Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Andrew J. Coristine, PhD
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Medicine (Division of Cardiology), McGill University, Canada; Scientific Editor, JMIR Publications, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Andrew J. Coristine is an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, at McGill University. His research focuses on cardiac imaging, cardiovascular epidemiology, and the intersection of these fields with digital health. Additionally, he has published work on rapid magnetic resonance imaging and deep learning approaches to cardiac image reconstruction.
JMIR Cardio is seeking an Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors! For more information and to apply: How can I apply to become an editorial board member?
Sofia Zelko, MSc, Managing Editor
Editorial Board Members
Associate Editors
Nitesh Ainani, MD, FACC, FSCAI, RPVI
Interventional Cardiologist, Tidelands Health with Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Health, USA
Dr. Ainani is a board certified Interventional Cardiologist currently practicing medicine in the United States. His research interests include the fields of Internal medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Interventional Cardiology. His clinical experience and research focuses on the areas of valvular heart disease, coronary artery diseases, congestive heart failure, and cardiomyopathies.
Goran Krstačić MD, PhD, FESC, FEHRA
Director, Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, Zagreb, Croatia
Goran Krstačić is a specialist in internal medicine and cardiology and a graduate of Health Manager School He is the director of the Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation in Zagreb, Croatia, and a professor of cardiology at the School of Medicine in Osijek and the Faculty of Dental Medicine and Health at the University of Osijek. Dr. Krstačić is also the chair of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on e-Cardiology, a coordinator of the topic on e-Technology and a board member of the European Heart Rhythm Association and the Computing in Cardiology Association. His research interests include digital health in cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation.
John T. Rivers, FRACP, SIA, FCSANZ, GAICD, MB, BSc (Med), BS (Hons)
Cardiologist, St. Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital, Mater Private Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
John Rivers is a cardiologist with extensive research achievements including the publication of over 50 scientific articles in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The research focus over his clinical career has been on improving patient outcomes by building systems for measuring and improving clinical practices and integrating this with routine clinical care and governance. He is currently working on digital transformation of cardiac care models.
Aniruddha Singh, MD, FACC, FNLA
Director, Cardiovascular Fellowship, Tower Health/Drexel University College of Medicine, USA
Dr. Singh is the Program Director for the General Cardiovascular Fellowship program at Drexel University College of Medicine at Tower Health in West Reading, Pennsylvania. He is board certified in Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Echocardiography, Cardiac Computed Tomography, Nuclear Cardiology and Vascular Ultrasonography and has earned a Master in Lipidology through the National Lipid Association. Dr. Singh serves on various state and national committees with the American College of Cardiology and the National Lipid Association, and also volunteers as a Content Expert for the Alliance for Physician Certification & Advancement. Previously, Dr. Singh was Assistant Professor of Medicine and Research Chairman for the GME programs at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He was the Internal Medicine Clerkship Director for third- and fourth-year medical students and later transitioned to the role of Associate Program Director of the Cardiovascular Fellowship.
Kam Cheong Wong, PhD, MBBS, MSc, BEng
Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney; Senior Lecturer, Western Sydney University
Dr Kam Wong is a published medical researcher who combines 20 years of clinical experience with 10 years of engineering work to advance digital health solutions for cardiovascular care. With a PhD from the University of Sydney, Dr Wong focuses on leveraging digital health technology to enhance the early detection and management of cardiovascular conditions. His research has proven the feasibility and effectiveness of remote health innovations in screening for atrial fibrillation, underscoring his commitment to making heart health services accessible in real-world settings.
Advisors
Avik Ray, MD, MS
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
Dr. Ray is a medical doctor with a specialization in medicine and pharmacoepidemiology. His professional journey has been an exciting mixture of patient care, population health, data science, and management. Dr. Ray had his first entrepreneurial stint in the provider space in medical school which gave him invaluable first-hand experiences of building products from the scratch. He did his residency in clinical pharmacology during which Dr. Ray carried out clinical trials and served as an academic consultant to life sciences organizations. He has published multiple scientific papers in reputed international journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet. Dr. Ray graduated with a Master of Science degree in Epidemiology from Harvard University which allowed him to imbibe advanced data science skills to complement his holistic understanding of healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry. His area of focus is cardiovascular medicine and real-world data analysis using causal inference and state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. Dr. Ray is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and his research involves analysis of real-world evidence of medicines and vaccines to assess effectiveness and safety, thus providing critical inputs for treatment guideline updates and health policy decisions. He has received multiple prestigious scholarships, fellowships, awards, and other accolades including an invite to attend the Nobel Laureate Meeting on Medicine/Physiology by the Nobel Prize Council as a MARS fellow and has been inducted as a fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health (FRSPH).
Past Editorial Board Members
Ponrathi Athilingam, PhD, ACNP, MCH, FAAN, Associate Professor, University of South Florida, College of Nursing, USA
Nico Bruining, PhD, Former Editor-in-Chief Thoraxcenter, Department of Cardiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Ruben Casado Arroyo, MD, PhD, MSc, FESC, Professor of Medicine, Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory, CUB Hopital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Paul Cummins, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Vasundhara Muthu, MD, FACC, Cardiologist, University of Maryland, Upstate Medical University, Glen Burnie, Maryland, USA
Aaron Peace, MD, PhD, MRCPI, FRCPEd, FESC, Chief Executive Officer, Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre (C-TRIC), Western Health and Social Care Trust, Londonderry, UK
Join the Editorial Board
We are currently looking to expand our Editorial Board. To apply to be an Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor, please apply using the form linked in this article. You should hold a PhD (or similar higher degree), have a publication track record (h-index>8), and ideally have some academic editing experience.
Guest Editors & Theme Issue Proposals
JMIR Publications welcomes guest editors to assemble a theme issue on a special subtopic. For more information, please visit How to guest edit a theme issue and How to suggest a theme issue.
This may be particularly interesting for workshop and conference organizers putting together a grant-funded event (eg, with invited experts) on a topic in scope for the journal. JMIR Publications can then be used as a dissemination vehicle. (Funding through grants or other sources is usually required and should be budgeted for in grant proposals. Letters of support are available from the JMIR Publications editor, if needed. Note that granting agencies such as NLM or CIHR usually want to see some sort of knowledge translation activities in workshop proposals, and have in the past funded the JMIR Publications APFs.)
The task of the guest editor(s) is generally
- to solicit manuscripts from colleagues concerning the selected topic,
- to select peer-reviewers for incoming manuscripts,
- to make decisions (together with the editorial board) on article revisions and acceptance, and
- to write an editorial for the theme issue
- to secure funding to sponsor the APFs for published papers (usually in the $10-20k range).
Alternatively, the conference abstracts may be published in a supplement, with or without selected full papers published later in a theme issue or in regular JMIR Publications issues. See We are organizing a conference - can we publish our proceedings / abstracts in iproceedings? regarding publishing conference abstracts.