Robert C. Detrano, MD, PhD,completed his undergraduatetraining at Washington SquareCollege of New York University.

He was awarded a doctoral degree in physics after completing graduatetraining at Polytechnic Institute of New York. He attended the University ofRome in Italy from 1973 until 1978 and graduated cum laude. His post-graduate training in internal medicine was at Methodist Hospital of Brook-lyn. He received his training in cardiovascular diseases at the ClevelandClinic Foundation. He is currently professor of medicine at the UCLASchool of Medicine and a cardiologist at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Centerin Torrance, California.

Terence M. Doherty, BA, attendedCalifornia State University in LongBeach and received his bachelorof arts degree in physiological

psychology in 1975. He attended graduate school at the same institution anddid research in neurophysiology. He has worked as a technologist in cardiaccatheterization laboratories since 1979. He has published more than 20 full-length peer-reviewed reports and 2 book chapters on the subject of coronaryartery disease and specifically its relationship to calcification.

Michael J. Davies, MD, is presently a cardiac patholo-gist at the Cardiovascular Pathology Unit at SaintGeorge’s Hospital Medical School in London, England.

Herbert C. Stary, MD, is a pro-fessor of Pathology at LouisianaState University Medical Centerin New Orleans.

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