EIF: National Initiatives

•	Overview
•	Public Education Campaign
•	NCRI Grantees
•	Celebrity Ambassadors
•	Major Donors
•	Important Facts

To help guide our efforts, we are privileged to fund scientists at centers of excellence throughout the country. NCRI grantees are:

NCRI SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Prediman K. Shah, M.D
Chair, NCRI Scientific Advisory Board
Alfredo Trento, M.D.
Daniel S. Berman, M.D.
John D. Friedman, M.D.

Northwestern University Medical School

Robert O. Bonow, M.D.

University of Virginia Health System

George A. Beller, M.D.

Mount Sinai Medical Center

Valentin Fuster, M.D. Ph.D.

University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine

Bartley P. Griffith, M.D.

PATIENT OUTREACH & CARE

The Larry King Cardiac Foundation

Stephen S. Perry Jr.
President and CEO

The Heart of a Child Foundation
UCLA School of Medicine

Hillel Laks, M.D.

Dr. P.K. Shah, Director of Cardiology and the Atherosclerosis Research Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and chair of NCRI's Scientific Advisory Board