Putting it all together: When will the guidelines catch up?

Cindy L. Grines, MD, MSCAI, FACC, Chief Scientific Officer, Northside Hospital Cardiovascular Institute. Dr. Cindy Grines provides world-renowned knowledge, research and thinking about interventional cardiology – nonsurgical, minimally invasive procedures that rely on small flexible tubes called catheters to treat heart disease. Dr. Grines is the chief scientific officer of Northside Cardiovascular Institute as well as the incoming president of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. Dr. Grines is a board-certified physician in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology. She pioneered primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for heart attacks. She has a long history of research, publications and clinical trial design with more than 500 publications and numerous book chapters and review chapters. Dr. Grines serves on the editorial boards of several major journals nationally and internationally, and she has co-edited several medical handbooks.