Announcements

Column on Cardiac Surgery

Published: 2017-12-10

Column on Cardiac Surgery at JOVS is edited by Dr. Mohamad Bashir M.D. PhD. MRCS and Dr. Amer Harky in agreement with JOVS Editors. Owing to Dr. Bashir’s extensive cardiac experience and presence at different international platforms, his position at JOVS will bring JOVS to the cardiac surgery world and will offer reciprocal benefits to JOVS readership.

Column Editor

Mohamad Bashir M.D.PhD.MRCS

Cardiothoracic & Aortovascular Surgery – Manchester Heart Centre

Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK

Column Section Editor

Amer Harky, MBChB, MRCS

StR Cardiothoracic Surgery - NW Deanery, Merseyside

Associate Clinical Teacher, School of Med., University of Liverpool,UK


The Cardiac column is set out to cover all spectrum of cardiac disease research and innovations. It’s aimed to cultivate the frontiers and foremost scientific and progressive work on aortic genomics, metabolomics and proteomics. The column will also interrogate innovations and scientific revolution to understand the molecular pathophysiology of the aortic wall, through imaging technologies, fundamental understanding of evolving aortic natural history, monitoring and decision-making and surgical and interventional therapies. The column will cross-fertilize ideas between different disciplines that have input in cardiac disease and surgery. It will incorporate and accompany progression of educational and scientific meetings allowing to capture the phase of change in cardiac surgery prospect and reflect this to our wider readership.

Ongoing Focused issues

Innovations in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Surgery

Notice on Forthcoming Focused Issues

Upcoming focused issue--Innovations in Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Surgery by Dr. Mohamad Bashir and Dr. Joseph E. Bavaria

Meeting Information

The 4th Aortic Live Symposium in Hamburg on October 23-24, 2017

Welcome to the 2nd Barts Aortovascular Symposium on Sep. 16th, 2017

Welcome to Liverpool Aortic Surgery Symposium VII

The Ninth Postgraduate Course on “Surgery of The Thoracic Aorta” in Bologna