Editor-in-Chief
Eugenio Picano, PhD, MD
Research Director at Italian National Research Council,CNR, Italy.
Associate Editors
Maria Grazia Andreassi, PhD
Interests: genetics; molecular epidemiology; congenital heart disease; atherosclerosis; medical ionizing radiation
Research Director of CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Pisa, Italy.
Andrea Borghini, PhD
Interests: cardiovascular genetics and epigenetics; molecular epidemiology; radiobiology
Researcher at Institute of Clinical Physiology - National Research Council (IFC-CNR), Pisa, Italy.
Jelena Čelutkienė, PhD, MD
Interests: public health; circulatory system diseases; advanced heart failure; acute heart failure; cardiac shock wave therapy
Professor and Chief Researcher at Faculty of Medicine, Clinic of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Undurti Das, PhD, MD
Interests: polyunsaturated fatty acids; cytokines; free radicals; antioxidants; nitric oxide
CEO/CSO of UND Life Sciences, USA; Adjunct Professor of Biosciences and Medicine, Sri Ramachandra Medical University, Chennai, India.
Patrizio Lancellotti, PhD, MD
Interests: cardiovascular imaging; valvular heart disease; interventional structural heart disease
Director of the Interdisciplinary Cluster for Applied Genoproteomics Cardiovascular Science Unit (GIGA) at the University of Liege, Liege, Belgium.
Miodrag Ostojic, MD
Interests: ischemic heart disease; stable and acute; prevention and epidemiology; stress echocardiography; myocardial revascularization; interventional cardiology
Emeritus Professor at Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Karina Wierzbowska-Drabik, PhD, MD
Interests: echocardiography; diastolic function; strain echocardiography; stress tests; coronary artery disease
Professor of Department of Internal Diseases and Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland.
Editorial Board Members
Alexandre Abizaid, PhD, MD
Interests: structural heart interventions; aortic stenosis
Chief of Coronary Interventions at Institute Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia, São Paulo, Brazil.
Varga Albert, PhD, MD
Interests: cardiac imaging; echocardiography; stress echocardiography; ischemic heart disease; heart failure; pulmonary hyprtension
Professor of Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Cardiology Center and Institute of Family Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
Alireza Ansari-Moghaddam, PhD
Interests: epidemiologic studies; health education and promotion; malaria; descriptive statistics
Director of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Health Promotion Research Center at Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.
David S.H Bell, MD
Interests: endocrinology and metabolism; diabetes; diabetic complications; cardioendocrinology
Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA.
Michael Brainin, PhD, MD
Interests: stroke; stroke prevention; cardiovascular disease; acute therapy; epidemiology; clinical trials
Senior professor of neurology at the Danube University Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria.
Rochelle Buffenstein, PhD
Interests: aging and cancer biology; heart and vessels; energetic; comparative vertebrate physiology
Research Professor at Calico Life Sciences and University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, USA.
Ji-min Cao, MD, PhD
Interests: arrhythmia; cardiac remodeling; autonomic nerve; circadian rhythm; nanomedicine
Professor, Chair, Department of Physiology, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China; Director, Key Laboratory of Cellular Physiology (at Shanxi Medical University), Ministry of Education, China
Chiara Caselli, PhD
Interests: cardiovascular; molecular biology; biochemistry; endocrinology
Researcher at the Institute of Clinical Physiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, the Consiglio National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy.
William C.W. Chen, MD, PhD
Interests: cardiovascular pathophysiology; regenerative medicine; synthetic and systems biology; adult stem cells; biomaterials
Assistant Professor at Division of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, USA.
Jader Cruz, PhD
Interests: cardiac arrhythmias; cardiac function; cell biology; antioxidants
Full Professor at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Tousoulis Dimitrois, PhD, MD
Interests: coronary artery disease; atherosclerosis; inflammation; vascular endothelium; diabetes mellitus and heart
Professor of Cardiology at Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece.
Jie Du, PhD
Interests: hypertension; heart failure; blood pressure; atherosclerosis; cardiovascular medicine; cardiac function; chronic heart failure; cardiomyopathies
Professor of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Dmitry Duplyakov, MD, PhD
Interests: pulmonary embolism; cardiomyopathies; myocardial infarction; sudden death; syncope
Professor of Cardiology, Chair of Internal Medicine Department, Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russian Federation.
Sam El-Osta, PhD
Interests: epigenetics; DNA methylation; chromatin; transcriptional regulation; CVD; Takotsubo
Professor of Epigenetics in Human Health and Disease Program, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.
Dirk M. Hermann, MD
Interests: ischemia; brain tissue remodeling; blood-brain barrier; angiogenesis
Professor of Vascular Neurology, Dementia and Ageing Research, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Geu-Ru Hong, MD, PhD
Interests: cardiac imaging; echocardiography including contrast, 3D and stress echocardiography; valvular heart disease; cardiomyopathies including hypertrophic and Fabry cardiomyopathy, and structural heart intervention
Professor at Division of Cardiology, Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Réda Ibrahim, PhD
Interests: cardiovascular surgery; cardiovascular interventions; heart failure
Professor at Institut de Cardiologie de Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
Ping Liang, PhD, MD
Interests: cardiac channelopathies; arrhythmias and cardiac electrophysiology; inherited cardiomyopathies; induced pluripotent stem cells
Professor of Institute of Translational Medicine, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Zhejiang, China.
Guoliang Meng, PhD, MD
Interests: atherosclerosis; diabetic cardiomyopathy; myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury; myocardial hypertrophy; vascular endothelial dysfunction
Professor at Nantong Universtiy, Nantong, China.
Erkin Mirrakhimov, PhD, MD
Interests: arterial hypertension; atherosclerosis; coronary artery disease; cardiovascular disease prevention; heart failure
Professor, Chair of Internal Medicine of Kyrgyz State Medical Academy, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Tatsuya Morimoto, PhD, MD
Interests: heart failure; cardiovascular; molecular medicine; epigenetic regulation
Professor and Chairman at Division of Molecular Medicine, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan.
Tasneem Z Naqvi, MD
Interests: echocardiography; pacemaker optimization; heart failure; valvular heart disease; subclinical atherosclerosis imaging; preventive cardiology
Professor of Mayo College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Immediate Past Chair Echocardiography Arizona, Scottsdale, USA.
Mohamad Navab, PhD
Interests: HDL; mimetic peptides; atherosclerosis
Professor, Project Leader at UCLA Division of Cardiology, Los Angeles, USA.
Brian North, PhD
Interests: aging; cancer; biomedical
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, USA.
Gaetano Nucifora, PhD, MD
Interests: cardiac imaging; echocardiography; clinical cardiology; cardiomyopathies
Consultant Cardiologist at University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, the United Kingdom.
Norbert Pfeiffer, MD
Interests: small vessel disease in the eye; effects of diabetes; age related macular degeneration; glaucoma; systemic risk factors
Head of Department of Ophthalmology, Full Professor of Ophthalmology at Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Fausto Pinto, PhD, MD
Interests: cardiovascular Imaging; echocardiography; global health; digital health; ischemic heart disease; heart failure; atrial fibrillation; hypertension; dyslipidemia
Head of Cardiovascular Department, Full Professor, University Hospital, Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Bertram Pitt, PhD
Interests: infarction; heart function tests; pregnanes; natriuretic agents
Professor Emeritus/a of MM Internal Medicine - Cardiology, Center Member of Samuel and Jean Frankel Cardiovascular Center, Ann Arbor, USA.
Sergio Raposeiras Roubin, PhD, MD
Interests: clinical cardiology; heart failure; acute coronary syndrome; cardiology; cardiovascular system
Senior Researcher in Alvaro Cunqueiro Hospital, Pontevedra, Spain.
Hemachandra Reddy, PhD
Interests: drug discovery; aging; neurodegenerative diseases; Alzheimer's; gene expression analysis
Tenured Professor and Vice Chair Research of Basic and Translational Sciences Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA.
Jean-Jacques Schott, PhD
Interests: genetics; genomics; sudden cardiac death; cardiac arrythmias; mitral & aortic valve defects
Team Leader of Human Genetics and Senior Director of Research(DR1 Inserm) at Nantes University, Nantes, France.
Cristina Sena, PhD
Interests: diabetes mellitus; insulin resistance; glucose metabolism; metabolic diseases; nutrition
Professor at University of Coimbra, Lisbon, Portugal.
Patrick Serruys, PhD, MD
Interests: intervention; imaging & diagnostics; prevention & chronic conditions
Professor of Interventional Medicine and Innovation, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.
Jasjit S. Suri, PhD
Interests: cardiovascular; preventive cardiology; artificial intelligence; internal medicine; imaging
Chairperson of AtheroPoint, Roseville, USA. Fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Washington, USA. Fellow of Asia Pacific Vascular Society, New Delhi, India.
XiaoYong Tong, PhD, MD
Interests: atherosclerosis; cardiovascular diseases; aortic aneurysm; hypertension; pulmonary hypertension; muscle atrophy
Professor at Chongqing University, Chongqing, China.
Jeffrey A. Towbin, MD
Interests: pediatric cardiomyopathy; pediatric heart failure; pediatric heart transplant; cardiovascular genetics
Tenured Professor and Vice Chair of Pediatrics for Strategic Advancement at University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, United States. Bob and Paula McEniry Endowed Chair of Cardiology and Executive Co-Director at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, USA.
Teresa Tsang, MD
Interests: echocardiography; feature extraction; image classification; image registration; image segmentation
Professor in the Division of Cardiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Christiaan J.M. Vrints, PhD
Interests: chronic heart failure; coronary artery disease; cardiogenic shock
Professor at Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen, Edegem, Belgium.
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