As cardiovascular disease remains the No. 1 cause of death and disability worldwide, a new medical journal will premiere early next year to serve the global cardiology community. JAMA Cardiology—to be led by an internationally renowned cardiologist—will premiere as the 12th journal in the JAMA Network, which includes JAMA and 10 other specialty journals.
“The burden of hypertension, ischemic heart disease, heart failure, stroke, valvular heart disease and atrial fibrillation is reaching epidemic proportions worldwide,” writes Howard Bauchner, MD, editor in chief of The JAMA Network, and colleagues in a JAMA editorial published Monday about the new journal. “Against this global burden, cardiovascular medicine continues to advance rapidly.”
JAMA Cardiology will focus on all aspects of cardiovascular medicine, including:
- Epidemiology and prevention
- Diagnostic testing
- Interventional and pharmacologic therapeutics
- Translational research
- Health care policy and outcomes
- Global health
The journal will be under the direction of Robert O. Bonow, MD, as editor in chief. Dr. Bonow is recognized for his research and teaching in a variety of cardiac diseases, including coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease and heart failure. He has published more than 500 articles and 100 book chapters and is one of the four principal editors of Braunwald’s Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine.
Dr. Bonow is a past president of the American Heart Association and is the Max and Lilly Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Cardiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
The journal is now accepting manuscript submissions for consideration for publication.
Existing institutional customers will have free online access to JAMA Cardiology in 2016. Individual physicians and other health care professionals can purchase an online subscription or access content for free on the JAMA Network Reader.
