Association for Academic Surgery (AAS)

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Congratulations to the New Associate Editor for the Cardiac Surgery Section of the Journal of Surgical Research

We are pleased to announce that Ravi K. Ghanta, MD, has been selected to serve as new Associate Editor for the Cardiac Surgery section of Journal of Surgical Research (JSR).

Dr. Ghanta is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, where he also serves as the Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Ben Taub Hospital. His academic interests include immune-engineering to treat ischemic cardiomyopathy and leveraging data science to improve clinical outcomes. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, the Thoracic Surgery Foundation, and the American Association of Thoracic Surgery Graham Foundation. Dr. Ghanta is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and the Journal of Heart Valve Disease, and he recently completed a term as Associate Editor for Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He also serves on the Advisory Council for Cardiothoracic Surgery for the American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Ghanta will be taking over the Cardiac Surgery section from Dr. Craig Selzman, who has served as Associate Editor for this section since 2013. We are greatly indebted to Dr. Selzman for his decade of dedicated service to JSR.

Scott LeMaire

Scott LeMaire

Scott A. LeMaire, MD, is the Jimmy and Roberta Howell Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery, the Vice Chair for Research in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, the Director of Research in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Baylor College of Medicine, as well as a Physician Associate in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Texas Heart Institute and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston, Texas. Dr. LeMaire is a past-president of the Association for Academic Surgery and is the current editor-in-chief of the Journal of Surgical Research.