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Healio spoke with cardiologist and researcher Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM, FACC, who was recently named editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the flagship journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Healio | Cardiology Today Editorial Board Member Jagmeet P. Singh, MD, DPhil, FACC, FHRS, and some of his patients were profoundly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. That got him thinking about the sustainability of the health care system.

For this issue, Cardiology Today spoke with Editorial Board Member Susan Cheng, MD, MPH, MMSc. She is associate professor of medicine and the Erika J. Glazer Chair in Cardiovascular Women’s Health and Population Science, program director of the Center for Research in Women’s Health and Sex Differences, director of cardiovascular population sciences and director of public health research at Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai.

For this issue, Cardiology Today spoke with Editorial Board Member Jeffrey S. Berger, MD, associate professor of medicine and surgery with appointments in cardiology, hematology and vascular surgery at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and director of the Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease at NYU Langone Health.

For this issue, Cardiology Today spoke with Editorial Board Member Annabelle Santos Volgman, MD, FACC, FAHA. She is the Madeleine and James McMullen – Carl E. Eybel, MD Chair of Excellence in Clinical Cardiology Professor of Excellence in Clinical Cardiology and the vice chief for academic affairs in the division of cardiology at Rush University Medical Center. She is also the co-founder and medical director of the Rush Heart Center for Women.

For this issue, Cardiology Today spoke with Editorial Board Member Laxmi Mehta, MD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA. She is a noninvasive cardiologist and professor of medicine in the division of cardiovascular medicine at The Ohio State University. She holds the Sarah Ross Soter Endowed Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health, is the section director of preventive cardiology and women’s cardiovascular health and director of lipid clinics and is the vice chair of wellness for the department of internal medicine at Ohio State.

For this issue, Cardiology Today spoke with Editorial Board Member Dipti Itchhaporia, MD, FACC, FESC.

For this issue, Cardiology Today spoke with Editorial Board Member Anita W. Asgar, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FACC.

For this issue, Cardiology Today spoke with Editorial Board Member Andrea M. Russo, MD, FACC, FAHA, FHRS.

LAS VEGAS —Despite rising prevalence, obesity does not always receive the attention that research suggests it should get. For Michael D. Jensen, MD, of the endocrine research unit at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, focusing on obesity is imperative, which is why he has dedicated more than 3 decades to the field.