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

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

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: coronary artery disease; antiplatelet therapy; percutaneous coronary intervention; heart valve diseases; meta-analysis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Critical Care Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Interests: hemodynamic monitoring; cardiogenic shock; ECMO; acute kidney injury

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

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