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John T. Flaherty received his B.S. degree in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963 and his M.D. degree from Duke University School of Medicine in 1967. He did his training in Internal Medicine and in Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital between 1967 and 1974. During that time he also spent 3 years as a Research Fellow at the National Heart Institute. Dr. Flaherty joined the faculty of the Cardiology Division at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1974 and is currently Associate Professor of Medicine. Dr. Flaherty has a longterm research interest in the pathophysiology of ischemic myocardial injury. He is the author of more than 100 journal articles and book chapters dealing with protection of ischemic myocardium and more recently with studies of reperfusion injury.
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Myron L. Weisfeldt, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine and has been the Director of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions since 1975. Dr. Weisfeldt is the Director of the Ischemic Heart Disease Specialized Center of Research Program from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute since 1978. He is currently President-Elect of the American Heart Association, and is Chairman of the NHLBI Cardiology Advisory Committee. Also he is on the Editorial Board of Circulation, Circulation Research and the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. His research interests include mechanisms of ischemic injury, age changes in cardiac function and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. He has served on the national AHA Committees dealing with CPR standards.