Editorial board

Nader G. Abraham, Department of Pharmacology, New York Medical College (New York, USA)

Ali Ahmed, University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital (Birmingham, AL, USA)

Ottavio Alfieri, Instituto de Medicina Física e de Reabilitação do Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, and Adventist University Center of São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)

Charles Antzelevitch, Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and Director of Research, Lankenau Heart Institute (Wynnewood, USA)

Jose A. Barrabes, Director of the Acute Cardiac Care Unit of the Cardiology Service at University Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)

Jeroen J. Bax, Professor of Cardiology and Director of Noninvasive Imaging at Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden (Leiden, The Netherlands)

Andrzej Bednarek, Medical University of Lodz (Lodz, Poland)

Hans G. Beger, Klinischer Oberarzt an der Chirurgischen Univ.-Klinik, Klinikum Charlottenburg, Freie Universität Berlin (Ulm, Germany)

Ariela Benigni, Research Coordinator and Scientific Secretary of Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research (Bergamo, Italy)

Francis Berenbaum, Academic rheumatologist in University Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris, France)

Joseph J. Biederman, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, State University of New York Upstate Medical University (Boston, USA)

Natan Bornstein, Professor of Neurology at the Tel-Aviv University, Sackler Faculty of Medicine.
Head of Stroke Unit at the Tel-Aviv Medical Center (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Dirk L. Brutsaert, University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium)

Hugh Calkins, Director, Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Maryland, USA)

John Camm, St George's Hospital and Medical School (London, UK)

Andrew J.S. Coats, Monash University, Australia and University of Warwick (Buckinghamshire, UK)

Antonio Colombo, Director, Cardiac Cath Lab and Interventional Cardiology Unit, EMO GVM Centro Cuore, Columbus and San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy, Visiting Professor of Medicine, Columbia Medical Center (Milan, Italy)

Mark Crowther, Chair and Professor, Medicine, Professor, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Leo Pharma Chair in Thromboembolism Research, McMaster University (Ontario, Canada)

Bjorn Dahlof, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine at Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Louis Denis, Director of the Oncology Centre Antwerp at Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium)

Kenneth Dickstein, University of Bergen Stavanger University Hospital (Stavanger, Norway)

Steven M. Donn, C.S Mott Children's Hospital (Ann Arbor, MI, USA)

Joachim W. Dudenhausen, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

Adam Dziki, Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, Military Medical Academy University Teaching Hospital- Central Veterans' Hospital (Lodz, Poland)

N. A. Mark Estes III, Professor of Medicine & Director, New England Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Tufts Medical Center (Boston, USA)

Gerasimos Filippatos, Cardiologist at University of Athens (Athens, Greece)

Guillermo Garcia-Manero, MD Anderson Cancer Network (Houston, USA)

Mario Gaudino, Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine (New York City, NY, USA)

Andrea R. Genazzani, Professor and Director, Department of Reproductive Medicine and Child Development, University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy)

Bernard J. Gersh, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic (Rochester, USA)

M. Eric Gershwin, Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center and UC Davis Health, (Davis, USA)

Charles H. Hennekens, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University and Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine at Nova Southeastern University, Voluntary Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Meharry Medical College, and Visiting Fellow, Green College, University of Oxford (Washington, USA)

Gerd Heusch, Chair of the Department of Pathophysiology at the University of Essen Medical School (Essen, Germany)

Jacek Jóźwiak, Department of Medicine and Public Healt, University of Opole (Opole, Poland)

Stein Kaasa, Palliative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) (Trondheim, Norway)

Norman M. Kaplan, Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas, USA)

Sverre E. Kjeldsen, Professor and Senior Consultant at the Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital Ullevaal (Oslo, Norway)

Dariusz Kozlowski, Merdical University of Gdans (Gdansk, Poland)

Harlan M. Krumholz, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven (New Haven, USA)

Piotr Kuna, Medical University of Lodz (Lodz, Poland)

Krzysztof Kula, Medical University of Lodz (Lodz, Poland)

Norbert Lameire, Professor of Medicine at University Hospital in Gent (Ghent, Belgium)

Krista Lentine, Professor of Medicine with tenure, and Director of Living Donation, SSM Saint Louis University Transplant Center (St. Louis, MO, USA)

Carlo La Vecchia, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health of the University of Milan (Milan, Italy)

Amir Lerman, Mayo Clinic (Rochester, USA)

Gregory Y.H. Lip, Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science at University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom; and Danish Center for Health Services Research, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University (Aalborg, Denmark)

Milan Macek, Charles University in Prague (Prague, Czech Republic)

Andrzej Mackiewicz, Member of the Research Council and NBMC Council
Head of the Department of Diagnostics and Immunology of Neoplasms, Greater Poland Oncology Centre in Poznan (Poland)
Department of Immunology of Neoplasms, Poznan University of Medical Science (Poznan, Poland)

Jolanta Małyszko, Medical University of Bialystok (Bialystok, Poland)

JoAnn E. Manson, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston, USA)

Maurie Markman, President of Medicine & Science, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (Houston, USA)

Uwe Mehlhorn, Helios Klinik für Herzchirurgie (Cologne, Germany)

Dimitri P. Mikhailidis, Academic Head, Reader and Honorary Consultant in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Free Hospital campus, University College London Medical School, University College London (UCL) (London, UK)

Naoyuki Miura, Tokoha University (Hamamatsu, Japan)

Navin C. Nanda, University of Alabama at Birmingham (Birmingham, AL, USA)

Joanna Narbutt, Medical University of Lodz (Lodz, Poland)

Keiji Naruse, Okayama University School of Medicine (Okayama, Japan)

Eva Negri, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Cliniche, Università degli Studi di Milano (Milan, Italy)

Grzegorz Opolski, Independent Public Central Clinical Hospital (Warsaw, Poland)

Jose M. Ordovas, Senior Scientist and Director of the Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory at the HNRCA (Boston, USA)

Hendri H. Pas, University of Groningen (Groningen, Netherlands)

Fausto J. Pinto, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)

Marek Radomski, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Dublin, Ireland)

Mahendra Rao, Institute of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), (Bangalore, India)

Giuseppe Remuzzi, Professor of Nephrology and Director of the Department of Immunology and Clinical Transplantation of the Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo (Bergamo, Italy)

Robert Roberts, University of Ottawa Heart Institute (Ottawa, Canada)

Matthias Roth, Department of Cardiac Surgery Kerckhoff Klinik (Bad Nauheim, Germany)

Bernardo Rodriguez-Iturbe, Servicio de Nefrología, Hospital Universitario, Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela; Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC)-Zulia (Maracaibo, Venezuela)

Denis Roy, McGill University, Montreal (Montreal, Canada)

Brian M. Salzberg, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, USA)

Ola Didrik Saugstad, Department of Pediatric Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (Chicago, USA)

Jochen D. Schipke, Research Group Experimental Surgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf (Duesseldorf, Germany)

Yehuda Y. Shoenfeld, Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University (Tel-Aviv, Israel)

Alain Simon, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique et Minérale, EA 1069 LCSN, Faculté de Pharmacie , Université de Limoges, Institut GEIST (Paris, France)

Vincent Soriano, Infectious Diseases Unit, La Paz University Hospital and UNIR Health Sciences School (Madrid, Spain)

Michal Stachowiak, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, Molecular and Structural Neurobiology and Gene Therapy Program, State University of New York, Buffalo (Buffalo, USA)

Nicholas J. Talley, Faculty of Health & Medicine, University of Newcastle (Callaghan, Australia)

Eric J. Topol, Scripps Research Translational Institute (La Jolla, USA)

Tetsumei Urano, Department of Medical Physiology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine (Hamamatsu, Japan)

Jakob Vinten-Johansen, Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University (Atlanta, USA)

David Vlahov, Yale School of Nursing (New York, USA)

Avi A. Weinbroum, Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Nathan D. Wong, Heart Disease Prevention Program, University of California Irvine (Irvine, USA)

Gary P. Wormser, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, New York Medical College (New York, USA)

Panos E. Vardas, Department of Cardiology, Heraklion University Hospital (Heraklion, Greece)

Francesco Visioli, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Laboratory of Functional Foods, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA)-Alimentación, CEI UAM + CSIC (Milan, Italy)

Wojciech Zareba, University of Rochester Medical Center (New York, USA)

Douglas P. Zipes, Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis (Indianapolis, USA)

Carmine Zoccali, CNR-IFC Clinical Epidemiology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension (Reggio Calabria, Italy)

Joseph B. Zwischenberger, Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky (Galveston, USA)