Editor-in-Chief
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH Website
Professor of MedicineTexas A & M University College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Dallas, TX
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. He went on to complete his internal medicine residency at the University of Washington, 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 is a practicing internist and cardiologist at Texas A & M University College of Medicine, Dallas campus.
Dr. McCullough has broadly published on a range of topics in medicine with > 1000 publications and > 600 citations in the National Library of Medicine. His works include the “Interface between Renal Disease and Cardiovascular Illness” in Braunwald’s Heart Disease Textbook. Dr. McCullough is a recipient of the Simon Dack Award from the American College of Cardiology and the International Vicenza Award in Critical Care Nephrology for his scholarship and research. Dr. McCullough is a founder and current president of the Cardiorenal Society of America, an organization dedicated to bringing cardiologists and nephrologists together to work on the emerging problem of cardiorenal syndromes. His works have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, British Medical Journal and other top-tier journals worldwide. He is the editor-in-chief of Cardiorenal Medicine, Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, and senior associate editor of the American Journal of Cardiology. He serves on the editorial boards of multiple specialty journals. Dr. McCullough has made presentations on the advancement of medicine across the world and has been an invited lecturer in the U.S. Senate, New York Academy of Sciences, the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the European Medicines Agency. He has served as member or chair of data safety monitoring boards of 24 randomized clinical trials.
Special Issue in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine: Featured Papers in Cardiovascular Medicine 2021
Associate Editor
Federico Ronco, MD Website
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
Interests: Interventional Cardiology; Acute Myocardial Infarction; PCI; Clinical Cardiology; Coronary Angiography; Myocardial Infarction; Cardiac Catheterization; Heart Valve Diseases; Coronary Artery Disease; Aortic Diseases
Editorial Board Members
Interests: Cardiovascular imaging (cardiac CT; cardiac MRI); Interventional cardiology; Peripheral vascular interventions
Interests: Diabetes and cardiovascular disease; Hypertension; Insulin resistance; Metabolic diseases; Metabolism; Lipid metabolism; Blood pressure; Atherosclerosis; Abdominal obesity; Glucose metabolism
Interests: Heart failure; Cardiology; Hypertension; Echocardiography; Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac function; Chronic heart failure; Hemodynamics; Myocardial infarction; Exercise intervention
Interests: The clinical pharmacology; Toxicology and pharmacogenetics of drugs; Particularly in the cardiovascular field; The pathogenesis and treatment of hyperlipidaemia; Hypertension; The metabolic syndrome and diabetes
Interests: Blood pressure; Hypertension; Atherosclerosis; Metabolic; Syndrome; Cardiology; Dialysis; Diabetes; Cardiovascular disease; Cardiovascular medicine; Clinical nephrology
Interests: Hypertension; Coronary artery disease; Atherosclerosis; Metabolic syndrome; MicroRNAs; Circulating microRNAs; Gene expression; Oxidative stress; Ischemia-reperfusion
Interests: Cardiac MRI; Cardiology; Cardiac function; Imaging; Coronary artery disease; Echocardiography; Heart failure
Interests: Advanced heart failure; Cardiomyopathy; Mechanical circulatory support and transplant; Heritable causes of vascular disease; Novel drug therapies for advanced heart failure; Novel gene discovery in cardiomyopathy; Characterization and management of left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC); Early diagnosis and management of chemotherapy
Interests: Cardiomyopathies; Metabolic diseases; Heart failure; Cardiac function; Echocardiography; Clinical cardiology; Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac; Echocardiography; Hypertrophy; Cardiovascular imaging
Special Issue in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine: Cardiac involvement in patients with Fabry disease: from pathophysiology to imaging and treatment
Interests: Coronary artery disease; Intravascular imaging; TAVI; Mitraclip; PFO closure
Interests: Hypertension; Cardiovascular acute events; Cardiovascular risk; Mitochondrial dysfunction; Molecular genetics of cardiomyopathies
Interests: Percutaneous tricuspid interventions; Conduction disturbances after TAVI; Antithrombotic therapy in TAVI patients; Percutaneous treatment of bicuspid valve
Special Issue in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine: Present and future of tricuspid regurgitation
Interests: Acute heart failure; Pulmonary circulation-pulmonary embolism-right heart failure; Echocardiography
Interests: Angiogenesis; Attenuation-corrected SPECT imaging; Patient risk stratification; Pharmacologic stress testing; Quality and appropriateness in cardiac imaging
Interests: Cardiovascular medicine; Arrhythmias; Electrophysiology; Electronic device implantations
Interests: Revascularization strategies; SIHDl; ACS; TAVR; Outcomes and quality of care research
Interests: Arrhythmias; Cardiac devices and ablation procedures
Interests: Cardiology; Critical care medicine; Interventional cardiology
Interests: Infiltrative cardiomyopathies; Lipidology; Pulmonary hypertension; Cardiac imaging
Interests: Coronary calcification; Heart failure; Valvular heart disease
Special Issue in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine: Cardiovascular Imaging of Atrial Strain: Clinical Use and Future Applications
Interests: Congenital heart defects; Coronary artery disease; Heart rhythm disorders and heart failure
Special Issue in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine: Heart failure pathogenesis and management: heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
Interests: Cardiovascular Disease; Cardiovascular Risk; Thrombosis; Genetic Engineering; Lipoproteins
Interests: Lifestyle risk factors; Noninvasive methodologies for assessing cardio-metabolic health; Translation of basic and applied science into public health outcomes
Special Issue in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine: Pandemics and chronic diseases: short- and long-term treatment and management considerations
Interests: Heart Dysfunction in Diabetes; Understanding Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury; Cardiac Hypertrophy; Congestive Heart Failure
Interests: Clinical cardiology, including cardiac catheterization; Coronary angioplasty and Stenting
Interests: Hypertension; Chronic Heart Failure Hypertension
Interests: Biology of LOX-1; A receptor for oxidized low density lipoprotein; Target for cardiovascular therapy
Interests: Cardiac Cation Transport; Smooth Muscle Cation Transport; Cell biology; Molecular biology
Interests: Regulation of energy metabolism in the heart under physiological and pathological conditions
Interests: Overlap area of Cardio-Nephrology, pertaining to optimizing cardiac care of patients with chronic kidney disease and kidney transplantation
Special Issue in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine: Cardiovascular disorders in chronic kidney disease
Interests: Coronary artery disease; Meta-analysis; Umbrella review
Interests: Cardiovascular imaging; Cardiac CT in quantitative assessment of coronary plaques; 3D printing in medicine, specially use of 3D printing in congenital heart disease; Coronary and aortic disease; Artificial intelligence in coronary artery disease; Optimization of CT scanning protocols
Special Issue in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine: 3D Printing in Heart and Cardiovascular Disease
Interests: Animal physiology; Signaling pathways; Cardiac function; Physiology; Patch-clamp electrophysiology; Electrophysiology; Cell signaling; Signal transduction; Signaling; Phosphorylation
Interests: Echocardiography; Atrial fibrillation
Interests: Heart disease prevention; Vascular calcification; Hypertension; Hypercholesterolemia; Cardiovascular disease in black Americans
Interests: Echocardiography; Chronic Heart Failure
Interests: Hypertension; Heart failure; Hemodialysis; CRRT; Acute kidney injury
Interests: Echocardiography; Heart failure; Atherosclerosis; Cardiovascular medicine; Clinical cardiology; Cardiac echocardiography; Cardiac imaging; Cardiomyopathies acute myocardial infarction magnetic resonance
Special Issue in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine: Advances in Substrate Characterization and Treatment of Ventricular Arrhythmias
Interests: Cardiac CT; Cardiac MR; CCT; CMR; Cardiovascular Imaging; Coronary CT; Body CT; Body MR
Interests: Biomarkers; Renal; Toxicity; Serum; Kidney; Rats; Hypertension; Toxicology; Magnetic Field
Interests: Acute heart failure; Chronic heart failure; Device therapy
Interests: Atrial fibrillation; Arrhythmias; Cardiac electrophysiology; Heart failure; Ion Cchannels; Neuroscience; Physiology, Cell biology, Heart, Calcium
Interests: Heart failure; Hypertension; Chronic heart failure; Atrial fibrillation; Myocardial infarction; Cardiovascular Medicine; Acute myocardial infarction; Clinical cardiology; Cardiomyopathies; Acute heart failure
Interests: Medical research; Medical scientific communication; Research & Development in the Field of Healthcare and Medical Devices
Interests: Non-invasive cardiology; electrocardiology; echocardiography; electrocardiography; clinical cardiology and acute coronary syndrome
Interests: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI); Cardiogenic shock
Interests: Echocardiography; Cardiology; Hypertension; Three-Dimensional echocardiography, Transesophageal; Echocardiography; Cardiomyopathies; Sport physiology; Coronary artery disease
Interests: Ventricular arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD); Arrhythmias-General; Supraventricular Tachycardia (non-AF)
Interests: Oxyradicals in cardiovascular diseases and diabetes; Flaxseed and its components in cardiovascular disease and diabetes
Interests: Cardiac cation transport; Smooth muscle cation transport; cell biology; Molecular biology
Interests: Screening for cardiovascular disease in the community; Use of novel cardiovascular biomarkers for cardiovascular health; Cardiovascular outcomes in patients with a history of Kawasaki disease; Clinical trials in heart failure and cardiovascular biomarkers; Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; Screening athletes for causes of sudden cardiac death; Cardiovascular disease in women
Interests: Thoracic aortic aneurysom; Bicuspid aortic valve; Longevity, Atherosclerosis; Aorta; Aneurysm; Biomarkers; Inflammation; Genes
Interests: Cardiovascular disease; Coronary intervention; Non-invasive cardiology and Cardiovascular epidemiology
Interests: Myocardial infarction; Cardiology; Atherosclerosis; Doppler ultrasonography; Interventional cardiology; Vascular medicine; Echocardiography; Acute myocardial infarction; Computed Tomograph; Cardiac imaging
Interests: Sleep apnea; Sleep disorders; Heart failure; Hemodynamics; Positive airway pressure; Telemedicine
Interests: Cardiovascular and pulmonary pathology
Interests: Imaging; Myocardial disease
Interests: Atherosclerosis; Myocardial Infarction; Diabetes; Inflammation; Genetic engineering; Pharmacology; Hypertension; Cardiovascular medicine; Clinical cardiology; Heart failure
Interests: Heart failure; Atrial fibrillation; Pacemakers; Cardiac electrophysiology; Catheter ablation; Radiation injury
Interests: Experimental cardiovascular models; Cardiovascular research; Homocysteine and related vitamins; Gasotransmitters and oxidative stress; Nutraceuticals and cardiovascular health; Endothelial dysfunction
Interests: The epidemiology and pathophysiology of chronic and acute kidney diseases; Renal biomarkers; Cerythropoietin and stem cells in uremia
Interests: Atrial fibrillation; Rhythm disorders; Chronic heart failure
Interests: Bioresorbable scaffolds; Endothelial Shear Stress; Computational Fluid Dynamics
Interests: Statins; Atherosclerosis; Sudden cardiac death; Ventricular arrhythmias
Interests: Primary prevention of CVD; Paediatric hypertension
Special Issue in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine: Hypertension in children and adolescents
Interests: Sudden cardiac death; Brugada syndrome; Arrhythmias
Special Issue in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine: Sudden cardiac death
Interests: Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation diabetes; Diabetic foot; Diabetic wound; Exercise training; Low-level laser therapy; Magnetic therapy; Shortwave diathermy
Special Issue in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine: Utilizing Technology in the COVID 19 era Special Issue in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine: The impact of Cardiovascular Rehabilitation for Cardiovascular Diseases
Interests: Heart failure; Cardiovascular disease; Gene expression; Epigenetics; Experimental cardiology
Interests: Cardiac Valve Replacement; Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG); Heart double valve replacement; Heart port surgery
Interests: Acute heart failure; Cardiovascular disease in special populations; Congenital heart disease and Pediatric cardiology< /span>
Interests: Heart failure; Atrial fibrillation; Echocardiography; Cardiac function; Hypertension; Clinical cardiology; Atherosclerosis; ICU; Myocardial infarction; Sepsis
Interests: Cellular mechanism of antiarrhythmic drug actions; Cardiac electrophysiology; Cardiovascular pharmacology
