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

Servet Bölükbas

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University-Medical-Center Essen - Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany

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

Federico Cappuzzo, MD, PhD

Department of Oncology-Hematology, AUSL della Romagna, Ravenna, Italy

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

Sehoon Choi, MD, PhD

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

Chang-Min Choi, MD, PhD

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Oncology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan, Seoul, South Korea

Petros Christopoulos, MD

Department of Medical Oncology, Thoraxklinik and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) at Heidelberg University Medical Center, Heidelberg, Germany

Andrew Churg, MD, PhD

Department of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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

Pierfilippo Crucitti, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital, Rome, Italy

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

Michele Di Mauro, MD, PhD

SS Annunziata Hospital, University “G D’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, Italy

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

Jonathan D’Cunha, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, 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

Islam Y Elgendy, MD

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 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

Michel Gonzalez, MD

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

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

Masatsugu Hamaji

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University Hospital, 54 Kawaharacho, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan

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

Paul Hofman, MD, PhD

Université Côte d’Azur, CHU Nice, FHU OncoAge, Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Pasteur Hospital, Nice, France; Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, INSERM, IRCAN, FHU OncoAge, Team 4, Nice, France; Université Côte d’Azur, CHU Nice, FHU OncoAge, Hospital-Integrated Biobank, Nice, France

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

Kentaro Inamura, MD, PhD

Division of Pathology, The Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

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

Dawn E. Jaroszewski, MD, MBA, FACS

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA

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

Marcelo F. Jimenez, MD, PhD

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

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

Dragana Jovanovic, MD, PhD

Thoracic Oncology and Palliative Medicine, Internal Medicine Clinic "Akta Medica", Belgrade, Serbia

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

Robert Kratzke, MD

Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplant, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Alexander Sasha Krupnick, MD

Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Hiroshi Kubota, MD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan

Aseem Kumar, PhD

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Biomolecular Sciences Program, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada

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

Wenhua Liang, MD (Oncology)

Thoracic oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, China State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease & National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou, China

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

Jianqun Ma

Division of Esophageal and Mediastinal Surgery, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 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

Giuseppe Marulli, MD, PhD

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

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

Antonio Miceli, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiac and Great Vessels Surgery, Istituto Clinico Sant’Ambrogio, Gruppo Ospedaliero San Donato, Milano, 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

Stine Munkholm-Larsen, MD

Collaborative Research (CORE) Group, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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