Edited by Catriona Jennings, Cardiovascular Specialist Research Nurse, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Imperial College London, UK, Ian Graham, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, and Stephan Gielen, Deputy Director, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Halle/Saale, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenburg, Germany

Catriona Jennings is a cardiac specialist nurse and the European Research Nurse coordinator for EUROACTION and EUROASPIRE III in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.

Ian Graham qualified in medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. He trained in the Adelaide and St. Vincent's Hospitals in Dublin, and at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England. He held the post of MRC Research Fellow and, later, Director of Research at St. Vincent's Hospital and was also Director of Research at the Irish Heart Foundation. He is past president of the Irish Heart Foundation, the Irish Hyperlipidaemia Association, and of the Dublin University Biological Association. He also founded the Irish Cardiac Surgery Register. Awards and distinctions have included a Medical Research Council Fellowship, an ISFC Cardiovascular Epidemiology Fellowship, the first Stokes Lectureship in Dublin and an EU Travelling Fellowship at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and Fellowships of the European Society of Cardiology and of the American College of Chest Physicians. He is an honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Stephan Gielen is the Deputy Director & Head of Department of the University Clinic & Clinic for Internal Medicine III in Halle (Saale), Germany. He was President of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) from 2012-2014, and is Speaker of the Working Group of Preventive Cardiology of the German Society of Cardiology, and Vice Speaker of the Working Group on Cardiac Diseases in the Elderly. After his medical education at the University of Bochum, Germany, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA, he started his internship at Heidelberg University before moving to Leipzig in 1997.

Ian Graham, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Catriona Jennings, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Imperial College London, UK
Rod Jackson, School of Population Health, Auckland, New Zealand
Marie-Therese Cooney, St. Vincent's Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin, Ireland
Pascale Benlian, University of Lille, France
Guy De Backer, Division of Cardiology, University of Ghent, Belgium
Paul Leeson, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Harry Boardman, University Hospitals Oxford, UK
Christian Albus, Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University of Colonge, Germany
Serena Tonstad, The School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, California, USA; Department of Endocrinology, Morbid Obesity and Preventive Medicine, Section for Preventive Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
Andrew Pipe, Division of Prevention and Rehabilitation, University of Ottawa, Canada
Alessandro Mezzani, Cardiac Rehabilitation Division, Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, IRCCS, Veruno Scientific Institute, Veruno, Italy
Renata Cifkova, Center for Cardiovascular Prevention, Thomayer University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
Zeljiko Reiner, University Hospital Center Zagreb, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Miles Fisher, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, UK
Susan Connolly, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK
Graham Jackson, London Bridge Hospital, UK
Felicity Astin, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust and University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK
Massimo Piepoli, Heart Failure Unit, G Da Saliceto Hospital, Piacenza, Italy
Irene Gibson, West of Ireland Cardiac Foundation, Croi Heart and Stroke Centre, Galway, Ireland
Kathy Whyte, Charlemont Clinic, Dublin, Ireland
Kornelia Kotseva, Imperial College London, UK

"The handbook touches upon all important aspects and issues of preventive cardiology. By ensuring new insights, it facilitates faster identification and more successful resolution of complex organizational problems...this handbook represents a useful resource for all professionals working in the field of prevention, ranging from students of biomedicine and health care workers to administrators of the health care system and media representatives." - Mario Ivanua, Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation