Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief

John Somberg, MD
Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Cardiology & Pharmacology, Rush University, USA
Research areas: Cardiology,  Cardiac pharmacology
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Editorial Board

Adrian Baranchuk, MD, Prof.
Queen's University, Ontario, Canada 
Research areas: Sleep apnea, Cardiovascular disease, ECG medical education, Cardiac arrhythmia, Electrophysiology
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Vanessa Bianconi, MD, PhD, Associate Prof.
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Perugia, Italy
Research areas: Atherosclerosis, Lipid metabolism
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Andreas Brodehl, PhD, MSc.
Erich and Hanna Klessmann Institute, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, University Hospital of the Ruhr-University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
Research areas: Cardiomyopathies
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Ming-Ren Chen, MD, Dr.
Department of Pediatrics, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Research areas: Pediatric cardiology, Image studies including echocardiography, CT, etc.
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Bernard Man Yung Cheung, MD, FRCP, Prof.
Division of Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong; Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
Research areas: Hypertension, Cardiology
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Luca Cucullo, PhD, Dr., Prof.
Department of Foundational Medical Studies, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, MI, USA
Research areas: Blood-brain barrier, cerebrovascular, stroke, neurotoxicology, in vitro modeling, Biomarkers, TBI, Neuroinflammation, Oxidative stress, Antioxidative responses
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Prakash C. Deedwania, MD, FACC, Prof.
UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA
Cardiology Section, UCSF Program, Fresno, California, USA
Cardiovascular Research, UCSF Program, Fresno, California, USA
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
Research areas: Hypertension, Heart failure, Lipid disorders, Rhythm disorders
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Pablo Díez-Villanueva, MD, PhD, Dr., Associate Prof
Cardiology Department, Hospital Universitario La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
Research areas: Acute and Chronic Heart Failure, Acure Coronary Syndrom, Clinical and Geriatric Cardiology
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Daniel Duprez, MD, PhD, Dr., Prof.
Medicine Cardiovascular Division, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Research areas: Hypertension, Lipids, Atherosclerosis, Early markers for cardiovascular, Disease, Arterial stiffness/elasticity
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Mark B. Effron, MD, Prof.
Cardiology, University of Queensland-Ochsner Clinical School, New Orleans, LA, USA
Research areas: General cardiology, Thrombosis, Platelets, Anti-thrombotic therapy, Anti-ischemic therapy
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Pasquale Perrone Filardi, MD, PhD, Prof.
Internal medicine, Cardiology and Immunology, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy
Research areas: Cardiac imaging, Coronary artery disease, Cardiovascular risk, Left ventricular dysfunction
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Pawel Gac, MD, PhD, Associate Prof.
Department of Hygiene, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, 4th Military Hospital in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
Research areas: Radiology, Hygiene, Toxicology, Cardiovascular diseases, Hypertension, Cigarette smoking, Heavy metal, Trace element
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Yasunobu Hayabuchi, MD, PhD, Associate Prof.
Department of Pediatrics, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan
Research areas: Pediatric cardiology
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Guo Ying Huang, MD, PhD, Prof.
Pediatric Heart Center, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Research areas: Congenital heart defects (pathogenesis, clinical genetics and noninvasive technology, Kawasaki disease with cardiac lesions (pathogenesis, clinical genetics and noninvasive technology)
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David Kalfa, MD, PhD, Associate Prof.
Department of Pediatrics, Department of Surgical Sciences, Florida International University, FL, USA
Research areas: Cardiac tissue engineering and stem cells: heart valve and valved tube, Pediatric cardiac surgery, Right ventricular outflow tract disease and surgical management
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Kazuomi Kario, MD, PhD, Prof.
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Jichi Medical University School of Medicine, Shimotsuke, Japan
Research areas: Hypertension, Clinical cardiology, Cardiovascular pharmacology
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Claudio Letizia, MD, Prof.
Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialists, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy
Research areas: Arterial hypertension, Endocrine hypertension, Metabolic syndrome, Adiposity, Diabetes, Endocrine disease
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Giuseppe Limongelli, MD, PhD, Associate Prof.
University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Via L. Bianchi 1 c/o Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy
Research areas: Clinical and genetic mechanisms of cardiomyopathies, Congenital/inherited/rare disease, Heart failure, Athlete’s heart
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Gen-Min Lin, MD, PhD, Associate Prof.
Department of Medicine, Hualien Armed Forces General Hospital, Taiwan, ROC
Research areas: Cardiovascular Epidemiology
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Long Jian Liu, MD, PhD, Prof.
Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Research areas: Cardiovascular disease epidemiology, Heart failure epidemiology, Gene-environmental, and Diet-gene risk factors for cardiovascular disease, Health disparities in cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus
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Leonardo De Luca, MD, PhD, Prof.
Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Italy
Research areas: Interventional cardiology, Critical care, Antithrombotic therapy, Acute heart failure
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Shingo Maeda, MD, PhD
Arrhythmia Advanced Therapy Center, AOI Universal Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan
Research areas: Catheter ablation, Electrophysiology
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Ali J. Marian, MD, PhD, Prof.
Department of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center- Houston, Texas, USA
Research areas: Genetics of cardiomyopathies
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Sarah Elizabeth Messiah, PhD, Prof.
Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
Human Genetics & Environmental Sciences in the School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center, USA
Research areas: Metabolic syndrome in childhood, Pediatric cardiovascular prevention, Pediatric obesity, Overweight and other health-related issues, Latency cardiometabolic health effects of perinatal drug exposure
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Janos Molnar, MD, Assistant Prof.
Department of Medicine, Rosalind Franklin University, North Chicago, IL, USA
Research areas: General cardiology, Pharmacology, ECG -QT interval studies, Meta-analysis, Clinical trials
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Hoang Nguyen, MD, MSc, Assistant Prof.
UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX USA
Research areas: Pediatric cardiology, Pediatric electrophysiology, Congenital heart disease
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Ike S Okosun, MPH, PhD, Associate Prof.
Institute of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
Research areas: Epidemiology, Cardiovascular diseases, Race/ethnicity in CVD, Biostatistics & epidemiologic methods, Metabolic syndrome
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Ahmet Afsin Oktay, MD, Assistant Prof.
The Heart and Vascular Institute, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Research areas: Echocardiography, Myocardial perfusion imaging, Valvular heart disease, Cardiomyopathy
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Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, PhD, Prof.
Nutrition Science - Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
Research areas: Epidemiology, Risk assessment
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Vasilios Papademetriou, MD, Prof.
Medicine, Cardiology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
Research areas: Hypertension, Hyslipidemia, Acute coronary syndromes, Coronary heart disease
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Bruno Schwagten, MD, PhD, Dr.
Heart Rhythm Management Centre, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Antwerpen, Belgium
Research areas: Cardiology and electrophysiology, Ablation (RF and cryoablation), New developments in treatment of atrial fibrillation, New developments in arrhythmia treatment
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Yacov Shacham, MD, Associate Prof.
Department of Cardiology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Affiliated to the Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Research areas: Critical care cardiology, Cardiorenal syndrome, Biomarkers in cardiology
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Albert J. Sinusas, MD, Prof.
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Research areas: Cardiovascular medicine, Cardiovascular imaging
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Leonardo Tamariz, MD, Prof.
Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
Research areas: Atrial fibrillation, Epidemiology, Meta-analysis, Statistical analysis, Heart failure, Cohort studies
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Costas Thomopoulos, MD, PhD, Prof.
Cardiology, Elena Venizelou Hospital, Athens, Greece
Research areas: Epidemiology, Pregnancy and the heart, Congenital heart, Disease in the newborn and adult, Echocardiography, Hypertension, Sleep disorders and the heart, Vascular biology, Cardiorenal syndromes, Arterial stiffness, Albuminuria, Periodontal disease and cardiovascular disease, Lipid disorders, Glucose metabolism disorders, Stress test, Cardiovascular physiology, Ischemic heart disease
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Konstantinos Tziomalos, MD, PhD, Prof.
First Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Research areas: Dyslipidemia, Coronary heart disease
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Hector O Ventura, MD, Prof.
Cardiology, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, USA
Cardiomyopathy and Heart Transplant Center
Ochsner Medical Center
Research areas: Heart failure, Hypertension, Heart transplant, LVH
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Larry A. Weinrauch, MD, Associate Prof.
Harvard Medical School, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA
Research areas: Hypertension, Atherosclerosis, Diabetes, Metabolic diseases
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Nathan D. Wong, PhD, Prof.
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
Research areas: Preventive cardiology
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