Former Editorial Board
Ghulam Abbas
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
Wilbert S. Aronow
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
Oscar Arrieta, MD, MSc
Thoracic Oncology Unit, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (INCan), Mexico City, Mexico
Rodrigo Bagur, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiology, London Health Sciences Centre, Department of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada
Esther Barreiro, MD, PhD
Institute of Medical Research of Hospital del Mar (IMIM)-Hospital del Mar, Parc de Salut Mar, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Barcelona, Spain;
Alban-Elouen Baruteau, MD, PhD, FESC, FSCAI
Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, London, UK; Department of Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Giovanni Battista Migliori, MD
World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri IRCCS, Via Roncaccio 16, 21049, Tradate, Italy; Maugeri Institute, IRCCS, Via Roncaccio 16, 21049 Tradate, Italy
Umberto Benedetto, PhD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Bristol Heart Institute, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Eric H. Bernicker MD
Cancer Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA
Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP
Department of Thoracic Surgery, AUSL Bologna, Maggiore Teaching Hospital, Bologna, Italy
Trever G. Bivona, MD, PhD
Department of Medicine, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Sara Boccalini
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Radiology, Hopital Pradel, CHU, Lyon, France;
Department of Radiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Michael Borger, MD, PhD
Leipzig Heart Center, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Laurent Brochard, MD
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Alessandro Brunelli, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James's University Hospital, in Leeds, UK
Joon Bum Kim, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
T. Jared Bunch, MD
Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT, USA
Thierry P. Carrel
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Brett W. Carter, MD
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Damiano Caruso, MD
Radiology Unit, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Kongkiat Chaikriangkrai, MD
Heart and Vascular Center, University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, IA, USA
Joe Y. Chang, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Chun Min Chee, MD
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Wanqing Chen, MD
National Office for Cancer Prevention and Control & National Central Cancer Registry, National Cancer Center, Beijing, China
Keneng Chen, MD, PhD
The First Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking University School of Oncology, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China
Haiquan Chen, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai 200032, China; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Yi-Jen Chen, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
Jin-Shing Chen, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University, Director, Department of Traumatology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Chief, Division of Experimental Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei
Toyofumi Fengshi Chen-Yoshikawa, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
Kwan-Hwa Chi, MD
Department of Radiation Therapy and Oncology, Shin-Kong Memorial Hospital, Taipei
Yasuhiro Chikaishi
Second Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, 807-8555, Japan; Department of Chest Surgery, Shimonoseki City Hospital, 1-13-1 Kouyouchou, Shimonoseki, 750-8520, Japan
Lucian R. Chirieac, MD
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Chang-Min Choi, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Oncology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan, Seoul, South Korea
Sehoon Choi, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
John O Clarke
Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Stanford University, Redwood City, CA, USA
Lawrence H. Cohn, MD (2015-2016)
Division of Cardiac Surgery Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Andrea Colli, MD, PhD, FECTS
Cardiac Surgery Unit, Department of Cardiology, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova Medical School, Padua, Italy
Wendy Cooper, PhD
Tissue Pathology and Diagnostic Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
Miguel A. Cuesta
Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lioe-Fee de Geus-Oei, MD, PhD
Department of Radiology,
Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands
Michiel F. G. de Maat, MD, PhD
Department of Abdominal Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium
Malcolm M. DeCamp
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, CHI, USA
Sahajal Dhooria, MD
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
J. Michael DiMaio, MD
Baylor Scott and White Research Institute, The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, Plano TX, USA
Ioannis Dimarakis, MD, PhD, FRCS, CTh
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK
Hiroshi Doi, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan.
Luciano F. Drager, MD, PhD
Hypertension Unit, Renal Division, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Wojciech Dudek, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
Thomas A. D’Amico, MD
Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Pirooz Eghtesady, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
John Elefteriades, MD
Department of Surgery, Section of Cardio-Thoracic surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Emilio Esteban
Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, ISPA, Oviedo, Spain
Wentao Fang, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China
Jiqian Fang, PhD
School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
David Feller-Kopman, FCCP
Interventional Pulmonology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Aloke Finn, MD
CVPath Institute, Gaithersburg, MD, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Alfonso Fiorelli, MD, PhD
Department of Cardio-Thoracic Disease, University “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy
Raja M. Flores, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Kwun Fong, MBBS(Lon), FRACP, PhD
Department of Thoracic Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Alain Fraisse, MD, PhD.
Paediatric Cardiology, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Trust, London, UK
Anna Franzone, MD PhD
Department of Cardiology, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
Naoyuki Fujimura, MD, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology, St. Mary’s Hospital, Our Lady of the Snow Social Medical Corporation, Kurume, Japan.
Ikuo Fukuda, MD, PhD
Cardiovascular Center, Suita Tokushukai Hospital, Senriokanishi, Suita-shi, Osaka-fu, Japan
Henning A. Gaissert
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ursula Galway, MD
Department of General Anesthesiology; Cleveland Clinic, Main Campus, Cleveland, OH, USA
Sidhu P. Gangadharan, MD, MHCM
Division of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Shugeng Gao, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, Cancer Institute & Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, National Cancer Center, Beijing, China
Robert S. George, BSc, MRCS, MBA, PhD, FRCS-CTh
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University College London Hospital, London, UK
Sebastien Gilbert, MD, FRCSC
Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Nicolas Girard
Thoracic Oncology, Institut du Thorax Curie-Montsouris, Institut Curie, Paris, France
Ines Gockel, MD, MBA, DFNWC
Department of Visceral, Transplant, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, MD, FECTS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain
Dominique Gossot, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France
Akiteru Goto, MD, PhD
Department of Cellular and Organ Pathology, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan
Bastian Grande, MD, PhD
Institute of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Simulation Center, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Martin T.R. Grapow, MD
Heart Center Hirslanden Zuerich
Witellikerstrasse 36
8008 Zuerich
Switzerland
Shawn S. Groth, MD, MS
Division of General Thoracic Surgery, The Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Lawrence Grouse, MD, PhD (2011-2016)
University of Washington School of Medicine, Gig Harbor, WA, USA
Bing Gu, MD
Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangdong, China
Jianmin Gu, MD
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
Matthias Guckenberger, MD
Department for Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Zurich (USZ), Zurich, Switzerland
Henrik Jessen Hansen, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2152, Rigshospitalet (National University Hospital), Copenhagen, Denmark.
Kassem Harris, MD, FCCP
Director or Interventional Pulmonology, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA
Khaled Hassan, MD, MS
Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Johannes Haybaeck, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology, Neuropathology and Molecular Pathology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Don Hayes Jr., MD, MS, Med
Section of Pulmonary Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Khosro Hekmat, MD, PhD
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Director of Thoracic Surgery Program, University of Cologne, Germany
Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero, MD, PhD
Heart Area, Central University Hospital of Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
Kyoji Hirai, MD
Department of thoracic surgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan
Hitoshi Hirose, MD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Chuong D. Hoang, MD
Section of Thoracic Surgery, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, and The Clinical Center, Bethesda, USA
Konrad Hoetzenecker
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Patrick M. Honoré, MD, PhD, FCCM
Department of Intensive Care, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
Hidehito Horinouchi, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Jia Huang, MD
Department of Thoracic Oncology Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China
Alfonso Ielasi, MD, FESC
Cardiology Division, Bolognini Hospital, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Bergamo Est, Seriate (BG), Italy
Andrea Imperatori, MD
Center for Thoracic Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
Ilhan Inci, FEBTS, FCCP
Hirslanden Clinic Zurich, Switzerland
Alexander Iribarne, MD, MS
Section of Cardiac Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA
Mahmoud Ismail, MD
Competence Center of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Akira Iyoda, MD, PhD
Division of Chest Surgery, Department of Surgery, Toho University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Branislav Jeremic, MD, PhD
Radiation Oncology, the BioIRC, R&D Centre for Biomedical Research, Kragujevac, Serbia
Tao Jiang, MD
Service of Thoracic Surgery, Tangdu Hospital Affiliated to Air Force Military Medical University, China
Nan Jiang, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tianjin Chest Hospital, Tianjin, China
Richard A. Jonas, MD
Center for Neuroscience Research and Children's National Heart Institute, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC, USA
David R. Jones, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Kyoichi Kaira, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Center, International Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, MPH, PhD
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA, USA
Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Chang Hyun Kang, MD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
Kuo-Chin Kao, MD
Department of Thoracic Medicine, Department of Respiratory Therapy, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou
Athanasios Katsargyris, MD
Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany
Tomoya Kawaguchi, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan
Bhumsuk Keam, MD, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University Hospital, Korea
Lucyna Kepka, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Military institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
Paul Khairy, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Department of Cardiology, Montreal Heart Institute, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Ahmet Kilic, MD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Arman Kilic, MD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Anthony W. Kim
Divisions of Thoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Won Young Kim
Department of Emergency Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Young Hak Kim
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Min P. Kim, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
Ki-Bong Kim, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
Peter J. Kneuertz, MD
Thoracic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Kazuya Kondo, MD, PhD
Department of Oncological Medical Services, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan
Robert J. Korst, MD, FCCP, FACS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY, USA; Valley/Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Care, Paramus, NJ, USA
Drosos Kotelis, MD
European Vascular Center Aachen-Maastricht, Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Mariusz Kowalewski, MD
Clinical Department of Cardiac Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration in Warsaw, Poland;
Cardiothoracic Research Centre, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Janusz Kowalewski, MD, PhD
Head of the Clinic of Thoracic Surgery and Tomours, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Oncology Centre, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Alexander Sasha Krupnick, MD
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Hiroshi Kubota, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan
Jarosław Kużdżał PhD, FETCS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, John Paul II Hospital, Cracow, Poland
Patrizio Lancellotti, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC
Department of Cardiology, University of Liège, University Hospital Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium
Shahar Lavi, MD, BSc
Department of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada; Division of Cardiology, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada
Percy P. Lee
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Y. C. Gary Lee, MBChB, PhD, FCCP, FRCP, FRACP
University Department of Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia
Seung Hyun Lee, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea
Seung Jun Lee, MD, PhD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jiju, South Korea
Jang Ming Lee, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital
Adelino Leite-Moreira, MD, PhD, FETCS
Physiology, Pathophysiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
Toni Lerut, MD
Department Thoracic Surgery, Leuven University, Belgium
Hecheng Li, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, China
Hui Li, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Jiun-Yi Li, MD, PhD
Cardiovascular surgery department, Center of Quality Management, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; MacKay Medical College, Taipei
Hongying Liao
Department of Thoracic Surgery, 6th Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Jeong Uk Lim, MD
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yeouido St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
Cheong Lim, MD, PhD
Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Korea
Jules Lin, MD, FACS
Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Chia-Chuan Liu
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taipei
Deruo Liu, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, China and Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China
Lunxu Liu, MD
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Yue Liu, MD
Department of Cardiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
Mingyao Liu, MD, MSc
Department of Surgery and Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Kevin W. Lobdell, MD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, USA
Gabriel Loor, MD
Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support, Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Alexander V. Louie
Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jiade J. Lu, MD, MBA
Department of Radiation Oncology, Shanghai Proton and Heavy Ion Center, Shanghai, China
Wei-Guo Ma, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Beijing Anzhen Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China; Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Fabien Maldonado, MD, FCCP
Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Jihad Mallat, MD
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine; Lens’s Hospital, Lens, France.
Critical Care Institute; Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Roberto Manfredini, MD
Department of Medical Sciences, Clinica Medica Unit, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Paul E. Marik, MD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
Mirella Marino, MD
Department of Pathology, IRCCS- Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy
Giovanni Mariscalco, MD, PhD
Department of Heart and Vessels, Cardiac Surgery Unit, Varese University Hospital, Varese, Italy
Antoni Torres Martí
Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Allergy, Clinical Institute of Thorax, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Spain
Stefano Mastrobuoni, MD
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, St Luc’s Hospital, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
Hidetoshi Masumoto, MD, PhD
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Kobe, Japan
Douglas J. Mathisen
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Paul Michael McFadden, M.D. FACS, FCCP, FACC, FSVS
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Xueyan Mei, Graduate Student
Graduate School of Biological Sciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
Carlos A. Mestres, MD, PhD, FETCS
Department of Cardiovascluar Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Giulio Metro, MD
Department of Medical Oncology, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, AOU di Perugia, Italy
Mari Mino-Kenudson, MD
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
John D. Mitchell, MD
Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Daniela Molena, MD
Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Daniel Morgensztern, MD
Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Juwei Mu, MD
Department of thoracic surgery, Department of medical service, Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS), Beijing, China
Giuseppe Muscogiuri, MD
Department of Imaging, Centro Cardiologico Monzino-IRCCS, Milan, Italy
L. Christian Napp, MD
Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Francesco Nappi, MD
Centre Cardiologique du Nord de Saint-Denis, Paris, France
Ary Serpa Neto, MD, MSc, PhD
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
Thomas Ng MD, FRCSC, FACS
Department of Surgery, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Tom C. Nguyen
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas at Houston, Memorial Hermann Hospital-Heart and Vascular Institute, Houston, TX, USA
Shinan Nie, MD
Emergency Medicine Department & Emergency Medical Center of Nanjing Military Command, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
Osamu Nishida
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan
In-Jae Oh, MD
Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Republic of Korea; Lung and Esophageal Cancer Clinic, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Jeonnam, Republic of Korea
Yusuke Okuma, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Center for Cancer Genomic and Advanced Therapeutics, National Cancer Center Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Stefano Omboni, MD
Clinical Research Unit, Italian Institute of Telemedicine, Solbiate Arno, Varese, Italy
Scientific Research Department of Cardiology, Science and Technology Park for Biomedicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
Raymond U. Osarogiagbon, MBBS, FACP
Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program, Baptist Centers for Cancer Care, Memphis, TN, USA
Taofeek K. Owonikoko
Guest Editor, Professor and Vice Chair, Co-Leader of Thoracic Oncology, Department of Hematology & Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Jose M Pacheco, MD
Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Anschutz Cancer Center, Aurora, Colorado, USA
Davide Pacini, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna-Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy
Kostas Papagiannopoulos MD, MMED THORAX, (CTH)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK
Federico Pappalardo
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Raffaele Scientific Institute and San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milan Italy
Kalpaj Parekh, MD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Hye Yun Park, MD, PhD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea
Chetan Pasrija, MD
Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Antonio Passaro, MD
Division of Thoracic Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
Simon Pecha, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany
Francesco Petrella, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
Joachim Pfannschmidt, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lung Clinic Heckeshorn, Helios Hospital Emil von Behring, Berlin, Germany
Martin Pichler, MD
Research Unit for Non-Coding RNA and Genome Editing in Cancer, Division of Oncology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Giovanni Piedimonte, MD, FAAP, FCCP
Center for Pediatric Research, Pediatric Institute and Children's Hospital, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Cecilia Pompili, MD
Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, St James' Institute of Oncology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Pieter E. Postmus, MD, PhD
Department of Medical Oncology, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Mariano Provencio, MD, PhD
Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain
Ioannis Psallidas
Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
Gui-Bin Qiao, MD, PhD
Department of thoracic surgery, General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command of PLA, Guangzhou, China
Shahzad G. Raja, MBBS, MRCSEd, FRCSEd(C-Th)
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Harefield Hospital, London, UK
Taufiek Konrad Rajab, MD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Danny Ramzy, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Tienush Rassaf, MD
Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, West German Heart- and Vascular Center, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Ramachandra C. Reddy
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, CardioVascular Institute, Baylor Scott & White Medical Center, Temple, Texas.
Jerome M Reich, MD, FCCP
Earle A Chiles Research Institute
Jordi Rello, MD, PhD
CIBERES, Vall d’Hebron Institut of Research, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Gaetano Rocco, MD, FRCS (Ed), FETCS, FCCP
Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Kurt Ruetzler, MD
Departments of Outcomes Research and General Anesthesiology; Cleveland Clinic, Main Campus, Cleveland, OH, USA
John J. Ryan, MD, FACC, FAHA
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Utah Health Science Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Anton Sabashnikov, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Yuichi Sakairi, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
Yukinori Sakao, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery,Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroyuki Sakurai, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; Division of Respiratory Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Pamela Samson, MD, MPHS
Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
Inderpal S. Sarkaria
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Masaaki Sato, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan
Marco Scarci, MD, FRCS, FCCP, FACS, FEBTS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy
Matthew B. Schabath, PhD
Departments of Cancer Epidemiology and Thoracic Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL USA
Stefan Schraag, MD, PhD, FRCA, FFICM
Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Clydebank, UK
Lana Y. Schumacher, MD, FACS
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA
Martin Schweiger, MD, Priv.Doz.
Department of Congenital Cardiovascular Surgery, University Children’s Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Christopher W. Seder, MD
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Boris Sepesi
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Division of Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Aryeh Shander, MD, FCCM, FCCP
Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Hyperbaric Medicine, Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and TeamHealth Research Institute, Englewood, NJ, USA
Yaron Shargall, MD, FRCSC, FCCP
Department of Surgery, McMaster University, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Junichi Shimada MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Yoshihisa Shimada, MD, PhD.
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Kimihiro Shimizu, MD, PhD
Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Integrative Center of General Surgery; Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Hospital, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan.
Yasushi Shintani, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, 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
Yong Song, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China
Abraham Sonny, MD, FASE
Divisions of Cardiac Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Lorenzo Spaggiari, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy; Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Jiayuan Sun, MD, PhD
Department of Endoscopy, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Zsolt Szabo, MD
Director of Healthcare Division, Mezomix Ltd, team member of experimental surgery team, Institute of Surgical Research, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Yuji Tachimori, MD
Department of Esophageal Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Kazuaki Takabe, MD, PhD, FACS
Breast Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA; Department of Surgery, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
Hiromitsu Takizawa, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic, Endocrine Surgery and Oncology, Institute of Health Bioscience, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
Lijie Tan MD, Vice Chief
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Zhong Shan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fu Dan University, Shanghai, China
Paul C. Tang
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili, MD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Dong Tian, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China
Marcello Tiseo, MD, PhD
Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy
Mark I. van Berge Henegouwen, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pieter Christiaan van der Sluis, MD, PhD
Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplant Surgery, University medical center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Paul E.Y. Van Schil
Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium
Giulia Veronesi, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
Joseph W. Turek, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Ko-Pen Wang, MD, FCCP
Interventional Pulmonology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1800 Orleans St., Suite 7125, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Qun Wang, MD, FRCS
Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
David Watson, MBBS, MD, PhD, FRACS, FAHMS
Department of Surgery, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
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
Randall K. Wolf, MD, FACC, FACS
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Kenneth K.Y. Wong, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Hermann Wrigge, MD
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Leipzig, Germany
Junjie Xiao, PhD
Professor, Director of Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences in Shanghai University, Shanghai, China; Vice Dean of School of Life Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Tristan D. Yan, BSc, MBBS, MS, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; The Collaborative Research (CORE) Group, Sydney, Australia
Gary Y. Yang, MD
Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, USA
Hee Chul Yang, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Center for Lung Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea
Pan-Chyr Yang, MD, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei
Yeonyee E. Yoon, MD
Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea
Bentong Yu
Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University,Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China
Giovanni Zaninotto, MD
Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College, St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK
Alexander Zarbock, MD
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
Jian Zeng, MD
Department of thoracic surgery, Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Lanjun Zhang, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center (SYSUCC), Guangzhou, China
Jun Zhao, PhD
Department of thoracic surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Soochow, China
Baoliang Zhong, MD, PhD
Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China
Caicun Zhou, MD, PhD
Department of Oncology, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Affiliated to Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
Yunpeng Zhu
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ruijin Hospital Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China