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Editorial Board

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Editor-in-Chief
Professor Pascal Meier Hospital of Graubunden Chur, Switzerland Royal Brompton Hospital London, UK Declaration of Interests: Nothing to Declare ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0001-8909-2180
Deputy Editors
Dr Rahul Bahl, MBBS, BSc, MRCP National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London London, UK Area of expertise: Cardiology ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0002-6140-8195 Dr Ganesan Karthikeyan All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi, India Area of expertise: Cardiology ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-2073-2917
Deputy Editor for Statistics
Dr Guido Knapp, PhD TU Dortmund University Dortmund, Germany Area of expertise: Medical statistics ORCID logo orcid.org - not available
Associate Editors
Dr Mirvat Alasnag, FACP, FRCP, FSCAI King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Area of expertise: Catheterization ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0002-8714-0334 Dr Chadi Alraies Detroit Medical Center Detroit, USA Area of expertise: Coronary intervention, Peripheral and Endovascular intervention, vascular access, Cardiogenic shock, vascular access, and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-7874-4566 Dr Silvia Castelletti Italian Institute for Auxology IRCCS Milan, Italy Area of expertise: Cardiac Disorders and cardiac Imaging. ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-4083 Dr Rodney De Palma, BSc MBBS MRCP, MSc University College London Hospital London, UK Area of expertise: Ischaemic heart disease, structural heart disease, cardiodiabetes, health economics ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0002-3004-9089
Dr James DiNicolantonio, PharmD Director of Scientific Affairs AIDP MidAmerica Heart Institute Kansas City, USA Area of expertise: Cardiovascular research ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0002-7888-1528 Dr Georg Fröhlich, PhD Charité - University Hospital Berlin Berlin, Germany Area of expertise: Imaging ORCID logo orcid.org - not available Dr Arif Khokhar, PhD Royal Brompton Hospital London, UK Area of expertise: Interventional cardiology ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0002-4455-2865 Dr. Anastasia Shchendrygina  I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University Moscow, Russia Area of expertise: Heart failure, Cardiovascular Imaging, and COVID-19 ORCID logoorcid.org/0000-0002-8220-0350
Statistical Advisor
Mr Timur Tug TU Dortmund University Dortmund, Germany Area of expertise: Medical statistics ORCID logo orcid.org - not available
Social Media Editors
Parham Eshtehardi, MD, FAHA Emory University Atlanta, USA ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0001-8134-1787 Thomas E Kaier, MD, MBA, PhD King’s College London BHF Centre St Thomas’ Hospital London, UK ORCID logo orcid.org/0000-0002-4669-2095
Editorial Board Members
Syed Ahsan Barts Health NHS Trust London, UK Marie Assouline-Reinmann Pitié Salpêtrière University Paris, France Aaysha Cader Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital & Research Institute Dhaka, Bangladesh Robin Chung University College London London, UK Fabrizio D'Ascenzo Università degli Studi di Torino Turin, Italy
Parham Eshtehardi Emory University Atlanta, USA Carl Lavie John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute New Orleans, USA Giampaolo Niccoli Universita Cattolica Sacro Cuore Milan, Italy Ailar Ramadi University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada

Publishing Team

Publishing Executive: Caitlin Alder Senior Publisher: Lindsey Fountain Head of Portfolio: Richard Sands