Cardiovascular Diabetology

Editors' profiles

Professor Enrique Fisman graduated with a medical degree from Buenos Aires University, Argentina. Subsequently, he obtained the degree of Academic Cardiologist at the same university and worked several years at Carlos G. Durand Hospital in Buenos Aires. His research interests initially encompassed numerous fields of cardiology, with emphasis on Doppler and exercise echocardiography, estrogens and the heart, diagnostic expediency of dynamic and isometric stress testing, sports cardiology, epidemiology, hypertension, coronary calcification, computed tomography angiography, diagnostic and prognostic value of biomarkers, aortic blood flow velocity, and clinical pharmacology of antilipidemic agents. Since 1998, he focused mainly on the research of several experimental and clinical topics linked to the diabetes/cardiovascular interrelationship at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. Professor Fisman is author or coauthor of more than 200 scientific publications, most of them original research articles. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Cardiology at Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, and Professor of Cardiology at the Specialization Career in Cardiology, del Salvador University (USAL), Buenos Aires.

Professor Alexander Tenenbaum graduated with a medical degree and a PhD in the former Soviet Union. He then became a cardiologist at the Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. Currently, he is the Scientific Director of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Institute, Sheba Medical Center, the Founder and Director of "Cardioline" Heart Institute and Professor of Cardiology at Tel Aviv University. His research interests and areas of expertise include clinical cardiology, echocardiography, hypertension, heart failure, cardiac rehabilitation, cardiovascular pharmacotherapy and computed tomography. During recent years he has become especially involved in the research of various aspects of dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome, obesity and the diabetes/cardiovascular interrelationship. Prof. Tenenbaum is author or coauthor of hundreds scientific publications. He served as Governor of The International Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy and co-founder and Chairman of the Israel Heart Society Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy.