STM publisher Elsevier has announced that Dr. Douglas P. Zipes has been named the new Editor-in-Chief of Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr. Zipes will succeed Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, who has served as Editor-in-Chief since 2004.
Dr. Douglas P. Zipes serves as a Distinguished Professor at the Krannert Institute of Cardiology at Indiana University. He has also held other positions at Indiana University, including Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Toxicology in 1994 and Director of the Cardiology Division at the Krannert Institute of Cardiology.
A past chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Zipes is the past president of several professional organisations, including the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society, the Association of University Cardiologists, the Heart Rhythm Society, and the American College of Cardiology.
Dr. Zipes was the founding editor of HeartRhythm; is the editor of Elsevier's Practice Update: Cardiology; and has authored over 800 articles and 24 textbooks, including Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside, Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology, and Electrocardiography of Arrhythmias. In addition, he writes a regular column for the Saturday Evening Post called "Heart Health: Ask Dr. Zipes."
Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine provides in-depth state-of-the-art reviews of scientific advances in cardiovascular medicine, written and critiqued by internationally known experts. Articles present an authoritative understanding on a range of topics, including basic mechanisms, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of heart and blood vessel disorders for clinicians and basic scientists. Topics offer insights into all aspects of cardiology, ranging from arrhythmias to vasculopathies.
