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Date of Conference	Name of Conference	Title	Authors
05/08/2006	AHA Outcomes Conference	Heart Failure Telemonitoring: A Comparison of 8-Year Trends with Non-Telemonitoring Heart Failure Patients	Albert, Maria; Weintraub, William; DiSabatino, Angela; Kolm, Paul G., Resnick, Patty
05/08/2006	AHA Outcomes Conference	The Influence of Gender and Age on Primary Percutaneous Intervention Door to Balloon Times	Bittner, Lynne; Weintraub, William S.; O'Connor, Robert E., MD; Hopkins, James; Davis, Karen; 'Kathy Sullivan'; Reese, Charles L. IV , MD; DiSabatino, Angela
05/08/2006	AHA Outcomes Conference	Low Rates of Obesity Screening and Diagnosis in High Risk Urban Women	Ehrenthal Deborah B., Ewen Edward F., Maxwell Lisa C.
05/08/2006	AHA Outcomes Conference	Short-term success of a weight management program for urban minority women	Ehrenthal, Deborah B; Kolb, Katherine; O’Neill, Elizabeth A.; O’Neill Jennifer N.; Hallman Charity
05/08/2006	AHA Outcomes Conference	Cost-Effectiveness of Clopidogrel in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction.	Zefeng, Zhang; Kolm, Paul; Spiesser, Julie; Jackson, Joe; Gabriel, Sylvie; Zhao, Liping; Weintraub, William S.
05/08/2006	AHA Outcomes Conference	Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers used in combination with Spironolactone and the Risk of Admission Hyperkalemia in Heart Failure Patients	Corbo, Terri, Pharm.D., BCPS and Mehring, Collette DO, Ewen, Edward F.
05/08/2006	AHA Outcomes Conference	Risk Factor Differences between Impaired Glucose Tolerance and Impaired Fasting Glucose	Phillips, Lawrence S.; Ziemer, David; Vaccarino, Viola; Foster, Javonne; Weintraub, William S.; Kolm, Paul
05/08/2006	AHA Outcomes Conference	The Extent and Severity of Inducible Myocardial Ischemia Correlates with Angina Stability and Physical Limitations: Results from the Courage Nuclear Core Laboratory	Veledar Emir; Berman Daniel; Weintraub William S.; Zhang Zefeng; Casperson Paul; Vaccarino Viola; Hartigan Pamela; O'Rourke Robert; Boden William; Spertus John; Shaw Leslee
05/08/2006	AHA Outcomes Conference	Comparison of In-Hospital Outcomes in Diabetics and Non-Diabetics Using the Paclitaxel and Sirolimus Drug Eluting Stents: Results from ACC-NCDR	Veledar, Emir; Klein, Lloyd; Rao, Sunil; Brindis, Ralph; Kolm, Paul Shaw, Richard; Anderson, Grant; Novik, Olga; Vaccarino, Viola; Abramson, Jerome; Weintraub, William S.
05/08/2006	AHA Outcomes Conference	Prospective Safety Evaluation of Traditional vs. Flexible Telemetry	Zubrow, Marc T. MD; Ellicott, Alison, RN; Seckel, Maureen, RN
11/12/2006	AHA	Elevated Troponins and Kidney Function in Heart Failure Patients: Is there an Association?	Claudine Jurkovitz, MD, MPH, William S. Weintraub, MD and Edward Ewen, MD. Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware;
11/12/2006	AHA	Cost-Effectiveness of Clopidogrel in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction	Zhang Z, Kolm P, Spiesser J, Jackson J, Gabriel S, Zhao L, Weintraub WS
11/12/2006	AHA	Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Intravenous Enoxaparin Versus Unfractionated Heparin in Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Results From the STEEPLE Trial	Zhao L, Ewen E, Zhang Z, Bowen J, Jurkovitz C, Leguet P, Kolm P, Weintraub WS
11/14/2006	ASN	Effect of Obesity on Mortality in Patients at High Risk for Kidney Disease: Results from KEEP	Claudine Jurkovitz, MD,1,2, Suying Li, PhD2, George Bakris, MD2, Wendy Brown, MD2, Peter McCullough, MD2, Joseph Vassalotti, MD2, Janet McGill, MD2, Ajay Singh, MD2 and Keith Norris, MD2. 1Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware; 2KEEP Steering Committee, National Kidney Foundation, New York, NY, United States.
11/14/2006	ASN	Impact of obesity on the risk of pregnancy-induced hypertension	Deborah B. Ehrenthal, Claudine Jurkovitz, Matt Hoffman, James Bowen, Milt Gottschall, Barbara Temple, William Weintraub. Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE
10/16/2006	SMDM- Society of Medical Decision Making	The Impact of Eplerenone on the Patients’ Health Status: Results from EPHESUS.	Zefeng Zhang, Paul Kolm, John Spertus Liping Zhao, Claudine Jurkovitz, Marion Kzsav, Richard Willke, William Weintraub.