Former Editorial Board

Ghulam Abbas, MD, MHCM, FACS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA

Prasad S. Adusumilli, MD, FACS FCCP

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Marco Alifano, MD, PhD, ACCA, HdR

Thoracic Department, Paris Center University Hospital, Paris, France

Luca Ampollini, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy

Hisao Asamura, MD

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

Faisal Bakaeen, MD

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

Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP

Division of Thoracic Surgery, IEO European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Thomas J. Birdas

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Alessandro Brunelli, MD

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

Paul A. Bunn, Jr, MD, FASCO, FACP, FAAAS

Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Cancer Center, Aurora, CO, USA

Angelo Carretta, MD, PhD

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

Raul Caso, MD, MSCI

Department of Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA

Joe Y. Chang, MD, PhD, FASTRO

Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Jin-Shing Chen

Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei

Sanjay H. Chotirmall, MB, BCh, BAO (NUI) (Hons), FRCPI, FCCP, FRCP (UK) (London), PhD

Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Teh-Ying Chou, MD, PhD

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei

James M. Clark, MD

Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA

Ulrich Costabel, MD, FERS, FCCP

Interstitial and Rare Lung Disease Unit, Ruhrlandklinik, University Hospital, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Jean Deslauriers, MD, FRCS(C) (1945 - 2019)

Laval University, Quebec City, Canada

Joel Dunning, FRCS, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK

Xavier Benoit D’Journo, MD, PhD, FEBTCS

Aix-Marseille University, Thoracic Surgery Department, North Hospital, Marseille, France

Takashi Eguchi, MD, PhD, FCCP, FACS

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

Thomas Frauenfelder, MD

Diagnostic and interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

Xiaolong Fu, MD, PhD

Shanghai Chest Hospital, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Piotr Gabryel, MD, PhD

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

Domenico Galetta

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

Alessandro Gonfiotti

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

Tyler Greenfield, MD

Ballad Health Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN, USA

Baohui Han

Shanghai Chest Hospital, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Nicola A. Hanania, MD, MS, FCCP, FACP, FRCP(C), FERS

Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Kassem Harris MD, FCCP

Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Interventional Pulmonology Section, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD

Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine, Smilow Cancer Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA

Felix Herth, MD, PhD

Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Tomoyuki Hishida, MD, PhD

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

Wolfgang Hohenforst-Schmidt, MD

Sana Clinic Group Franken, Department of Cardiology/Pulmonology/Intensive Care/Nephrology, “Hof’’ Clinics, University of Erlangen, Hof, Germany

Takahiro Homma, MD, PhD

Department of Chest Surgery, St Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

Chung-Ping Hsu, MD, FCCP

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung

Andrea Imperatori, MD

Department of Medicine and Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Jacek Jassem, MD, PhD

Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Sanghoon Jheon, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam-si, Korea

Liyan Jiang, MD, PhD

Shanghai Chest Hospital, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Hiroyuki Kaneda, MD, PhD

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

Chang Hyun Kang, MD, PhD

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

Biniam Kidane, MD, MSc, FRCSC

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

Ahmet Kilic, MD, FACS

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

Yong-Hee Kim, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Michael Lanuti, MD

Director of Thoracic Oncology in Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston USA

Scott A. LeMaire, MD

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

Gunda Leschber, MD

ELK Berlin Chest Hospital, Berlin, Germany

Jun Hyeok Lim, MD

Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Inha University Hospital, Inha University School of Medicine, Inha University, Incheon, Korea

Shun Lu

Shanghai Chest Hospital, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Liming Lu, PhD

Research Centre, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Qingquan Luo, MD, PhD

Shanghai Chest Hospital, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Christian Manegold, MD

Department of Surgery, Interdisciplinary Thoracic Oncology, University Medical Center Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

Giuseppe Marulli, MD, PhD

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

Douglas J. Mathisen, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Donna E. Maziak, MDCM, MSc, FRCSC, FACS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Elisa Meacci, MD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, “Fondazione Policlinico A.Gemelli” University Hospital – Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Rome, Rome, Italy

Bryan F. Meyers, MD, MPH

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

Daniel L. Miller, MD

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

Fabrizio Minervini, MD, PhD

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

Daniela Molena, MD

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

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

Leizl Joy Nayahangan, RN., MHCM, MHPE

Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation (CAMES), Copenhagen, Denmark

Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, PhD

Thoracic Surgery Department, University College London Hospitals (UCLH), London, UK

Hyung Joo Park, MD, PhD, FCCP

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

Harvey I Pass, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

Martino Pengo

Istituto Auxologico Italiano IRCCS, Milan, Italy

René Horsleben Petersen, MD PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark

Robert Pirker, MD

Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Mariano Provencio

Department of Medical Oncology, Puerta de Hierro Hospital, Madrid, Spain

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) / New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA; Surgical Oncology Department, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cairo University, Egypt

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

Jari V. Räsänen, MD, PhD

Helsinki University Hospital, Heart and Lung Center, Department of General Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery, Helsinki, Finland

Federico Raveglia, MD

Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Paolo, Milan, Italy

Majed Refai, MD

Thoracic Surgery Unit, Azienda Ospedali Riuniti Ancona, Ancona, Italy

K. Robert Shen, MD

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

Anja C. Roden, MD

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA

Witold Rzyman, MD, PhD, FETS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Clinical Center, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Michele Salati, MD, PhD

Unit of Thoracic Surgery, United Hospital, Ancona, Italy

Noriyoshi Sawabata, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Nara Medical University, School of Medicine, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

Ralph Alexander Schmid, MD

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Matthew James Schuchert, MD

Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Elliot Servais, MD, FACS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA, USA

Satoshi Shiono, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan

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

Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Charles B. Simone, II, MD, FASTRO, FACRO

New York Proton Center, New York, NY, USA; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Junichi Soh, MD, PhD

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

Lorenzo Spaggiari

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

Davor Stamenovic, MD, MHBA

Thoracic Surgery and Pulmonary Medicine, Mainz University Thoracic Center, Mainz, Germany

Kenichi Suda, MD, PhD

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

Yuji Tachimori, MD

Department of Surgery, Kawasaki Saiwai Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan

Nicola Tamburini, MD.

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

Dale D. Tang, MD, PhD

Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA

Ricardo M. Terra, MD, PhD, MPH

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

Erik Thunnissen

Department of Pathology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Alper Toker, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, WV, USA

Rocco Trisolini, MD

Interventional Pulmonology Division, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy

Ming Sound Tsao, MD, FRCPC

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

Yuichiro Ueda, MD, PhD

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

Jeffrey B. Velotta, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA

Giulia Veronesi, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Milan, Italy

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

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

David Waller, BMedSci, BM, BS, FRCS(Eng), FRCS(CTh), FCCP

Barts Thorax Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK

Thorsten Walles, MD, FETCS

Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Eugene Haydn Walters, MA, DM, DSc, FRCP, FRACP, FCCP, FTSANZ

Department of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia

Peter D. Wearden, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nemours Children's Hospital, Orlando, FL, USA

Walter Weder

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Benny Weksler, MBA, MD, FACS, FACCP

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa, USA

Sean Wightman

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Stephen C. Yang, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MA, USA

Kazuhiro Yasufuku, MD, PhD, FCCP

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Seong Yong Park, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Diana H. Yu, MD

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Heng Zhao, 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

Joseph “Jay” B. Zwischenberger, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, USA

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