Controversies and Consensus: Identifying the Key Issues in Exercise Testing

Abstract

This discussion was moderated by Ronald J. Oudiz, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine and Director, Liu Center for Pulmonary Hypertension, Division of Cardiology, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California. Participants included: Hunter C. Champion, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Robert Naeije, MD, PhD, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology at Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium; Virginia D. Steen, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Rheumatology Fellowship Program, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC; and David Systrom, MD, Director, Cardiopulmonary Exercise Lab, Department of Medicine, Pulmonary Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.