JACC Specialty Journals

Audio Summary of JACC Case Reports: Volume 2 Issue 1, by Drs. Julia Grapsa, Athena Poppas, Martha Gulati, Erin Michos, Garima Sharma and Shashank Sinha

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Meet the Editors - JACC: Case Reports: Mladen I. Vidovich 0

Jan 21, 2020

Dr. Mladen Vidovich is Professor of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago, He is Chief of Cardiology at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago. He is an interventional cardiologist with main interests in radial coronary angiography and intervention, intracoronary imaging (OCT, IVUS, NIRS) and quality improvement. He is Governor American College of Cardiology for Department of Veterans Affairs and Chair of the ACC Federal Section. Dr. Vidovich is member of the standing Cardiovascular Committee at the National Quality Forum (NQF). He has published numerous manuscripts and two books on Radial Angiography and Catheterization. He has designed a dedicated radial ventriculography catheter that is currently in clinical use.

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Meet the Editors - JACC: Case Reports: Eric Bates 0

Jan 6, 2020

Dr Eric Bates is professor of internal medicine and cardiology at the University of Michigan. He is also the deputy editor for JACC Case Reports. Dr Bates graduated from Princeton University and the University of Michigan Medical School. He trained in internal medicine and cardiology at the University of Michigan Hospitals. His major clinical interests include acute myocardial infarction, acute coronary syndromes, and coronary artery disease. His research efforts have focused on fibrinolytic and catheter-based reperfusion therapy for acute myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock, antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy for coronary thrombosis, and coronary artery revascularization.

Dr Bates has served on the steering committees for several important international multicenter randomized clinical trials. He serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Cardiology, the European Heart Journal, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, JACC-Cardiovascular Interventions, the American Heart Journal, Circulation, Circulation-Cardiovascular Interventions, Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, Cardiology Review, and Cardiology News, and is an associate editor for ACP Journal Club.

Dr Bates was Vice-chair for the 2011 ACCF/AHA Guideline for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Writing Committee. He is a former member of the ACC Board of Governors and Board of Trustees, the AHA Committee on Scientific Sessions Program, and the ABIM Interventional Cardiology test committee.

In this podcast, Dr. Bates takes us through his career pathway, reveals if he would change anything and comments on his manuscript on the latest TCT issue “ Requiem by a Member of the Inaugural Generation of Interventional Cardiologists”.

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JACC: Case Reports - Pregnancy During Cardiology Training We Need a Policy 0

Jan 6, 2020

Commentary by Dr. Julia Grapsa and Dr. Estefania Oliveros

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JACC: Case Reports - December 2019 Focus Issue Summary on Congenital Heart Disease 0

Jan 3, 2020

Commentary by Dr. Julia Grapsa and Dr. Ami Bhatt

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Meet the Editors - JACC: Case Reports: Sofian Johar 0

Nov 21, 2019

Welcome to the newest addition to JACC: Case Reports, called “Meet the Editors.” This page gives us an inside look into the lives of our esteemed editors; explaining how their careers evolved and offering advice to other cardiology fellows.

Dr. Sofian Johar is Associate Editor for JACC: Case Reports and Consultant Cardiologist in Al-Muhtadee Billah Hospital in Tutong, Brunei (2016). He specialized in electrophysiology and devices in Royal Brompton Hospital Sydney Street, London, UK and Kings College Hospital Denmark Hill, London, UK.He has BA(Hons) in Neuroscience Class: II.1 from the University of Cambridge (1996) and completed his MB BChir from the University of Cambridge. In 2001, he obtained MRCP (UK) Royal College of Physicians London and in 2007, he received his PhD in Cardiovascular Medicine from the Kings College London, UK. Complementing his academic background, Sofian also has a Certificate of Completion of Training in Cardiology, UK (2012) and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians of Glasgow (2014).Sofian was very active and has made many achievements throughout his career. Some of these include the BJCA-Cordis International Research Awards – Finalist (2005), British Society of Echocardiography Accreditation in TTE (2009) and EHRA Accreditation in Cardiac Devices Level 2 (2015). He has produced several publications and contributed chapters in books that were published internationally. He is also an advisor to the RIPAS Hospital Resuscitation Committee.Through this podcast, Dr. Johar takes us through his career pathway, explains why he decided to move back to Brunei and he gives advice to young fellows.