Journal Of Cardiovascular Disease Research CURRENT EDITORIAL TEAM - 2010

Dayi Hu, MD, FACC, FESC, current Chief of Heart Center, Peking University People’s Hospital; Dean of Clinical Research Institute, School of Public Health, Shanghai Fudan University; President of Chinese Society of Cardiology (CSC); President of Chinese College of Cardiovascular Physicians (CCCP). Professor Hu is a pioneer of radio-frequency ablation technology and evidence-based medicine in China. He has specialized in preventive cardiology, electrophysiology and interventional therapy of coronary artery disease. He is also engaged in the treatment and prevention of hypertension, coronary heart disease, heart failure and ionic channelopathy. He is the principal investigator (PI) of China Heart Survey, and the Steer Committee member and PI of many international clinical trials such as ROCKET, BEAUTIFUL, SHIFIT, ACE,MAGELLaN, etc. Professor Hu is the Editor-in-chief of Chinese Journal of Cardiology, international board member of Nature Cardiovascular Medicine, Journal of Clinical Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, European Heart Journal.


Associate Editor
Zhi Xu, M.D. & Ph.D., Research Associate at the W.M. Keck Center for Transgene Research, University of Notre Dame. Dr. Xu specializes in exploring the roles of PAI-1 in the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and heart fibrosis. He published in some of most prestigious journals, including Blood, JBC and Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. As a PI, His research has been supported by AHA. Additionally, he serves as an ad hoc reviewer for a number of journals such as Blood, Current Drug Targets.

Publishing Editor
Mueen Ahmed K. K. Ph.D, Assistant Professor at College of Clinical Pharmacy, King Faisal University, Al-Hassa, KSA. His major research interest has been screening of natural products for pharmacological activity with special emphasis on cardiovascular activity. He has published many papers in peer-reviewed international journals. Presently, Dr. Ahmed is involved and working in several editorial boards of international circulating professional journals, serving as editor for Journals such as Pharmacognosy Research, associate editor of Pharmacognosy Magazine, Pharmacognosy Reviews etc.

Assistant Editor
Ningpu Yu, Ph.D. is a research scientist in NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Dr. Yu has eight years experience in studying the molecular and cellular mechanisms of cardiovascular inflammation and discovery of potential drug targets and therapies for atherosclerosis and diabetes. He was invited to present his work at the AHA Scientific Sessions multiple times. Dr. Yu has served as reviewer for professional journals and government grants.

Assistant Editor
Dr. Ping Li, M.D. Ph.D., is now working in Department of Cardiology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan, as a research fellow. She has engaged in the clinical and research work in Cardiology for nearly 10 years. Her researches are mainly involved in cardiovascular regeneration. She has published about 20 papers. Having been engaged in the career of cardiovascular surgery for more than 20 years, he has authored over 20 publications, and co-authored 3 book chapters. Presently, he serves as an editorial member of Journal of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Diseases, which was founded by Dr. Wu Yingkai, the pioneer of heart surgery in China. These works enabled him the ability to focus on controversial topic of cardiac techniques.

Editorial Board Member
Elizabeth Gilbert, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Animal and Poultry Sciences at Virginia Tech. Her research interests include comparative nutrition, protein and amino acid metabolism, nutrient transporters, type 2 diabetes and pancreatic beta cell regeneration, flavonoids as nutraceuticals, cell proliferation and apoptosis signaling pathways. Dr. Elizabeth Gilbert was one of the recipients of the 2009 Milton L. Sunde Award from the American Society for Nutrition for outstanding experimental, applied or fundamental research in nutrition that uses an avian species.

Editorial Board Member
Cedric Viero, Ph.D, Research Associate of Department of Cardiology, Wales Heart Research Institute, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK. Dr. Cedric Viero specializes in ion channel, calcium signaling and cardiac electrophysiology. He is a current member of the Working Group on Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology, European Society of Cardiology. In his cardiovascular basic research career, he has authored more than 20 publications. Recently, he served as editor for several peer-reviewed, international professional journals.

Editorial Board Member
Amir Aslani, M.D, Cardiologist, Presently, he serves as an interventional electrophysiologist in Section on Cardiology, Shiraz University School of Medicine, Iran. He has authored over 50 publications. He has been selected as the best young investigator in 13 th Razi Festival. Recently, he has approved as a "Senior Scientist" by "Nature" journal.

Editorial Board Member
Guang-Zhen Zhong, M.D. & Ph.D, associate professor, working (clinical, teaching, and scientific research) in Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, has been engaged in Cardiology for about 12 years. She published several papers on "J Hypert" "Life Sci", "Heart and vessels", "Int J Cardio" and so on. She gave an oral presentation on AHA Scientific Symposium in 2008. She achieved quite a few grants from government.

Editorial Board Member
Yihong Sun, M.D, Associated Professor of Medicine in the Heart Center at Peking University People's Hospital. Her research interests are prevention of cardiovascular disease, antithrombotic and antiplatelet therapy, cardiovascular epidemiology and large clinical trials. She is currently working with the ACE trial in Oxford University to investigate acarbose therapy in the prevention of cardiovascular events in patients with impaired glucose tolerance and established cardiovascular disease.

Editorial Board Member
Alok Kumar Singh, M.D & DM, Senior resident in cardiology, in CHATRAPATI SAHU JI MAHARAJ MEDICAL UNIVERSITY Lucknow India. More than 6 year in cardiology, He has about authored 20 publications and contributed 4 book chapters. He had been appointed as assistant editor of journal of clinical and diagnostic research for 2010. He has special interest in interventional cardiology and coronary artery disease, heart failure and rheumatic heart disease.

Editorial Board Member
Debmalya Barh, M.Sc., M.Tech., M.Phill., PhD. Consultant Biotechnologist and presently serves as Honorary Scientist, IIOAB, India. First to work on Cardiac Myxoma signaling pathway and drug targets. He has authored over 20 international publications with first authorship and contributed over 5 book chapters during 2008-2009. He also serves as editorial and review board members of many professional journals.

Editorial Board Member
Dr. Xianming Zhang, Ph.D., a research associate in Department of Pharmacology at University of Illinois at Chicago, has engaged research in experimental medicine about ten years and authorized over 20 papers in prestigious professional journals. His current research focuses on exploring the roles of kallikrein-kinin and rennin-angiotensin system in cardiovascular pathophysiology by investigating interaction among proteins of both systems. Recently Dr. Zhang was awarded fellowship by American Heart Association due to his series of interesting findings.