ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Complete and appropriate acknowledgement of industry supporters will be made at the time of the program.

The Chapter expresses appreciation to the following companies that have provided educational grants for this conference:

Abbott Laboratories

Abbott Vascular

Lantheus Medical Imaging

Medtronic, Inc.

Merck & Co., Inc.

St. Jude Medical

The Chapter expresses appreciation to the following companies that will exhibit at this conference:

Abbott

Abiomed Inc.

Actelion Pharmaceuticals

AGA Medical Corporation

AstraZeneca

Atrium Medical Corp.

Biosound Esaote

Biotronik

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals

Boston Scientific

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

CardioNet Inc.

CogeraHealth

Cordis

Daiichi Sankyo

ECG Scanning

Elsevier/Saunders/Mosby

First Heartland Capital

GeneDx

Gilead Sciences

Gore & Associates

Lantheus Medical Imaging

LifeWatch

Lilly USA

Maquet Cardiovascular

MedRad

Medtronic, Inc.

Merck & Co.

Novartis Pharmaceuticals

Otsuka

Pfizer, Inc.

Philips Healthcare

Real-Time Diagnostics

Sanofi-Aventis

ScottCare Corporation

Siemens Medical Solutions

Spectrum Health Hospitals

Terumo Interventional Systems

The Medicines Company

Thoratec Corporation

William Beaumont Hospital

Zoll Cardiac Management Solutions