Announcement of New Associate Editors

Dr. Dae-Hee Kim is an associated professor of medicine at Ulsan University and a cardiologist affiliated with Asan Medical Center (largest hospital in South Korea). His expertise in multimodality cardiac imaging including echocardiography, CT and MRI and valvular heart disease will surely serve well in our journal. He graduated from Seoul National University, School of Medicine. He continued his training at the Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital as an intern and a resident and became a certified member of the Korean Board of Internal Medicine. He completed his fellowship training in the Division of Cardiology at Seoul National University Hospital. After earning his PhD degree during this fellowship period in February 2009, he joined a faculty member of the Division of Cardiology at Asan Medical Center since 2010. He has been published more than 100 SCI(E) papers, which encompass top peer-review journals such as Circulation and JACC CV imaging as a primary or corresponding author. He won the Young Investigator Award at the Korean Society of Circulation Congress in 2009 and was Samuel A Levine Young Clinical Investigator Award finalist in AHA scientific session 2014. He spent educational leave at the echocardiography laboratory of Mass General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, as postdoctoral research fellow between Feb 2016 and Feb 2018.

He will serve the JCVI as an Associate Editor. We are confident that his accomplishments and experience can play an important role. We are privileged to have him as one of our associate editors at JCVI.

Dr. Seung-Pyo Lee is an experienced cardiologist who is clinically interested in valvular heart disease, various cardiomyopathies and especially, inherited and/or genetic cardiovascular disease. He graduated Seoul National University, School of Medicine, where he earned his MD degree, and completed his internship and residency training at the Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital. After passing the board certificate examination of the Korean Board of Internal Medicine, he continued his 2 years' cardiology fellowship training at Seoul National University Hospital. He was appointed as assistant professor of the Department of Internal Medicine at the same institution on 2011 and then stepped up to associate professor on 2015. He also served as a visiting professor at the Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease, Stanford University, USA from 2016 to 2017.

Dr. Lee's research focuses on development of novel imaging techniques to understand the process of ventricular and valvular remodeling noninvasively. As an active physician in the echocardiography laboratory, he has extensive experience in multiple imaging modalities, especially (parametric) cardiovascular MR and molecular imaging. He also uses these technologies to accurately assess rare primary myocardial disease, a set of orphan diseases that is difficult to assess with the currently used clinical imaging tests. As authors of more than 80 SCI(E) papers, he has served as ad hoc reviewers of several journals such as the American Journal of Cardiology, Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging, Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography and Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, to name a few. He has been awarded as the Young Investigator Award in the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (2014) and the Seoul National University Hospital (2016). He has also been awarded an excellence in authorship award from JACC Cardiovascular Imaging (2016) and also a gold star reviewer from the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (2018).

He will serve the JCVI as an associate editor. His unique expertise as a researcher, especially at the niche between cardiology and radiology and also extensive experience as a physician will bring the journal unique and novel insights. We are pleased to have him join our editorial team.

Dr. Chi Young Shim is a cardiologist specializing in echocardiography, heart valve diseases, and heart failure. She has participated in more than 165 scientific studies published in SCI(E) journals. She has published 55 SCI(E) publications as a primary or corresponding author. She has won several excellence awards including the winner of Young Investigator Award Competition from the American Society of Echocardiography Scientific Session in 2014.

She graduated from Yonsei University College of Medicine in 2000. She earned her MD and PhD degree in Yonsei University College of Medicine. She completed her training at Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine as an intern, resident and fellow. Since March 2008, she had been working as a faculty member of the Division of Cardiology at Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine. She is an active member of Korean Society of Echocardiography, Korean Society of Heart Failure, Korean Society of Cardiology, and Korean Society of Hypertension. She has been invited to several international and regional lectures for many scientific meetings.

She will serve the JCVI as an associate editor. The experience and insight she has built up through her academic activities and involvement in medical associations will be a great asset to our journal. It is therefore our privilege and pleasure to have her join as one of our associate editors at JCVI.

Dr. Soo-Jin Kim is a pediatric and congenital cardiologist with much experience and expertise in echocardiography and cardiovascular intervention. She graduated from the Korea University School of Medicine in 1992, where she earned her MD degree. She completed her internship and residency training at the Department of Pediatrics at St. Francisco's Hospital until she became a certified member of the Korean Board of Pediatrics. She completed the fellowship training at Sejong Heart Institute and became a pediatric cardiology staff in March 1999 and was appointed the director of Pediatric Department in 2004 at the same institute. She received her PhD degree at Korea University in 2015. In May 2011, she transferred to Konkuk University School of Medicine as an associate professor and was appointed a full-time professor in March 2017. She is a regular member of the Korean Society of Pediatrics, the Korean Pediatric Heart Association, the Korean Society of Cardiology, the Korean society of Echocardiography, and the Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine. She also is the editorial board member of Korean Circulation Journal. As of March 2018, she has published more than 80 researches, including 19 SCI(E) publications as a primary or corresponding author and has helped to write chapters for several scientific text books. She also has been invited to many international and regional lectures.

Dr. Ki Seok Choo is a radiologist with expertise in cardiovascular imaging such as cardiac CT and MR including congenital and acquired heart disease. He graduated from Pusan National University College of Medicine in 1997, where he earned his MD degree. He received his PhD degree at Pusan National University 2018. He completed his internship, residency at Department of Radiology at Pusan National University Hospital. He completed his fellowship in cardiac radiology at Samsung Medical Center in 2003 and continued his fellowship at Department of Radiology at Pusan National University Hospital 2004. From March 2005, he was a full time staff of the Department of Radiology at Pusan National University Hospital and, he transferred to the Department of Radiology at Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital. He severed as director in Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital 2015-2017 and became a full-time professor in March 2017. He won the clinical research award in Korean Society of Cardiology in 2010 and best scientific poster in world ultrasound federation in medicine and biology in 2017. He has more than 47 SCI(E) publications as main author or co-author and has won the Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award from the Korean Society of Cardiovascular Imaging in 2017. He joined the Department of Radiology of Stanford University, as a visiting doctor between December 2016 and January 2017. He has been invited to many international and regional lectures.

He will serve the JCVI as an associate editor. Given his accomplishments and experience, we are sure that his expertise will play an important role in advancing the prestige of our journal. We are excited to have him as one of associate editors at JCVI.

Jang Young Kim, MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief