Reviewer	Representation	Employment	Consultant	Speakers Bureau	Ownership/Partnership/Principal	Personal Research	Institutional, Organizational, or Other Financial Benefit	Expert Witness
Siqin Kye Ye	ACC/AHA TFPM Lead Reviewer	Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health–Assistant Professor of Medicine; Cardiology Inpatient Consultation Service–Director; Columbia Doctors–Associate Chief Medical Officer	None	None	None	None	None	None
John L. Jefferies	Official ACC	University of Tennessee Health Science Center–Jay M. Sullivan Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine, Chief of Cardiology	Abbott* Amicus AstraZeneca Bayer* CHF Solutions* Medtronic* Myokardia Protalix Sanofi Genzyme* Stealth Biotherapeutic	Ambry Genetics Pfizer Sanofi Genzyme*	None	None	None	None
Pam Peterson	Official ACC	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus–Professor of Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center	AHA*	None	None	NHLBI†	None	None
Howard J. Eisen	Official AHA	Penn State College of Medicine–Chief, Division of Cardiology	None	None	None	None	None	None
Janet N. Scheel	Official AHA	Washington University School of Medicine/St. Louis Children’s Hospital–Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiologist	None	None	None	None	None	None
Robert John Mentz	Official HFSA	Duke University School of Medicine–Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Professor in Population Health Sciences, Member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute	Abbott Akros Amgen* Bayer* Boehringer Ingelheim* HeartWare Janssen Luitpold Pharmaceutical Merck* Novartis* Sanofi-Aventis Thoratec	None	None	American Regent† Amgen† AstraZeneca† Bayer† Bristol-Myers Squibb† Gilead Sciences† GlaxoSmithKline† Luitpold Pharmaceuticals† Medtronic† Merck† Novartis† Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co.† Resmed† Vifor	None	None
Mary Norine Walsh	Content ACC	St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana–Medical Director Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation	None	None	None	None	EBR Systems Thoratec‡ Uppsala University‡	None
Eldrin F. Lewis	Content AHA	Brigham and Women’s Hospital–Associate Physician; Harvard Medical School–Associate Professor of Medicine	Amgen† DalCor* Novartis*	None	None	Amgen* Merck* NIH (NHLBI)* Novartis*	None	Defendant, Sudden death, 2019
Nancy M. Albert	Content ACC/AHA	Research and Innovation, Cleveland Clinic Health System & CNS/Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute–Associate Chief Nursing Officer	AstraZeneca Boston Scientific† Novartis	Novartis	None	Novartis†	HFSA†	None
Sana M. Al-Khatib	Content ACC/AHA	Duke University School of Medicine–Professor of Medicine, Member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute	Medtronic Milestone Pharmaceuticals	None	None	Abbott FDA* Medtronic NHLBI* PCORI*	Abbott AHA* Bristol-Myers Squibb Medtronic Pfizer	Plaintiff, patient died of VT due to QT-prolonging meds, 2018 Plaintiff, SCD, 2018 Plaintiff, SCD Prevention, 2018
Anita Deswal	Content ACC/AHA	Baylor College of Medicine–Chief, Medicine-Cardiology, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center & Baylor College of Medicine; Professor, Medicine-Cardiology, Winters Center for Heart Failure Research	None	None	None	NIH*	ACC/AHA HFSA†	None
Mona Fiuzat	Content ACC/AHA	Duke University School of Medicine–Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Medicine	None	None	None	Roche*	None	None
Adrian F. Hernandez	Content ACC/AHA	Duke University School of Medicine–Vice Dean for Clinical Research	Amgen AstraZeneca Bayer BioFourmis Boehringer Ingelheim Boston Scientific* Merck Novartis* Pfizer Relypsa Sanofi-Aventis Xogenex	None	None	American Regent AstraZeneca* Daiichi Sankyo Eidos (DSMB) Genentech GlaxoSmithKline* Luitpold Pharmaceuticals NIH† Merck Novartis* PCORI† Verily*	AHA†	Defendant, patent dispute, 2019
J. Herb Patterson	Content ACC/AHA	UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy–Interim Chair, Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics, Professor of Pharmacy, Research Professor of Medicine	Novartis*	None	None	Amgen† Boehringer Ingelheim† Merck† Novartis†	None	None
Andrea Russo	Content ACC/AHA	Cooper Medical School of Rowan University–Professor of Medicine and Director; Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Services–Director; Cardiovascular Research Cooper University Hospital Dorrance #393–Program Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship	None	None	None	None	Apple† Boehringer Ingelheim‡ Boston Scientific‡‡ Kaestra‡ MediLynx‡ UpToDate	None
Paul Varosy	Content ACC/AHA	VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System–Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology	None	None	None	Research Grant Funding: PI Career Development Award, Co-Investigator VA Merit Review Grant*	AHA†	None

This table represents all relationships of reviewers with industry and other entities that were reported at the time of peer review, including those not deemed to be relevant to this document, at the time this document was under review. The table does not necessarily reflect relationships with industry at the time of publication. A person is deemed to have a significant interest in a business if the interest represents ownership of ≥5% of the voting stock or share of the business entity, or ownership of ≥$5,000 of the fair market value of the business entity; or if funds received by the person from the business entity exceed 5% of the person’s gross income for the previous year. Relationships that exist with no financial benefit are also included for the purpose of transparency. Relationships in this table are modest unless otherwise noted. Names are listed in alphabetical order within each category of review. Please refer to http://www.acc.org/guidelines/about-guidelines-and-clinical-documents/relationships-with-industry-policy for definitions of disclosure categories or additional information about the ACC/AHA Disclosure Policy for Writing Committees.

^*Significant (greater than $5,000) relationship.

^†No financial relationship.

^‡This disclosure was entered under the Clinical Trial Enroller category in the ACC’s disclosure system.

ACC indicates American College of Cardiology; AHA, American Heart Association; CNS, Clinical Nurse Specialist; DSMB, Data Safety and Monitoring Board; FDA, U. S. Food and Drug Administration; HFSA, Heart Failure Society of America; NHLBI, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; NIH, National Institutes of Health; PCORI, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute; PI, principal investigator; SCD, sudden cardiac death; TFPM, Task Force on Performance Measures; UNC, University of North Carolina; VA, Veterans Administration; and VT, ventricular tachycardia.