SCAI Announces Recipients of Inaugural JSCAI Editorial Fellowship

February 7, 2023—The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) announced the inaugural participants of the JSCAI Editorial Fellowship Program.

According to the society, the JSCAI Editorial Fellowship Program has been established to provide fellows-in-training and early career interventionalists the opportunity to enhance their skills as reviewers of manuscripts and expand the JSCAI pool of qualified peer reviewers.

The JSCAI Editorial Fellowship Program aims to provide the opportunity for candidates to work with the journal's editor-in-chief, deputy, and associate editors, who have extensive editorial and publishing experience.

Elected candidates who successfully complete the program will be recognized as JSCAI Editorial Reviewers at SCAI Scientific Sessions and at the SCAI Fellows Courses. Candidates will be paired with a JSCAI editor specific to their area of interest and will receive an overview of JSCAI editorial procedures and training on the peer-review system.

SCAI advised that it will issue an annual call for applicants and selected participants will agree to serve as coreviewers of up to 12 manuscripts during the 1-year term. Applications for the 2024 program will open this fall.

Alexandra Lansky, MD, Editor-in-Chief of JSCAI, commented in the society’s press release, “We are very excited to offer this opportunity to the future leaders of interventional cardiology. This ongoing fellowship will allow early career interventionalists to explore and increase their involvement in the journal peer-review process and hopefully spark a desire to be ongoing clinician investigators throughout their careers.”

The new JSCAI Editorial Fellows are:

• Mohammad Alnoor, MD, a congenital interventional cardiology fellow at the University of California-Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California
• Paul Bamford, MD, a general and interventional cardiologist at Lingard Hospital in Newcastle, Australia
• Katherine Lee Chuy, MD, an interventional cardiology fellow at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, California
• Vikrant Jagadeesan, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute at the West Virginia University School of Medicine in Morgantown, West Virginia
• Aravdeep Jhand, MBBS, a fellow in interventional cardiology and structural heart disease at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
• Giorgio A. Medranda, MD, an interventional cardiologist at NYU Langone Hospital–Long Island and Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine at NYU Long Island School of Medicine in Mineola, New York
• Vinayak Nagaraja, MBBS, an Assistant Professor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
• Khanjan Shah, MD, an interventional cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida
• Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Implementation Science and interventional and critical care cardiologist at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina