Editorial Board
49 Editors in 13 Countries/Region
Executive Chief Editor
Carlos A. Mestres 
carlosamestres@gmail.com Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Research Interests: Biomaterials, tissue valves, surgery of ischemic heart disease, healthcare systems and management, valvular homografts, infective endocarditis & cardiovascular infections, intrathoracic organ transplantation, vascular homografts, surgery of the aorta.
Senior Editor
Frank W. Sellke
Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA.
Research Interests: Coronary artery bypass grafting, cardioplegia, myocardial protection, coronary angiogenesis, cardiac surgery, atrial fibrillation, microcirculation, cardiopulmonary bypass, aortic surgery, valve surgery.
Associate Editors
Joseph S. Coselli
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Research Interests: Cardiothoracic surgery, aneurysms, aortic aneurysms, thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm.
Christopher Lau
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
Research Interests: Cardiac surgery, aortic aneurysm, valve-sparing root replacement, aortic valve, thoracoabdominal aneurysm, aortic surgery.
Jawahar Mehta
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA.
Research Interests: Cardiovascular and kidney outcomes, thrombosis, atherosclerosis, myocardial ischemia.
Narasimham L. Parinandi
Department of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Research Interests: Phospholipid signalases in lung vasculature, lipidomics of adiposity, bioactive oxidant lipidomics in vasculotoxicity.
A. Laurie Shroyer
Department of Surgery, Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
Research Interests: Translational research, clinical trials, cardiac surgery outcomes, clinical practice guidelines, evidence-based medicine, outcome assessment, health services research, quality improvement, risk assessment, risk adjustment.
Pre-operative and post-operative atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing SAVR/TAVR
Improving future postoperative atrial fibrillation care: a 30,000-foot viewpoint
A literature review: pre-/post-operative atrial fibrillation for thoracic aortic aneurysm procedures
Preoperative atrial fibrillation/flutter impact on risk-adjusted repeat aortic intervention patients
Atrial fibrillation in mechanical circulatory support patients
Igor Sobenin
Laboratory of Angiopathology, Institute of General Pathology and Pathophysiology, Moscow, Russia.
Research Interests: Atherosclerosis, atherogenesis, lipids, lipoproteins, cardiovascular diseases, genetic predisposition, mitochondrial genome, molecular and cellular mechanisms.
Cristiano Spadaccio
Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
Research Interests: Aortic surgery, coronary artery surgery, valve surgery, translational research, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine.
Robert M. Starke
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.
Research Interests: Neurovascular diseases, cerebral aneurysms, AVMs, stroke, dural arteriovenous fistulas, moyamoya disease, intracranial atherosclerosis, radial artery approaches, cerebrovascular injury , cerebral angiography, thrombectomy.
Social Media Editor
Alberto Cordero
Cardiology Department, Interventional Cardiology Unit, Hospital Universitario de San Juan, Alicante, Spain.
Research Interests: Acute coronary syndrome, coronary heart disease, lipid, atherosclerosis, interventional cardiology.
Editorial Board Members
Giuseppe Andò
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
Research Interests: Anticoagulants, antiplatelets, coronary artery disease, acute myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation.
Jerzy Beltowski
Department of Pathophysiology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
Research Interests: Hypertension, atherosclerosis, dyslipidemia, lipid-lowering medications, diabetes, heart failure, arrhythnmias, adipose tissue, obesity, metabolic syndrome, nitric oxide, endothelial dysfunction, hydrogen sulfide, gasotransmitters.
Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai
Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy.
Research Interests: Hypertension, blood pressure, atherosclerosis, heart failure, myocardial infarction.
Antonio Calafiore
Division of Cardiac Surgery A, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Research Interests: Heart valves, aortic valve replacement, atherosclerosis, inhibitors, immune effects, ischemic mitral valve.
Hong Chen
Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Research Interests: Epsins, cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis, angiogenesis in pathology.
Zhong-Ping Chen
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
Research Interests: Optical coherence tomography, doppler OCT, OCT angiography, optical coherence elastography.
Elisa F. Ciceri
Diagnostic Imaging Department & Interventional Neuroradiology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy.
Research Interests: Intracranial aneurysms, acute ischemic stroke, thrombectomy in stroke, vascular remodeling.
Dennis Cordato
Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Research Interests: Stroke, neuropharmacology, clinical trials, neurophysiology and neurodegenerative disorders.
Stephen M. Davis
Department of Medicine and Neurology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
Research Interests: Stroke, therapy, advanced imaging.
Yun-Zhou Dong
Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Research Interests: Epsins, cardiovascular disease, atherosclerosis.
Geoffrey A. Donnan
Department of Medicine and Neurology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
Research Interests: Neurosciences and neurology, ischaemic stroke, cardiovascular system and cardiology, peripheral vascular disease.
Ali H. Eid
Department of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Research Interests: Cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis.
Nicola Ferri
Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Research Interests: Cardiovascular diseases, hypercholesterolemia, smooth muscle, cholesterol, lipoproteins, statins.
Shou-Dong Guo
Institute of Lipid Metabolism and Atherosclerosis, Weifang Medical University, Weifang, Shandong, China.
Research Interests: Lipid metabolism, atherosclerosis, PSK9 inhibitors.
Mariann Harangi
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Debrecen Faculty of Medicine, Debrecen, Hungary.
Research Interests: Hypertension, cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, atherosclerosis.
Dirk Matthias Hermann
Department of Neurology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
Research Interests: Ischemic stroke, post-ischemic angiogenesis, brain remodeling, microvascular remodeling.
Chung Y. Hsu
Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, China.
Research Interests: Cerebral vascular diseases, age-dependent degeneration of the cerebral blood vessels, clinical stroke trials and establishment of real-world evidence to confirm the current stroke preventive and therapeutic strategies by big stroke database analysis.
Nishank Jain
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA.
Research Interests: Kidney disease.
Carl Lavie
John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School-the University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Research Interests: Cardiovascular disease, hypertension.
Ugolino Livi
Cardiothoracic Department, University Hospital of Udine, Udine, Italy.
Research Interests: Aortic surgery, endocarditis, heart disease, heart surgery, type A aortic dissection.
Ferdinando Mannello
Department of Biomolecular Sciences-DISB, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy.
Research Interests: Chronic venous disease, chronic venous insufficiency, chronic venous disorders.
Cameron McCarthy
Department of Biology and Anatomy, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, USA.
Research Interests: Vascular deterioration in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, aging, dysregulation in cellular recycling (autophagy), energy sensing, understanding the mechanisms by which therapeutic interventions such as exercise, caloric restriction reverse vascular dysfunction, physiology, hypertension, (premature) aging, innate immune system, autophagy, metabolism.
Fabrizio Monaco
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Institute, Milan, Italy
Research Interests: Cardiac surgery, mitral valve, endovascular repair of aortic aneurysm, anesthesia, blood coagulation.
Ryuichi Morishita
Department of Clinical Gene Therapy, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
Research Interests: Angiopoietins, chronic diseases, cardiovascular disease.
Paolo Nardi
Medicine and Surgery, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Research Interests: Cardiac surgery, aortic prosthesis, coronary artery bypass grafting, acute Type A.
Vijay Patel
Department of Surgery, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA.
Research Interests: Cardiovascular disease, quality outcomes.
Bertram Pitt
Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, MI, USA.
Research Interests: Cardiovascular disease, ischemic heart disease, heart failure.
Luca Quartuccio
Department of Medicine, University of Udine, Udine, Italy.
Research Interests: Rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune disease, rheumatic diseases, autoimmunity.
Saverio Francesco Retta
Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Torino, Italy.
Research Interests: Cerebrovascular diseases, cerebral cavernous malformation, oxidative stress and vascular disease, redox signaling in vascular, physiopathology.
Alistair Royse
Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Research Interests: Cardiac surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, clinical ultrasound, ultrasound imaging, stroke, arterial coronary, total arterial revascularization.
Manel Sabaté
Interventional Cardiology Unit, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Research Interests: Acute coronary syndrome, chronic coronary syndrome, interventional cardiology, stent, TAVR, percutaneous mitral repair/replacement.
Ming-Yi Wang
Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Research Interests: Large arteries, ageing, arterial aging, heart dysfunction, arterial fibrosis, vascular smooth muscle, age-associated arterial diseases.
Ya-Jing Wang
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
Research Interests: Extracellular vesicle, cardiovascular disease, coronary endothelial cells, coronary artery disease, autophagy, vascular endothelium dysfunction, heart failure, ischemic cardiac disease, HFpEF, HFrEF.
Keith A. Webster
Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.
Research Interests: Angiogenesis in retinopathy, cardiac allograft vasculopathy, left ventricular diastolic dysfunction, atherosclerosis.
Theresa L. Whiteside
Departments of Pathology and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Research Interests: Immunology and immunotherapy of human solid tumors, development of anti-cancer vaccines, studies of dendritic cells in cancer, immune monitoring of cancer patients treated with biotherapies, immune suppression in cancer and its mechanisms cytokines in health and disease.
Moritz C. Wyler von Ballmoos
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland.
Research Interests: Mitral valve disease, quality metrics in cardiac surgery, transcatheter technology, transcatheter valve therapies.
Jun Zhang
Molecular and Translational Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA.
Research Interests: Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCM), CCM pathogenesis, CCM signaling complex (CSC), blood brain barrier (BBB), biomarkers, membrane progesterone receptors (mPRs), CSC-mPRs-PRG (CmP).
Li-Guo Zhao
Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
Research Interests: Cardiovascular medical devices, implant-tissue interaction, tissue damage and growth, stent biomechanics, in-stent restenosis, soft tissue mechanics, computer modeling.
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