DALLAS, April 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Heart Association is pleased to announce the premiere publication of Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. The new title is the first of a planned extension of the weekly flagship journal, Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, consisting of six new journals dedicated to presenting the most important papers in key subspecialty areas of cardiology. The journals will be published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
William Gregory Stevenson, M.D., director of the clinical cardiac electrophysiology program at Brigham and Women's Hospital and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, will serve as Editor of Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology.
"Our journal will provide a source of high quality articles focusing on advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias," said Stevenson, who also is an associate editor for Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
"As an associate editor, I have been confronted with a large number of investigations that were important and novel for the arrhythmia specialist, but in competition with studies from other disciplines in cardiology, could not be assigned sufficient priority for publication in Circulation," Stevenson said. "Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology will provide an extended format for these important studies, as well as presenting a platform for airing reviews and highlighting controversies at the cutting edge of the field."
"I am delighted by the release of this first member of the Circulation
portfolio of cardiovascular subspecialty journals, and with its new editor,
Dr. Bill Stevenson. Under his very able leadership, the journal will no
doubt become a primary source of the latest information in the field of
arrhythmias and electrophysiology for the cardiology communi
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