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Jennifer Harman, PhD - Senior Editor, BMC Series

New Content ItemDr Harman is the Editor of BMC Cardiovascular Disorders. Over a 10-year research career, Jennifer developed extensive knowledge of  molecular biology techniques to help elucidate the mechanisms underlying cardiovascular disease. From 2011 to 2019, Jennifer worked within the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Cambridge, investigating the molecular mechanisms which underlie Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell (VSMC) behaviour in healthy and diseased vasculature. During her PhD, she worked on the role of a repressive histone modification in regulating disease-associated VSMC genes. After completing her PhD, Jennifer moved to the Royal Veterinary College in London to work on a project investigating the role of a cell surface receptor in regulating inflammatory signalling pathways associated with atherosclerosis. Jennifer actively supports the publication of open and reproducible research. She is based in the London office, UK.

Senior Editorial Board Members

Dr Tianxiao Huan, NIH, USA

New Content ItemDr. Tianxiao Huan was trained as biostatistician and computational biologist. She is an Assistant Professor in the UMASS Chan Medical School. Before that, she spent 10 years at the Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. She has been focused on genetic, genomics, and epidemiological projects for age-related diseases and traits, including cardiovascular disease, mortality, and age-related macular degeneration. She also conducts ocular imaging studies which involve deep learning. She has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals on diverse topics, with > 4700 citations (h index = 34). 


Prof Ignatios Ikonomidis, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece           

New Content ItemDr Ignatios Ikonomidis MD,PhD,FESC,EACVI,HFA is Professor in Cardiology in the 2nd Cardiology Department, Attikon Hospital, Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He is the Head of the Echocardiography and the Laboratory of Preventive Cardiology of the 2nd Cardiology Department, and runs the Clinic of Cardiometabolic disease and Smoking Cessation.  He is the president of the board of International Association on Smoking Control and Harm Reduction (SCOHRE). He works in the field of non-invasive cardiovascular imaging and ventricular–arterial coupling in cardiac diseases. He has a national and worldwide reputation and is regarded as one of the leading experts in the field echocardiography and inflammation in CV diseases.


Prof Elaheh Malakan Rad, MD, FACC

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Dr. Elaheh Malakan Rad is a full-time tenured Professor with nearly 30 years of experience as a University faculty. She works at Children's Medical Centre (Pediatrics Centre of Excellence), affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences. She is the deputy of research affairs at the Department of Pediatric Cardiology of Children's Medical Centre.

Dr. Malakan Rad is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology and has a fellowship in Pediatric Interventional Cardiology. Parallel to her work in Pediatric Cardiology, she passed a two-year training fellowship in Medical Education between 2007-2009 at PSG-FAIMER Institute of Coimbatore and a one-year course with a postgraduate certificate in accreditation and assessment in medical education offered by the University of Keele and FAIMER from 2015 to 2016. As the concept provider, she introduced novel classifications for three important congenital cardiovascular diseases:  congenital left ventricular outpouchings, isolation of the left brachiocephalic artery, and congenital aorto-cardiac connections, which are published in peer-reviewed cardiology journals. She has a joint patent registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office on an asymmetric occluder device for atrial septal defects. She is an Editorial Board Member of Strides in Development of Medical Education and cardiology section editor of the Iranian Journal of Pediatrics. Elaheh is deeply interested in an innovative, integrative and critical thinking approach to medical science.


Dr Barry Palmer, Massey University, New Zealand

New Content ItemDr Palmer studied Molecular Microbiology during his PhD at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. The ability to transfer molecular biology skills led to postdoctoral research on DNA methylation and DNA repair in E.coli at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA. This led to research and teaching on bacterial heavy metal and antimicrobial resistance; and metabolism of xenobiotics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ. Researching the role of gene variants in sheep meat quality and production at Lincoln University, NZ led to Barry joining what is now the Christchurch Heart Institute in 2000 and the focus of his research since then has been on evaluating genetic and plasma biomarkers of prognosis in coronary heart disease and heart failure. Barry took up a part-time academic appointment in the School of Health Sciences at Massey University Wellington, NZ in 2012 and this became full-time in 2020.


Senior Editorial Board Members
Tianxiao Huan, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), USA
Ignatios Ikonomidis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Elaheh Malakan Rad, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Barry Palmer, Massey University, New Zealand

Editorial Board Members
Omar Abdelfattah, Morristown Medical Center, Atlantic Health System, USA
Shady Abohashem, Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School, USA
Rami Riziq Yousef Abumuaileq, Palestine Medical Services (PAL) / University Hospital Santiago de Compostela (ES),
Abdelrahman Abushouk, Yale School of Medicine, USA
Ahmed Abuzaid, University of California, USA
Nayan Agarwal, Cardiovascular Institute of the South, USA
Rakesh Agarwal, University of Adelaide/Lyell McEwin Hospital, Australia
Ndip Agbor, University of Oxford, UK
Amjad M. Ahmed, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Saudi Arabia
Jawad Ahmed, Dow University of Health Sciences, Pakistan
Fionnuala Ni Ainle, University College Dublin, Ireland
Emmanuel Akintoye, Wayne State University, USA
Baravan Al-Kassou, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
Venkata Mahesh Alla, Creighton University, USA
Prasanna Allu, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, USA
Leopold Aminde, Griffith University, Australia
Eisuke Amiya, University of Tokyo, Japan
Siddhartha Angadi, University of Virginia, USA
Emiliano Angeloni, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
Ashraf Anwar, King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital, Saudi Arabia
Duke Appiah, Texas Tech University, USA
Jessica Artico, Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, United Kingdom
Gabriele Egidy Assenza, University of Bologna, Italy
Enrico Baldi, University of Pavia, Italy
Cristina Balla, University of Ferrara, Italy
Agam Bansal, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA
Umberto Barbero, University of Turin, Italy
Trayambak Basak, Indian Institute of Technology – Mandi, India
Pier Bassareo, University Teaching Hospital of Cagliari, Italy
Indranill Basu-Ray, Memphis VA Hospital, USA
George Bazoukis, Evangelismos Hospital, Greece
Alessandro Belletti, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy
Iddo Ben-Dov, Rockefeller University, USA
Andreia Bernardo, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Gourav Bhardwaj, University of Iowa, USA
Shreyas Bhave, Tufts Medical Center, USA
Aldo Bonaventura, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Giuseppe Boriani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Josip Borovac, University of Split, Croatia
Josko Bozic, University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia
Alexandros Briasoulis, Wayne State University, USA
Andreas Brodehl, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, University Hospital of the Ruhr-Univeristy Bochum, Germany
Daniel Bromage, King College London, UK
Tommaso Bucci, Sapienza Univeristy of Rome, Italy
Pravesh Bundhun, Flacq Hospital, Mauritius 
F. Aaysha Cader, Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital & Research Institute, Bangladesh
Gaojun Cai, Jiangsu University, China
Antonio Cannata, King College London, UK
Francesco Capuano, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech , Spain
Ilaria Cavallari, University of Rome, USA
Enrico Cerrato, Infermi Hospital, Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Arturo Cesaro, University of Campania, Italy
Khalid Changal, MercyOne Siouxland, USA
P Bryant Chase, Florida State University, USA
Sandip Chaugai, Vanderbilt University, USA
Hao-min Cheng, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
Ovidiu Chioncel, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania
Rishabh Choudhary, The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, USA
Francesco Condello, IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Italy
Bernadette Corica, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Giuliano Costa, AOU Policlinico G. Rodolico-San Marco, Italy
Marzia Cottini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Fabrizio D'Ascenzo, University of Torino, Italy
Anshuman Darbari, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India
Salil Deo, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Arnaldo Dimagli, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Chiara Donfrancesco, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy
Ayman Elbadawi, Rochester General Hospital, USA
Adrian Elliott, University of Adelaide, Australia
Réka Faludi, Heart Institute Medical School University of Pécs, Hungary
Chengming Fan, Central South University, China
Paolo Ferrero, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Italy
Mohamed Gad, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA
Enrique Gallego-Colon, Barzilai Medical Center, Israel
Aakash Garg, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, USA
Piero Gentile, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Italy
Laxmi Ghimire, University of California, San Francisco(UCSF), USA
Kakali Ghoshal, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
Spyretta Golemati, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Juan Gomez, Fundacion Valle del Lili, Colombia
Riccardo Gorla, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Italy
Nandu Goswami, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Felice Gragnano, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy
Alessandra Granata, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Maria Grau, Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mediques, Spain
B Maura Greiser, University of Maryland, USA
Andrea Grillo, University of Trieste, Italy
Federico Guerra, Universita Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy
Yingkun Guo, Sichuan University, China
Md Hasnain, University of Newcastle, Australia
Yong-ming He, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, China
Dagmara Hering, University of Western Australia, Australia
Ali Hosseinsabet, Tehran Heart Center, Iran
Bang-Gee Hsu, Tzu Chi University, Taiwan
Shijun Hu, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, China, People's Republic
Seon Young Hwang, Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
Yoshitaka Iwanaga, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Japan
Ankur Jain, University of Florida, USA
Alexander Janosi, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Marek Jasinki, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland
John Jefferies, University of Tennessee, USA
Prabhash Jha, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
Goo Jun, University of Texas Health Houston, USA
Stavroula Kanoni, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Kristjan Karason, Sahgrenska University Hospital, Sweden
Christiana Kartsonaki, University of Oxford - Big Data Institute, UK
Takao Kato, Kyoto University, Japan
Konstantinos Katogiannis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Spiridon Katsanos, University of Athens Medical School, Greece
Raminderjit Kaur, Cleveland Clinic EHP, USA
Sebastian Kelle, German Heart Institute Berlin, Germany
Levon Khachigian, University of New South Wales, Australia
Sanjay Kharche, Western University, Canada
J. Alexander D. Kharlamov, De Haar Research Task Force, Netherlands
Dae-Hee Kim, University of Ulsan, Republic of Korea
Junhwan Kim, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, USA
Attila Kiss, Center for Biomedical Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Javad Kojuri, Professor Kojuri cardiology clinic, Iran
Ofir Koren, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA
Anoop Koshy, Austin Health, Australia
Panagiotis Koutakis, Baylor University, USA
Rungroj Krittayaphong, Mahidol University, Thailand
Petr Kuchynka, Charles University, Czech Republic
Younghoon Kwon, University of Washington, USA
Antonio Landi, Cardiocentro Ticino Institute, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Lugano, Switzerland
Ismaheel Lawal, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Andrea Lechiancole, University Hospital of Udine, Italy
Scott Levick, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Roberto Licordari, University of Messina, Italy
Gen-Min Lin, Hualien Armed Forces General Hospital, Taiwan
Tong Liu, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, China
Ju Liu, Shandong University, China
Zhihong Liu, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, China
Luigi Lovato, IRCCS AOU BO S Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Italy
Peter Magnusson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Michel Malagù, University of Ferrara, Italy
Sagar Mallikethi-Reddy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Alessandro Maloberti, Milano-Bicocca University and Niguarda Hospital, Italy
Nassos Manginas, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Greece
Nikos Maniadakis, University of West Attica, Greece
Mohamad Mansour, CHRU de Brest, France
Jakub Marczak, Nottingham University Hospital, UK
Victor Mauri, University Hospital of Cologne, Germany
Michael Megaly, Banner University Medical Center/UA College of Medicine-Phoenix, USA
Giovanni Melina, University of Rome, Italy
Masaki Mizuno, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Ana Olga Mocumbi, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique
Mostafa Mokhles, Erasmus University Medical Center, Netherlands
Pasquale Mone, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy
Claudio Montalto, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Italy
Elisabetta Moscarella, University of Campania L. Vanvitelli, Italy
Joseph Moxon, James Cook University, Australia
Ioana Mozos, Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie Victor Babes din Timisoara, Romania
Blerim Mujaj, Uniklinik Freiburg, Germany
Saverio Muscoli, Policlinico Roma, Italy
Shanmugam Nagarajan, University of North Carolina, Chappelhill
Milad Nazarzadeh, University of Oxford, UK
Dennis Nilsen, University of Bergen, Norway
Valeria Novelli, University Catholic Sacred Heart, Italy
Joaquim Nunes Vieira, King's College London, UK
Vincenzo Nuzzi, Santa Maria degli Angeli Hospital, Azienda Sanitaria Friuli Occidentale, Italy
Chike Nwabuo, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Takuya Ogami, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
Utkarsh Ojha, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, UK
Takahiro Okumura, Nagoya University, Japan
Eduardo Oliver, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Spain
Stefano Omboni, Italian Institute of Telemedicine, Italy
Pierluigi Omedè, Azi Ospedaliero Universitaria Citta della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Italy
Mohamed Omer, University of Missouri, USA
Alireza Oraii, McMaster University, Canada
Niraj Pandey, All India institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Danilo Pani, University of Calgiari, Italy
Jay-Hueong Park, Chungnam National University, South Korea
Christian Perzanowski, Brandon Regional Hospital, USA
Hoang Phan, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Vietnam
Alberto Polimeni, Magna Graecia University, Italy
Manuel Portolés, Hospital Univ La FE, Spain
Dimitrios Terentes Printzios, Oxford University Hospitals, UK and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Nicola Riccardo Pugliese, University of Pisa, Italy
Mohamed Rahouma, Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian Hospital, USA
Udaya Ralapanawa, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Susana Ravassa, University of Navarra, Spain
François Regoli, Fondazione Cardiocentro Ticino, Switzerland
Paulo Cury Rezende, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fabrizio Ricci, G. d'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Angelos Rigopoulos, Leopoldina Hospital Schweinfurt, Germany
Leonardo Roever, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
Giulio Francesco Romiti, Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy
Jean Michel Saad, DeBakey Cardiovascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, USA
Marwan Saad, Brown University, USA
Sherin Saheera, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA
Stefano Salizzoni, University of Turin, Italy
Francesco Santoro, University of Foggia, Italy
Gaetano Santulli, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Susanne Sattler, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Nazish Sayed, Stanford University, USA
Michael Schwarzer, University of Jena, Germany
Jitka Mlíková Seidlerová, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Yusuf Ziya Sener, Beypazarı State Hospital, Turkey
Kashif Shaikh, Creighton University, USA
Gaurav Sharma, University of Texas Southwestern, USA
Islam Shehata, Zagazig University, Egypt
Md Sayed Ali Sheikh, Jouf University, Saudi Arabia
Rui Shi, Université Paris-Saclay, France
Wanyin Shi, First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, China
Yuichi Shimada, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
Ching-Hui Sia, National University Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore
Avinainder Singh, Yale University, USA
Christoph Sinning, Universitatsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Piotr Sobieraj, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
Ronak Soni, Jack Stephens Heart Institute, USA
Antonio Sorgente, Centre Hospitalier Epicura, Belgium
Michael Spartalis, San Raffaele University Hospital, Italy
Stella Stabouli, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece
Alessandro Sticchi, Inselspital, University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland and Saint Camillus International University, Rome, Italy
Alexey Sumin, Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “Research Institute for Complex Issues of Cardiovascular Diseases”, Russia
Jin-Yu Sun, Nanjing Medical University, China
Navin Suthahar, University Medical Center, Groningen, Netherlands
Masih Tajdini, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran Heart Center, Iran
Wenbin Tan, University of South Carolina, USA
Tetsu Tanaka, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
Xiaoqiang Tang, Sichuan University, China
Shivshankar Thanigaimani, James Cook University, Australia
Dilip Thomas, Stanford University, USA
Hongtao Tie, the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, China
Daniela Trabattoni, Centro Cardiologico Monzino, Italy
Byomesh Tripathi, University of Arizona College of Medicine, USA
Vien Truong, Nazareth Hospital, USA
Guo-wei Tu, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, China
Phillip Tully, University of New England, Australia
Miguel Urina, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Colombia
Saarwaani Vallabhajosyula, Mayo Clinic, USA
Jef Van den Eynde, KU Leuven, Belgium
Giueseppe Vergaro, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Italy
Paul Vermeersch, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Belgium
Aviral Vij, Cook County Health, Chicago, USA
Marco Vitolo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Policlinico di Modena, Italy
Agathi-Rosa Vrettou, Attikon University Hospital, Greece
Harshal Waghulde, National Institute of Health, USA
Darren Walters, University of Queensland, Australia
William Wang, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Australia
Christopher Wong, University of Adelaide, Australia
Li-Da Wu, Nanjing Medical University, China
Junjie Xiao, Shanghai University, China
Xueqian Xie, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Wen-Yi Yang, University of Leuven, Belgium
Yuichiro Yano, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Kanhua Yin, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
Huiliang Zhang, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
Jin-Ying Zhang, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou, China
Tie-Ning Zhang, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, China
Zhen Zhou, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Australia
Yunpeng Zhu, Ruijin Hospital Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China

Editorial Advisors
Peter Anderson, University of Alabama, USA
Christian Delles, University of Glasgow, UK
Bernard Keavney, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Xiang Zeng, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, China

 

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