Willerson Departs Circulation Editorship

James T. Willerson, M.D.

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston President James T. Willerson, M.D., ended his unprecedented three-term, 11-year stint as editor of the journal Circulation in July.

The American Heart Association’s largest scientific journal, Circulation has flourished under Willerson’s leadership so that it now ranks with the New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet, according to an editorial in the Houston Chronicle which lauded Willerson’s tenure. It said in part: “Willerson’s achievement touches literally any person who has a heart.”

In his own editorial in the July 6 issue of Circulation, Willerson bade farewell to his duties and noted that he and his staff are confident that Joseph Loscalzo, M.D., the new editor, and his team “will continue the long legacy of Circulation’s commitment to excellence in the publication of cardiovascular research and that they will take Circulation to even higher levels of achievement.”