Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Assistant Dean, Clinical and Translational Research
Saint Louis University Hospital, Saint Louis, MO

Paul J. Hauptman received his medical training at Cornell University Medical College and did his internal medicine residency at Brigham and Woman''s Hospital. He did his cardiology fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital (NY) and at Harvard Medical School. He is Board certified in cardiovascular diseases. He is the Chairman of the Quality of Care Committee of the Heart Failure Society of America. Dr. Hauptman''s research interests include quality of life assessment and outcomes measurements in advanced heart failure.

Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Director, Cardiovascular Center
Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Konstam is a Professor of Medicine (cardiology) and Professor of Radiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts-New England Medical Center (now Tufts Medical Center) continuously since 1981. He is Chief Physician Executive of The Cardiovascular Center, at Tufts Medical Center. He serves as the Chief of Cardiology and Director of Cardiovascular Development of New England Medical Center. Dr. Konstam is a cardiology specialist with vast experience in academic medicine and research. He served as the Chief of Cardiology at Tufts-NEMC from 1997 to 2007. In 2008, Dr. Konstam served as Senior Advisor for Cardiovascular Diseases at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, providing direction to the NHLBI's extramural cardiovascular research programs. His research has been published extensively in leading peer-reviewed medical journals and he lectured throughout the world on such topics as ventricular remodeling in heart failure, drug treatment and strategies for improving the quality of care. Dr. Konstam's principal clinical interest is heart failure and his principal areas of investigation are ventricular remodeling in heart failure, novel pharmaceutical and device treatment for heart failure, and strategies for improving quality of Cardiovascular care. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and did his post-graduate training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Womens' Hospital.

Nurse Practitioner, Cardiomyopathy Center
Cardiac Transplant and Ventricular Assist Device Program
Tufts Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Ms Ordway is board certified as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and frequently lectures at Tufts Medical Center, as well as regional and national meetings. She has served on the Planning Committee for the American Heart Association Nurses Conference and has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals. In this program, she will highlight the scope and prevalence of hyponatremia in heart failure and describe a patient case with hyponatremia in the hospital setting.

Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Director, Heart Failure Program SFVAMC
Director, Clinical Echocardiography, SFVAMC
San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA

Dr. John R. Teerlink, F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A., F.E.S.C., F.R.C.P.(London) is Director of the Heart Failure Program and of the Clinical Echocardiography Laboratory at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco, California. He graduated from Swarthmore College with Highest Honors in Comparative Religious Studies and Cellular Biology. After receiving his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, where he performed a year of research in the laboratory of Drs. Janice and Marc Pfeffer, he completed an internal medicine residency at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). He continued his basic science training through a post-doctoral research fellowship at Hoffman-LaRoche in Basel, Switzerland with Drs. Martine and Jean-Paul Clozel. Dr. Teerlink completed his cardiovascular medicine fellowship and a Howard Hughes post-doctoral research fellowship at UCSF, subsequently joining the faculty, where he currently is a Professor of Medicine.

He is actively involved in the design and execution of many acute and chronic heart failure clinical trials, serving on endpoint, data safety monitoring, and steering committees for numerous international studies investigating a variety of new therapies, including tezosentan (RITZ program, VERITAS), levosimendan (REVIVE), nesiritide (ASCEND-HF), relaxin (Pre-RELAX-AHF, RELAX-AHF), rolofylline (PROTECT), omecamtiv mecarbil (CY1111, CY1121, ATOMIC-AHF), warfarin/ aspirin (WARCEF), and LCZ696 (PARADIGM-HF).

Dr. Teerlink has been an active member of the Heart Failure Society of America, serving on multiple committees including the Membership, Scientific Program, and Guideline Committees, and is a founding member of the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses. He has also served on the National Committee on Heart Failure and Transplantation of the American Heart Association. Dr. Teerlink completed a four-year term as a permanent member of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee, and currently serves as an ad hoc member of other FDA advisory committees and panels. He is a member of the joint FDA/ Duke University Standardized Data Collection for Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Initiative to develop standardized definitions for cardiovascular endpoints. He was an Associate Editor for the Journal of Cardiac Failure and is a clinical scholar presenting many lectures and publications, including a chapter on Acute Heart Failure in Braunwald's Heart Disease textbook.

Division Chief, Prof of Medicine, Endocrinology
Georgetown University Medical Center

Joseph G. Verbalis, MD is Professor of Medicine and Physiology and Chief of the Division on Endocrinology and Metabolism at Georgetown University. He was previously a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh from 1980-1995 until he was recruited to GU. From 2004 to 2007 he served as interim chair of the Department of Medicine, and relinquished this position to direct Georgetown's CTSA effort. He was one of the founding PIs of the GU GCRC in 1999, served as Chair of the GAC from 1999 to 2002, and has been the Program Director of the GCRC since 2002. He has been continuously funded as a PI on NIH research grants since 1988, and is currently the PI of two NIH R01s focusing on mechanistic studies of kidney and bone complications of hyponatremia, and the GU/MedStar CTSA Planning grant, and is a co-PI of an R01 studying hormonal effects on cognition in post-menopausal women. In 2007 he was the awarded the Berthold Medal by the German Endocrine Society for outstanding scientific achievement in endocrinology by individuals who have excelled in combining both basic and clinical research. He has mentored many fellows and junior faculty members through directorship of the endocrinology fellowship training programs at both the University of Pittsburgh and GU, and is a member of the training faculty of the GU T32 Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience.