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

Omar Awais, DO

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Jean-Marc Baste, MD, PhD

Surgical Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France

Hasan Fevzi Batirel, MD, PhD

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

Elizabeth Belcher, PhD, MRCP, FRCS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK

Kathleen S Berfield, MD

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

Faiz Y. Bhora, MD

Health Quest Health System, Poughkeepsie, NY, 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

Angelo Carretta, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

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

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

Ernest G. Chan, MD, MPH

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, 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

Malcolm M. DeCamp, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Ill, USA

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of chronic diseases, metabolism and ageing (CHROMETA), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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

Takashi Eguchi, MD, PhD, FCCP, FACS

Senior Assistant Professor, Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

Irmina A. Elliott, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Raul Embun, MD, PhD

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

Florian J. Fintelmann

Department of Radiology, Division of Thoracic Imaging and Intervention, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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

Henning A. Gaissert

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, 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

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, MD, FECTS

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

Shawn S. Groth, MD, MS

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

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

Ian Hunt, MD, FRCS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. George’s Hospital, London, UK

Junji Ichinose, MD, PhD

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

Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Maebashi Red Cross Hospital, Gunma, Japan

Oliver K. Jawitz, MD

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, MSc, FRCSC

Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Dohun Kim

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

Samuel S. Kim, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

Young Tae Kim, MD, PhD

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

Terumoto Koike, MD, PhD

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

Seth B. Krantz, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, IL, USA

Johannes R. Kratz, MD

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

Michael Lanuti, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Hyun-Sung Lee, MD, PhD

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

Moishe Liberman

CETOC-CHUM Endoscopic Tracheobronchial and Oesophageal Center; Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

Matthias Loebe, MD, PhD, FACC, FCCP

Division of Thoracic Transplant and Mechanical Support, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 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

John D. Mitchell, MD

Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 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

Nagarajan Muthialu

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK

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

Nikhil Panda, MD

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

Francesco Puma, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Perugia School of Medicine, Perugia, Italy

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

Janani S. Reisenauer

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 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

Gary Schwartz

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

Elliot L. Servais, MD, FACS

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Burlington, MA, USA

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

Alan D. L. SIHOE, MBBChir, FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM

Cardiothoracic Surgery, CUHK Medical Center, Hong Kong, China; Honorary Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China.

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

Sandra Starnes, MD

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Matthew A. Steliga, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA

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

Hon Chi Suen, MBBS, FACS

Cardio-thoracic Surgery Centre, Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, Hong Kong, China

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

Diamantis I. Tsilimigras, MD

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

Nirmal Veeramachaneni, MD

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, USA

Federico Venuta

Department of Surgery “Paride Stefanini” - Thoracic Surgery Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, University of Rome SAPIENZA, Rome, Italy

Wickii T. Vigneswaran, MD, MBA, FACS, FRCSC, FRCS

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA

Stefan Welter, MD

Department of Surgery, Lung Clinic Hemer, Hemer, Germany

Daniel Wendt, MD, PhD, FECTS

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

Douglas E. Wood, MD, FACS, FRCSEd

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

Jane Yanagawa, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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