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SPEAKERS  

Amrita Ahluwalia, PhD

Andrew Arai, MD

Nigel Benjamin, MD, PhD

Kenneth Bloch, MD

H. Franklin Bunn, MD

Anthony Butler, MD

Richard O. Cannon, III, MD

Martin Feelisch, PhD

Erick Feigl, MD

Peter C. Ford, PhD

Bruce Freeman, PhD

Stan Hazen, MD, PhD

Susana Herold, PhD

Neil Hogg, PhD

Christian Hunter, MD, PhD

Frank Bo Jensen, D.Sc.

Gregory Kato, MD

Malte Kelm, MD, PhD

Daniel B. Kim-Shapiro, PhD

Jack R. Lancaster Jr, PhD

David J. Lefer, PhD

Jon O. Lundberg, MD, PhD

Grant Mauk, PhD, MD

Edward Oldfield, MD

Rakesh P. Patel, PhD

Ryszard Pluta, MD

C.S. Raman, PhD

Joseph Rifkind, PhD

Alan Schechter, MD

Sruti Shiva, PhD

Margaret M. Tarpey, MD

Eddie Weitzberg, MD, PhD

David Wink, PhD

Jay L. Zweier, MD, PhD

David J. Lefer, PhD
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, Louisiana

Speaker Topic
Protective Effects of Nitrite Therapy in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury

Dr. Lefer received his Ph.D. from Wake Forest University in 1991, with a thesis entitled “Mechanisms of the Cardioprotective Effects of Nitric Oxide.” He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in cardiology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and subsequently joined the faculty of Tulane University School of Medicine, where he is currently adjunct assistant professor of surgery, and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, where has held several academic appointments. In 2004 he became a full professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology.

Dr. Lefer has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers, primarily in the area of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury. The work in his laboratory centers on understanding the cellular mechanisms responsible for myocardial cell death following coronary artery ischemia and reperfusion, with particular emphasis on the role of circulating leukocytes in the pathophysiology of post-ischemic myocardial injury.