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

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

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

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

Francesco Pollari, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac surgery, Klinikum Nürnberg – Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany

Eugenio Pompeo, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Policlinico Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

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.

Paulo Cury Rezende, MD, PhD
MASS Research Group, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

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

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

Atsuya Takeda, MD, PhD
Radiation Oncology Center, Ofuna Chuo Hospital, Kamakura, Japan

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

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

Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD
Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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

Gang Wang, MD, PhD
West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 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

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

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

Sai Yendamuri, MD, FACS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York;
Department of Surgery, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA

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