Qamar, Arman
Bhatt, Deepak L.
Article History
First Online: 7 July 2015
Competing interests
: D.L.B. is on the advisory boards of Cardax, Elsevier Practice Update Cardiology, Medscape Cardiology, and Regado Biosciences; on the board of directors for Boston VA Research Institute and the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care; Chair of the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines Steering Committee; a member of the Data Monitoring Committees for the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Harvard Clinical Research Institute, Mayo Clinic, and the Population Health Research Institute; has honoraria from the American College of Cardiology (Senior Associate Editor, Clinical Trials and News, ACC.org), Belvoir Publications (Editor in Chief, Harvard Heart Letter), Duke Clinical Research Institute (clinical trial steering committees), Harvard Clinical Research Institute (clinical trial steering committee), HMP Communications (Editor in Chief, Journal of Invasive Cardiology), Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Associate Editor), Population Health Research Institute (clinical trial steering committee), and Slack Publications (Chief Medical Editor, Cardiology Today's Intervention), WebMD (CME steering committees); and is a deputy editor of Clinical Cardiology. He has received research funding from Amarin, AstraZeneca, Biotronik, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eisai, Ethicon, Forest Laboratories, Ischemix, Medtronic, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi Aventis, St. Jude Medical, and The Medicines Company, and has performed unfunded research for FlowCo, PLx Pharma, and Takeda. He is a trustee of the American College of Cardiology. A.Q. declares no competing interests.