Robyn J. Barst, MD, Professor of Pediatrics (in Medicine); Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA Dr Barst is chair of the 'Scientific Leadership Council' of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, a group of more than twenty internationally recognized leaders in the field of PAH. The mission of the SLC is 'to provide medical and scientific ... Read moreleadership for the Association by proactively facilitating the development of new knowledge about pulmonary hypertension, actively disseminating knowledge about pulmonary hypertension to medical and public audiences, and advocating and raising awareness about pulmonary hypertension. The editor and contributors are all members of the SLC, and include many well-known names including Lewis Rubin, George Simmoneau, Nazarino Galie, and David Badesch. This text is intended to be the 'official' work on the subject. Further evidence of the standing of the contributors is the medical centers involved in the SLC, which include the Mayo Clinic, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, University of California San Diego, UCLA, Duke, Rush Presbyterian, University of Colorado, University of Utah, Vanderbilt, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the University of Pennsylvania. The SLC also has international members from Italy, Ireland, Germany, and Canada. Dr Barst is? on the Editorial Board of Circulation, the official Journal of the American Heart Association, and for Chest, the official journal for the American Thoracic Society. Member of European Society of Cardiology Task Force for Primary Pulmonary Hypertension, Board Member of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. Show Less