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Mariell Jessup
President, American Heart Association
Mariell Jessup, M.D., is president of the American Heart Association for its 2013-14 fiscal year.
As president, Jessup is chief volunteer scientific and medical officer, responsible for medical, scientific and public health matters.
Jessup is medical director of the Penn Heart and Vascular Center, professor of medicine and associate chief-clinical affairs at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. She is a nationally recognized expert in heart failure and co-editor of Heart Failure: Providing Optimal Care and A Clinician’s Guide to Heart Failure Management in the Ambulatory Setting.
An American Heart Association volunteer for more than 15 years, Jessup was chairperson of the organization’s Committee on Scientific Sessions Program in 2009 and 2010, and chaired the committee that created the 2009 revision of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Guidelines for the Management of Congestive Heart Failure.