Circulation July 7, 2026 Issue

Well, thank you so much.

Um, my name is Mercedes Carnethon.

I'm the professor and chair of preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

I'm an epidemiologist, and I'm so glad to join this team and contribute to population health at the journal.

So I'm gonna be the deputy editor of population health.

I have a wide range of interests in how we study cardiovascular disease in the population.

Fantastic.

Thank you.

How about you, Jane? How are things going?

Awesome.

Good morning, Brad.

Super happy to be here, and Mercy, good to see you and good to be here.

I am the associate chief of cardiology here at Northwestern, also in Chicago, uh, with Mercy, and I'm a clinical heart failure specialist.

And I'm excited to be the specialty associate editor for clinical problem solving here at Circulation.

So I'm just really excited to make content and cases accessible for our readers, and we'll get into that probably a little bit more.

But really, really happy to be here with you this morning.

Great, Jane.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you, Mercy, for joining us.

Uh, not only both of you today, but also at Circulation, already making major helpful contributions.

I'm so pleased to be working with you both.

Maybe we'll start with the first question to you, Mercy.

So, as you know, population health, epidemiology, critically important, but these are topics that have really evolved over the past three decades.

We're seeing bigger databases.

They're now more interconnected through different cohorts.

Well, thank you so much.

Um, my name is Mercedes Carnethon.

I'm the professor and chair of preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

I'm an epidemiologist, and I'm so glad to join this team and contribute to population health at the journal.

So I'm gonna be the deputy editor of population health.

I have a wide range of interests in how we study cardiovascular disease in the population.

Fantastic.

Thank you.

How about you, Jane? How are things going?

Awesome.

Good morning, Brad.

Super happy to be here, and Mercy, good to see you and good to be here.

I am the associate chief of cardiology here at Northwestern, also in Chicago, uh, with Mercy, and I'm a clinical heart failure specialist.

And I'm excited to be the specialty associate editor for clinical problem solving here at Circulation.

So I'm just really excited to make content and cases accessible for our readers, and we'll get into that probably a little bit more.

But really, really happy to be here with you this morning.

Great, Jane.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you, Mercy, for joining us.

Uh, not only both of you today, but also at Circulation, already making major helpful contributions.

I'm so pleased to be working with you both.

Maybe we'll start with the first question to you, Mercy.

So, as you know, population health, epidemiology, critically important, but these are topics that have really evolved over the past three decades.

We're seeing bigger databases.

They're now more interconnected through different cohorts.