Former Editorial Board

Rafael Andrade, MD, MHA

Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Masaki Anraku, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology; Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hasan Fevzi Batirel, MD, PhD

The Ministry of Health of Turkey; Department of Thoracic Surgery, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey

Kathleen S Berfield, MD

Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Luigi Bonavina, MD

Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Division of General Surgery, University of Milano Medical School, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy

Alessandro Brunelli, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK

Stephen D. Cassivi, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Subhasis Chatterjee, MD, FACS, FACC, FCCP

Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Ying-Yi Chen, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei

Aaron M. Cheng, MD

Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Marco Chiappetta, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Catholic University Of Sacred Heart – Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Niccolò Daddi, MD, PhD

Thoracic Surgery Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna Medical School, Bologna, Italy

Jessica S. Donington, MD, MSCR

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences, 5841 S. Maryland Ave, Chicago, IL, USA

Michael Ebright, MD

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

Raul Embun, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain

Francesco Fiorica, MD, PhD

Department of Radiation Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, AULSS 9 Scaligera, Verona, Italy

Christophoros N. Foroulis, MD, PhD, FEBTS

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

Ludovic Fournel, MD

Thoracic Surgery Department, Cochin Hospital, Paris-Center University Hospitals, APHP, Paris-Descartes University, Paris, France

Joseph S. Friedberg, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA

Robert S. George, BSc, MRCS, MBA, PhD, FRCS-CTh

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University College London Hospital, London, UK

Ines Gockel, MD, MBA, DFNWC

Department of Visceral, Transplant, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Maria Teresa Gomez Hernández, MD, PhD, FEBTS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Salamanca University Hospital, Salamanca, Spain

Jeffrey Hagen, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute, Charlotte, NC, USA; Thoracic Surgical Oncology, Levine Cancer Institute, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC, USA

Junji Ichinose, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, the Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation of Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA Department of Medicine, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Biniam Kidane, MD

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Research Institute in Oncology and Hematology, CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

Dohun Kim

Assistant Professor, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea

Kyung Soo Kim, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul. South Korea

Young Tae Kim, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Terumoto Koike, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Niigata, Japan

Johannes R. Kratz, MD

Thoracic Oncology Program, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

Hyun-Sung Lee, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Jason M. Long, MD, MPH

Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Gustavo A. Lyons, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Buenos Aires British Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Tiago N. Machuca, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA

Fabien Maldonado, MD, FCCP

Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

Giuseppe Marulli, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiologic, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Keitaro Matsumoto, MD, PhD

Department of Surgical Oncology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Robert Merritt, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

Daniel L. Miller, MD

General Thoracic Surgery, WellStar Health System, Mayo Clinic Care Network, Marietta, GA, USA

Tetsuya Mitsudomi, MD

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Youngkyu Moon, MD, PhD

Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Dimitrios Moris, MD, MSc, PhD, MACS

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Christopher R. Morse, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Masayuki Nakao, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, Cancer Institute Hospital, The Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Toshihiro Okamoto, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Meinoshin Okumura, MD, PhD

Toneyama National Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Olugbenga T. Okusanya, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Francesco Petrella, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy; Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Mariano Provencio, MD, PhD

Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain

Vignesh Raman, MD

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

David Ranney, MD

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Sridhar Rathinam, FRCSEd, FRCS Ed(CTh)

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, UK

Syed Shahzad Razi, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Memorial Healthcare System, South Broward, FL, USA

Erino A. Rendina, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Gaetano Rocco, MD, FRCS (Ed), FETCS, FCCP

Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Alberto Sandri, MD

Thoracic Surgery Unit, Department of Oncology, San Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, Torino, Italy

Toshihiko Sato, MD

Department of General Thoracic, Breast and Pediatric Surgery, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka, Japan

Sharaf-Eldin Shehada, MB, BCh., MD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West German Heart and Vascular Centre Essen, University Hospital Duisburg-Essen, Hufelandstraße, Essen, Germany.

Yasushi Shintani, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Fragiska Sigala, MD, PhD

Vascular Division, First Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Hippocration Hospital, Athens, Greece

Maninder Singh Kalkat, MBBS, MS, MCh, FRCS(CTh)

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK

Tutku Soyer, MD

Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Ankara, Turkey

Daniel H. Sterman, MD

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Erich Stoelben, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lung Clinic, Hospital of the City of Cologne, University of Witten-Herdecke, Cologne, Germany

Miguel L. Tedde

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

Ricardo M. Terra

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Betty C. Tong, MD, MHS, MS

Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Yasuhiro Tsutani, MD, PhD

Department of Surgical Oncology, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Akif Turna, MD, PhD, FETCS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, İstanbul University, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey

Daniel Wendt, MD, PhD, FECTS

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

Sai Yendamuri, MD, FACS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA

Vasileios Zochios, MD

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Glenfield Hospital, Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and ECMO, Leicester, UK