Editor-in-Chief

Peter A. McCullough, MD                                                                                   

Baylor University Medical Center, Texas, United States

After receiving a bachelor's degree from Baylor University, Dr. McCullough completed his medical degree as an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.  He went on to complete his internal medicine residency at the University of Washington in Seattle, cardiology fellowship including service as Chief Fellow at William Beaumont Hospital, and master’s degree in public health at the University of Michigan.  Dr. McCullough directs cardiovascular education and research for the Baylor Health Care System and is a Vice Chief of Medicine at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, TX.  He is an internationally recognized authority on the role of chronic kidney disease as a cardiovascular risk state with over 1000 publications.  Dr. McCullough has won numerous awards including in the Simon Dack Award from the American College of Cardiology for outstanding scholarship and the International Vicenza Award for Critical Care Nephrology for his contributions and dedication to the emerging problem of cardiorenal syndromes.

Associate Editor

Federico Ronco, MD

Interventional Cardiologist at Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Dept, Ospedale dell'Angelo, Venice, Italy

Federico Ronco graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 2005 at the University of Padua School of Medicine and received his Specialization in Cardiology degree in 2010 cum laude at the University of Padua School of Medicine. Since 2010 works as Interventional Cardiologist at Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular, Ospedale dell'Angelo - Venice, Italy. 

Editor Board Members
Naranjan S. Dhalla University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada	Varró András University of Szeged, Hungary
Pradeep Vaideeswar King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India	Janani Rangaswami Einstein Medical Center, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, United States
Davide Bolignano Clinical researcher of the Italian National Research Council-Institute of Clinical Physiology IFC, Italy	Karol E. Watson The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, United States
Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai Sapienza University of Rome, Italy	Mohamed Shehata University of Cologne, Germany
Lori B. Daniels University of California, United States	Vladimir M. Pokrovskii Kuban State Medical University, Krasnodar, Russian Federation, Russia
Giovanni Donato Aquaro Gabriele Monasterio Foundation-CNR Regione Toscana, Pisa, Italy	Alan Stewart Maisel Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, United States
Takatoshi Kasai Juntendo University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan	Yochai Birnbaum Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, United States
Erhan Tenekecioglu Health Sciences University, Bursa Education and Research Hospital, Bursa, Turkey	Ruan Kruger North-West University, Hypertension in Africa, South Africa
Carmela Rita Balistreri University of Palermo, Italy	Giuseppe Tarantini University of Padova, Italy
Rubén Casado Arroyo Free University of Brussels, Belgium	Law Yuk The University of Hong Kong, China
Dragan M. Djuric University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia	Gastón A. Rodríguez Granillo Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, Diagnostico Maipu, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Emma Louise Robinson Maastricht University, Limburg Province, Netherlands	Ana Olga Hausse Mocumbi Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique
Cristina Balla University Hospital of Ferrara, Italy	Snehil Dixit King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia
Jan Slezak Senior Advisor, Mollecular Hydrogen Institute, United States - Japan	Dobromir Dobrev Director of Institute of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Attila Nemes  2nd Department of Medicine and Cardiology Center, Faculty of Medicine, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Clinical Center, University of Szeged	Jawahar L. Mehta Division of Cardiovascular Medicine University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Veterans Administration Medical Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Pawan K. Singal  Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology Rady Faculty of Health Sciences University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Canada	Grant N. Pierce  Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, College of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Zoltán Papp Department of Cardiology, Division of Clinical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Debrecen, Hungary	Kailash Prasad  Professor Emeritus, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Petr Ostadal  Cardiovascular Center, Na Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic	Buddhadeb Dawn  Chairman, Department of Medicine, UNLV School of Medicine, Las Vegas, USA
Gary David Lopaschuk  Departments of Pediatrics and Pharmacology Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Canada	Massimo Volpe  Chief of the Cardiology Division, Department of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Science, and Hypertension Unit at Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy
Mehmet Ugur ES Siyami Ersek Cardiac Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey	Matteo Cameli University of Siena, Italy
Maria Rosa Costanzo Advocate Heart Institute, USA	Zhonghua Sun Discipline of Medical Radiation Sciences, Curtin University, Australia
Bernard Belhassen Cardiologic Institute in Hadassah Medical Center，Jerusalem， Isreal	Jun Zhang Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, USA