International Journal of Cardiology

ISSN 2996-8215

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Jonathan R. Mitchell, MD, PhD - Specialization: Clinical Cardiology and Heart Failure; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

 

Deputy Editors

Prof. Helena Schmidt, MD, PhD, FESC - Specialization: Interventional Cardiology and Structural Heart Disease; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Prof. Kenji Tanaka, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias; Affiliation: Division of Cardiology, University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Prof. Sarah L. Williams, MD, MSc - Specialization: Preventive Cardiology and Cardiovascular Epidemiology; Affiliation: National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

 

Senior Editors

Prof. David O. Mensah, MBChB, MD, FWACP - Specialization: Hypertension and General Cardiology; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana

Prof. Maria C. Rossi, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiac Imaging and Echocardiography; Affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Prof. Ahmed El-Sayed, MD, PhD - Specialization: Interventional Cardiology and Coronary Artery Disease; Affiliation: Cardiology Department, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Prof. Linda Chen, MD, PhD, FACC - Specialization: Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation; Affiliation: Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University, California, USA

Prof. Robert J. Carter, MD, PhD - Specialization: Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease; Affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Assoc. Prof. Priya K. Nair, MBBS, MD, DM - Specialization: Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Assoc. Prof. Fatima Bello, MBBS, FWACP, MSc - Specialization: Preventive Cardiology and Women's Heart Health; Affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

 

Associate Editors

Prof. Michael A. Brown, MD, PhD - Specialization: Vascular Medicine and Atherosclerosis; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

Prof. Sofia Alvarez, MD, PhD - Specialization: Acute Coronary Syndromes and Intensive Cardiac Care; Affiliation: Institute of Cardiology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Assoc. Prof. Thomas Weber, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiac Surgery and Heart Valve Disease; Affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Assoc. Prof. Grace Okoro, MBBS, MD, FACC - Specialization: Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

Dr. Emily Zhang, MD, PhD - Specialization: Molecular and Cellular Cardiology; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China

Dr. Samuel K. Johnson, MD, MPH - Specialization: Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Public Health; Affiliation: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

Assoc. Prof. Anna Kowalska, MD, PhD, FESC - Specialization: Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Cardiology; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Prof. Peter O. Adeyemi, MBBS, FMCP, PhD - Specialization: Interventional Cardiology; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Dr. Isabella Moretti, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardio-Oncology; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Assoc. Prof. Daniel Kim, MD, MSc - Specialization: Cardiac Imaging and Cardiac MRI; Affiliation: Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

Dr. Rachel Green, PharmD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiovascular Pharmacology; Affiliation: School of Pharmacy, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Prof. Chinedu Nwosu, MBBS, MD, FWACP - Specialization: Hypertension and Stroke Prevention; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria

Assoc. Prof. Laura Bennett, MD, PhD - Specialization: Lipidology and Metabolic Cardiology; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Dr. Yusuf Ibrahim, MBBS, MD - Specialization: Interventional Cardiology; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya

Assoc. Prof. Jennifer Lee, MD, PhD - Specialization: Adult Congenital Heart Disease; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA

 

Editorial Board Members

Prof. Andrew Peterson, MD, PhD, FACC - Specialization: Coronary Physiology and Hemodynamics; Affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Duke University, Durham, USA

Prof. Chiara Lombardi, MD, PhD - Specialization: Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Assoc. Prof. Kwame Asante, MBChB, MD - Specialization: Rheumatic Heart Disease; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Dr. Olivia Smith, MD, MSc - Specialization: Echocardiography and Valvular Heart Disease; Affiliation: Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA

Prof. Hiroshi Yamamoto, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiac Electrophysiology; Affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Dr. Ngozi Eze, MBBS, FMCP - Specialization: Clinical Cardiology and ECG Interpretation; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Assoc. Prof. Mark Robinson, MD, PhD - Specialization: Interventional Cardiology; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Prof. Amaka Uche, MBBS, MD, FESC - Specialization: Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria

Dr. Carlos Mendez, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiac CT and Nuclear Cardiology; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Assoc. Prof. Aisha Mohammed, MBBS, MD, MPH - Specialization: Preventive Cardiology; Affiliation: College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Richard White, MD, PhD - Specialization: Aortic Disease and Vascular Surgery Interface; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Dr. Blessing Okon, MBBS, MSc - Specialization: Cardiac Critical Care; Affiliation: Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria

Assoc. Prof. Julia Fischer, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiac Genetics and Inherited Cardiomyopathies; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Prof. Samuel T. Ojo, MBBS, FMCP, FWACP - Specialization: Hypertension and Heart Failure; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria

Dr. Victor Hugo, MD, MSc - Specialization: Interventional Cardiology and Peripheral Interventions; Affiliation: Heart Institute, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Assoc. Prof. Nicole Adams, MD, PhD - Specialization: Sports Cardiology; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Prof. Emeka Chukwu, MBChB, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiac Electrophysiology; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria

Dr. Karen Patel, MBBS, MD, DM - Specialization: Heart Failure and Device Therapy; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Assoc. Prof. James Wilson, MD, MPH - Specialization: Health Services Research in Cardiology; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Dr. Tunde Balogun, MBBS, FWACP - Specialization: Clinical Cardiology and Non-Invasive Cardiology; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria

Prof. Lisa Anderson, MD, PhD, FACC - Specialization: Cardiac Amyloidosis and Myocardial Disease; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Yale University, New Haven, USA

Assoc. Prof. Beatrice Nkosi, MBChB, PhD - Specialization: HIV and Cardiovascular Disease; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Dr. Henry Clarke, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiac Biomarkers and Acute Cardiac Care; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Prof. Ifeanyi Okeke, MBBS, MD, PhD - Specialization: Interventional Cardiology and Intravascular Imaging; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria

Dr. Samantha Reed, MD, MSc - Specialization: Cardio-Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Assoc. Prof. Omar Farouk, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiac Electrophysiology and Ablation; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Chiamaka Nnaji, MBBS, FMCP - Specialization: Echocardiography; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, Nigeria

Prof. William Turner, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiac Surgery and Mechanical Circulatory Support; Affiliation: Texas Heart Institute, Houston, USA

Assoc. Prof. Eva Johansson, MD, PhD - Specialization: Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Dr. Uche Obi, MBBS, MD - Specialization: Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation; Affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria

Prof. George Miller, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiac Pharmacology and Clinical Trials; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Dr. Ananya Sharma, MBBS, MD, DM, FESC - Specialization: Interventional Cardiology and Women's Heart Disease; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India

Assoc. Prof. Peter Van Dijk, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiac Imaging and Artificial Intelligence; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Dr. Kelechi Ibe, MBBS, FWACP, MSc - Specialization: Heart Failure and Hypertension; Affiliation: Cardiology Unit, Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, Nigeria

Prof. Barbara Klein, MD, PhD - Specialization: Lipid Disorders and Atherosclerosis Prevention; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Dr. Moses Adjei, MBChB, MSc, FWACP - Specialization: Interventional Cardiology; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Assoc. Prof. Susan Taylor, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiac MRI and Myocardial Viability; Affiliation: Department of Radiology and Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

Dr. Ibrahim Sule, MBBS, MD - Specialization: Clinical Cardiology; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Bayero University Kano, Kano, Nigeria

Prof. Daniel O. Roberts, MD, PhD, FACC - Specialization: Electrophysiology and Sudden Cardiac Death; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Dr. Patricia Brown, MD, MPH - Specialization: Global Cardiovascular Health; Affiliation: Department of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA

Assoc. Prof. Tobi Adeyinka, MBBS, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiomyopathies and Heart Failure; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Bowen University, Iwo, Nigeria

Prof. Ahmed Hassan, MD, PhD - Specialization: Pediatric Cardiology and Interventions; Affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Janet White, MD, MSc - Specialization: Cardiac Nursing and Integrated Care; Affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Assoc. Prof. Frank Muller, MD, PhD - Specialization: Coronary Artery Disease and Stent Technology; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Dr. Oluwaseun Afolabi, MBBS, FMCP, MSc - Specialization: Non-Invasive Cardiology and Hypertension; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria

Prof. Catherine Moore, MD, PhD - Specialization: Heart Transplantation and Immunology; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA

Dr. Idris Bello, MBBS, MD - Specialization: Interventional Cardiology; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria

Assoc. Prof. Mei Lin, MD, PhD - Specialization: Cardiac Regeneration and Stem Cell Therapy; Affiliation: Department of Cardiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Dr. Femi Olatunji, MBBS, FWACP - Specialization: Clinical Cardiology and Arrhythmia Management; Affiliation: Department of Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria