Domingo Liotta, MD, Dean School of Medicine, University of MoRón, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, School of Medicine, University of MoRón, Surgeon-in-Chief, Dupuytren-Trinidad-Quilmes Cardiovascular Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Miguel del Río, MD Associate Professor of Anatomy and Cardiology, School of Medicine, University of MoRón, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Denton A. Cooley, MD President and Surgeon-in-Chief, Texas Heart Institute Houston, Texas, USA

Christian Cabrol, MD Chief Cardiac Surgery, University of Paris, France

Randall B. Griepp, MD Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University, New York, USA

Robert S. Bonser, MRCP-FRCS Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Professor and Chairman University Hospital Birmingham NHS and Queen Elizabeth Hospital Centre Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Rodney White, MD Professor of Surgery, Harbord-UCLA School of Medicine,Chief Division of Vascular Surgery, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center,Torrance, California, USA.

Hazim J. Safi, MD Chairman and Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston, Memorial Hermann Hospital,Houston, Texas.

M. Pham, MD Professor of Surgery Director, Section of Cardiopulmonary Transplantation, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Miami, School of Medicine, Miami, USA

Charles D. Fraser, Jr. MD Donovan Chair in Congenital Heart Surgery and Professor of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine; Chief Congenital Heart Surgery Service, and Cardiac Surgeon-in-Chief , Texas Children's Hospital,Houston, Texas, USA

Jean Bachet, MD, EBTCS Consultant Surgeon, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France

Axel Haverich, MD Professor and Director of Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.

Masaaki Kato, MD Associate Professor of Surgery I. Saitama Medical School, Saitama, Japan