Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
  • Vladimiro L. Vida, MD, PhD

    University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

    Interests: Congenital Heart Surgery, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Scimitar Syndrome

Deputy Editor-in-Chief
  • Giovanni Di Salvo, MD, PhD, MSc, FESC

    University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

    Interests: Congenital heart disease, Heart failure, Cardiomyopathy

Associate Editors
  • Alain Jean Poncelet, MD, PhD

    Cliniques Universitaires saint-Luc, Brussels, BELGIUM

    Interests: Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Adult Cardiac Surgery, Heart Failure, Transplantation

  • David Faraoni, MD, PhD

    Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

    Interests: Cardiovascular Anesthesia, Clinical and Database Research

  • David M. Kalfa, MD, PhD

    Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Interests: Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Heart Transplant

  • David Zurakowski, MS, PhD

    Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Interests: Biomarkers, Surgical and Anesthesia Research, Statistical Analysis

  • Gianfranco Butera, MD

    Bambin Gesù Hospital, Rome, ITALY

    Interests: Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology

  • Grace Van Leeuwen, MD

    Sidra Medicine, Ar-Rayyan, QATAR

    Interests: Ethics, Intensive Care, Post Operative Care, Reanimation, Moral Distress, Palliative Care

  • Luc Mertens, MD, PhD

    The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, CANADA

    Interests: Echocardiography, Interventional Cardiology, Heart Failure

  • Massimo Padalino, MD, PhD

    University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

    Interests: Univentricular heart and Hybrid procedures, Surgery in Marfan and connective tissue disorders, Tetralogy of fallot

  • Meena Nathan, MD, FRCS, MPH

    Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Interests: Cardiac Surgery, Patient Safety and Quality Outcomes

  • Olivier Villemain, MD, PhD

    The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, CANADA

    Interests: Biomedical Imaging, Cardiovascular Sciences

  • Salvatore Agati

    Bambin Gesù Hospital, Taormina, ITALY

    Interests: Congenital Heart Disease, Aortic Disease, Minimally Invasive Surgery

  • Samir Sarikouch, MD, PhD

    Hannover Medical School, Hannover, GERMANY

    Interests: Cardiology, Echocardiography, Clinical Trials

  • Samuel Menahem

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

    Interests: Congenital Heart Disease Psychosocial and Ethical Aspects

  • Shi-Joon Yoo, MD

    The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, CANADA

    Interests: Fetal Echocardiography, 3D Printing in Pediatric Cardiology and Surgery

Editorial Board Members
  • Alain Fraissé

    Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital Trust, London, UK

    Interests: Pediatric Cardiology, Echocardiography, Electrophysiology, Interventional Cardiology, Valvular Heart Disease.

  • Alvise Guariento

    University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

    Interests: Congenital Heart Disease, Heart Failure, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Fontan Procedure

  • Aurelio Secinaro

    Bambin Gesù Hospital, Rome, ITALY

    Interests: Cardiovascular MR and CT in Children, Congenital Heart Disease, Imaging

  • Biagio Castaldi

    University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

    Interests: Cardiology Surgery, Ejection Fraction, Medicine

  • Corrado Di Mambro

    Bambin Gesù Hospital, Rome, ITALY

    Interests: Pediatric Arrhythmias, Sudden Death Risk in Congenital Heart Disease

  • Davide Calvaruso

    Bambin Gesù Hospital, Taormina, ITALY

    Interests: Congenital Heart Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

  • David M. Peng

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    Interests: Pediatric Heart Failure, Heart Transplant, Ventricular Assist Devices

  • Devyani Chowdhury

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

    Interests: Adult Congenital, Myocardial Function, Cardio Genetics

  • Dominique Vervoort

    Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, CANADA

    Interests: Congenital Heart Surgery, Global Surgery, Global Health, Health Economics, Health Policy

  • Duraisamy Balaguru

    MD Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, USA

    Interests: Pediatric Cardiology, Interventional Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care

  • Evan M. Zahn

    Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Interests: Pediatric Cardiology

  • Francesca Raimondi

    Hôpital universitaire Necker-Enfants-Malades, Paris, FRANCE

    Interests: Cardiac imaging, Cardiac MRI, Cardiac CT Scan

  • Giancarlo Scognamiglio

    Monaldi Hospital, Naples, ITALY

    Interests: Non-invasive Diagnosis of Heart Disease, Pediatric Cardiology

  • Gino Gerosa

    University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

    Interests: Valve Surgery, Tissue Engineering for Heart Disease, Robotic Surgery, Off Pump Coronary Artery Surgery

  • Hugues LUCRON, MD

    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

  • Ilias P. Doulamis

    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Interests: Fotan Procedure, Biventricular Conversion,Ischemia Reperfusion Injury, Basic Research, Biostatistics

  • Issam EL RASSI

    Al Jalila Children's, Dubai, UAE

    Interests: Congenital Heart Disease & Surgery

  • Jack Rychik

    The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Interests: Pediatric Cardiology

  • Juan-Miguel Gil-Jaurena

    Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañon, Madrid, SPAIN

    Interests: Minimally Invasive Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Heart Transplant & Assist Devices, Neonatal Surgery

  • Jürgen Hörer

    Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Munich, GERMANY

    Interests: Congenital Heart Surgery, Risk Evaluation

  • Leonardo Miana

    Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL

    Interests: Heart Transplantation, Heart Failure, Cardiac Surgery

  • Mauro Lo Rito

    Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, ITALY

    Interests: Biostatistics, Congenital Heart Disease, Cardiac surgery, Transposition of Great Arteries, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Ross operation, Pulmonary Vein Stenosis

  • Mi Kyoung Song

    Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul, KOREA

    Interests: Pediatric Arrhythmia, Pediatric Electrophysiology, Sudden Cardiac Death, Pediatric Cardiomyopathy, Channelopathy

  • 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

  • Norihisa Toh

    Okayama University Hospital, Okayama City, Okayama, JAPAN

    Interests: Atrial Heart Septal Defects, Echocardiography, Brugada Syndrome, Patent Foramen Ovale, Ventricular Fibrillation, Three-Dimensional Echocardiography

  • Osman Baspinar

    Gaziantep University Medical Faculty, Gaziantep, TURKEY

    Interests: Invasive Pediatric Cardiology

  • Patrick Myers

    Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND

    Interests: Cardiac Surgery, Thoracic Vascular Surgery

  • Shaonong Dang

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

    Interests: Maternal and Child Health Care, Nutritional Epidemiology

  • Shyam S. Kothari

     All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, INDIA

    Interests: Pediatric Cardiology, Echocardiography, Interventional Pediatric Cardiology, Rheumatic Heart Disease

  • Sophie Pierard

    UCLouvain – Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, BELGIUM

    Interests: Haemodynamics, Shunt Lesions

  • Vera Demarchi Aiello

    Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL

    Interests: Morphology of Congenital Heart Defects, Cardiac Anatomy, Cardiovascular Pathology, Pulmonary Circulation

  • Viviane Nasr

    Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Interests: Risk Prediction, Congenital Heart Disease, Pediatric Anesthesiology

  • Xinxin Chen

    Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center, Guangzhou, CHINA

    Interests: Pulmonary Atresia, Aortic Transposition, Surgical Treatment of Complex Congenital Heart Disease

  • Yifei Li

    West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan, CHINA

    Interests: Pediatric Cardiology, Interventional Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care

Early Career Editorial Board Member
  • Azeem Sheikh

    Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, Halifax, UK

    Interests: Coronary Artery Disease, Acute Coronary Syndrome, Arrhythmias, Cardiomyopathy, Coronary Intervention, Intracoronary Imaging

  • Claudia Herbst

    Medical University Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA

    Interests: Adult Congenital Procedures, Single Ventricle and Palliative Procedures, Minimally Invasive

  • Comentale Giuseppe

    University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, ITALY

    Interests: Congenital Heart Disease, Fontan Procedure, Univentricular Heart, Neonatal Surgery, Molecular Pediatric Cardiology, 3D Printing

  • Connor Callahan

    Hospital for Sick Children University of Torontodisabled, Toronto, CANADA

    Interests: Cardiac Surgery, Congenital Heart Disease, Mechanical Circulatory Support

  • David Blitzer

    Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Interests: Heart Surgery, Congenital Heart Malformation, Endocardial Cushion Defects

  • Elio Caruso

    Bambin Gesù Hospital, Taormina, ITALY

    Interests: Pediatric Cardiology, Cardiac imaging

  • Francesco Bertelli

    University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

    Interests: Congenital Heart Disease, 3D Reconstruction, 3D Printing

  • Jef Van den Eynde

    Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Interests: Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Tetralogy of Fallot, Fontan Circulation, Heart Failure

  • Junko Kobayashi

    Okayama University, Okayama, JAPAN

    Interests: Stem Cells, Epigenetic Repression, Univentricular Heart, Heart Failure

  • 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

  • Michael Spartalis

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

    Interests: Device Therapy, Electrophysiology, Sudden Cardiac Death

  • Mossab Saeed

    Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Interests: Cardiac Surgery, Heart Valves, Myocardial Protection, Medical Devices, Innovation, and Translational Research

  • Nabil Hussein

    Yorkshire Heart Centre, Leeds, UK

    Interests: Congenital Heart Surgery, 3D Printing, Simulation, Surgical Education

  • Nicholas Oh

    Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Interests: HLHS, Unbalanced AVCD, Anomalous Coronary Arteries, Single Ventricle Palliation Outcomes

  • Paola Veronese

    University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

    Interests: Prenatal Diagnosis of Cardiac Anomalies, Imaging and Innovation in Fetal Cardiology

  • Rosanna Zanai

    Bambin Gesù Hospital, Taormina, ITALY

    Interests: Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia

  • Sachiko Kadowaki

    The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, CANADA

    Interests: Cardiovascular Surgery

  • Sergej Prijić

    Mother and Child Health Institute, Belgrade, SERBIA

    Interests: Congenital Heart Disease, Pediatric Interventional Cardiology

  • Se Yong Jung

    Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Interests: Pediatric Cardiology, Congenital Heart Disease, Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Translational Research

  • Silvia Farruggio

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

    Interests: Imaging, Arrhythmia, Fetal Echo

  • Supreet P. Marathe

    Queensland University, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA

    Interests: Single Ventricle Palliation, Fontan, Artificial Intelligence in Cardiac Surgery, Complex Biventricular Repairs, Right Ventricle to Pulmonary Artery Conduits

  • Takashi Kido

    Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Munich, GERMANY

    Interests: Congenital Heart Disease, Single Ventricle, Mechanical Circulatory Support.

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