Editorial introductions

Current Opinion in Cardiology was launched in 1985. It is part of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The field of cardiology is divided into 14 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Journal's Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Subodh VermaSubodh VermaProfessor Subodh Verma is a globally recognized cardiac surgeon-scientist whose pioneering and interdisciplinary contributions have transformed the landscape of cardiovascular science, surgery and cardiometabolic medicine in Canada and around the world. He is Professor of Surgery, and Pharmacology & Toxicology at the University of Toronto, Canada holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery. With close to 800 peer-reviewed publications, a Google Scholar h-index of 136 and nearly 100,000 citations in July 2025, Dr Verma ranks among the top 0.1% of highly cited researchers globally. He has played a key role in landmark clinical trials, including all five pivotal SGLT2 inhibitor studies in heart failure and GLP-1 receptor agonist trials in PAD, atherosclerosis and HFpEF. Dr Verma founded the CardioLink Trials Platform, Canada's first and to date only translational clinical trials infrastructure dedicated to cardiac surgery and cardiometabolic science. His groundbreaking discovery of human vascular stem cell exhaustion has unlocked novel mechanistic insights into atherosclerosis, obesity and diabetes—bridging high-impact human biology with clinical care. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Current Opinion in Cardiology and is an Associate Editor for The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He is the current Scientific Program Chair for the Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeons. Bobby YanagawaBobby YanagawaDr Bobby Yanagawa is the Division Head, Division of Cardiac Surgery, St. Michael's Hospital and Program Director, Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada. He holds the SURE General Contractors Inc. Professorship in Infective Endocarditis. Dr Yanagawa completed residency training at the University of Toronto and INOVA Fairfax Hospital (Fairfax, VA, Canada) and an advanced valvular fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, NY, USA). His research training includes a PhD at the University of British Columbia, USA and post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Wales College of Medicine (Cardiff, UK) and National Cardiovascular Center (Osaka, Japan). His clinical and academic focus is surgical revascularization and surgery for infective endocarditis. He is the Director of the Canadian Society of Cardiac Surgeons Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce. His research interests include clinical outcome studies of ischemic and valvular heart disease. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, 40 reviews and 15 book chapters. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Guest Editor - Current Opinion in Cardiology and Feature Editor, Annals of Thoracic Surgery.