doi: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000060140.52886.E2
(Hypertension. 2003;41:619.)
© 2003 American Heart Association, Inc.
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Proceedings of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, 2002
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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