Editor-in-Chief's Top Picks From 2016: Part One.

Each week, I record audio summaries for every article in JACC, as well as an issue summary. While this process has been incredibly time-consuming, I have become quite familiar with every paper that we publish. Thus, I personally select papers (both original investigations and review articles) from 15 distinct specialties each year for your review. In addition to my personal choices, I have included manuscripts that have been the most accessed or downloaded on our websites, as well as those selected by the JACC Editorial Board members. In order to present the full breadth of this important research in a consumable fashion, we will present these manuscripts in this issue of JACC. Part One includes the sections: Basic & Translational Research, Cardiac Failure, Cardiomyopathies/Myocardial & Pericardial Diseases, Congenital Heart Disease, Coronary Disease & Interventions, and CVD Prevention & Health Promotion (1-74). Part Two will include the sections: CV Medicine & Society, Hypertension, Imaging, Metabolic & Lipid Disorders, Rhythm Disorders, Valvular Heart Disease, and Vascular Medicine.