This two-volume series brings together 74 personal interviews with a variety of prominent cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons. These mini-biographies, published in The American Journal of Cardiology between 1996 and 2014, delve into these physicians' upbringing, professional life, and family life. They provide insights into the history of cardiology, as well as life in health care and life in the United States over the past century.
Interviews in volume 2 include Peter Libby, MD, Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, Barry Joel Maron, MD, Dean Towle Mason, MD, Peter Andrew McCullough, MD, MPH, Franz H. Messerli, MD, Ferid Murad, MD, PhD, Jagat Narula, MD, PhD, Steven Evan Nissen, MD, Dean Ornish, MD, Robert Anthony O'Rourke, MD, Christopher John Dillon Packard, PhD, William Watts Parmley, MD, Terje Rolf Pedersen, MD, Carl John Pepine, MD, Joseph Kayle Perloff, MD, Bertram Pitt, MD, Robert Roberts, MD, William Clifford Roberts, MD, Francis Robicsek, MD, PhD, David Coston Sabiston, Jr., MD, Melvin Mayer Scheinman, MD, Andrew Peter Selwyn, MD, Burton Elias Sobel, MD, Henry Arthur Solomon, MD, Eric Jeffrey Topol, MD, Robert Alan Vogel, MD, Nanette Kass Wenger, MD, James Thornton Willerson, MD, Professor Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, FRS, FRCS, FRCP, DS, Barry Lewis Zaret, MD, and Douglas Peter Zipes, MD.
About the editor: William C. Roberts, MD, interviewer and editor, is executive director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute of Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. He has served as editor in chief of The American Journal of Cardiology since 1982. His publications number over 1600.