David Garcia, MD, President, Anticoagulation Forum      Dr. David Garcia completed an undergraduate degree at Duke University and received his medical degree from the University of Alabama. After finishing internship, residency and chief residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Garcia joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 1999 as a hospitalist. He is the co-director of the university’s Anticoagulation Management Service and is the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in the Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Garcia has been an investigator in numerous clinical trials of anticoagulant medications for the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic disease. He is the President of the Anticoagulation Forum, a national interest group focused on the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic disease. Dr. Garcia’s primary research interests include the treatment of warfarin-associated coagulopathy and peri-procedural anticoagulation for patients with mechanical heart valves. He has authored or co-authored peer-reviewed publications in journals such as the Archives of Internal Medicine, Chest, Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, Geriatric Clinics of North America, ACP Journal Club, the British Journal of Hematology and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Since 2002, Dr. Garcia has been a member of the editorial board of the journal Thrombosis Research. <