Special Issues
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
  • Xuming Mo

    Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, CHINA

    Interests: innovative surgical solutions for congenital heart disease; mechanism and treatment of pediatric pulmonary hypertension; key gene targets for congenital heart defects

  • Kisaburo Sakamoto

    Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Children’s Hospital, Shizuoka, JAPAN

    Interests: congenital, heart failure, valve disease, tricuspid valve disease

  • Vladimiro L. Vida

    University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

    Interests: congenital heart surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, scimitar syndrome

Deputy Editor-in-Chief
  • Giovanni Di Salvo

    University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

    Interests: congenital heart disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathy

Associate Editor-in-Chief
  • Hao Zhang

    Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, Medical School of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, CHINA

    Interests: congenital heart surgery and basic research

Associate Editors
  • Samuel Menahem

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

    Interests: congenital heart disease psychosocial and ethical aspects

  • William M. Novick

    University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, United States

    Interests: cardiac surgery, congenital heart disease, health systems, echocardiography, fontan procedure, aortic valve

  • Massimo Padalino

    University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

    Interests: univentricular heart and hybrid procedures, surgery in marfan and connective tissue disorders, tetralogy of fallot

  • Alain Jean Poncelet

    Cliniques Universitaires saint-Luc, Brussels, BELGIUM

    Interests: congenital cardiac surgery, adult cardiac surgery, heart failure, transplantation

Editorial Board Members
  • Roland M. Axt-Fliedner

    Division of Prenatal Diagnosis & Therapy, Dept. OB&GYN, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, GERMANY

    Interests: prenatal diagnosis and assessment of cardiovascular anomalies, transition of cardiovascular function from fetus to neonate, advanced cardiac imaging in the fetus (MRI, echo; wall motion tracking), hypoplastic left heart syndrome, PA/IVS, conotruncal anomalies, complex cardiac anomalies, fetal interventions

  • Duraisamy Balaguru

    MD Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, Boston, USA

    Interests: pediatric cardiology, interventional pediatric cardiology, pediatric cardiac intensive care

  • Osman Baspinar

    Gaziantep University Medical Faculty, Gaziantep, TURKEY

    Interests: invasive pediatric cardiology

  • Pedro Betrián Blasco

    Valle de Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, SPAIN

    Interests: pediatric and congenital cardiology, pediatric and congenital interventional cardiology

  • Alexander Van De Bruaene

    Congenital and Structural Cardiology, University Hospitals, Leuven, BELGIUM

    Interests: heart failure, echocardiography, adult congenital heart disease,cardiovascular surgery, heart valve diseases, cardiac surgery

  • Devyani Chowdhury

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

    Interests: adult congenital, myocardial function, cardio genetics

  • Shaonong Dang

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

    Interests: maternal and child health care, nutritional epidemiology

  • Raffaele Giordano

    Adult and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, University of Naples “Federico II”, ITALY

    Interests: pediatric cardiac surgery, cardiovascular surgery, cardiovascular imaging

  • Alvise Guariento

    University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

    Interests: congenital heart disease, heart failure, pediatric cardiac surgery, fontan procedure

  • João Chang Junior

    Instituto do Coração (InCor) do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (HCFMUSP), São Paulo, BRAZIL

    Interests: congenital heart disease, congenital heart surgery, cardiopulmonary bypass machine, artificial intelligence models

  • 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

  • Shyam S. Kothari

     All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, INDIA

    Interests: pediatric cardiology, echocardiography, interventional pediatric cardiology, rheumatic heart disease

  • Yifei Li

    West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan, CHINA

    Interests: pediatric cardiology, interventional pediatric cardiology, pediatric cardiac intensive care

  • Hugues Lucron

    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

  • Tabitha Moe

    University of Arizona, USA

    Interests: pediatrics, cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology

  • Konstantinos S. Mylonas

    University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, USA

    Interests: TGA, Fontan physiology, pediatric heart transplant, cardiovascular genetics

  • Sophie Pierard

    UCLouvain – Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, BELGIUM

    Interests: haemodynamics, shunt lesions

  • Domenico Sirico

    University of Padua, Padua, ITALY

    Interests: pediatric cardiology, interventional cardiology, echocardiography, valvular heart disease

  • Mi Kyoung Song

    Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul, KOREA

    Interests: pediatric arrhythmia, pediatric electrophysiology, sudden cardiac death, pediatric cardiomyopathy, channelopathy

  • Zhonghua Sun

    Medical Radiation Science, Curtin Medical School, Curtin University, Perth, AUSTRALIA

    Interests: 3D image visualization in cardiovascular disease, 3D printing, virtual reality and mixed reality in cardiovascular disease, specifically in congenital heart disease, and AI in medical applications

  • Di Yu

    Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, CHINA

    Interests: congenital heart disease, cardiac surgery, risk prediction

  • María Álvarez-Fuente

    Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, SPAIN

    Interests: congenital heart disease: interventional cardiology and pulmonary hypertension

Early Career Editorial Board Member
  • 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

  • Silvia Farruggio

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

    Interests: imaging, arrhythmia, fetal echo

  • Comentale Giuseppe

    University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, ITALY

    Interests: congenital heart disease, fontan procedure, univentricular heart, neonatal surgery, molecular pediatric cardiology, 3D printing

  • Shinsuke Hoshino

    Shiga University of Medical Science, JAPAN

    Interests: congenital heart disease, Kawasaki Disease, 3D printing

  • Se Yong Jung

    Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Interests: pediatric cardiology, congenital heart disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension, translational research

  • Niall Khan

    Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, IRELAND

    Interests: surgery for congenital heart disease, cardiac malformations, surgical education

  • Chuanbin Liu

    Department of Cardiology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, CHINA

    Interests: clinical and basic study of atrial fibrillation

  • Yupeng Liu

    Department of Cardiology, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, CHINA

    Interests: cardiovascular diseases, metabolism, inflammation

  • Nicholas Oh

    Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Interests: HLHS, unbalanced AVCD, anomalous coronary arteries, single ventricle palliation outcomes

  • Sergej Prijić

    Mother and Child Health Institute, Belgrade, SERBIA

    Interests: congenital heart disease, pediatric interventional cardiology

  • Azeem Sheikh

    Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, Halifax, UK

    Interests: coronary artery disease, acute coronary syndrome, arrhythmias, cardiomyopathy, coronary intervention, intracoronary imaging

  • Wei Shi

    Department of Biology and Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Interests: heart development and congenital heart defects

  • Michael Spartalis

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

    Interests: device therapy, electrophysiology, sudden cardiac death

  • Jiangshan Tan

    Department of Cardiology, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, CHINA

    Interests: mendelian randomization, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism

  • Zhen Wang

    Ultrasonography Department, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, CHINA

    Interests: congenital heart disease, heart failure, echocardiogram, cardiomyopathy

  • Zubo Wu

    Department of Pediatrics, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, CHINA

    Interests: pediatric cardiovascular diseases, Kawasaki disease, arrhythmias, viral myocarditis, cardiomyopathies

  • Xuan Zheng

    Center of Structural Heart Disease, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, CHINA

    Interests: congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, molecular cardiology, structural heart disease

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