ROGER MILLS, MD graduated from Amherst College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. After his medical internship and residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, he completed his training in cardiology at Harvard’s Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. His thirty-year clinical career included medical directorship of the heart transplant program at the University of Florida, where he was a professor of medicine, and a subsequent appointment as a staff cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic. In 2005, he joined Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and over the next ten years held various positions including vice-president for medical affairs at Scios Inc., and senior director at Janssen Research & Development, LLC. Dr. Mills is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Cardiology, and a Senior Fellow of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions. He has served on the Editorial Board for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the American Journal of Cardiology, and Clinical Cardiology. In 2009, he received the American College of Cardiology’s Simon Dack Award for Outstanding Scholarship, and in 2012 he received the Janssen Innovation Leadership Award. In addition to his extensive medical publications, Roger is the author of Nesiritide. The Rise and Fall of Scios, The Foreword Indies 2016 Bronze Medal winner for science.