Published online before print January 19, 2004, doi: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000113822.45467.cb
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(Hypertension. 2004;43:295.)
© 2004 American Heart Association, Inc.
Preface |
Proceedings of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, 2003
This issue of Hypertension contains selected manuscripts based on presentations made at the 57th Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research. The meeting was held in Washington, DC, September 23 through 26, 2003. The conference was preceded by the Workshop on the Insulin Resistance Syndrome and the Pathophysiology of Hypertension, Cardiovascular, and Renal Disease, which was organized by Dr Robert M. Carey. The program for the conference included 86 oral presentations and 264 posters that were selected from 492 submitted abstracts. These presentations covered a variety of topics: from genetics, molecular biology, receptors, vascular biology, signal transduction, and neurohormonal mechanisms to clinical and epidemiological aspects of hypertension. Presenters were encouraged to submit manuscripts that would be considered for publication in this proceedings issue of Hypertension. There were 117 manuscripts submitted, and 34 (29%) accepted for publication. This acceptance rate is in accordance with current American Heart Association policy for scientific journals. While it has become almost a cliche, "only the manuscripts that were highly meritorious and that required minor or no revisions were accepted for publication." Unfortunately, these rigorous criteria eliminated several potentially outstanding manuscripts that undoubtedly will be published once the authors have sufficient time to address the issues raised by the referees.
The transition to online submissions and reviews continued this year. Referee assignments and reviews were conducted electronically, and a complete evolution to online submission, processing, and reviewing of manuscripts should be in place for next year’s Supplement. Online submission has many advantages for authors and reviewers, and will be especially helpful for the Supplement by providing the best reviews in the limited time available to complete the review process. Members of the Publications Committee that contributed to the review process included Drs Italo Biaggioni, George Booz, Daniel Catanzaro, Alan Deng, Anna Dominiczak, Irene Gavras, David Harder, Edward Inscho, Carmen Hinojosa-Laborde, Margot Lapointe, Addison Taylor, Stephanie Watts, and J Michael Wyss. In addition, valuable input was provided by the editor-in chief, Dr John Hall, and the associate editors of Hypertension, Drs Celso Gomez-Sanchez, Joey Granger, Friedrich Luft, Ernesto Schiffrin, and Curt Sigmund. Most of the manuscripts were reviewed by 2 referees, a member of the Publications Committee, and either the editor or an associate editor of Hypertension. Input from the latter was especially valuable in expediting the online review process and maintaining the same high standards held for regular submissions to Hypertension.
I am grateful to all the Publications Committee members for the time and diligent efforts that they devoted to the evaluation of the submitted abstracts. I would also like to acknowledge all those who contributed to the conscientious and timely reviews of the manuscripts. Indeed, the quality of the Supplement is a reflection of their work. Their names are listed below. Finally, this Supplement would not have been possible without the dedicated support of the editorial staff of Hypertension, Gerry McAlpin, managing editor, Cindy L. Means, associate managing editor, and Paula L. Easterling, assistant managing editor. These individuals worked arduously for several weeks before and after the meeting of the Council uploading and processing abstracts, manuscripts, and manuscript reviews for the Supplement. Simply put, publication of the Supplement could not have happened without their dedicated efforts.
Several invited lectures and awards were presented at the meeting of the Council. Dr Judah Folkman received the Novartis Award for Hypertension Research; Dr Willa A. Hsueh presented the Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture; Dr Allyn A. Mark received the Irvine Page–Alva Bradley Lifetime Achievement Award; Dr Oscar H. Cingolani received the 19th Annual Aventis Pharma Hypertension Research Clinical Fellowship Program Award; and Dr Kate Denton received the Harry Goldblatt Award in Cardiovascular Research.
We will continue to strive to make this issue of Hypertension a valuable and comprehensive forum that showcases the latest developments and advances in the field of hypertension research. To this end, changes have and will continue to be made in the publication of outstanding peer-reviewed research articles. We solicit and encourage your articles and your input into the review process.
THANKS TO REFEREES
Christian Aalkjaer
Nader Abraham
Gail Adler
Andrew Allen
Magdalena Alonso-Galicia
Lawrence Appel
William J. Arendshorst
Havard Attramadal
David Averill
Abraham Aviv
Amy Banes
Philip Bath
Gary Baumbach
Chris Baylis
Steven Bealer
Lawrence Benetos
Giuseppe Bianchi
Paul Black
Roberto Bolli
Chantal Boulanger
Michael Brands
Virginia Brooks
K. Bridget Brosnihan
Hans Brunner
Louise Burrell
Andreas Busjahn
Rudi Busse
Angelio Calderone
James Cameron
Duncan Campbell
William Campbell
Robert Carey
Pamela Carmines
Mark Chappell
Christos Chatziantoniou
Alex Chen
George Cicila
John Collister
Kirk Conrad
Mark Cooper
Pierre Corvol
Thomas Cunningham
Daniele Cusi
Robert Danziger
Robin Davisson
Kevin Davy
Ralf Dechend
Gerald DiBona
Quy Diep
Debra Diz
Anca Dobrian
Yanbin Dong
Anne McLaren Dorrance
Helmut Drexler
Heather Drummond
Raghvendra Dubey
Brian Duling
Satoru Eguchi
Samir El-Dahr
Stefan Engeli
Frank Faraci
Robin Felder
Paolo Ferrari
Gregory Fink
Sharyn Fitzgerald
John Flack
Ingrid Fleming
Danilo Fliser
Lourdes Fortepiani
Jefferson Frisbee
Masuko Fukai
David Gardner
Gastone Giovanni
Nicola Glorioso
Theophile Godfraind
Elise Gomez-Sanchez
Theodore Goodfriend
Guido Grassi
Kathy Griendling
Karen Griffin
Jian Wei Gu
John Hamlyn
Stephen Harrap
David Harrison
Erhard Haus
Geoffrey Head
Anthony Heagerty
Daniel Henrion
Robert Hester
Masatsugu Horiuchi
Thomas Hostetter
Norbert Hubner
Michael Humphreys
Iekuni Ichikawa
John Imig
Fredric Jaisser
Ben Janssen
Colin Johnston
Jens Jordan
Pedro Jose
Hanjoerg Just
Raouf Khalil
Nancy Kanagy
Sadashiva Karnik
Zvonimir Katusic
Henry Keen
Richard Kennedy
Christopher Kenyon
Ralph Kettritz
Saulo Klahr
Christoph Klett
Mark Knepper
Hiroyuki Kobori
Donald Kohan
Ulla Kopp
Theodore Kotchen
Jose Krieger
Anne Kwitek
Ronald Law
Andrew Lawrence
Eric Lazartigues
Frans Leenen
Xiaojun Liu
Julian Lombard
Gary Lopaschuk
Joseph Loscalzo
Paolo Madeddu
Dewan Majid
Simon Malpas
Francois Marceau
John McGiff
Francis Miller
Mariana Morris
Michael Mulvany
Alberto Nasjletti
L. Gabriel Navar
Georg Nickenig
Gian Novaro
Toshio Ogihara
John Osborn
Michael Overton
Patrick Pagano
Thomas Pallone
Leonardo Pantoni
Julio Panza
Jorg Peters
Sandra Pfister
David Pollock
Jennifer Pollock
Silvia Pomposiello
J. Howard Pratt
Michal Pravenec
Morton Printz
Lepolodo Raij
Mohan Raizada
Stephen Rapundalo
Jane Reckelhoff
Vera Regitz
Glenn Reinhart
Rainer Rettig
Damiano Rizzoni
Richard Roman
Damian Romero
Gian Paolo Rossi
Marta Ruiz-Ortega
Junichi Sadoshima
F. Javier Salazar
M. Cristina Salgado
Nilesh Samani
Kathryn Sandberg
Naveed Sattar
Christine Schnackenberg
Rainer Schulz
Jeanne Seagard
Bukhtiar Shah
Winfried Siffert
Krishna Singh
Helmy Siragy
John Smeda
Harold Snieder
James Sowers
Bart Staels
David Stec
Miao-Kun Sun
Yao Sun
Alan Sved
Bernard Swynghedauw
Randall Tackett
Stefano Taddei
William Talman
Gaetan Thibault
Walter Thomas
Erin Thorin
Terry Thrasher
Rhian Touyz
Kenneth Volk
R. Clinton Webb
Karl Weber
Alan Weder
Martin Wehling
William Welch
Christopher Wilcox
Gunter Wolf
Donna Wong-Gibbons
Heinz-Gerd Zimmer
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