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Mt. Sinai cardiologist to deliver Kroc Lecture Oct. 21 Cardiologist Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D., of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine will present on Oct. 21 the Department of Medicine Grand Rounds and MUSC's endowed Kroc Lecture.  His grand rounds presentation entitled “Evolving Observations by CT/MR in the Understanding of Atherothrombosis” will be held at 8 a.m. in the Institute of Psychiatry Auditorium. The Kroc Lecture, which is held annually from an endowment honoring Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's, will be at noon in the Basic Science Auditorium. It will be on the “Integration of Basic and Clinical Investigation in Cardiovascular Disease. A Future for the Young.” Fuster is director of the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and of the Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Cardiovascular Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He also is the Richard Gorlin, M.D., Heart Research Foundation Professor of Cardiology. Fuster is past president of the American Heart Association, former member of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Advisory Council, and chairman of the Fellowship Training Directors Program of the American College of Cardiology. He is the recipient of three major ongoing NIH grants, has published more than 400 articles on coronary disease, atherosclerosis and thrombosis, and has become the lead editor of a major textbook on cardiology, “The Heart” (previously edited by Dr. J. Willis Hurst). He contributed first hand to the launching of the new Forum for Young Investigators of the American Heart Association. Most recently, Fuster was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and was appointed president-elect of the World Heart Federation. In April, he received the “Gold Heart Award,” the American Heart Association's highest honor. Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.