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 Journal's Editor and Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Hector O VenturaHector O VenturaHector O. Ventura, MD, was the Section Head, Cardiomyopathy and Heart Transplant Center at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is also a Professor, Cardiology, The University of Queensland School of Medicine, Ochsner Clinical School, Brisbane, Australia as well as a Professor of Medicine at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, USA. After graduating from the National University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine in Argentina, Dr Ventura completed an internship and residency at the Central Military Hospital in Buenos Aires, followed by research fellowships in arterial hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, an internship, and an internal medicine residency at the Ochsner Medical Institutions in New Orleans. He completed his training in heart failure/heart transplantation at the Loyola University School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, and served as Co-Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Program at Ochsner Medical Institutions until 1997. From 1997 to 2000, Dr Ventura served as Clinical Professor of Medicine, Director of Cardiovascular Research, and Co-Director of Advanced Heart Failure/Cardiac Transplantation at the Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans. He is a Master of the American College of Cardiology, and a Fellow of the American Heart Association and Heart Failure Society. Dr Ventura is the past Governor of the Louisiana Chapter of the American College of Cardiology. Since the year 2005, Dr Ventura was the Section Head of Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation at Ochsner Clinic Foundation and served two terms as Program Director of the Cardiology Training Program. Moreover, he is the President of The Ochsner Alumni Association. A prolific lecturer, Dr Ventura's research includes studies in the field of Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation. He has co-authored more than 550 articles, abstracts, and book chapters and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Revista Colombiana de Cardiologia, Congestive Heart Failure, American Journal of Cardiology, Journal of Cardiac Failure, Congestive Heart Failure, and Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Dr Ventura was Editor-in-Chief of Cardiosource en Espanol and current serves as an Associate Editor of Journal of the American College of Cardiology Heart Failure, Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases and he is the editor in Chief of Current Problems in Cardiology. Dr Ventura is also a member of numerous professional societies, including the American Heart Association, American Society of Transplant Physicians, International Society of Heart Transplantation and American Osler Society. He is a member of the Fellow in Training Committee of the American Heart Association. He was the chair of the Awards Committee of the American College of Cardiology and he is the co-chair of the International Committee of the American College of Cardiology. Among his awards and honors, he is listed in Best Doctors in America since 1995, received the Southern Medical Association Research Award in 1990 and the International Impact Award of the American Heart Association. Carl LavieCarl LavieDr Lavie graduated from Louisiana State University Medical School, USA in 1983 and completed his internal medicine residency at Ochsner and a fellowship in cardiovascular diseases at Mayo, where he joined the faculty in 1989. Dr Lavie is Professor of Medicine and Medical Director, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Preventive Cardiology; Director, Exercise Testing Laboratory; and Staff Cardiologist, Echocardiographic Laboratory at the John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute in New Orleans, Ochsner Clinical School, USA – The University of Queensland School of Medicine and he previously served for 10 years as Associate Director of the Internal Medicine Training program. He served as a Consultant in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA from January 2012 - October 2014. Dr Lavie's research interests include cardiac rehabilitation and prevention, lipids, hypertension, obesity, and exercise, as well as noninvasive testing, encompassing echocardiography, exercise testing, and nuclear cardiology. He is the author of over 1600 medical publications including two cardiology textbooks, and nearly 60 book chapters, and 1099 listed currently on Pub Med as of 3/13/23 with an h-index of 142. Dr Lavie serves as a frequent lecturer, reviewer for several medical journals, and is Associate Editor and Cardiovascular Section Editor of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings and is Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases and Associate Editor of Current Problems in Cardiology and Progress in Preventive Medicine and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, American Journal of Cardiology, Heart, Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Sports Medicine, Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Prevention, and 45 other Journals. Since 2011, he has served as Chairman of the Document Oversights Committee for AACVPR. For the years 2003 and 2004 he served as Chairman of Vascular, Hypertension and Prevention for the American College of Cardiology and he has been an elite reviewer for JACC for 7 years, also receiving the Simon Dack Award as a lifetime, Hall of Fame reviewer. In 2013, he gave Keynote lectures for the American College of Sports Medicine and the Cardiac Rehabilitation one for the AACVPR, where he received the 2013 Research Award. In 2019, he won the first John Ochsner Award and was named Ochsner Alumnus of the Year. From a personal standpoint, he is an avid sports fan and competitive runner, with personal records in the 5K, 10K, Half-Marathon and Marathon of 18:30, 38:30, 1:24:30, and 3:10, respectively. He is the author of “The Obesity Paradox” released April 2014. Debabrata MukherjeeDebabrata MukherjeeDebabrata Mukherjee, M.D is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso, Texas, USA. Prior to this he had held the position of the Gill Foundation Professor of Interventional Cardiology, and the Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the University of the Kentucky, USA and the Director of the Peripheral Interventional Program at the University of Michigan, USA. Dr Mukherjee completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Subsequently he completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine and Interventional Cardiology also at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Dr Mukherjee also completed a Masters in Clinical Research (MS) at the University of Michigan and a Certificate in Business Administration at the University Of Kentucky Gatton College Of Business. Dr Mukherjee has received the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Career Development Grant, the Joseph Cash Memorial Award for excellence in Health outcome research and the Cardiovascular Center McKay Research Grant for Peripheral Arterial Disease. He has been named as one of the Best Doctors in America for several years. Dr Mukherjee has been an invited lecturer at several major national and international meetings, has authored over 600 publications with an H-index of 81 (Goggle Scholar), edited nineteen textbooks on cardiovascular diseases and written more than 100 textbook chapters. He presently serves on several journal editorial boards and is an Associate Editor for Cardiosource (ACC.org). He is a long-standing fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the Society for Vascular Medicine & Biology, the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions and the International college of Angiology. In 2020, Dr Mukherjee received the American College of Cardiology Distinguished Fellowship Award for his extensive work as a clinician, educator and scientist and in 2023 received the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions designation [Master Interventionalist of the Society (MSCAI)] having demonstrated excellence in the field over a career, manifested by a commitment to the highest levels of clinical care, innovation, publication, and teaching. Dimitri MikhailidisDimitri MikhailidisDimitri P. Mikhailidis is Honorary Professor, Department of Surgical Biotechnology, Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London Medical School, University College London (UCL), UK and former Academic Head, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Free Hospital Campus (UCL), UK. He has over 41,190 citations listed in the Clarivate Web of Science Core Collection (H-index = 91). He is listed among the top 1% most cited authors for the past 5 years on the same index. He is Editor in Chief of Angiology and Current Vascular Pharmacology. He has participated in guideline committees and expert panels. His clinical interest is vascular disease prevention, and his research interests are dyslipidaemias and thrombosis. Mitchell CohenMitchell CohenMitchell Cohen MD FACC FHRS is the current Co-Director of the Heart Center and Chief of Pediatric Cardiology at Inova LJ Murphy Children's Hospital. Dr Cohen graduated from Temple University School of Medicine, USA and then completed a pediatric internship, residency, cardiology fellowship, and subspecialty training in pediatric electrophysiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA. Dr Cohen remained on faculty at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA for 6 years before relocating to Arizona where he was Co-Director of the Heart Center at Phoenix Children's Hospital for more than a decade. In 2017, Dr Cohen assumed the pediatric cardiology leadership position at Inova. Dr Cohen's research interests address long-term outcomes of children with cardiovascular implantable electronic devices, genotype specific therapies for patients with channelopathies, WPW, and late arrhythmic outcomes in adults with congenital heart disease. He is a former President of the Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society (PACES). Dr Cohen continues to serve as a scientific advisor for the SADS (Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes) Foundation and is the current pediatric liaison on the ACC Electrophysiology Section Leadership Council. Dr Cohen is the Scientific Program Chair for the 2023 8th World Congress in Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery (Washington DC August 2023)