Medicine Cardiac Research and Education Group and serves on numerous multicenter trial steering committees. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

James A. de Lemos, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Southwestern Medical School
Director, Coronary Care Unit
Parkland Memorial Hospital

James A. de Lemos, MD, is Director of the Coronary Care Unit at Parkland Memorial Hospital and the Director of the Cardiology Fellowship at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Southwestern Medical School. He is Associate Professor of Medicine and holds the J. Fred Schoelkopf Endowed Chair in Cardiology Research. He is an active investigator in the Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Research Center at UT Southwestern and remains closely affiliated with the TIMI research group. His primary research interest is risk assessment and management of acute and chronic coronary artery disease. Dr de Lemos' other research interests include electrocardiography as a means of assessing the coronary microcirculation after thrombolysis or percutaneous coronary intervention and the use of novel biomarkers for prognostic assessment among patients with coronary artery disease.

Dr de Lemos has worked extensively with novel biomarkers such as B-type natriuretic peptide, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, and soluble CD40 ligand. He was recently the Lead Author of the Z phase of the A to Z trial, an international trial investigating different cholesterol-lowering strategies in patients with ACS. He graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed an internal medicine residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where he also served as Chief Medical Resident. He completed a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and served on the faculty of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School before moving to UT Southwestern Medical Center. He has served on multiple committees of the American Heart Association and is on the editorial board of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Journal. He has authored or coauthored over 120 manuscripts or book chapters and won several teaching awards.

Benjamin M. Scirica, MD

Investigator, TIMI Study Group
Harvard Medical School
Associate Physician
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Benjamin M. Scirica, MD, MPH, is Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, and Associate Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, also in Boston. He is also an Investigator for the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) Study Group, an academic research organization based at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Director of the TIMI ECG Core Laboratory. Dr Scirica received his MD from Harvard Medical School and his MPH in clinical effectiveness from Harvard School of Public Health. He was also a senior research fellow for the TIMI Study Group at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Dr Scirica is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Heart Association, and the American College of Cardiology. In addition, he serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, European Journal of Neurology, and Annals of Internal Medicine, among others. He is a past Eugene Braunwald Research Fellow from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and recipient of the Soma Weiss Teaching Award from Harvard Medical School.

Dr Scirica’s 2 principal areas of research are electrocardiography and cardiac biomarkers. He has authored or coauthored 20 peer-reviewed articles in Circulation, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, among others. He has also authored or coauthored 6 reviews, chapters, or editorials for various publications.