Pericarditis: State of the Art Issues in Diagnosis, Pathophysiology and Treatment

Allan L. Klein, MD, FRCP(C), FACC, FAHA, FASE, FESC, FBSE

Allan Klein, MD is the Director of the Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pericardial Diseases and a staff cardiologist in the Section of Cardiovascular Imaging, the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, at the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart Vascular and Thoracic Institute. He is the medical director of the HVTI Unique Populations Center/Umbrella. He served as Director of CV Imaging Research for 24 years. Dr. Klein is board-certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine. He is a past president of the American Society of Echocardiography and president of the National Board of Echocardiography. He is also the Course Director for Valve Imaging Summit—currently his 28th course. He is Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western University. A Canadian by birth, Dr. Klein speaks French and English.