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Dr. Lofty Basta, MD, FRCP, FACC graduated from Ain-Shams University in Cairo, where he served as resident, instructor, and assistant professor in its Cardiology Department. Dr. Basta trained at the Royal Infirmary in Scotland, the post-graduate Medical School of London, and the University of Iowa. He has served as professor of medicine and head of the Cardiovascular Section at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (1974); founder of the Tulsa Heart Center (1976); and professor of medicine and director of the Division of Cardiology at the University of South Florida (1993). Currently he is a clinical professor of medicine at UCSF. Dr. Basta is the author of Cardiology for the Primary Care Physician, Graceful Exit, and Life and Death on Your Own Terms as well as numerous medical textbook chapters on end-of-life medical care. He is devoted to the plight of minorities in the Middle East and has been in contact with religious leaders, heads of parties, and ministers in Egypt.