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Background, rationale and mission statement of the ‘Editors’ Club’ (Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology)

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Anesti Kondili MD, Djamaleddine Nibouche MD, Karlen Adamyan MD, Kurt Huber MD, Hugo Ector MD, Izet Masic MD, Rumiana Tarnovska MD, Mario Ivanusa MD, Vladimír Stane˘k MD, Jørgen Videbæk MD, Mohamed Hamed MD, Alexandras Laucevicius MD, Pirjo Mustonen MD, Jean-Yves Artigou MD, Ariel Cohen MD, Mamanti Rogava MD, Michael Böhm MD, Eckart Fleck MD, Gerd Heusch MD, Rainer Klawki MD, Panos Vardas MD, Christodoulos Stefanadis MD, József Tenczer MD, Massimo Chiariello MD, Aleksandras Laucevicius MD, Joseph Elias MD, Halima Benjelloun MD, Olaf Rødevand MD, Piotr Kul/akowski MD, Edvard Apetrei MD, Victor A. Lusov MD, Rafael G. Oganov MD, Velibor Obradovic MD, Gabriel Kamensky MD, Miran F. Kenda MD, Christer Höglund MD, Thomas F. Lüscher MD, René Lerch MD, Moufid Jokhadar MD, Habib Haouala MD, Vedat Sansoy MD, Valentin Shumakov MD, Adam Timmis MD. (European National Society Cardiovascular Journals Editors, see Appendix for complete affiliations)

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Editor-in-Chief, Revista Española de Cardiología, published by the Spanish Society of Cardiology

Editor-in-Chief, Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia, published by the Italian Federation of Cardiology

Editor-in-Chief, Revista Porteguesa de Cardiologia, published by the Portuguese Society of Cardiology

Editor-in-Chief, Chairman of the Task Force, Netherlands Heart Journal, published by the Netherlands Society of Cardiology

Correspondence to: F. Alfonso Editor-in-Chief, Revista Española de Cardiología, Sociedad Española de Cardiología, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, 5-7, 28028 Madrid, Spain

 

 

Appendix National society journal names (in alphabetical order of country origin) and members (Editors-in-Chief) of the Editors’ Club Task Force.
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Alfonso, F., Ambrosio, G., Pinto, F.J. et al. European National Society Cardiovascular Journals. NHJL 16, 211–216 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03086147

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