Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Zvonimir Krajcer, MD
The Texas Heart Institute, Houston

Associate Editors

Christie M. Ballantyne, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Stephanie A. Coulter, MD
The Texas Heart Institute, Houston

José G. Díez, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Emerson C. Perin, MD, PhD
The Texas Heart Institute, Houston

Alexander Postalian, MD
The Texas Heart Institute, Houston

Joseph G. Rogers, MD
The Texas Heart Institute, Houston

Former Editors

Robert J. Hall, MD
James J. Ferguson III, MD
James T. Willerson, MD

Guest Editors

Tony Das, MD
Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital – Plano, Plano, Texas

Kamal Gupta, MD
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas

Section Editors

Cancer

José G. Díez, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Jean-Bernard Durand, MD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

Subhasis Chatterjee, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

José L. Díaz-Gómez, MD, MAS
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Salim S. Virani, MD, PhD
Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Cardiovascular Surgery

Marvin D. Atkins, Jr, MD
Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston

Robert T. Baldwin, MD
Texas Surgical Associates, Houston

Kenneth K. Liao, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Marc R. Moon, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Carotid Artery Disease

Neil E. Strickman, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Coronary Interventions

Alexander Postalian, MD
The Texas Heart Institute, Houston

George A. Younis, MD
The Texas Heart Institute, Houston

Congenital Heart Disease

Dhaval Parekh, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Electrophysiology

Joanna E. Molina Razavi, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Gerald V. Naccarelli, MD
Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania

Heart Failure

Andrew B. Civitello, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Nikolaos A. Diakos, MD, PhD
The Texas Heart Institute, Houston

Jorge M. Escobar, MD
The Texas Heart Institute, Houston

Joseph G. Rogers, MD
The Texas Heart Institute, Houston

Imaging

Jorge A. Miranda, MD
The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care, Houston

Heather Pemberton, MD
The Texas Heart Institute Center for Cardiovascular Care, Houston

Peripheral Vascular Disease

Jayer Chung, MD, MSc
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Structural Heart Disease

Michael J. Reardon, MD
Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston

Guilherme V. Silva, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Editorial Board

Ali F. AbuRahma, MD
Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, West Virginia

Yochai Birnbaum, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Joseph S. Coselli, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Reynolds M. Delgado III, MD
The Texas Heart Institute, Houston

O.H. Frazier, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Eduardo A. Hernandez-Vila, MD
The Texas Heart Institute, Houston

James J. Livesay, MD
The Texas Heart Institute, Houston

Gabriel Loor, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

David D. McPherson, MD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston

Leslie W. Miller, MD
Baycare Health System, Tampa, Florida

Gustavo S. Oderich, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Mehdi Razavi, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Todd K. Rosengart, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston

Vinod H. Thourani, MD
Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta

Ron Waksman, MD
MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC

Edward T.H. Yeh, MD
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas

Journal Staff & Consultants

Managing Editor
Christine Lanzisera, BA

Review Process Manager
Stephen H. Varnado, MA

Production Manager
Katherine Ray

Editorial Consultants
Rebecca A. Bartow, MPH, PhD
Stephen N. Palmer, PhD, ELS
Sally Timko, BA

Production Consultants
Ramon Bernal, BA
Joseph C. Brewton III, BS
Ren-Nessa Clarke, MS
Matthew Fortner, BS
Heather Pierson, MA
Keri Sprung, MBA
Mark J. Villalpando, MA
Daynene M. Vykoukal, PhD