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The current ACC Board of Trustees consists of 14 college members. The president of ACC leads the board of trustees for a one-year term. Members of the board of governors serve as grassroots liaisons between the local chapters and the college's national headquarters. Athena Poppas, MD, FACC, was the president for 2020–2021.
During his tenure as president of the ACC, between 2002 and 2003, [4] Fye tackled some of the effects of Clinton health care plan of 1993, which had highlighted the high number of specialists and a need for generalists, with the result that between 1994 and 2000, fellowship appointments fell by nearly a third. [9]
He served as President of the ASE in 2008-2009 and President of the American College of Cardiology in 2012-2013; he served on the ACC Board of Trustees from 2001-2015. [ 3 ] [ 10 ] During his ACC presidency, he promoted the practice of educating patients and encouraging them to be actively involved in their own healthcare.
He has board certifications in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, nuclear medicine, nuclear cardiology, and cardiovascular computed tomography. [2] He has served on the faculty of the Pritzker School of Medicine, the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, and in 2013 at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago where he managed the Urban Cardiology Initiative.
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He completed internal medicine internship and residency at the University of California, San Francisco (1991–1994), and did a cardiology fellowship at the University of Colorado (1995–1999), where he received a doctoral degree in Epidemiology in 1999.
Dr. A. Jamil Tajik is an active member of professional societies and organization including the American Heart Association (AHA), American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Society of Electrocardiography (ASE), International Society of Cardiovascular Ultrasound (ISCU) and Heart Valve Society of America (HVSA).
Bavaria served as the 52nd president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) from 2016 to 2017, the 3rd President of the Thoracic Surgery Foundation (TSF) (2019-2022), the Chairman of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons/ACC TVT Registry Steering Committee (2017-2020) [c] and an International Councilor of the European Association for Cardio ...