Experts Available to Discuss Study on Silent Strokes

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TOPIC: Researchers found that 10 percent of what appeared to be
healthy middle-aged people had suffered a silent stroke, according to
an article by United Press International. Researchers, who reviewed
routine MRIs of the 2,000 study participants, also found people with
atrial fibrillation, a common form of heart arrhythmia, were twice as
likely to experience a silent stroke. The study appears in Stroke:
Journal of the American Heart Association.

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Dr. Mason Weiss, of the Centinela Hospital Medical Center in
Inglewood, Calif., received both his undergraduate and medical degree
from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He then completed an
internship at The Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal as well as
medical residencies at both St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto and
Toronto General Hospital. Dr. Weiss then completed a cardiology
fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He has been
an active member in medical societies such as American College of
Cardiology, American Heart Association, Society for Cardiac
Angiography and Interventions, American College of Chest Physicians
and American College of Angiology, as well as the Society of
Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. He holds board certifications from
the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of
Internal Medicine: Cardiovascular Diseases and the American Board of
Internal Medicine: Interventional Cardiology.

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Richard Bankowitz, MD, MBA, FACP, vice president and medical
director for healthcare informatics at Premier, Inc., has devoted his
career to improving healthcare quality at the national level by
promoting rigorous, data-driven approaches to quality. Bankowitz
developed interests in computers and programming during high school
and college. During these years, he gained experience programming in
the BASIC computer language. His interest in computers and programming
were set aside prior to starting medical school. Bankowitz earned his
MD degree at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in
1983. Later that year, he began an internal medicine residency program
at Pitt. At the time, Gerald Levy, MD, was chair of the department of
medicine, and Michael Karpf, MD, was division chief of general
internal medicine.

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