James Min named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cardiovascular CT

James K. Min, MD, and professor of Radiology and Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine has been chosen for a five-year term as new editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (JCTT).

“Dr. Min is a leading physician scientist in the field of cardiovascular CT. We are delighted that he is taking on the task of leading JCCT for the next five years,” said Leslee Shaw, MD, PhD, who chaired the JCCT Editor-in-Chief Selection Committee in a prepared statement. “Given his international prominence, Dr. Min will attract high quality research papers from around the world and establish JCCT as the journal for cardiovascular CT.”

Min, also director of the Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging at New York-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medical Center, named two executive editors: Todd C. Villines, MD, current president of the Society of the Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), and Gudrun Feuchtner, MD, associate professor of radiology at Medical University of Innsbruck in Austria.

JCCT is the official journal of SCCT.

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