Editors

Editor-in-Chief:
Yochai Birnbaum, M.D., F.A.H.A., F.A.C.C., John S. Dunn Chair in Cardiology Research and Education, Houston, TX, USA

Former Editor-in-Chief 
Willem J. Remme, Sticares Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Rhoon, The Netherlands

Founding Editors:
Henry N. Neufeld
Lionel H. Opie

Associate Editors:

Juan J. Badimon, PhD, Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
Lipids, Thrombosis (antiplatelets and anticoagulants), Cardiovascular Diseases, Diabetes

James Blankenship, MD, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Interventional Cardiopharmacology, Unconventional Cardiac Drugs

Mihail G. Chelu, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine , Houston, TX, USA
Clinical and translational electrophysiology

Y. Eugene Chen, MD, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease, Basic and Translational Research

Kim A. Connelly, MD, PhD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada,
Diabetes, Cardiac Metabolism, Integrins, Cardiac Fibrosis

Harry J.G.M. Crijns, MD, PhD, Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Centre Maastricht (MUMC) and Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Maastricht, The Netherlands,
Clinical Arrhythmias, Clinical Trials

Clifford C. Dacso, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Translational cell and molecular biology, sensors and devices

Sean M. Davidson, PhD, University College London, London, UK,
Cardioprotection, Heart Failure, Diabetes, Basic and Translational Science

Abhishek J. Deshmukh, MBBS, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Electrophysiology, Epidemiology, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Jie Du, PhD, University of the Pacific, Beijing, China,
Basic and Translational Research for Cardiovascular Diseases

David Grieve, PhD, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK,
Cardiovascular Remodeling, Endothelial Biology, Diabetes, Basic Research

Gabriel Habib, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Lipids, Hypertension, Cardiovascular and Coronary Artery Disease

Abdul Hakeem, MD, RWJ Barnanas Health , New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Cardiomyopathy, Coronary artery disease, Ischemia-reperfusion, Peripheral artery disease

John Horowitz, MD, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia,
Myocardial Ischemia, Heart Failure, Heart Disease in Women, Cardio-oncology
 

Henry Huang, MD, Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Clinical and Translational Cardiac Electrophysiology

Masafumi Kitakaze, MD, PhD, Hanwa Memorial Hospital, Osaka, Japan,
Ischemia-reperfusion Injury, Heart Failure, Big Data Science, Basic and Clinical Research

Srikanth Koneru, MD, Baylor College of Medicine , Houston, TX, USA
Structural Heart Disease, Cardiac Imaging, Clinical Research

Na Li, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Basic and Translational Electrophysiology

Jay Mehta, MD, PhD, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR, USA
Atherosclerosis, Myocardial Ischemia, Hypertension

Lisa Kay McClendon, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Cardiac fibrosis, myocardial ischemia, molecular mechanisms of cardioprotection

Ajith P. Nair, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Heart Failure and Transplantation, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Pulmonary Hypertension, Clinical Research

Koichi Node, MD, PhD,  Saga University, Saga, Japan
Clinical Science, Heart Failure

Mandeep Sidhu, MD, MBA, Albany Medical Health System, Albany, NY, USA
Stable Ischemic Heart Disease, Coronary Artery Disease, Cardiorenal Medicine, Clinical Trials

George (Rick) Stouffer, MD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Interventional Cardiology, Personalized Medicine, Anti-thrombotic Medications

Seiji Takashima, PhD, Osaka University , Osaka, Japan,
Cardiotropes, Mitochondrial Disease Treatments, Myocarditis Treatments, Gene Therapy

Ziad Tiameh, MD, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Heart Failure

Barry Uretsky, MD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
Interventional Cardiology, Clinical Trials, Clinical Research

Srikanth Vallurupalli, MD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA
Heart Failure

Gemma Vilahur, DVM, PhD, FESC, Research Institut, IIB-Sant Pau, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain,
Atherothrombosis, Antithrombotics, Ischemia-reperfusion Injury, Cardioprotection, Basic and Translational Research

Nathan Wong, PhD, FACC, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Preventive Cardiology, Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Dyslipidemia, Diabetes

Xiao-Feng Yang, MD, PhD, FAHA, Temple University , Philadelphia, PA, USA
Cardiovascular Inflammations, Molecular Pharmacology and Immunopharmacology

BASIC PHARMACOLOGY

Hou-Zhou Chen, MD, PhD, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
Shiyou Chen, DVM, PhD, University of Missouri , Columbia, MO, USA
Cher-Rin Chong, B.Pharm., Ph.D., The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Adolfo Garcia-Ocaña, PhD, Mount Sinai Hospital , New York, NY, USA
Qing Jing, MD, PhD, Shanghai University , Shanghai, China
Wei Kong, MD, PhD, Peking University, Beijing, China
Thomas Krieg, MD, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Rakesh Kukreja, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University , Richmond, VA, USA
Roberto Latini, PhD, Instituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche, Milan, Italy
David J. Lefer, PhD, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA, USA
Jonathan Leor, MD, Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv, Israel
Amanda Lochner, PhD, Stellenbosch University , Stellenbosch, South Africa
Gary Lopaschuk, PhD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Jinqiao Qian, PhD, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China
Robert Schwinger, MD, Radcliffe Cardiology, Weiden, Germany
Eugene F (Joss) du Toit, PhD, Griffith University, Southport, Australia
Thomas Unger, MD PhD, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Nederlands
Nanping Wang, MD, East China Normal University , Beijing, China
Christopher Watson, PhD, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK
Huang-Tian Yang, MD PhD, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shanghai, China
Lemin Zheng, PhD, Peking University, Beijing, China
Changcheng Zhou, PhD, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
Yi Zhu, PhD, First Affiliated Hospital of China, Beijing, China
Coert J. Zuurbier, PhD, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherland

CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, DRUGS AND DEVICES

Masanori Asakura, MD, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan,
Lina Badimon, PhD, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain,
Eric Bruckert, PhD, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France,
Josep Brugada, PhD, Josep Brugada, Barcelona, Spain,
Jie Cheng, MD, Memorial Hermann Health System, Houston, TX, USA
Alberto Corsini, PhD, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy,
Jan Danser, MD, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands,
Sascha N. Goonewardena, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Masatsugu Hori, MD, Osaka University , Osaka, Japan,
Yu Huang, PhD, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China,
Neil Kleiman, MD, Houston Methodist, Houston, TX, USA
Amir Lerman, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Alexander Mazur, MD, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
John McNeil, MBBS MSc PhD FRACP, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia,
Pyotr Platonov, PhD, Lund Universrity, Lund, Sweden,
Bianca Rocca, MD, PhD, Section of Pharmacology, Dept of Safety and Bioethics, Rome, Italy, clinical cardiovascular pharmacology
Rainer Schulz, MD, FESC, FAHA, FISHR, University of Glessen, Giessen, Germany,
Juan Tamargo, MD, PhD, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Dimitrios Tziakas, MD, University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece,
Adriaan Voors, MD/PhD, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands,
Aimin Xu, MD/PhD, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China,
Yunzeng Zou, MD, PHD, Fudan University , Shanghai, China,

CLINICAL TRIALS 

David Aguilar, MD, Harris Health System Ben Taub Hospital., Houston, TX, USA
Mahboob Alam, MBBS, FACC, FSCAI, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Dimitrios Alexopoulos, MD, Attikon University, Athens, Greece,
Inder Anand, MD, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Dominick J. Angiolillo, MD, PhD, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Christie Ballantyne, MD, FACP, FACC, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Ali E. Denktas, MD, FACC, FSCI, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Ingo Eitel, MD, PhD, University Heart Center, Lübeck, Germany,
Uri Elkayam, MD, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Andreas Goette, MD, St. Vincenz Hospital, Paderborn, Germany,
Juan Carlos Kaski, PhD, St. George's University Hospital, London, UK,
Sanjay Kaul, MD, Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Aldo Maggioni, MD, University of Milan, Milan, Italy,
Nicolas Palaskas, MD, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Bertram Pitt, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Luis Ruilope, MD, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain,
Prediman K. Shah, MD, Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Salim S. Virani, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FASPC, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Statistical Consultant
Charles Maynard, PhD, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington , Seattle, WA, USA