Newswise — Lippincott Williams & Wilkins announced today that it has reached an agreement with the American Heart Association (AHA) to continue as publisher of the AHA's prestigious roster of scientific journals, including the flagship weekly journal Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry.
Under the agreement, LWW will continue its role as publisher of the AHA's journals through 2015. "We're pleased and proud to extend our publishing relationship with AHA and its prestigious journal line," said Karen Abramson, President and CEO of the Medical Research business unit of Wolters Kluwer Health. "Together with the AHA, we look forward to keeping these indispensable publications at the forefront of cardiology throughout the coming decade."
Agreement Covers Eleven AHA Journals
The new contract extends a relationship that has been in place since 1998, when LWW assumed publication of Circulation along with Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, Circulation Research, Hypertension, and Stroke.
In 2008, LWW and AHA completed an unprecedented expansion of the AHA publishing program with the successful launch of six new subspecialty journals in the Circulation portfolio: Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology; Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics; Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging; Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions; Circulation: Cardiovascular Outcomes and Quality; and Circulation: Heart Failure. To see the latest issues of all eleven AHA journals, visit http://www.ahajournals.org.
"We're honored to have played a role in publishing these essential journals, through a period of such rapid progress and expansion," added Abramson. "Six new publications with the AHA in one year is unprecedented in our industry, and the AHA and LWW should take great pride in all that we've accomplished together."
About Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is a leading international publisher for healthcare professionals and students with nearly 300 periodicals and 1,500 books in more than 100 disciplines publishing under the LWW brand, as well as content-based sites and online corporate and customer services. LWW is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry.
Wolters Kluwer Health is a division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal, and regulatory sectors. Wolters Kluwer had 2008 annual revenues of €3.4 billion ($4.9 billion), employs approximately 20,000 people worldwide, and maintains operations in over 35 countries across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its shares are quoted on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Visit www.wolterskluwer.com for information about our market positions, customers, brands, and organization.
About the American Heart Association
Founded in 1924, the American Heart Association is the nation's oldest and largest voluntary health organization dedicated to building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke. These diseases, America's No. 1 and No. 3 killers, claim more than 870,000 lives a year. In fiscal year 2005"06 the association invested more than $543 million in research, professional and public education, advocacy and community service programs to help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. To learn more, call 1-800-AHA-USA1 or visit americanheart.org.
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