Editorial Team

The management of our journal is a collaborative endeavor by the whole editorial team, featuring an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board. The editorial structure of the journal is listed as below and the roles and responsibilities of the editorial team are available at: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/journal-management#content-title.

Editors-in-Chief

Changqing Pan

Shanghai Chest Hospital, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

G. Alexander Patterson, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

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

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

Executive Editor-in-Chief

Wentao Fang, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Xiaolong Fu, MD, PhD

Shanghai Chest Hospital, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Shun Lu

Shanghai Chest Hospital, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Qingquan Luo, MD, PhD

Shanghai Chest Hospital, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Hua Zhong, MD, PhD

Department of Pulmonology, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Chest Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Associate Editor

Marco Scarci, MD, FRCS, FCCP, FACS, FEBTS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy

Editorial Board

Mariusz Adamek, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

Adham Ahmed, BS

CUNY School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Timothy E. Albertson, MD, MPH, PhD

Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Sacramento, CA, USA

Ahmed Alwali, MD

Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic, Vascular and Transplant Surgery, Rostock University, MV, Germany

Arian Arjomandi Rad, MBBS, BSc (Hons)

Division of Medical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, School for Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands

Avinash Aujayeb, MBBS, MRCP

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Cramlington, UK

Massimiliano Bassi

Thoracic Surgery Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Pascal Berna, MD

Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Clinique Pauchet, Amiens, France

Amit Bhargava

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

Benoit Jacques Bibas MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Andrea Bille

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Alessio Campisi, M.D.

Thoracic Surgery Department, University and Hospital Trust - Borgo Trento, Verona, Italy.

Angelo Carretta, MD, PhD

School of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

Roberto Cascone

Department of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS Centro di Riferimento Oncologico della Basilicata, Rionero in Vulture, Italy

George Cheng, MD, PhD, FCCP, DAABIP

Division of Pulmonology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

Sujith V. Cherian, MD, FCCP

Department of Medicine, Divisions of Critical Care, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, University of Texas Health-McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, USA

Aman Coonar

Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, Royal Papworth Hospital, Hitchin, UK

Johannes (Hans) M.A. Daniels, MD, PhD

Amsterdam UMC, Locat VUmc, Dept Pulm Med, ZH 4F-004, POB 7075, NL-1007 MB Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ramon Andrade De Mello, MD, FACP, PhD

University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Mr Paulo De Sousa

Academic Division of Thoracic Surgery, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, part of Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Ali Dodge-Khatami

Clinic for Pediatric & Congenital Heart Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Ilias P. Doulamis MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA, USA

Jimmy T. Efird, PhD, MSc

VA CSPCC - Boston, MA USA SoM CWRU - Cleveland, OH 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

Mark K. Ferguson, MD

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Piotr Gabryel, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland

Christian Galata, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Center for Thoracic Diseases, University Medical Center Mainz, Germany

Filippo Tommaso Gallina

Thoracic Surgery Unit, IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy

Stephen Gerfer, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center, University Hospital of Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Bahil Ghanim, MD, PhD

Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria.

Alessandro Gonfiotti

Thoracic Surgery Unit, Cardiothoracic Department, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Michel Gonzalez, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland

Michael R. Gooseman

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Castle Hill Hospital, Hull University Teaching Hospitals, Cottingham, UK

Manuel Granell

Consorcio Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Irbaz Hameed

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Takashi Harano, MD

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, ‎California‎, USA

Sammer Hirji, MD

Harvard Med Sch, Brigham & Womens Hosp, Dept Surg, Div Thorac & Cardiac Surg, 15 Francis St, Boston, MA, USA.

Tomoyuki Hishida, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Junji Ichinose, MD, PhD

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

Terunaga Inage, MD, PhD

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan; Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital - University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

Jasper Iske, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (DHZC), Berlin, Germany

Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford, CA, USA

Hiroyuki Kaneda, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kansai Medical University Medical Center, Osaka, Japan

Izumi Kawagoe, MD, PhD

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Fayez Kheir, MD, MSc

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Daisuke Kimura, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan

Naoya Kitamura, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Toyama University Hospital, Toyama City, Toyama, Japan

Lars Konge, MD, PHD

Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation, University of Copenhagen and The Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Douglas Kyle Hogarth, MD, FCCP

Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Savvas Lampridis, MD, MSc

National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK

Aaron Lisberg, MD

Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Alberto Lopez-Pastorini, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. Hildegardis and Augustinerinnen Hospitals, Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

James D. Luketich, MD, FACS

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

Francesco Maisano, FESC, FHFA

Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Marco Mammana, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy

Arian Mansur, BA

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

Giulio Maurizi, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Ospedale Sant’Andrea, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Fabrizio Minervini, MD, PhD

Cantonal Hosp Lucerne, Dept Thorac Surg, Luzern, Switzerland.

Tamas F. Molnar, MD, PhD, DSc, FETCS

St Sebastian Thoracic Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Petz A University Teaching Hospital, Győr, Hungary; Operational Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Pécs, Hungary

Nandan Kumar Mondal, MSc, MPhil, PhD

Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine at Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, USA

Clinton T. Morgan, MD, PHD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Kentucky Department of Surgery, Lexington, KY, USA

Takashi Murashita, MD

University of Missouri Health Care, Columbia, Missouri, USA

Tomohisa Nagasao, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Kagawa National University, Takamatsu and Osaka, Japan

Rahul Nayak, MD, FRCS(C)

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Nuria M Novoa, MD, PhD, FEBTS

Thoracic Surgery Department. Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda University Hospital, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain

Akshay Patel

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham, England, UK

Francesco Petrella, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

George Rakovich, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montréal, QC, Canada

Duvuru Ram, M.B.,B.S., MS (General Surgery), MCh (Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery)

Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kauvery Hospitals, Chennai, India

Janani S. Reisenauer

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

Antonio Rossi, MD

Division of Medical Oncology, Scientific Institute for Research and Health Care (IRCCS) "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy

Alessandro Russo, MD, PhD

Medical Oncology Unit, Department of Onco-Hematology, A.O. Papardo, Messina, Italy

Amir H. Sadeghi, MD, MSc, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Pablo Sanchez, MD, PhD, FACS

Division of Lung Transplant and Lung Failure, UPMC Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Norberto Santana Rodriguez, MD, PhD, FEBTS

Division Chair of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, SSMC - Mayo Clinic, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Davorin Sef, MD, PhD, FEBCTS

Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplant Unit, Harefield Hospital, Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, Part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Harefield, United Kingdom

Consolato Maria Sergi, MD, PhD, MPH, FRCPC, FCAP

Div. Anat. Pathology, Children’s Hosp. Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada

Yoshihisa Shimada, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Jeffrey Shuhaiber, MD

Heart and Vascular Center and Department of Surgery at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA, USA; University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

Sara J. Shumway, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Alan D. L. Sihoe, MBBChir, MA(Cantab), FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM, FCCP, FACS

Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Juichi Soh, MD, PhD

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

Davor Stamenovic, MD, PhD, MHBA

Depatment of Thoracic Surgery, Center for Thoracic Diseases, University Hospital Mainz, Germany

Melanie Subramanian, MD, MPHS

Inova Health System,Fairfax, Virginia, USA

Jun Suzuki, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery 2,Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Kai Swenson

Division of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Nicola Tamburini, MD.

Department of Surgery, Section of Thoracic Surgery, Sant’Anna University Hospital, Ferrara, Italy.

Luis F Tapias, MD

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

Marcus Taylor, MBChB, MRCS, MSc

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University Hospital Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK

Davide Tosi

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Simon R Turner, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Yuichiro Ueda, MD, PhD

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

Federico Venuta, MD

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

Wickii Thambiah Vigneswaran, MD, MBA, FACS, FRCSC, FRCSE (CTh), FICS

Professor and Director of Thoracic Surgery Loyola University Health System, Chicago, USA

Jonathan Villena-Vargas

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

Alison Wallace, MD, PHD, FRCSC

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Thorsten Walles, MD, FETCS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Clinic of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Douglas West

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston, Bristol, UK

Tomohiro Yazawa, MD, PhD

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Integrative Center of General Surgery; Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Hospital, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan.

Yojiro Yutaka, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto, Japan

Editorial Team

Editors-in-Chief

Executive Editor-in-Chief

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Associate Editor

Editorial Board

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Corresponding Editor

Science Editor