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Hypertension. 2003;41:619-620
doi: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000060140.52886.E2
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(Hypertension. 2003;41:619.)
© 2003 American Heart Association, Inc.


Preface

Proceedings of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, 2002

Thomas E. Lohmeier

This issue of Hypertension contains selected manuscripts based on presentations made at the 56th Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research. The meeting was held in Orlando, Florida, September 25 through 28, 2002. The conference was preceded by the Workshop on Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in the Cardiovascular System and Its Role in the Pathophysiology of Hypertension, Cardiovascular Disease, and Renal Disease, which was organized by Dr Ernesto Schiffrin. The program for the conference included 87 oral presentations and 253 posters that were selected from a record number 550 submitted abstracts. These presentations covered a variety of topics: from genetics, molecular biology, receptors, vascular biology, and signal transduction to clinical hypertension and obesity. Presenters were encouraged to submit manuscripts that would be considered for publication in this proceedings issue of Hypertension. Most of the manuscripts were reviewed by two referees and two members of the Publications Committee. There were 137 manuscripts submitted and 37 (27%) accepted for publication. This compares to the 127±5 manuscripts submitted and 72±4 (57±2%) accepted each year over the last 4 years. The marked reduction in this year’s acceptance rate was mandated by the American Heart Association and is in accordance with current American Heart Association policy for scientific journals. Thus, only the manuscripts that were highly meritorious and that required minor or no revisions were accepted. Unfortunately, these rigorous criteria eliminated several potentially outstanding manuscripts.

The transition to online submissions and reviews was initiated 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 who contributed to the review process included Drs Abraham Aviv, Daniel Catanzaro, Anna Dominiczak, Irene Gavras, David Harder, Carmen Hinojosa-LaBorde, Osvaldo Kohlmann, Richard Roman, Addison Taylor, Stephanie Watts, and J Michael Wyss. In addition, ad hoc members to the Publications Committee were the editor-in-chief, Dr John Hall, and the associate editors of Hypertension, Drs Celso Gomez-Sanchez, Joey Granger, Daniel Jones, Friedrich Luft, and Curt Sigmund. Inclusion of these ad hoc members was especially valuable this year 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, and Cindy Means, associate managing editor. Both Gerry and Cindy 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. Drs Gerald DiBona and John Hall received the Novartis Award for Hypertension Research; Dr Gordon Williams presented the Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture; Dr Suzanne Oparil received the Council for High Blood Pressure Research Lifetime Achievement Award; Dr Hector M. Dourron received the 18th Annual Aventis Pharma Hypertension Research Clinical Fellowship Program Award; and Dr Robin Davisson 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

Barbara Alexander

Andrew Allen

Maggie Alonso-Galicia

Hope Anderson

Raymond Ardaillo

William Arendshorst

Emilio Badoer

Kenneth Baker

George Bakris

James Bates

Timothy Baxter

Chris Baylis

William Beierwaltes

Bradford Berk

Peter Bianciani

Anil Bidani

Peter Bie

Eileen Bird

George Booz

Wayne Border

Ralph Brandes

Mike Brands

Bridget Brosnihan

Nancy Brown

Aderville Cabassi

David Calhoun

Francois Cambien

James Cameron

William Campbell

Bob Carey

Pam Carmines

Julie Chao

Lee Chao

Mark Chappell

John Charpie

Yuking Chen

George Cicila

Marilyn Cipolla

Mark Cooper

Dalila Corry

Allen Cowley

Errol Crook

Thomas Cunningham

Roger Dampney

Jan Danser

Kevin Davy

Hugh De Wardener

Claude Delcayre

Gregory Dick

Javier Diez

Debra Diz

Anne Dorrance

Joseph Dunbar

William Durante

Livius D’Uscio

Carolyn Ecelbarger

Brent Egan

Kensuke Egashira

Satori Eguchi

Daniel Ely

Adviye Ergul

Bruno Escalante

Eric Espiner

Binita Falkner

Olga Federova

Robert Felder

Michel Feletou

Leon Ferder

Nicholas Ferreri

Jurgen Fingerle

Greg Fink

Ingrid Fleming

Jeff Flier

Maria Fortuno

Roberto Franco-Saenz

Jan Galle

Jeff Gardner

Jeff Garvin

Kathryn Gauthier

Martin Geddes

Agostino Gnasso

Theophile Godfraind

Andrew Greene

Kathy Griendling

Karen Griffin

Beatriz Grunfeld

Jian-Wei Gu

David Harris

David Harrison

Garner Haupert

Erhard Haus

JR Haywood

Anthony Heagerty

Neils Henrik Rathlou

Jaime Herrera-Acosta

Masatsugu Horiushi

Michael Humphreys

Brian Hunt

Iekuni Ichikawa

John Imig

Ed Inscho

Sadayoshi Ito

Brian Jackson

Ed Jackson

Ben Janssen

Kim Johnson

Richard Johnson

Colin Johnston

Jaap Joles

Pedro Jose

Andrew Kahn

Gabor Kaley

Ralph Kettritz

Salah Kivlighn

Thomas Kleyman

Mark Knepper

Kiyomi Koizumi

Ulla Kopp

Jay Kuo

Lih Kuo

Armin Kurtz

Ted Kurtz

Vincent Lahera

Florian Lang

Margot LaPionte

Ron Law

Richard Lee

Franz Leenen

Charles Leffler

Steven Lentz

Lilach Lerman

Barry Levin

Bernard Levy

Stuart Linas

Marshall Lindenheimer

Mustafa Lokhandwala

Julian Lombard

Julina Lombard

John Longhurst

Andrew Lonigro

Gyorgy Losonczy

Nobuyo Maeda

Dewan Majid

Simon Malpas

Teri Manilio

Danis Manning

Franco Mantero

Francois Marceau

Allyn Mark

Hiroaki Matsubura

David Mattson

William Mayhan

John McNeill

Jay Mehta

Marianna Morris

Thomas Mosley

Nicholas Moss

John Mullins

Patrick Mulrow

Thomas Munzel

Jerry Nadler-Accept

Tetsuya Nakamura

Gabby Navar

Joel Neugarten

Tosio Ogihara

Suzanne Oparil

John Osborn

Jurg Ott

Michael Overton

Paulo Palatini

Thomas Pallone

Martin Paul

Gian Paulo Rossi

Salvatore Pepe

Sandra Pfister

Ian Phillips

Florence Pinet

David Pollock

Jennifer Pollock

Silvia Pomposiello

Howard Pratt

Michael Prevanec

Russell Prewitt

Raymond Quigley

Ed Quillen

Miriam Rademaker

Leopoldo Raij

Paulo Ratz

John Raymond

Jane Reckelhoff

Rainer Rettig

Albert Rocchini

Rob Rockhold

Talma Rosenthal

Robert Roskoski

Luis Ruilope

Michael Ryan

Juan Saavedra

Tarek Saleh

Willis Samson

Kathryn Sandberg

Takao Saruta

Ernesto Schiffrin

Christine Schnackenberg

Jurgen Schnerrman

Wolf Schunck

Michael Schwartz

James Sham

Eugene Shek

Kazuyuki Shimida

Helmy Siragy

Ole Skott

Falko Skrabal

Michale Smolensky

Jonathan Sorof

Jan Staessen

David Stec

Paul Stewart

Charles Stier

Gary Striker

Johan Sundstrom

Alan Sved

Randall Tackett

Stephen Taddei

Ann Tallant

Hirofumi Tanaka

Addison Taylor

Andrew Taylor

Rhian Touyz

George Trachte

Monte Turner

Jeremy Tuttle

Suresh Tyagi

Ewoud Van Dijk

Paul VanHoutte

Matti Vehaskari

Peter Wagner

Christoph Wanner

Clinton Webb

Karl Weber

Matthew Weir

Bill Welch

Chris Wilcox

Gunter Wolf

Michael Wolin

Hannele Yki

An Zhou

Ai-Ping Zou

Irving Zucker





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