Editorial introductions.

Abstract

Current Opinion in Cardiology was launched in 1985. It is part of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of cardiology is divided into 14 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Subodh VermaSubodh VermaDr Subodh Verma is an internationally renowned cardiac surgeon-scientist and Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery and a past recipient of the Howard Morgan Award for Distinguished Achievements in Cardiovascular Research and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Gold Medal in Surgery. He previously served as the Canada Research Chair in Atherosclerosis from 2007–2017. He is an appointee of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons (AATS) and a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Royal Society of Canada. According to Google Scholar in December 2020, Dr Verma has an h-index of 107 and his work has been cited over 58,000 times. Dr Verma has published extensively in prestigious journals like the NEJM, Lancet, Circulation, JACC, Nature, and JCI and he is currently an Associate Editor of the European Heart Journal. Dr Verma is an active contributor to Canadian clinical practice guidelines and recently co-authored the recommendations for atrial fibrillation, antiplatelet therapy, heart failure and diabetes; he was a member of the 2018 AATS consensus guidelines committee on bicuspid aortic valve-related aortopathy. Dr Verma has served in various capacities on the American Heart Association Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia since 2008. Dr Verma has leadership roles on seven global heart failure trials in diabetes – DAPA-HF, DELIVER, DETERMINE-A, DETERMINE-B, EMPEROR-Preserved, EMPEROR-Reduced and SOLOIST-WHF. He is also involved in the DAPA ACT HF-TIMI 68, FINEARTS-HF, STEP HFpEF, VESALIUS-CV, DARE-19, SELECT and CLEAR SYNERGY trials. He founded and oversees the CardioLink platform at St Michael's Hospital that is conducting cardiometabolic and surgically oriented RCTs and translational studies. Dr Verma leads a dynamic pre-clinical and translational research team that leverages pre-clinical disease models and clinical trial-derived data to identify novel mediators of cardiovascular and cardiometabolic disease as well as answer timely and relevant healthcare questions. His research has yielded two United States patents and is supported by several national peer-reviewed grants. Bobby YanagawaBobby YanagawaBobby Yanagawa is a surgeon in the Division of Cardiac Surgery, St Michael's Hospital, Canada. He is an Assistant Professor and Program Director, Division of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr Yanagawa obtained his BSc and PhD from the University of British Columbia, Canada, and his MD degree and Cardiac Surgery Residency from the University of Toronto. He has completed research fellowships at the University of Wales College of Medicine and at St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada. He completed a clinical fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA. His clinical and research interests are in surgical revascularization and valvular surgery. Dr Yanagawa has published over 100 peer reviewed papers, 50 reviews and 15 book chapters. He has published in Nature Communications, Nature Medicine, Circulation, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Annals of Thoracic Surgery. He was the AATS 13th Annual C. Walton Lillehei Award winner in 2010.