Congenital Heart Disease Open Access Editors-in-Chief: Xuming Mo, Kisaburo Sakamoto, Vladimiro L. Vida
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Editors-in-Chief
Xuming Mo

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, CHINA

Interests: innovative surgical solutions for congenital heart disease; mechanism and treatment of pediatric pulmonary hypertension; key gene targets for congenital heart defects

Kisaburo Sakamoto

Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Children’s Hospital, Shizuoka, JAPAN

Interests: congenital, heart failure, valve disease, tricuspid valve disease

Vladimiro L. Vida

University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

Interests: congenital heart surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, scimitar syndrome

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Giovanni Di Salvo 

University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

Interests: congenital heart disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathy

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Hao Zhang

Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, Medical School of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, CHINA

Interests: congenital heart surgery and basic research

Associate Editors

Samuel Menahem 

Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

Interests: congenital heart disease psychosocial and ethical aspects

 

William M. Novick

University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, United States

Interests: cardiac surgery, congenital heart disease, health systems, echocardiography, fontan procedure, aortic valve

 

Massimo Padalino

Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, University of Bari, ITALY

Interests: univentricular heart and hybrid procedures, surgery in marfan and connective tissue disorders, tetralogy of fallot

 

Alain Jean Poncelet

Cliniques Universitaires saint-Luc, Brussels, BELGIUM

Interests: congenital cardiac surgery, adult cardiac surgery, heart failure, transplantation

Editorial Board Members

Roland M. Axt-Fliedner

Division of Prenatal Diagnosis & Therapy, Dept. OB&GYN, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, GERMANY

Interests: prenatal diagnosis and assessment of cardiovascular anomalies, transition of cardiovascular function from fetus to neonate, advanced cardiac imaging in the fetus (MRI, echo; wall motion tracking), hypoplastic left heart syndrome, PA/IVS, conotruncal anomalies, complex cardiac anomalies, fetal interventions

 

Duraisamy Balaguru

MD Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, USA

Interests: pediatric cardiology, interventional pediatric cardiology, pediatric cardiac intensive care

 

Osman Baspinar

Gaziantep University Medical Faculty, Gaziantep, TURKEY

Interests: invasive pediatric cardiology

 

Pedro Betrián Blasco

Valle de Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, SPAIN

Interests: pediatric and congenital cardiology, pediatric and congenital interventional cardiology

 

Alexander Van De BruaeneCongenital and Structural Cardiology, University Hospitals, Leuven, BELGIUM

Interests: heart failure, echocardiography, adult congenital heart disease,cardiovascular surgery, heart valve diseases, cardiac surgery

 

Devyani Chowdhury 

Cardiology Care for Children, Nemours Cardiac Center, Wilmington DE, USA

Interests: adult congenital, myocardial function, cardio genetics

 

Shaonong Dang

School of Public Health, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, CHINA

Interests: maternal and child health care, nutritional epidemiology

 

Raffaele Giordano

Adult and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, University of Naples “Federico II”, ITALY

Interests: pediatric cardiac surgery, cardiovascular surgery, cardiovascular imaging

 

Alvise Guariento

University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

Interests: congenital heart disease, heart failure, pediatric cardiac surgery, fontan procedure

 

João Chang Junior

Instituto do Coração (InCor) do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (HCFMUSP), São Paulo, BRAZIL

Interests: congenital heart disease, congenital heart surgery, cardiopulmonary bypass machine, artificial intelligence models

 

Kiran.K.Mallula

University of Texas Health Science Center, USA

Interests: hybrid/fusion imaging, transcatheter valve therapies, interventional MRI

 

Mladen J. Kocica

UC Clinical Centre of Serbia, Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Belgrade, SERBIA

Interests: aortic dissection, surgical ventricular restoration, aortic root surgery, congenital coronary artery anomalies

 

Shyam S. Kothari

 All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, INDIA

Interests: pediatric cardiology, echocardiography, interventional pediatric cardiology, rheumatic heart disease

 

Yifei Li

West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan, CHINA

Interests: pediatric cardiology, interventional pediatric cardiology, pediatric cardiac intensive care

 

Hugues Lucron

Congenital Heart Disease Department, Hôpital Marie-Lannelongue, Paris, FRANCE

Interests: pediatric and congenital cardiology; interventionnal pediatric and congenital cardiology; echocardiography in congenital heart-disease; pediatric cardiac surgery

 

Tabitha Moe

University of Arizona, USA

Interests: pediatrics, cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology

 

Konstantinos S. Mylonas

University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, USA

Interests: TGA, Fontan physiology, pediatric heart transplant, cardiovascular genetics

 

Sophie Pierard

UCLouvain – Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, BELGIUM

Interests: haemodynamics, shunt lesions

 

Domenico Sirico

University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

Interests: pediatric cardiology, interventional cardiology, echocardiography, valvular heart disease

 

Mi Kyoung Song

Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul, KOREA

Interests: pediatric arrhythmia, pediatric electrophysiology, sudden cardiac death, pediatric cardiomyopathy, channelopathy

 

Zhonghua Sun

Medical Radiation Science, Curtin Medical School, Curtin University, Perth, AUSTRALIA

Interests: 3D image visualization in cardiovascular disease, 3D printing, virtual reality and mixed reality in cardiovascular disease, specifically in congenital heart disease, and AI in medical applications

 

Di Yu

Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, CHINA

Interests: congenital heart disease, cardiac surgery, risk prediction

 

María Álvarez-Fuente

Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, SPAIN

Interests: congenital heart disease: interventional cardiology and pulmonary hypertension

Early Career Editorial Board Member

Matthew J. Bock 

Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, University of California, San Diego, USA

Interests: pediatric heart failure, cardiomyopathy, transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, pediatric pulmonary hypertension, pediatric cardiac genetics

 

Silvia Farruggio

San Vincenzo Hospital, Mediterranean Pediatric Cardioligic Center Bambin Gesù, Taormina, ITALY

Interests: imaging, arrhythmia, fetal echo

 

Comentale Giuseppe

University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, ITALY

Interests: congenital heart disease, fontan procedure, univentricular heart, neonatal surgery, molecular pediatric cardiology, 3D printing

 

Shinsuke Hoshino 

Shiga University of Medical Science, JAPAN

Interests: congenital heart disease, Kawasaki Disease, 3D printing

 

Se Yong Jung

Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Interests: pediatric cardiology, congenital heart disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension, translational research

 

Niall Khan

Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, IRELAND

Interests: surgery for congenital heart disease, cardiac malformations, surgical education

 

Chuanbin Liu

Department of Cardiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, CHINA

Interests: clinical and basic study of atrial fibrillation

 

Yupeng Liu

Department of Cardiology, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, CHINA

Interests: cardiovascular diseases, metabolism, inflammation

 

Nicholas Oh

Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

Interests: HLHS, unbalanced AVCD, anomalous coronary arteries, single ventricle palliation outcomes

 

Sergej Prijić

Mother and Child Health Institute, Belgrade, SERBIA

Interests: congenital heart disease, pediatric interventional cardiology

 

Azeem Sheikh

Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, Halifax, UK

Interests: coronary artery disease, acute coronary syndrome, arrhythmias, cardiomyopathy, coronary intervention, intracoronary imaging

 

Wei Shi

Department of Biology and Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Interests: heart development and congenital heart defects

 

Michael Spartalis

3rd Department of Cardiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, GREECE

Interests: device therapy, electrophysiology, sudden cardiac death

 

Jiangshan Tan

Department of Cardiology, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, CHINA

Interests: mendelian randomization, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism

 

Zhen Wang

Ultrasonography Department, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, CHINA

Interests: congenital heart disease, heart failure, echocardiogram, cardiomyopathy

 

Zubo Wu

Department of Pediatrics, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, CHINA

Interests: pediatric cardiovascular diseases, Kawasaki disease, arrhythmias, viral myocarditis, cardiomyopathies

 

Xuan Zheng

Center of Structural Heart Disease, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, CHINA

Interests: congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, molecular cardiology, structural heart disease