Online Appendix for the following JACC article TITLE: The Coalition to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes (CREDO): Why CREDO Matters to Cardiologists AUTHORS: Clyde W. Yancy, MD, Tracy Y. Wang, MD, MHS, MSc, Hector O. Ventura, MD, Ileana l. Piña, MD, MPH, Krishnoswami Vijayaraghavan, MD, MS, Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, Laura Lee Hall, PhD, for the CREDO Advisory Group APPENDIX Table S1 CREDO Advisory Group Advisory Group Co-Chairs Clyde W. Yancy, MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP Tracy Y. Wang, MD, MHS Medical Director Assistant Professor of Medicine Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute Duke Clinical Research Institute Chief, Cardiothoracic Transplantation Durham, NC Baylor University Medical Center Dallas, TX Hector O. Ventura, MD, FACC Co-Chair, National Hispanic Cardiologists Leadership Network Director, Cardiovascular Disease Training Program and Education Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute Professor of Medicine Tulane University School of Medicine New Orleans, Louisiana Advisory Group Members Dee Baker Amos Paul N. Casale, MD, FACC National Senior Manager, Cultural Health Initiatives Chapter President, Pennsylvania American Heart Association Medical Director of Quality Dallas, TX Chief, Division of Cardiology Medical Director of Cardiology Lancaster General Hospital Lancaster, PA Paul S. Chan, MD, MSc Marshall Chin, MD, MPH Mid America Heart Institute Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Finding Kansas City, MO Answers: Disparities Research for Change National Program Office Associate Professor of Medicine University of Chicago Chicago, IL Adolph Falcon Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, FACC Vice President for Science and Policy Adjunct Clinical Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine The National Alliance for Hispanic Health Clinical Professor, Emory University Washington, DC Chief Science Officer Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC), Inc. Atlanta, Georgia Gordon L. Fung, MD, MPH, PhD, FACC Tawara D. Goode, MA Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF Director, National Center for Cultural Competence Director, UCSF Asian Heart & Vascular Center Georgetown University Center for Child & Human Development Governor, Northern CA, ACC Washington, DC President, California Chapter, ACC San Francisco, CA Marcia Jackson, PhD Robert C. Like, MD, MS President Professor and Director CME by Design Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity Santee, SC Department of Family Medicine UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School New Brunswick, NJ Aravinda Nanjundappa, MD, FACC, FSCAI, RVT Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH, FAHA, FACC Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery Professor of Medicine West Virginia University Associate Vice Chair for Quality Charleston, WV Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center Associate Director and Director of CV Research Duke Clinical Research Institute Durham, NC Ileana L. Piña, MD, FACC, FAHA Sarah H. Scholle, DrPH, MPH Chair of Science and Policy Workgroup of the National Assistant Vice President of Research and Analysis Hispanic Cardiologists Leadership Network National Committee for Quality Assurance Professor of Medicine Washington, DC Case Western Reserve University Heart Failure/Transplant VA Quality Scholar, Louis Stokes VA Medical Center Cleveland, OH Yabiz Sedghi, MD Joanna D. Sikkema, MSN, ARNP Ochsner Clinic Foundation Director, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program, University of New Orleans, LA Miami Clinical Nurse Practitioner, Whole Health Management Miami, FL President Elect Preventive Cardiology Nurses AssociationKrishnoswami Vijayaraghavan, MD, MS, FACC, Karol E. Watson. MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA FACP Director, Center for Lipid and Hypertension Management Chapter President-Elect/ACC Governor-Elect for Arizona Co-Director, Program in Preventive Cardiology Medical Director, CV Division Assistant Professor of Medicine Scottsdale Clinical Research Institute Division of Cardiology Scottsdale, AZ David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Los Angeles, CA Table S2: Author Relationships with Industry and Other Entities Writing Group Member Employmen t Consultant Speaker Ownership/ Partnership / Principal Research Clyde W. Yancy Baylor University Medical Center Duke Clinical Research Institute None None None None None None None Ochsner Heart and vascular Institute University Hospitals, Case None Actelion; Gilead Solvay; FDA; Sanofi/Aventis None Tracy Y. Wang Hector O. Ventura Ileana l. Piña Institutional, Organizational, or Other Financial Benefit None Expert Witness None None None Eli Lilly/Daiichi Sankyo Alliance; Schering Plough; BMS/Sanofi Partnership; Heartscape, Inc.; The Medicines Company None None None None None None None None Krishnoswami Vijayaraghavan Laura Lee Hall Keith C. Ferdinand Medical Center Scottsdale Clinical Research Institute American College of Cardiology Emory University; Morehouse School of Medicine Gilead; BMS None Roche; Merck; Forest; Takeda; Astra Zeneca Abbott; Forrest; GSK; Novartis None None None None None MSP; sanofi; Amogen; Johnson and Johnson None Midwestern University College of Medicine None None Novartis; Daiichi Sankyo None None Video 1: Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Journey Back to Heart Health. http://www.cardiosmart.org/cardiacrehab.aspx None