Editorial Board

FOUNDING EDITOR AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:

Professor Enrique Fisman, MD, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Specialisms: Cardiovascular diabetology, Cardiovascular drug therapy, Echocardiography, Lipidology
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.


FOUNDING EDITOR AND EMERITUS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:

Professor Alexander Tenenbaum, MD, PhD, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel (deceased 2021)
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

Deputy Editor:

Francisco Westermeier, PhD, Institute of Biomedical Science, Department of Health Studies, FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences, Graz, Austria
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Specialisms: Endothelial dysfunction, Diabetes, Metabolic syndrome, Postviral infection syndromes



Social Media Editor:

Pasquale Paolisso, MD, Department of University Cardiology, IRCCS Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio Hospital, Milan, Italy
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Specialisms: Acute coronary syndrome, MINOCA, SGLT2i, Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD), stress Hyperglycemia, Aortic stenosis.



Associate Editors:

Amy Alman, PhD, MSPH, University of South Florida, USA
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Specialisms: Epidemiology, Cardiovascular disease, Type 1 diabetes, Periodontal disease, Oral microbiome, Inflammation, Adipose tissue



Samaneh Asgari, PhD, Prevention of metabolic disorder research center, Research institute for Endocrine sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Specialisms: Biostatistics, Epidemiology of non communicable diseases, Type 2 diabetes, Cardiovascular events, Lipid profiles



Ioannis Avgerinos, MD, MSc, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Specialisms : Diabetes Mellitus, Internal Medicine, Evidence-Based Medicine, Systematic Reviews, Meta-analysis, Guidelines Development, Shared-Decision Making, Clinical Trials



Professor Joseph Azuri, MD, MHA, Dep. of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Specialisms: Diabetes, primary care, family physician, preventive medicine, smoking cessation, epidemiology



Ileana Badi, PhD, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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Specialisms: MicroRNAs, Vascular calcification, Vascular smooth muscle cells, Adipose tissue, Molecular biology



Professor Yochai Birnbaum, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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Specialisms: Myocardial inflammation, Ischemia reperfusion, Diabetic cardiomyopathy, Pleiotropic effects of drugs



Associate Professor, Petter Bjornstad, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA
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Specialisms: Diabetic kidney disease, Early cardiovascular disease, Youth-onset type 2 diabetes, Type 1 diabetes, SGLT2i, Mechanistic trials, MRI, PET



Miles De Blasio, PhD, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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Specialisms: Cardiomyopathy, Diabetes, Obesity, Adiponectin, AAV Gene Therapy, Cardiac metabolism, O-GlcNacylation



Yexuan Cao, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
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Specialisms : Cardiovascular disease, Cardiometabolic disease, Atherosclerosis,  genetic disease, Lipid profiles, metabolism, Diabetes, translational medicine, Clinical trials



Soo-Kyoung Choi, PhD, Yonsei University College of Medicine, South Korea
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Specialisms: Diabetes, Cardiovascular diseases, Hypertension, Vascular physiology, Endothelial dysfunction, Smooth muscle physiology



Stefano Ciardullo, MD, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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Specialisms: NAFLD/MASLD and cardiovascular risk, Insulin resistance and cardiovascular risk, Diabetes and heart failure, SGLT2-i and heart failure, Meta-analyses


Kim A. Connelly, MBBS, PhD, FSCMR, FCCS, Unity Health Toronto, Canada, St. Michael's Hospital, Canada, and University of Toronto, Canada
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Specialisms: Diabetes, Integrins, Fibrosis, Cardiac MRI, Hypertrophy




Ayotunde Dokun, MD, PhD, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, United States of America
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Specialisms: Angiogenesis, Diabetes, Ischemic Diabetes, Peripheral artery disease, Critical limb ischemia, Hind limb ischemia, Limb threatening ischemia, MicroRNA regulation of angiogenesis, MicroRNA regulation of post ischemic adaptation, MicroRNA in PAD

Natalia Eberhardt, PhD, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, USA
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Specialisms: Type 2 diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Atherosclerosis, Chronic inflammation, Immunology, T cells, Cellular mechanisms, Immunometabolism


Wenjun Fan, MD, PhD, University of California Irvine, USA
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Specialisms: Preventive Cardiology, Diabetes Mellitus, Clinical Epidemiology, Clinical Lipidology



Giulia Ferrannini, MD, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
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Specialisms: Coronary artery disease, Heart failure, Diabetes, Prediabetes, Screening, Secondary prevention



Professor Tingting Geng, MPH, PhD, Fudan University, China
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Specialisms: Diabetes, Chronic kidney disease, Cardiovascular disease, Chronic disease, Ageing, Epidemiology, Nutritional epidemiology, OMICS, Mendelian randomization, Cohort study


Resham L Gurung, PhD, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore
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Specialisms: Type 2 diabetes, Molecular Epidemiology of Diabetes Cardiorenal complications, Biomarker Discovery, Mendelian Randomisation, Ageing and metabolic diseases



Jiaqi Huang, PhD, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, China
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Specialisms: Epidemiology, Nutrition, Risk factor, Metabolomics, Cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, Mortality, Chronic disease



Kyoung Hwa Ha, PhD, Ajou University School of Medicine, South Korea
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Specialisms: Big Data Analytics, Diabetes, Epidemiology, Obesity, Pharmacoepidemiology




Jorge E Jalil, MD, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Rajesh Katare, MD, PhD, University of Otago, New Zealand
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Specialisms: Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, MicroRNA, Exosomes, Stem cells, Cardiac function


Yun Gi Kim, MD, PhD, Korea University Medicine Anam Hospital, Division of Cardiology, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Specialisms: Atrial fibrillation, Diabetes mellitus, Sudden cardiac death, Hypertension, Ventricular arrhythmias




Preman Kumarathurai, MD, PhD, MSc, Odense University Hospital, Denmark
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Twitter: @pkumarathurai
Specialisms: Heart failure, Diabetes, Echocardiography, Clinical trials



Professor Naoki Kumashiro, MD, PhD, Kanazawa Medical University, Japan
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Specialisms: Type 2 diabetes, Early treatment, SGLT2 inhibitor, DPP4 inhibitor, FMD, Cardiac fat accumulation, isCGM, Fatty liver, Insulin resistance


Gokulakrishnan Kuppan, PhD, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), India
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Specialisms: Gut microbiome, Epigenetics, Metabolic Diseases, Neuro-Psychiatric disorders, Biomarker(s) identification for early disease prediction, Molecular benefits of lifestyle intervention 


Dr. biol. hum. Jens Kroll, Heidelberg University, Germany
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Specialisms: Microvasculature, angiogenesis, diabetic organ complication, metabolism, reactive metabolites and detoxifying enzymes, zebrafish


Associate Professor Hsin-Fu Lee, MD, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and New Taipei City Municipal Tucheng Hospital, Taiwan
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Specialisms: Coronary Intervention, Peripheral Vascular Intervention, Interventional Cardiology, Echocardiography, Cardiovascular Pharmacology



Sindre Lee-Ødegård, MD, PhD, University of Oslo, Norway
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Specialisms: Exercise, Insulin resistance, South Asian, Omics, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics



Kun Ling Ma, MD, PhD, Zhejiang University, China
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Specialisms: Diabetic Nephropathy, Diabetes, Dyslipidemia, Atherosclerosis, chronic inflammation, chronic kidney disease, lipid nephrotoxicity.


Enrico Longato, PhD, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy
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Specialisms : Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Biomedical engineering, Observational studies, Real-world data

Oscar Lorenzo, PhD, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz-University Autonoma, Spain
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Specialisms: Diabetes, Obesity, Cardiomyopathy




Professor Didac Mauricio, MD, PhD, University of Vic & Central University of Catalonia, Catalonia, Spain
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Specialisms: Diabetes Mellitus, Chronic Diabetes complications, Atherosclerosis, Cardiovascular risk factors, Prevention


Kamel Mohammedi, MD, PhD, Bordeaux Université & Hospital, France
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Specialisms: Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Kidney disease, Peripheral artery disease



Tomohisa Nagoshi, MD, PhD, FJCC, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan
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Specialisms: Cardiac energy metabolism, Heart Failure, Ischemic heart diseases, Insulin resistance, Glucose transporters, Natriuretic peptides, Aldosterone, Uric acid, Cardiac catheter intervention 


Lorenzo Nesti, MD, MSc, University of Pisa, Italy
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Twitter: @dotLorenzoNesti
Specialisms: Heart failure, Diabetic cardiomyopathy, Cardiopulmonary exercise test, Echocardiography, Speckle tracking, Clinical nutrition, Exercise physiology, Prevention, Type 2 diabetes, Obesity, SGLT2-inhibitors, GLP1-R agonists

Huang-tz Ou, Rph, MS, PhD, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
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Specialisms: Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Pharmacoepidemiology, Pharmacoeconomics, Patient-reported outcomes



Professor Dr. med. Francesco Paneni, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
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Specialisms: Epigenetics, Endothelial dysfunction, Diabetic cardiomyopathy, Heart failure, SGLT2i, GLP-1 RA, Hyperglycemia, Obesity, Angiogenesis


Pasquale Paolisso, MD, Department of University Cardiology, IRCCS Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio Hospital, Milan, Italy
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Specialisms: Acute coronary syndrome, MINOCA, SGLT2i, Coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD), stress Hyperglycemia, Aortic stenosis.


Susana Ravassa Albéniz, PhD, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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Specialisms: Biomarkers, Myocardial remodeling, Fibrosis, Heart failure, Hypertension, Outcomes



Zach Rozenbaum, MD, FACC, FSCAI, Tulane University, USA
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Specialisms: Interventional Cardiology, Structural Heart Disease, Coronary Artery Disease, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Pulmonary Embolism


Gaetano Santulli, MD, PhD, FAHA, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Specialisms: Heart failure, Hypertension, Arrhythmias, Insulin resistance, Beta cell failure, Mitochondria, Endothelial dysfunction, Non-coding RNA, Calcium, Oxidative stress


Associate Professor, Giovanni Sartore, MD, University of Padua, Italy
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Specialisms: Diabetes Mellitus, Cardiovascular Complications, Lipoproteins



Lucia Scisciola, PhD, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Science, Naples, Italy
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Specialisms : Type 2 diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, SGLT2-i and heart failure, Metabolism, Aging, Epigenetics



Professor Cristina M. Sena, PhD, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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Specialisms: Diabetes, Obesity, Vascular disease




Binayak Sinha, MBBS, MRCP (UK), FRCP (London), Amri Hospitals Kolkata, India
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Specialisms: Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and kidney disease,SGLT2 inhibitors, GLP1 receptor analogues, Meta-analysis, Insulin and complications of diabetes, Insulin resistance



Associate Professor, Atsushi Tanaka, MD, PhD, Saga University, Japan
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Specialisms: Cardiometabolic syndrome, Heart failure, Atherosclerosis, Clinical trial, Pharmacotherapy



Aaron Trask, PhD, FAHA, FCVS, The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Specialisms: Cardiovascular physiology and pathophysiology, Coronary microvascular disease, Vascular biomechanics, Heart failure, Cardiovascular complications of diabetes, Metabolic syndrome, Hypertension, Machine learning, Microcirculation


Prof. Hung-Fat Tse, MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCP, FHKCP, FACC, FESC, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Tetsuro Tsujimoto, MD, PhD, Toranomon Hospital Kajigaya, Japan
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Specialisms: Diabetes, Cardiovascular disease, Heart failure, Obesity




Sabyasachi Sen, MD, FRCP (London), FRCP (Edin), FACP, FACE, FAHA, FNLA, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and George Washington University, USA
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Specialisms:  Endothelial dysfunction, diabetes mellitus, adult stem cell biology




Rui Wei, PhD, Peking University Third Hospital, China

Hongjiang Wu, MD, MPH, PhD, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
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Specialisms: Diabetes epidemiology, Population surveillance of diabetes, Young-onset type 2 diabetes



Jianbo Wu, MD, PhD, Southwest Medical University, China
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Specialisms: Diabetes, Cardiovascular diseases, Vascular physiology, Endothelial dysfunction, Angiogenesis, Adipose tissue, Mesenchymal stem cells, microRNA, Exosome, Smooth muscle cells



Assistant Professor Xiangwei Xiao, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA
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Specialisms: Diabetes, Beta-cell biology, Pancreas development, Islet immunology,  Vascular disorders, Autoimmune diseases, Cancer biology, Extracellular vehicles, Tissue resident macrophages, Signaling pathway interaction

Yang Xiao, MD, PhD, Central South University, the Second Xiangya Hospital, China
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Specialisms: Diabetes, Diabetic cardiovascular complications, Immunometabolism, Dyslipidaemia, Gut Microbiome, Fibrosis. 


Zhenhua Xing, MD, Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, China
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Specialisms: Obesity, Epidemiology, Cardiovascular disease, Heart failure




Zhi-Gang Yang, MD, PhD, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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Specialisms: Cardiovascular Molecular Imaging, Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Coronary Artery Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, Metabolic Syndrome, Myocardial Infarction, Cardiomyopathy


Yilin Yoshida, PhD, MPH, Section of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Tulane School of Medicine, USA
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Specialisms: Cardiometabolic Epidemiology, Complications of Diabetes, Sex Differences, Women’s Health, Health Disparities




Editorial Board
Victor Aboyans, MD, PhD, FAHA, FESC, Department of Cardiology, Dupuytren Hospital and Limoges University, Limoges, France
Professor Yehuda Adler, MD, MPH, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Professor Eddy Barasch, MD, St. Francis Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA 
Antonio Ceriello, MD, PhD, IRCCS MultiMedica, Milan, Italy 
Amanda J Cox, PhD, Griffith University, Southport, Australia
Sergio Dubner, MD, Clínica y Maternidad Suizo Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina 
Professor Abdalla El-Mowafy, PhD, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt 
Professor Ricardo J. Esper, MD, FACC, Buenos Aires University, Buenos Aires, Argentina 
Professor Gian Paolo Fadini, MD, PhD, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Professor Almudena Gómez-Hernández, PhD, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Byron J. Hoogwerf, MD, FACP, FACE, Cleveland Clinic and Eli Lilly & Co. (retired) FL, USA
Professor Rodrigo Jiménez-García, MD, PhD, MPH, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Naoto Katakami, MD, PhD, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Professor Robert Klempfner, MD, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Medicine, Israel
Gary D Lopaschuk, PhD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 
Professor Norikazu Maeda, MD, PhD, Department of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Faculty of Medicine, Kindai University, Japan
Paolo Marzullo, MD, PhD, Università Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
Jordi Merino, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Professor Michael Motro, MD, FACC, FAHA, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
James T. Pearson, PhD, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Japan
Etheresia Pretorius, PhD, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Giuseppe Pugliese, MD, PhD, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy   
Professor Giuseppe M. Rosano, MD, PhD, M.Sc., St George's Hospitals NHS Trust University of London, London, UK 
Gil S Salles, MD, PhD, School of Medicine, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Eberhard Standl, MD, PhD, Munich Diabetes Research Group, Munich, Germany 
Professor Ki-chul Sung, MD, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
Professor Gilad Twig, MD, MPH, PhD, Institute of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Sheba Medical Center, Israel
Charissa E van den Brom, PhD, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Professor Suowen Xu, PhD, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Yung-Hsin Yeh, MD, Chung-Gung University and Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Jian Zhou, PhD, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China