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This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
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New HRS president: N. A. Mark Estes, III, M.D., is the new president of the Heart Rhythm Society, taking the helm from Bruce D. Lindsay, M.D., Cleveland Clinic, at HRS' annual conference in San Francisco, May 17. Lindsay recently left Washington University in St. Louis to become director of electrophysiology at the Cleveland Clinic office (1"The Gray Sheet" Jan. 28, 2008, p. 19). Estes is chief of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Center at the New England Medical Center Hospital in Boston and a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine
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