SEC FORM 3 SEC Form 3
FORM 3 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
 
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
ERB JOHN L

(Last) (First) (Middle)
12988 VALLEY VIEW ROAD

(Street)
EDEN PRAIRIE MN 55344

(City) (State) (Zip)
2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
09/12/2012
3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Sunshine Heart, Inc. [ SSH ]
4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
X Director 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One Reporting Person
Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4) 2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4) 3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5) 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4) 2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) 3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4) 4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5) 6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Explanation of Responses:
Remarks:
No securities are beneficially owned.
No securities are beneficially owned.
/s/ Kassendra D. Galindo, attorney-in-fact 09/18/2012
** Signature of Reporting Person Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY


Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby
constitutes and appoints each of David Rosa, Jeff
Mathiesen, Jonathan Zimmerman, Matthew Kuhn, Kassendra
Galindo, James DeBuse, Lauren Graff, Julie Regnier,
and Brook Nuernberg, or either of them signing singly,
and with full power of substitution, the undersigned's
true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1) prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on
the undersigned's behalf, and submit to the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form
ID, including amendments thereto, and any other
documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and
passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic
filings with the SEC of reports required by Section
16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any
rule or regulation of the SEC;

(2) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in
the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or
director of Sunshine Heart, Inc. (the "Company"), Forms
3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules
thereunder;

(3) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf
of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable
to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5,
complete and execute any amendment or amendments
thereto, and timely file such form with the SEC and any
stock exchange or similar authority; and

(4) take any other action of any type whatsoever in
connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion
of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the
best interest of, or legally required by, the
undersigned, it being understood that the documents
executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall
be in such form and shall contain such terms and
conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in
such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-
in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any
and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any
of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to
all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power
of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.
The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the
request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is
the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's
responsibilities to comply with Section 16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and
effect until the undersigned is no longer required to
file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's
holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the
Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a
signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this
Power of Attorney to be executed as of this September 12,
2012.


/s/ John Erb