Reviewer Board

  • Ekram W. Abd El-Wahab, PhD, MPH
    Department of Tropical Health, High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
    Interests: CVDs from the epidemiological point of view; risk assessment; prevention and control
  • Mohammad Abdelghani, PhD, MD
    Department of Cardiology, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Daniel Addison, MD
    Cardio-Oncology Program, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, Columbus, OH, USA
  • Stuti Agarwal, MD
    Stanford University
  • Harsh Agrawal, MD
    Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Mohammed Ahmed Akkaif, PhD, Post-Doct
    Department of Cardiology, QingPu Branch of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
    Interests: clinical pharmacy; precision medicine; pharmacometabolomics; pharmacogenetics; cardiology
  • Mohamed Abdulwahab Alassal, MD
    Department of Cardiac Surgery, Prince Salman Heart Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
    Interests: adult cardiac surgery ; circulatory support devices; ECMO; LVAD; adult congenital;  mitral and aortic surgery
  • Rossini Alessandro, PhD
    Endocrinology and Diabetes Unit, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Piazza OMS 1, Bergamo, 24127, Italy
  • Mohammad Alkhalil, MD
    Cardiothoracic Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7DN, United Kingdom
    Interests: Coronary artery disease (atherosclerosis/ intervention); Structural heart disease (TAVI); Lipid
  • Aladeen Alloubani, PhD
    Nursing Research Unit, King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman, Jordan
  • M Chadi Alraies, MD, MPH
    Department of Cardiology, Detroit Medical Center, Heart Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA
    Interests: Coronary intervention; Coronary atherectomy; Coronary calcium; Hemodynamics support; Weaning and escalation of mechanical support; Cardio genie shock; Vascular access and closure
  • Antonio F. Amico, MD
    Ospedale San Giuseppe da Copertino, Copertino, Lecce, Italy
    Interests: heart failure; cardiovascular prevention; cardiac rehabilitation; atrial fibrillation; cardiovascular pharmacology
  • Oana Antal, PhD, MD
    Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, "Iuliu Hațieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania; Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Cluj Emergency Clinical County Hospital, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
  • Pier Luigi Antignani, MD
    Vascular Center, Nuova Villa Claudia, Rome, Italy
  • Fateen Ata, MD
    Department of Internal Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
    Interests: Internal Medicine; Endocrinology; Heart failure; General Medicine; Diabetes
  • Jacob Atie, MD, PhD
    Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Serviço de Arritmias, Clínica São Vicente - IDOR, Rua João Borges, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
    Interests: ablation; atrial fibrillation; ventricular tachycardia; supra ventricular; arrhythmia; sudden death; electrical storm; Wolff-Parkinson-White; defibrillator; CRT
  • Zurab Azmaiparashvili, MD
    Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA
    Interests: COVID-19; COVID-19 coagulopathy; cardiovascular disease; internal medicine
  • Meor Azraai, MD
    Epworth Healthcare, Department of Cardiology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • Nicolae Bacalbasa, MD
    Center of Excellence in Translational Medicine, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Bucharest, Romania
    Interests: surgical oncology; hepato-bilio-pancreatic surgery; vascular resection; vascular reconstruction; extended pelvic resections
  • Shiv Bagga, MD
    Cahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA
    Interests: interventional cardiology; cardio-oncology and cardiac electrophysiology
  • Gülistan Bahat, MD
    Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Hooman Bakhshi, MD
    Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Falls Church, VA, USA
    Interests: Interventional and structural cardiology; coronary artery calcification; Cardiac and inflammatory biomarkers and proteomics.
  • Marta Bargagna, MD
    Department of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
    Interests: mitral valve surgery; coronary artery bypass surgery; tricuspid valve surgery; transcatheter valvular intention; ascending aorta surgery; aortic valve surgery
  • Hasan Ali Barman, MD
    Cerrahpasa Institute of Cardiology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
    Interests: cardiomyopathies; fabry disease; echocardiography interventional cardiology
  • Samra Bashir, PhD
    Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Ladislav Batalik, PhD
    Department of Rehabilitation, University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic; Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
  • Najdat Bazarbashi, MD
    Department of Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
    Interests: TAVR; cardiogenic shock; antiplatelet therapy; PCI; heart failure
  • Matteo Beltrami, MD, PhD
    Cardiology Unit, San Giovanni di Dio Hospital, Florence, Italy
    Interests: heart failure; cardiomyopathies; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; dilated cardiomyopathy; cardiac magnetic resonance; echocardiography
  • Andrei M. Belyaev, PhD
    Department of Cardiothoracic Surgrery, Wellington Regional Hospital, New Zealand
    Interests: acute type A aortic dissection; heart transplantation; lung transplantation; valvular heart disease; coronary artery disease; postmyocardial infarction ventricular septal defect repair; socio-economic deprivation
  • Giuditta Benincasa, PhD
    Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences (DAMSS), University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy
    Interests: cardiovascular diseases, epigenetics and network-oriented approaches
  • Alexander E. Berezin, MD
    Internal Medicine Department, State Medical University of Zaporozhye, Ukraine.
    Interests: heart failure; cardiovascular risk; comorbidities; biomarkers; prediction; translational therapy; progenitor cells; extracellular vesicles
  • Edyta Blaszczyk, MD
    Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology and the Max-Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine, and HELIOS Klinikum Berlin Buch, Department of Cardiology and Nephrology, Berlin, Germany.
    Interests: cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR); myocardial tissue characterisation/differentiation; fat imaging; cardiovascular magnetic imaging; late gadolinium enhancement; rare cardiomyopathies in cmr; parametric mapping; cardiac perfusion; ischemic heart disease applying cmr; diagnostic of myocarditis/tumors applying cmr
  • Christian Blockhaus, MD
    Department of Cardiology, Heart Centre Niederrhein, Helios Clinics Krefeld, Germany; University Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany
  • Raúl Alfredo Borracci, MD
    Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Austral University, Argentina/Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Aleman, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Walid Bouaziz, PhD
    French Armed Biomedical Research Institute, Unit of Physiology of Exercise and Activities in Extreme Conditions, Brétigny sur Orge, France
    Interests: aging and physical activity; obesity and physical activity; cardio-respiratory physiology; performance; endurance training; high-Intensity interval training
  • Gabriele Brosolo, MD
    Department of Medicine , University of Udine , Udine , Italy
    Interests: heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF); pericardial diseases; secondary and resistant hypertension
  • Brandon Budhram, MD
    The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, The Ottawa Hospital, ON, Canada
  • Alexandru Burlacu, PhD
    University of Medicine & Pharmacy HCMC (UMP), IASI, Romania
    Interests: artificial intelligence in medicine; cardiology and nephrology fields; wearable devices for cardiovascular system
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  • Massimiliano Camilli, MD
    Department of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy; Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
    Interests: heart failure; cardiovascular pharmacotherapy; cardioprotection; cardio-oncology; echocardiography
  • Alessandro Cannavale, MD
    "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy
  • Elio Caruso, MD
    Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital Centro Cardiologico Pediatrico del Mediterraneo, San Vincenzo Hospital, Taormina, Messina, Italy
  • Antonino Catalano, MD, PhD
    Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Interests: Cognitive Impairment; Anxiety; Depression; Comorbidity
  • Lourdes Chacon, MD
    Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, USA
    Interests: heart failure; organ transplantation; regenerative medicine; primary graph dysfunction; sex/gender differences; biomarkers; ischemia-reperfusion injury; stroke; extracorporeal membrane oxygen
  • Aleksey Chaulin
    Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia
    Interests: cardiovascular diseases; atherosclerosis; cardiac troponins; troponin T; troponin I; laboratory medicine; biomarkers; myocardial infarction; myocardial injury; cardiomyopathy
  • Shaojie Chen, PhD, MD
    Cardioangiologisches Centrum Bethanien (CCB) / Kardiologie, Markus Krankenhaus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • Liming Chen
    Department of Computing, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, Coleraine, UK
    Interests: blood, heart and circulation
  • Parag Anilkumar Chevli, MBBS
    Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Hospital Medicine, School of Medicine, Wake Forest, Medical Center Blvd Winston Salem, NC, USA
    Interests: Preventive cardiology; Lipid metabolism; Alcohol and CVD; Nutrition and CVD; Coronary artery calcium
  • Rita Chiaramonte, MD
    Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, ASP 7, Scicli Hospital, Ragusa, Italy
  • Alessandro Ciavarella, MD
    Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy; A. Bianchi Bonomi Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
    Interests: coagulation; thrombosis; hemophilia; von willebrand disease; bleeding disorders; cardiovascular disease; endothelium
  • Francesco Condello, MD
    Cardiovascular Diseases Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
    Interests: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation; Heart Valve Prosthesis; Aortic Stenosis;Radius; Radial Artery; Percutaneous Coronary Intervention;Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors; Ticagrelor; Clopidogrel
  • Christakis Constantinides
    Chi Biomedical Ltd., Limassol, Cyprus
    Interests: diffusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance; cardiac; myocyte; tractography; mouse; tensor map; MRI; multinuclear MRI and stem cells
  • Cecilia Gonzalez Corcia, PhD
    Department of Pediatric Cardiology, St Luc Hospital, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
  • Marcos Celio De Almeida, MD, PhD
    Department of Genetics and Morphology, University of Brasília, Brazil
    Interests: Heart anatomy; Comparative heart Anatomy; Purkinje network; Conduction system; Heart Pathology; History of Medicine in special of the conduction system
  • Corstiaan A. den Uil, MD, PhD
    Department of Intensive Care, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Cardiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Intensive Care, Maasstad Ziekenhuis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Antonio Di Monaco, MD
    Dipartimento di Cardiologia. Ospedale Generale Regionale "F. Miulli", Acquaviva delle Fonti (Bari), Italy
  • Ning Ding, MD
    Johns Hopkins University; Yale/Bridgeport Hospital
  • Aleksander Dokollari, MD
    Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht - CARIM, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands
    Interests: cardiac surgery; cardiology; intensive care unit; echocardiography; medical therapy
  • Magdalena Chottová Dvořáková, PhD
    Medical Faculty in Pilsen, Charles University, Czech Republic
    Interests: acute coronary syndrome; immunometabolism; duchenne muscular dystrophy; cardiomyopathy; precision medicine
  • Jhansi R. Dyavanapalli, PhD
    Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, George Washington University, Washington, USA
    Interests: Autonomic, parasympathetic; heart; brainstem; intracardiac neurons; Vagus; Chemogenetics; Optigenetics; Heart rate; Blood pressure; Heart failure; Hypertension
  • Antonello D’Andrea, MD, PhD
    Unit of Cardiology and Intensive Coronary Care, Umberto I Hospital, Nocera Inferiore, Italy
    Interests: Athlete's Heart; left ventricular hypertrophy; heart failure; stress echocardiography; mitral valve; right ventricle; echo in emergency
  • Abdelmotagaly Elgalad, PhD, MD
    Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, USA
    Interests: cardiovascular; biomedical; MCS devices; translational research; heart failure treatments
  • Chengming Fan, MD, PhD
    Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
    Interests: cardiovascular surgery; congenital heart disease; valvuval surgery; ischemic heart disease; CABG; stem cells; proliferation
  • Peter D. Farjo, MD
    Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, WV, USA
  • Tobias Rudholm Feldreich, MD
    School of Health and Social Sciences, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden
    Interests: cardiovascular and renal epidemiology
  • Antonietta Franco, PhD
    Department of Internal Medicine, Pharmacogenomics, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA
    Interests: Mitochondria fusion, Mitophagy, Mitochondria Metabolism, Apoptosis, Cell biology, Cardiomyopathy, Cardio, neuro disease
  • Ilaria Franzese, MD, PhD
    Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
    Interests: minimally invasive cardiac surgery; aortic valve replacement; aortic arch repair; frozen elephunt trunk; TEVAR; TAVI; trancatheter heart valve procedure; cerebral perfusion during cardiac surgery; cardiac tumor
  • ATTILA FRIGY, PhD
    George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Târgu-Mureș, Târgu Mureș, Romania
    Interests: Heart failure, Ventricular function, Cardiomyopathy, Valvular heart disease. Echocardiography, Autonomic tests, Heart rate variability, Sleep apnea
  • Piotr Futyma, MD
    St. Joseph's Heart Rhythm Center, Rzeszów, Poland
  • Daniela Gabrielli, PhD, MD
    Unit of Interventional Radiology, “C. e G. Mazzoni” Hospital, Ascoli Piceno, AV5 – ASUR MARCHE, Italy
  • Jacek Gajek, MD, PhD
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
    Interests: atrial fibrillation; atrial fibrillation ablation; atrial flutter; heart failure; direct His-bundle pacing; left bundle branch area pacing; implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
  • Michael P. Gannon, MD
    Department of Pathology, Temple University Hospital, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    Interests: Sudden cardiac death; MINOCA (Myocardial infarction with nonobstructive coronary arteries); cardiac imaging; cardiac MRI; coronary CTA; coronary artery disease; cardiogenomics; cardiac risk prediction; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  • Ignacio Iglesias Garriz, MD
    Department of Cardiology, Complejo Asistencial Universitario de Leon, 24071, Leon, Spain
  • Alessio Gasperetti, MD
    Cardiology Unit, ASST Fatebenefratelli-Sacco, Luigi Sacco University Hospital, Milan, Italy
  • Marine Gaudry, MD
    Department of Vascular Surgery, APHM, Timone Hospital, Timone Aortic Center, Marseille, France
    Interests: aortic dissection; TEVAR; thoracic aortic aneurysm; hybrid repair; abdominal aortic aneurysm; risk factors; carotid stenosis
  • Efstratios Georgakarakos, MD
    Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Dragana, Alexandroupolis, Greece
    Interests: abdominal aortic aneurysm; endovascular aneurysm repair; vascular surgery; endografts; vascular trauma; aorta; endovascular; peripheral arterial disease
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  • Zafar Gholinejad, PhD
    Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran
  • Comentale Giuseppe, MD
    University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
  • Akshay Goel, MBBS, MD
    Clinical Instructor of Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease Fellow, New York Medical College, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA
    Interests: myopericarditis; magnetic resonance imaging; thiamine deficiency; korsakoff syndrome; cardiovascular disease; Covid-19
  • Simone Grassi, MD
    Section of Legal Medicine, Department of Health Surveillance and Bioethics, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
    Interests: Sudden death; Sudden cardiac death; Channelopathy; Cardiomyopathy; Postmortem genetic testing; Forensic pathology; Legal medicine
  • Luanda Grazette, MD
    Cardiovascular Division, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
    Interests: advanced heart failure; heart failure remission and recovery; mechanical circulatory support; cardiovascular digital health; heart failure preserved ejection fraction; biomarkers in medicine; cardiogenic shock; cardiorenal syndrome; personalized medicine
  • Elena Grossini, MD, PhD
    Laboratory of Physiology, Department of Translational Medicine, University East Piedmont, Novara, Italy
    Interests: oxidative stress; mitochondria; nitric oxide; microvesicles; NAFLD; systemic inflammation; plasma redox state
  • Raviteja Guddeti, MD
    Division of Cardiology, Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Fayetteville, NC, USA
  • Ying Xuan Gue, MD
    The County Hospital, Wye Valley NHS Trust, Hereford, United Kingdom
    Interests: Thrombosis; Fibrinolysis; Atrial fibrillation; Coronary artery disease prevention
  • Rahul Gupta, MD
    Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA, USA
    Interests: clinical outcomes research; meta-analysis; antithrombotic therapy; coronary interventions; transcatheter aortic valve replacement
  • Sergey Gurevich, MD
    University of Minnesota Fairview Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
    Interests: Structural; Chronic total occlusions (CTO); Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR); MitraClip; Watchman; Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH); Balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA); 3D printing; Virtual and augmented reality
  • Jun Gyo Gwon, MD
    Department of Surgery, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    Interests: cardiovascular disease; aortic aneurysm; arterial occlusive disease; atherosclerosis; carotid stenosis; hemostasis; platelet activation; physical activity
  • Raymond  N. Haddad, MD
    M3C-Necker, Hôpital Universitaire Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Paris, France.
    Interests: pediatric cardiology; congenital cardiology; interventional cardiology; invasive cardiology; device closure; septal defects; transcatheter interventions; cardiac catheterization; congenital heart disease; hybrid interventions
  • Anne Dragøy Hafstad, PhD
    Cardiovascular Research Group, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Science, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
  • Adrija Hajra, MD
    Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
    Interests: Cardiology; Preventive cardiology; Diabetes, Statin, Cholesterol, Hypertension, COVID, Thrombosis, Pulmonary hypertension.
  • Hazim Hakmi, MD
    Division of Trauma, Department of Surgery, Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA
  • Anggoro Budi Hartopo, MD
    Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada - Dr. Sardjito Hospital, 55281 Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  • Willy Hauzer, MD, PhD
    Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Regional Specialist Hospital in Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland
    Interests: abdominal aortic aneurysm; varicose veins of the lower limbs; sclerotherapy; vascular surgery
  • Stepan Havranek, MD, PhD
    2nd Dept of Medicine - Dept of Cardiology & Angiology, General University Hospital in Prague & 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
    Interests: atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; pulmonary hypertension; ventricular tachycardia; cardiac imaging
  • Francisco José Hidalgo, PhD
    Department of Cardiology, Reina Sofía Hospital, Córdoba, Spain
    Interests: coronary artery disease; percutaneous coronary intervention; coronary bifurcation lesions; coronary physiology; left main; instantaneous wave free ratio
  • Hirofumi Hioki, MD
    Department of Cardiology, Teikyo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
    Interests: coronary artery disease; structural heart disease; peripheral artery disease ; Catheter intervention for IHD; SHD; PAD
  • Calin Homorodean, MD
    Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, "Iuliu Haţieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  • Ji Yeon Hong, MD
    Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Nowon Eulji Medical Center, Eulji University, 01830 10 Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • David Hur, MD
    Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
    Interests: calcification; cardiovascular computed tomography; cardiovascular magnetic resonance; echocardiography; endocarditis; multimodality imaging; pulmonary hypertension; right heart; right ventricle
  • Yutaka Igarashi, PhD
    Osaka Metropolitan University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan
  • Guram Imnadze, PhD, MD
    Clinic for Electrophysiology, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
    Interests: cardiac arrhythmias; electrophysiology; catheter ablation; atrial fibrillation; ventricular arrhythmias; cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (cieds); physiological pacing (hbp; lbbp); leadless pacing
  • Laura Iop, PhD
    Department of Cardiac Thoracic Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
  • Ashequl M. Islam, MD
    Department of Cardiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
    Interests: valvular heart disease; trans-catheter aortic valve replacement; mitral valve repair; coronary artery disease; coronary stents; paravalvular leak; tricuspid repair
  • Pupalan Iyngkaran, MD
    Cardiologist (Heart Failure & Cardiac Imaging) and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Notre Dame, Werribee Mercy Sub School, School of Medicine Sydney . Australia
  • Kirolos A. Jacob, MD
    Division Heart and Lung, Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Mohammad  Jamshidi, MD
    Research and Innovation Centre for Electrical Engineering (RICE), Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of West Bohemia (UWB), Pilsen, Czech Republic
  • Krittika U. Joshi, MD
    Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Cohen Children’s Medical Center of NY, USA
  • Albert S. Jung, MD, PhD
    Department of Physiology, Temple Universtity, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    Interests: Quality and Outcomes in Chronic Systolic Heart Failure and Acute Myocardial Infarction / Ischemic Heart Disease; Hospital Outcomes in Cardiology; Cardiorenal Syndrome, Diastolic Heart Failure (HFPEF)
  • Vikas Kalra, MD
    Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
    Interests: Arrhythmia; Atrial fibrillation; Ventricular tachycardia; Supraventricular tachycardia; Atrial flutter; Pacemaker; Defibrillation therapy; Coronary artery disease; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; ECG/Electrocardiogram
  • Marta Kaluzna-Oleksy, MD
    Poznan University of Medical Sciences
  • Mohamed Gomaa Kamel, MD
    Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, Minia, Egypt
    Interests: Systematic review; Meta-analysis; Diagnostic accuracy; Prediction; Biomarkers; Cardiovascular; Myocardial infarction; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Angina; Epidemiology
  • Tomasz W. Kaminski, PharmD
    Pittsburgh Heart, Lung and Blood Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
    Interests: lung microcirculation; netosis; neutrophils biology; neutrophil extracelular traps; thromboinflammation; intravital microscopy; influenza virus
  • Subrata Kar, MD
    Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Pasodisabled, El Paso, United States
    Interests: ulnar PCI; dorsal distal radial PCI; snuff box PCI; radial PCI; gender PCI; minimal dose radiation PCI; minimal dose radiation peripheral intervention; low dose radiation PCI; and alternative access for cardiac catheterization.
  • Kameel Kassab, MD
    Division of Cardiology, Cook County Health, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    Interests: Coronary Artery Disease; Acute coronary Syndromes; Ischemia; Multimodality Imaging
  • Marius Keller, MD
    Echocardiographic Imaging Lab, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen, Germany
  • Babikir Kheiri, MSc, MBBS
    Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA
    Interests: cardiovascular diseases; electrophysiology and arrhythmias; cardiovascular imaging (echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT, cardiac MRI); preventive cardiology; anti-thrombotic therapy; clinical education; meta-analysis
  • Elahe Khodadi, MSc
    Research center of thalassemia & hemoglobinopathy, Health research institute, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran
    Interests: Bone marrow niche; Molecular pathways; Epigenetics; Cancer biology
  • Sung Hea Kim, MD
    Department of Cardiology, Konkuk University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
    Interests: Heart failure; Atrial fibrillation; Biomarker; Hypertension; Metabolic syndrome
  • Annamaria Kosztin, MD, PhD
    Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
    Interests: chronic heart failure; heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; heart failure with reduced ejection fraction; cardiac resynchronization therapy; implantable cardioverter defibrillator; sudden cardiac death
  • Tomáš Kovárník, PhD
    Veobecná Fakultní Nemocnice V Prazedisabled, Prague, Czech Republic
    Interests: drug eluting stent; atherosclerotic plaques; acute coronary syndrome; percutaneous coronary intervention; acute ischemic stroke; COVID-19
  • Bahij Kreidieh, MD
    Lankenau Medical Center, Pennsylvania, USA
    Interests: atrial fibrillation; stroke prediction and prevention and the study of the left atrial appendage; cardiac arrhythmias; mechanism; pharmacologic therapy; ablative therapy; complications
  • Rahul Kumar, MD
    Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.
    Interests: pulmonary hypertension; immunology; inflammation; high-altitude hypoxia; vascular remodelling; schistosomiasis
  • Akshay Kumar, MD
    Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh,  USA
  • Peter Kupo, MD
    Heart Institute, University of Pecs, Hungary
  • Stefan Kurath-Koller, MD
    Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria
  • Ioannis D. Kyriazis, PhD
    Lab of Animal Physiology, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Greece
    Interests: diabetic cardiomyopathy; ischemia reperfusion; transcriptional regulation; cardiac metabolism; oxidative stress; lipotoxixity; glucotoxicity; septic cardiomyopathy; spackle tracking echocardiography
  • Regent Lee, PhD
    Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
  • Justin Lee, MD
    Department of Cardiology, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, USA
    Interests: interventional cardiology; percutaneous coronary interventions; intravascular imaging; coronary physiology; coronary atherectomy
  • Benedetta Leonardi, MD
    Department of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
    Interests: pediatric congenital heart disease; tetralogy of fallot; congenital heart disease; coronary anomalies; Kawasaki disease; cardiac magnetic resonance
  • Yu Ligen, MD
    Talent Recruitment and Career Support (TRACS) Office and Bibliometrics Analysis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Martin Lindgren, MD
    Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra, Gothenburg, Sweden
    Interests: heart failure; structural heart disease; prevention; epidemiology; physical activity; fitness
  • Kevin Bryan Lo, MD
    Department of Internal Medicine, Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Susana Lopes, MD
    School of Health Sciences, University of Aveiro, Portugal
  • Hong Lu, MD, PhD
    Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
    Interests: Atherosclerosis; Aortic aneurysms; Aortic dissection; Renin-angiotensin system; Angiotensinogen, Megalin
  • Fabiana Lucà, MD, PhD, FESC
    Department of Cardiology, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano, Reggio Calabria, Italy
    Interests: mitral valve; coronary artery bypass; catheter ablation; echocardiography; heart failure
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  • Thomas Hadberg Lynge, MD
    The Heart Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
  • Maite Iglesias López, MD
    Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid
  • Ajit Magadum, PhD
    Center for Translational Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
    Interests: cardiac regeneration; mRNA therapy; cardiomyocyte proliferation; cardiac hypertrophy and fibrosis; nucleic acid therapeutics; drug screening; and heart failure
  • Michele Malagù, MD
    Cardiology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
    Interests: pacing; pacemaker; ICD; resynchronization; electrophysiology; ablation; thalassemia; atrial fibrillation
  • Alessandro Mandurino-Mirizzi, MD
    Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Division of Cardiology, Foundation IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
  • Antonino Maniaci, MD
    Medical, Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies G.F. Ingrassia, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
    Interests: OSAS; sleep breathing disorders; sleep apnea; OSA surgery; Oral appliance; MAD; Positional OSA
  • Simona Manole, MD
    Faculty of Medicine, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    Interests: Cardiac MRI; Cardiac CT; Cardiovascular imaging; Coronary arteries; Cardiac malformations; Vascular malformations; Myocardial infarction; Cardiomyopathy; Cardiac tumor
  • Loredana Manolescu, PhD, MD
    Department of Microbiology, Parasitology and Virology, Faculty of Medicine, Midwifery and Nursing, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania Bucharest, Romania
  • Stéphane Manzo-Silberman, MD
    Département de Cardiologie, Hôpital Lariboisière, Université Paris, Paris, France
  • Jacopo Marazzato, MD
    Department of Medicine and Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
  • Fabiola Marino, PhD
    Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, CZ, Italy
    Interests: stem cells; regeneration; cell therapy; cardiac organoids; senescence
  • Diana Massai, PhD
    Polito(BIO)Med Lab, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
  • Antonino Mignano, MD
    G. D'Alessandro Department of Health Promotion and of Maternal and Child, Internal, and Specialist Medicine (PROMISE), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy; Intensive Coronary Care Unit, Emergency Department, Paolo Giaccone University Hospital, Palermo, Italy
    Interests: cardiac pacing; AHRE; atrial fibrillation;  electrophysiology; zero X-ray ablation
  • Liew Yih Miin, PhD
    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA
  • Anat Milman, MD
    Leviev Heart Institute, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel; Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
  • Tanveer Mir, MD
    Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
  • Andres Miranda-Arboleda, MD
    Division of Cardiology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Cardiology Department, Pablo Tobón Uribe Hospital, Medellín, Colombia
    Interests: Electrophysiology; atrial fibrillation; ventricular arrhythmias; premature ventricular contractions; cardio-oncology
  • Claudia de los Angeles Miranda-Fuentes, MD
    Académica Escuela de Kinesiología, Universidad Andres Bello, Sede Santiago, Chile
  • Gianfranco Mitacchione, MD, PhD
    Ospedale Luigi Sacco - Polo Universitario, Italy
  • Yoshiaki Mizutani, MD
    Department of Cardiology, Yokkaichi Municipal Hospital, Mie, Japan
    Interests: atrial fibrillation; cardiac electrophysiology; catheter ablation; paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardias; ventricular arrhythmias
  • Alberto Monello, MD
    Division of Cardiology, Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital, Piacenza, Italy
    Interests: percutaneous coronary intervention; ST elevation myocardial infarction; acute coronary syndrome; drug eluting stent; elderly patients; dual antiplatelet therapy; secondary prevention
  • Sergio Moral, MD, PhD
    Hospital Universitari Dr. Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain
    Interests: cardiac imaging techniques; valvular heart disease; aorta; echocardiography; CMR; cardiac CT
    Special Issues and Topics in IMR Press journals
  • Carlos Arias Morales, MD
    Department of Internal Medicine, St. Barnabas Hospital Bronx, Bronx, NY, United States
  • Gonçalo Morgado, MD
    Hospital Garcia de Orta, Almada, Portuga
  • Elisabetta Moscarella, MD
    Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli," Naples, Italy; Division of Cardiology, A.O.R.N. "Sant'Anna e San Sebastiano," Caserta, Italy
  • Alexandros Moschovas, MD
    Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Jena, Germany
    Interests: Cardiothoracic surgery; Vascular surgery; Cardiovascular anesthesia; Cardiopulmonary bypass; Biomaterials; Cardiovascular prostheses; Immunobiology
  • Ebrahim Mostafavi, PhD
    Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
    Interests: Nanomedicine; Human induced pluripotent stem cells; Cardiovascular regenerative medicine; stem cells; 3D bioprinting of vascularized cardiac tissues; Biomaterials; Tissue engineering; Drug delivery; Antimicrobial materials; Hydrogels
    Special Issues and Topics in IMR Press journals
  • Krzysztof Myrda, MD, PhD
    3rd Department of Cardiology, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases, Zabrze, Poland
    Interests: clinical electrophysiology and percutaneous interventions in structural heart disease
  • Klaudiusz Nadolny, MSc
    Univeristy of Technology · Department emergency Medical service
  • Yuji Nagatomo, MD, PhD
    Department of Cardiology, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Japan
    Interests: heart failure; heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; hemodynamics; cardiomyopathy; autoimmunity; microbiota; echocardiography
  • Mouhamed Nashawi, MD
    Division of Medicine, MC 7870 UT Health San Antonio 7703 Floyd Curl Dr., San Antonio
  • Mahmoud Nassar
    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System, New York City, NY, USA; NYC Health + Hospitals, Queens, New York City, NY, USA
    Interests: arrhythmias; implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD); sudden cardiac deathS-ICD; diabetes; nutrition
  • Ana Neto, MD
    Department of Cardiology, Centro Hospitalar Tamega e Sousa, E.P.E., Av. Hospital Padre Américo 210, Portugal
    Interests: acute heart failure; chronic heart failure; cardiomyopathies; cardiac rehabilitation
  • Isabel T. N. Nguyen, PhD
    University Medical Center Utrechtdisabled, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Concetta Di Nora, MD
    Department of Cardiothoracic Science, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata di Udine, Italy
    Interests: heart failure; echocardiography; heart transplantation; cardiac rehabilitation; heart valve diseases; rare diseases; cardiac amyloidosis; aortic diseases; mechanical circulation support
  • Vincenzo Nuzzi, MD
    Cardiovascular Department, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata Giuliano Isontina (ASUGI), University of Trieste, Italy
    Interests: Chronic heart failure; Non-ichemic dilated cardiomyopathy; Atrial fibrillation in heart failure; Congestion; Cardiac involvement in COVID-19
  • Dike Ojji, PhD, MD
    Department of Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, University of Abuja, and University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Nigeria
    Interests: hypertension pharmacotherapy; hypertensive heart failure; transthoracic echocardiography; preventive cardiology; hypertension treatment; primary care
  • Arinze Nkemdirim Okere, PharmD
    College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health, Tallahassee, FL, USA
  • Yoshiyuki Okuya, MD
    Carle Heart and Vascular Institute, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign, IL, USA.
    Interests: Percutaneous coronary intervention; Intravascular ultrasound; Chronic total occlusion
  • Foluso O. Osunsanmi, PhD
    Department of Agriculture, University of Zululand, KwaDlangezwa 3886, South Africa
    Interests: Clinical Biochemistry; Clinical microbiology; Food Biochemistry; Medicinal Plants Biochemistry; Medicinal Chemistry; Ethno-pharmacology; Natural Product Synthetic Chemistry; Functional foods; Metabolic Diseases; Nutritional Biochemistry; Microbiology, Biotechnology
  • Semra Ozdemir, PhD
    Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Faculty of Medicine Department of Nuclear Medicine, Turkey
  • Francesco Paciullo, MD
    Department of Medicine and Surgery, Section of Internal and Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.
  • Sara Pahlavan, PhD
    Department of Stem Cells and Developmental Biology, Cell Science Research Center, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
  • Zach K.T. Pang, PhD
    Deputy Group Leader, Analytical Science & Technology (GlycoAnalytics), Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Singapore, Singapore
    Interests: endothelial dysfunction; atherosclerosis; vascular biology; inflammation; cytokines; shear stress; cardiovascular mechanics; biomechanics; glycobiology; glycomic
  • Leonidas D. Panos, MD
    Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
    Interests: stroke; thrombolysis; thrombectomy; intracranial hemorrhage; DOACs
  • Ui Jun Park, MD, PhD
    Division of Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Dongsan Medical Center, School of Medicine, Keimyung University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
    Interests: Endovascular surgery; Peripheral artery disease; Venous disease; Calcium metabolism
  • Edoardo Pasqui, MD
    Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
  • Guido Pastorini, MD
    Cardiology Division, Ospedale Regina Montis Regalis, Mondovi' ASL CN1, 12084 Cuneo, Italy
    Interests: Primarily in echocardiography (3D, global longitudinal strain, stress echo and TEE); Heart Failure; Cardiovascular prevention; Cardio-Oncology
  • Peysh Patel, MD
    Department of Cardiology, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, United Kingdom
    Interests: chronic heart failure; pacemaker; defibrillators; cardiac synchronisation therapy and inherited cardiomyopathies
  • Dimitrios Patoulias, MD, PhD
    Second Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, General Hospital "Ippokrateio", Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
    Interests: diabetes mellitus; cardiovascular disease; chronic kidney disease
  • Anand Patwardhan, PhD
    Department of Pharmacology University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, USA
    Interests: cell biology; cell signaling; cardiovascular biology; inflammation; protein trafficking; endothelial cells; lysosome biology; GPCR; pharmacology
  • Irene Pescetelli, MD
    Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Papa, Hungary
    Interests: coronary artery disease (CAD); acute coronary syndrome; percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI); intravascular imaging; cardiac imaging; coronary stents; ivus; oct; coronary physiology
  • Alkystis Phinikaridou, MD
    School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, Westminster Bridge Road, London, United Kingdom
  • Federica Piani, MD
    Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
    Interests: cardiovascular risk; endothelial dysfunction; microvascular dysfunction; hypertensive disorders of pregnancy; hypertension; uric acid; cardionephrology; cardiorenal syndrome; heart failure
  • Ewa Piotrowicz, MD, PhD
    Telecardiology Center, National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland
    Interests: heart failure; exercise training; telerehabilitation; cardiopulmonary exercise testing; electrocardiology
  • Florentina Pluteanu, PhD
    Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
    Interests: Atrial Fibrillation; Refractory Period; Heart Failure; Action Potential; Kv Channel-Interacting Proteins; Repolarization; Animals; Adenovirus E4Orf4 Protein; Okadaic Acid
  • Stefano Poli, PhD
    Cardiology Division Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata di Udine and IRCAB Foundation Udine Italy
    Interests: Interventional cardiology; PCI; TAVI; Aortic stenosis; valve disease; Heart failure; Coronary angiography
  • Sara Policarpo, MD
    Northern Lisbon University Center, E.P.E, Portugal
  • Aldostefano Porcari, MD
    Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Cardiomyopathies, Cardiovascular Department, Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Giuliano-Isontina (ASUGI) and University of Trieste, Italy
    Interests: Chronic Heart Failure; Cardiac Amyloidosis; Myocarditis; Clinical Management and Prognostic Stratification of Genetically-Determined and Infiltrative Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathies; Pericarditis; Percutaneous Treatment of Mitral Regurgitation; Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Sudden Cardiac Death; Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy; Cardiac Contractility Modulation
  • Emmanouil Poulidakis, MD
    Department of Cardiology, European Hospital Geroges Pompidou, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris Descartes University, France (E.P.,C.S.).
    Interests: Interventional cardiology; PCI; TAVI; echocardiography
  • Aldo Prado, MD
    Ctr Privado Cardiol, San Miguel De Tucuman, Argentina
  • Sergej Prijic, MD
    School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Serbia
    Interests: pediatric interventional cardiology
  • Maria Pufulete, MD
    Clinical Trials and Evaluation Unit Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
    Interests: Randomised controlled trial (RCT); Non-randomised study; Trial methodology; Systematic review; Meta-analysis; Routinely collected data; Acute coronary syndrome; Dual antiplatelet therapy; Cardiac surgery; Heart failure
  • Anantharaman Ramasamy, MBChB
    Department of Cardiology, Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK
    Interests: coronary artery disease; atherosclerosis; stable angina; acute coronary syndrome; percutaneous coronary intervention; coronary physiology; intracoronary imaging; cardiac computed tomography angiography; artificial intelligence
  • Julia Ramirez, MD
    William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
    Interests: Electrocardiogram signal processing, Cardiovascular risk prediction, Medical statistics, Statistical genetics, Epidemiology, Bioinformatics, GWAS and data science in general
  • Nurul Shazini Ramli, PhD
    Department of Food Science, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
  • Anand Ranpara, MD
    Respiratory Health Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
  • Moshe Rav-Acha, MD
    Jesselson Integrated Heart Center, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
    Interests: cardiac electrophysiology; complex ablations; mri-based ablations; implantable device complications
  • Antonio Ravaglioli, MD
    Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Fondazione G. Monasterio, Massa, Italy
  • Eva Reali, PhD
    Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
    Interests: immunology; T cells; immune-mediated diseases; immunotherapy; cytokines
  • Hesham Refaat, MD
    Cardiology Department, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt,Institute of Cardiology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
    Interests: coronary artery disease; percutaneous coronary intervention; acute coronary syndrome; interventional cardiology; bifurcation lesions; optical coherence tomography; intracoronary imaging; coronary atherosclerosis; vulnerable plaques; myocardial infarction
  • Marwa M. M. Refaie, MD
    Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, El-Minia 61511, Egypt
    Interests: cardiotoxicity; oxidative stress; inflammation; myocardial infarction; ischemia
  • Robert W. Regenhardt, MD, PhD
    Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
    Interests: ischemic stroke; large vessel occlusion; endovascular thrombectomy; intracerebral hemorrhage; subarachnoid hemorrhage; cerebral aneurysm; arteriovenous malformation; dural arteriovenous fistula; neuroendovascular procedures
  • Giuseppe Rescigno, MD
    Cardiothoracic Department, Heart and Lung Centre, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK
    Interests: aortic valve disease; minimally invasive surgery; rapid deployment valves; diabetes in cardiac surgery
  • Carolina Baraldi A. Restini, PhD
    Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA; College of Osteopathic Medicine, Michigan State University, Garfield Road, Building UC4, Clinton Township, MI, USA
    Interests: pharmacology; cardiovascular; hypertension; oxidative stress/antioxidant pathways; Perivascular Adipose Tissue (PVAT)
  • Leonardo Roever, MHS, PhD, Post-Doct
    Federal University of Uberlandia, Uberlândia, Brazil
    Interests: heart failure; inflammation; atherosclerosis; echocardiography; hypertension; clinical cardiology; insulin resistance; metabolism; metabolic diseases
    Special Issues and Topics in IMR Press journals
  • Antonino Salvatore Rubino, MD, PhD
    Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.
    Interests: valve disease; valve surgery; valve repair; mitral valve; aortic valve; ascending aortic surgery; aortic root surgery; coronary revascularization; VAD; IABP
  • Francisco Javier Ruperti-Repilado, MD
    Center for Congenital Heart Disease, Cardiology, University Hospital Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • Ichiro Sakuma, MD
    Caress Sapporo Hokko Memorial Clinic, Hokkaido 065-0027, Japan
  • Tiago Lima Sampaio, PhD
    Department of Clinical and Toxicological Analysis, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, CE CEP 60430-172 Brazil
    Interests: Clinical and experimental studies based on the evaluation of biochemical disorders, mainly aimed at assessing cardiovascular risk, endothelial dysfunction, kidney injury, Diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemias, atherosclerosis and pharmacology
  • Giuseppe Damiano Sanna, MD, PhD
    Clinical and Interventional Cardiology, Sassari University Hospital, Via Enrico de Nicola, Sassari 07100, Italy
    Interests: Heart Failure - Cardiac imaging (echocardiography including transesophageal and cardiac magnetic resonance) in patients with structural heart diseases - e.g. cardiomyopathies)
  • Anella Saviano, PhD
    ImmunoPharmaLab, Department of Pharmacy, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples Federico II, Via Domenico Montesano 49, 80131 Naples, Italy
  • Mariangela Scalise, PhD
    Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Magna Graecia University, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
    Interests: cardiac stem cells; cardiac regeneration; mirna; aging/senescence; cardiac differentiation; stem cells
  • Marco Schiavone, MD
    Cardiology Unit - Electrophysiology and Cardiac Pacing, Luigi Sacco University Hospital, Milano, Italy
    Interests: Cardiac arrhythmias; implantable cardioverter defibrillators; atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; ventricular tachycardia; cardiac resynchronization therapy; arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy; acute coronary syndromes; spontaneous coronary artery dissection; COVID-19
  • Simon Schoechlin, MD
    Division of Cardiology and Angiology II, University Heart Center Freiburg, Bad Krozingen, Germany
  • Edoardo Sciatti, MD
    Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia, Piazzale Spedali Civili 1, Brescia 25123, Italy
    Interests: Heart failure; Valve echo; Pregnancy
  • Roberto Scicali, MD
    Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
    Interests: familial hypercholesterolemia; atherogenic dyslipidemia; type 2 diabetes; metabolic syndrome; coronary artery calcium score; lipid lowering therapies
  • Naveen Anand Seecheran, MD
    The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Takaaki Senbonmatsu, MD
    Department of Cardiology International Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Japan
    Interests: renin-angiotensin system; heart failure; hypertension; cardiac regeneration; iPS cell to cardiomyocyte
  • Mohd Shahid, PhD
    Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chicago State University College of Pharmacy, Chicago, IL, 60423, USA.
    Interests: Metabolic syndrome; Obesity, Atherosclerosis; Hypertension; Heart failure; Remote Preconditioning; Type 2 Diabetes; Endothelial Dysfunction
  • Ali Sheikh, MD
    Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, College of Medicine, Jouf University, Sakaka, Aljouf, Saudi Arabia
  • Akshay Shekhar, MD
    Division of Cardiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
    Interests: heart development; congenital heart defects; cardiac electrophysiology; cardiac conduction system; arrhythmogenesis; cardiac metabolism; heart failure; inherited cardiomyopathies
  • Takuro Shirasu, MD
    Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
    Interests: abdominal aortic aneurysm; aeripheral artery disease; acute limb ischemia; chronic limb threatening ischemia; visceral artery disease; open surgery; endovascular therapy; prevention; carotid artery disease; atherosclerosis; translational research
  • Mohammed Shurrab, PhD
    Cardiology Department, Health Sciences North, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
  • Anwar J. Siddiqui, MD, PhD
    Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Interests: NSTEMI; STEMI; myocardial infarction; acute coronary syndrome; elderly; aging population; coronary angiogram; PCI; heart failure
  • Harry A. Silber, MD
    Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA
    Interests: cardiac filling pressure; cardiac congestion; photoplethysmography; valsalva maneuver; vascular endothelial function; cardiac magnetic resonance of vascular function; heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; echocardiography; hemodynamic monitoring
  • Savastano Simone, MD
    Division of Cardiology, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
    Interests: out-of-hospital Cardiac arrest; in-hospital Cardiac arrest; sudden death; ventricular arrhythmias; electric storm; cathether ablation; Cardiac implantable electronic device
  • Mahavir Singh, MD
    Department of Physiology, School of Medicine   University of Louisville 40202, Kentucky, USA
  • Tomasz Skowerski, MD, PhD
    School of Medicine in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  • Mi Kyoung Song, MD
    Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    Interests: Pediatric cardiology; Congenital heart disease; Pediatric arrhythmia; Arrhythmia in adult congenital heart disease; Channelopathy; Pediatric electrophysiology; Pediatric cardiomyopathy; Sudden death in children; Device therapy in children
  • Miron Sopić, MD
    Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
    Interests: non-coding RNAs as diagnostic and therapeutic targets for atherosclerotic CVDs; role of inflammation and aging in the development and aggregation of CVDs; metabolic disorders associated with high risk for CVD development
  • Camilo G. Sotomayor, MD, PhD
    Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
    Interests: kidney transplantation; cardiovascular disease; body imaging; ultrasound; computed tomography; clinical outcomes; clinical epidemiology
  • Stergios Soulaidopoulos, MD
    First Department of Cardiology and Electrophysiology Laboratory, Hippokration General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
    Interests: Interventional cardiology; coronary artery disease; valvular heart disease; pulmonary hypertension; congenital heart disease; mitral valve interventions
  • Michael Spartalis, MD
    3rd Department of Cardiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Sotiria Thoracic Diseases General Hospital, Athens, Greece
    Interests: device therapy; electrophysiology; catheter ablation; ventricular arrhythmias; sudden cardiac death
  • Domenico Spinelli, MD
    Unit of Vascular Surgery, Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphological and Functional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Interests: vascular surgery; endovascular surgery; aortic surgery; aortic aneurysm; aortic dissection; peripheral artery disease; carotid disease
  • Gautam Srivastava, PhD
    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Brandon University, Brandon, R7A 6A9 Canada
  • Ovidiu Stiru, PhD, MD
    Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, 'Prof. Dr. C. C. Iliescu' Institute of Emergency for Cardiovascular Diseases, 022322 Bucharest, Romania
    Interests: Aortic dissection; Thoracic aneurysm; Cardiac surgery; Vascular surgery
  • Rima Styra, MD
    Department of Psychiatry, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
  • Kayo Sugiyama, MD, PhD
    Department of Cardiac Surgery, Aichi Medical University Hospital, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan
  • Alexei N. Sumin, MD
    Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “Research Institute for Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseases”, Sosnovy Blvd. 6, Kemerovo, Russia
    Interests: coronary artery disease; peripheral artery disease; cardiac rehabilitation; psychosomatic in cardiology; echocardiography; cardiac risk in noncardiac surgery; cardio-oncology; arterial stiffness
  • Madhan Sundaram, MD
    Department of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, USA
    Interests: coronary artery disease; percutaneous coronary intervention; pulmonary embolism; peripheral vcascular disease; Endovascular interventions; transcatheter aortic valve replacement; high risk coronary interventions; cardiogenic shock
  • Stanisław Surma
    Faculty of Medical Science in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland; Polish Lipid Association, Poland; Club of Young Hypertensiologists, Polish Society of Hypertension, Poland
    Interests: arterial hypertension; lipid disorders; cardiovascular risk factors; atrial fibrillation; cardiovascular pharmacotherapy; statins; evinacumab; chronic kidney disease
  • Daiji Takajo, MD
    Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, Central Michigan University, Detroit, MI, USA
  • Jun K.  Takeuchi, MD
    Division of Bio-informational Pharmacology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan
    Interests: heart development; differentiation; regeneration; congenital heart diseases; epigenetics
  • Mirela Tiglis, MD, PhD
    Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Emergency Clinical Hospital of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
    Interests: Anemia management; Perioperative blood transfusion; Strategies to reduce blood transfusion; Surgery; Clinical
  • Mirela Cleopatra Tomescu, MD, PhD
    Multidisciplinary Heart Research Team, Cardiology Department, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania; Cardiology Clinic, Timisoara Municipal Clinical Emergency Hospital, Timisoara, Romania
    Interests: noninvasive cardiology; acute coronary syndromes; heart failure; hypertension; metabolic syndrome; echocardiography; cardiovascular rehabilitation
  • Vu Hoang Tran, MD, PhD
    Yale New Haven Health, Bridgeport Hospital, USA
  • Lucia Tricarico, MD
    Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
    Interests: Heart failure; Pulmonary hypertension; Atrial fibrillation; Oral anticoagulant; Chronic heart failure; ARNI
  • Dimitris Tsiantoulas, PhD
    Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
  • Guo-wei Tu, MD, PhD
    Department of Cardiac Intensive Care Center, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
    Special Issues and Topics in IMR Press journals
  • Mariana Tudoran, MD
    Department VII, Internal Medicine II, Discipline of Cardiology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Victor Babes" Timisoara, E. Murgu Square, Timisoara, Romania. Center of Molecular Research in Nephrology and Vascular Disease, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Victor Babes" Timisoara, E. Murgu Square, Timisoara, Romania. County Emergency Hospital, L. Rebreanu Str., Timisoara, Romania.
    Interests: Non-invasive cardiology; Heart failure; Pulmonary hypertension; Cardiomyopathies; Atrial fibrillation; and various cardiovascular complications in other pathologies
  • Cristina Tudoran, MD
    Department VII, Internal Medicine II, Discipline of Cardiology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Victor Babes" Timisoara, E. Murgu Square, Nr. 2, 300041 Timisoara, Romania.
    Interests: cardiology; echocardiography; heart failure; pulmonary hypertension; arterial stiffness; arterial hypertension
  • Prachi Umbarkar, PhD
    The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
    Interests: Pathophysiology of cardiac diseases; Unravelling molecular mechanisms contributing to cardiac fibrosis
  • Marco V. Usai, MD
    Department of Vascular Surgery, St. Franziskus Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany
    Interests: aortic surgery; endovascular surgery; aortic aneurysm; aortic dissection; aortic remodelling; aortic imaging
  • Diego Caicedo Valdés, MD
    Angiology and Vascular Surgery Department, Complexo Hospitalario de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Spain.
  • Leonard A. Valentino, MD
    National Hemophilia Foundation, New York, NY, USA; Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
    Interests: health services delivery; telemedicine; quality of life issues; patient-reported outcomes; coagulation disorders; thrombosis
  • Floris van den Brink, PhD, MD
    Department of Cardiology, Medisch Centrum Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
  • Ivo M. van Dongen, MD, PhD
    Department of Cardiology, Heart Center, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Interests: Chronic total coronary occlusions; Acute myocardial infarction; CTO; PCI; Epidemiology; Imaging
  • Jose F. Varona, MD
    Department of Internal Medicine, Infanta Cristina University Hospital, Parla, Madrid, Spain; Department of Internal Medicine, HM Montepríncipe University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
  • Radu Vatasescu, MD
    Faculty of Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania; Cardiology Department, Clinical Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
    Interests: arrhythmias: complex arrhythmia catheter ablation (AFib; SV and V arrhythmias in congenital heart disease; VT in structural heart disease; VA in electrical diseases); SCD; devices (CIED): CRT; ICD; S-ICD; W-ICD; His/LBB pacing; leadless
  • Vedran Velagic, MD, PhD
    Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
    Interests: electrophysiology; zero-fluoro ablation; atrial fibrillation; intracardiac echography; ventricular tachycardia ablation; conduction system pacing
    Special Issues and Topics in IMR Press journals
  • Juan J. Velasco, MD
    Division of Cardiac Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
    Interests: digital health; artificial intelligence; machine learning; cardiac surgery; vascular surgery; minimally invasive surgery; aortic aneurysm; aortic dissection; epidemiology; biostatistics
  • Tiago R. Velho, MD
    Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Hospital de Santa Maria-CHLN,, Lisboa, Portugal;Innate Immunity and Inflammation Laboratory, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal
  • Elio Venturini, MD
    Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit, Azienda USL Toscana Nord-Ovest, Cecina Civil Hospital, Cecina, Livorno, Italy
    Interests: cardiac rehabilitation; cardio-oncology rehabilitation; dyslipidemia; primary and secondary cv prevention; heart failure; exercise physiology and programs; cardio-oncology; adherence to cv therapies
  • Ștefan Cristian Vesa, MD, PhD
    Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    Interests: pharmacology of cardiovascular diseases; pharmacogenetics; vascular ultrasound
  • Federico Viganego, MD
    Cardio-Oncology Program, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA
    Interests: cardiovascular outcomes; healthcare economics in cardiovascular medicine; cardio-oncology; echocardiography; arrhythmias; cardiomyopathies; heart failure; general cardiology; Covid-19; preventive cardiology
  • Seth Vijayan, MD
    Consultant Cardiologist, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, USA
    Interests: interventional cardiology; percutaneous coronary intervention; coronary physiology; transcatheter aortic valve implantation; TAVI; TAVR; mitraclip; structural heart intervention; coronary angiography
  • Eduardo M. Vilela, MD, PhD
    Cardiology Department, Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
    Interests: Cardiovascular prevention; Cardiac rehabilitation; Cardiopulmonary exercise testing; Sports cardiology; Cardiac biomarkers; Echocardiography
  • Manlio Vinciguerra, PhD
    Center for Translational Medicine International Clinical Research Center (FNUSA-ICRC) Brno, Czech Republic
  • Giuseppe Vitale, MD
    Department of Radiology, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Napoli, Italy
    Interests: heart failure; echocardiography; preventive cardiology; cardiovascular rehabilitation; dyslipidaemias; cardiopulmonary exercise test; coronary artery disease; heart valve diseases
  • Piergiusto Vitulli, MD
    Department of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, University "Gabriele d'Annunzio", Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
    Interests: Interventional cardiology; Myocardial revascularization; Intensive care; Heart failure; Coronary artery disease; Statistics; Systematic review; Meta-analysis
  • Jiong-Wei Wang, PhD
    Department of Surgery, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
    Interests: cardiovascular immunology; myocardial injury; heart failure; nanomedicine; extracellular vesicles; animal models
  • Liam J. Ward, PhD
    Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology , Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Francesca Wirth, PhD
    Department of Pharmacy, University of Malta, Malta
    Interests: Cardiovascular pharmacotherapy; Pharmacogenetics and precision Medicine; Point of care testing; Acute coronary syndrome; Heart failure, Adherence; Antiplatelet therapy; Statins; In-stent restenosis; stable angina
  • Feng Xiao
    Department of Cardiology, The Affiliated Wuxi People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
    Interests: arrhythmia; valvular heart diseases; heart failure; metabolic disorders; inflammation
  • Atsuhiko Yagishita, MD
    Department of Cardiology, Tokai University, Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan
  • Takanori Yamaguchi, MD
    Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
  • Kennosuke Yamashita, MD
    Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital Division of Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories 35-1, Chigasaki-Chuo, Tsuzuki, Yokohama, Japan.
    Interests: atrial Fibrillation; LGE-MRI; fibrosis; catheter ablation; electroanatomical mapping; antithrombotic therapy; heart failure
  • Bo Yan, MD
    Jining Medical University, Jining, Shandong, China
  • Farah Yasmin, MBBS
    Department of Internal Medicine, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan
    Interests: Heart Failure; Coronary Artery Disease (Atherosclerosis and Intervention); Cardiovascular Outcomes; Cardiovascular Prevention
  • Zohaib Yousaf, MD, MSc
    Department of Internal Medicine, Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
    Interests: Internal Medicine; Point of care ultrasonography; Infectious disease; Clinical research; Pandemic; Medical education; Well-being; Pleural effusion; Hyponatremia; SIADH
  • Jenny E. Zablah, MD
    The Heart Institute, Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, USA
    Interests: congenital heart disease; interventional cardiology; 3D printing; virtual reality; invasive imaging; percutaneous valve implantation
  • Daniela Zanetti, MD
    Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
    Interests: epidemiology; population genetics; genetics; genomics; proteomics; genome-wide; association studies; mendelian randomization; prediction; polygenic risk scores; cardiometabolic traits
  • Cédrick Zaouter, MD
    Department of Anesthesiology, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
  • Paolo Zappulla, MD
    Division of Cardiology, Centro alte specialità e trapianti (C.A.S.T.), Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Policlinico "G. Rodolico - San Marco," University of Catania, Catania, Italy
    Interests: Cardia pacing; Cardiac resynchronization therapy; Electrophysiology; Atrial fibrillation; Supraventricular arrhythmias; Ventricular arrhythmias; Heart failure; Canolopathies; Ablation
  • Mahmoud Zaqout, MD, PhD
    Department of Pediatrics, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
    Interests: pediatric cardiology; physical activity
  • Ruihai Zhou, MD
    Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Massimo Zoni-Berisso, MD
    Padre Antero Micone Hospital, ASL 3 "Genovese", Genova, Italy.
    Interests: cardiac arrhythmias
  • Ahmad Syadi Mahmood Zuhdi, MPH
    University of Malaya
    Interests: Percutaneous coronary intervention; ischaemic heart disease
  • David Zweiker, MD, PhD
    Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmology, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, San Raffaele Hospital, Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy; Third Clinical Department for Cardiology and Intensive Care, Klinik Ottakring, Vienna, Austria; Division of Cardiology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
  • Robert Zymlinski, MD, PhD
    Department of Heart Diseases, Wroclaw Medical University, Borowska, Wroclaw, Poland; Centre for Heart Diseases, Wroclaw University Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland
  • Agnieszka Zyromska, MD
    Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Medical Faculty in Bydgoszcz, Toruń, Poland; Oncology Center in Bydgoszcz, Radiotherapy Department, Bydgoszcz, Poland
    Interests: adiobiology; late irradiation effects in children and adults; radiotherapy heart toxicity
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