Before It Happens To You by Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein, MD.Hardcover, 249 pages, DaCapo Press; (January 6, 2004). Click here to buy it on Amazon.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr.
Jonathan Sackner Bernstein is Director of Clinical Research at
the Heart Failure Prevention and Treatment Clinic at the Heart Failure
and Cardiomyopathy Center at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset,
New York. He has been published in Circulation, Transplantation and the
Journal of the American Medical Association. He majored in electrical
engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from Jefferson
Medical College before completing his medicine and cardiology training
at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Prior to starting the Prevention
and Treatment Clinic at North Shore, he was on the full-time faculty of
Columbia University’s medical school in New York.
Over the last year, Dr. Bernstein has presented research at the annual meetings of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology and the Heart Failure Society of America and at programs sponsored by hospitals such as Johns Hopkins, the Winters Center for Heart Failure Research at the Texas Heart Institute and Albany Medical College. He has lectured at the European Heart House, the InterAmerican College of Cardiology, the Canadian Cardiovascular Society, the International Society for Heart Research and the German Society for Prevention and Rehabilitation of Cardiovascular Disease.
He participated in the creation of treatment guidelines for Action-HF and the Heart Failure Society of America for the treatment of heart failure. Dr. Bernstein is currently a member of the Clinical Cardiology Council of the American Heart Association, the Heart Failure Society of America and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
Much of his research focuses on patients with heart failure, an advanced form of heart disease. He also has helped run international trials of heart attack treatments. His current research focuses on the treatment of fatigue in people with heart disease.
