Guest Editors
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;
Luca Bertolaccini
Division of Thoracic Surgery
IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan (IT)
Hossein Borghaei, MS, DO
Associate Guest Editor, Associate Professor, Chief, Thoracic Oncology, Department of Medicine, Fox Chase Cancer Center/Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Lieuwe D. J. Bos, MD, PhD
Respiratory Medicine and Intensive Care at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Alessandro Brunelli, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK
Gianluca Campo, MD, PhD
Cardiology Unit, Azienda Osedaliera Universitaria di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Joe Y Chang, MD, PhD
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA
Yeun-Chung Chang, MD, PhD
Professor and Director, Department of Radiology, National Taiwan University, Chairman, Department of Medical Imaging, National Taiwan University Hospital, President, the Radiological Society, ROC (Chinese Taipei Society of Radiology, CTSR), Taipei
Yin Kai Chao
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Linko, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Anamika Chatterjee
Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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
Yih-Sharng Chen, MD, PhD
President Association of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Director of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei
Kian Fan Chung, MD, DSc, FRCP
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK
Roberto Crisci, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, MeSVA Department, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Miguel A. Cuesta
Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Thomas A. D’Amico, MD
Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, USA
Frank Detterbeck, MD, FACS, FCCP
Section of Thoracic Surgery, Yale Thoracic Oncology Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA
Keertan Dheda
MBBCh (Wits), FCP, FCCP, PhD (Lond), FRCP (Lond), Division of Pulmonology , Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Andrea Droghetti, MD
Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, Carlo Poma Hospital, Viale Lago Paiolo, Mantova, Italy
Hiran C. Fernando, MBBS, FRCS
Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery 3300 Gallows Road, Falls Church, VA, USA
Pier Luigi Filosso, MD
Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Kwun Fong, MBBS(Lon), FRACP, PhD
Department of Thoracic Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Antonino Di Franco, MD
Associate Guest Editor; Greenberg Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Mina Gaga, MD, PhD
7th Respiratory Medicine Department and Asthma Centre, Athens Chest Hospital, Athens, Greece
Mario F. L. Gaudino
Guest Editor; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, NYC, NY, USA
Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, MD, FECTS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain
Dominique Gossot, MD
Thoracic Department, Curie-Montsouris Thoracic Institute, IMM, Paris, France
Lawrence Grouse, MD, PhD
University of Washington School of Medicine, Gig Harbor, WA, USA
Kassem Harris, MD, FCCP
Director or Interventional Pulmonology, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA
Don Hayes Jr., MD, MS, Med
Section of Pulmonary Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero, MD, PhD
Heart Area, Central University Hospital of Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
Po-Kuei Hsu, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei; School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei
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, University of Insubria, Ospedale di Circolo - Via Guicciardini, 9, Varese 21100, Italy
Ariel Jaitovich, MD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, USA
Hatem A Azim Jr, MD (Focused Issue: Breast cancer in young woman)
Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium
William S. Krimsky
Chief of Interventional Pulmonology, Medical Director, Clinical Research, Medstar Franklin, Square Medical Central and Pulmonary & Critical Care Associates of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA
Jang-Ming Lee, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei
Y. C. Gary Lee, MBChB , PhD, FCCP, FRCP, FRACP
University Department of Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
Ni-Cheng Liang, MD
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Virginia R. Litle, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Chia-Chuan Liu
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taipei
Marco Lucchi
Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Pisa, Italy
Atul Malhotra, MD
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Christos G Mihos
Columbia University Division of Cardiology, Mount Sinai Heart Institute, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Andrea Montisci, MD
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Sant’Ambrogio Cardiothoracic Center, Gruppo Ospedaliero San Donato, University and Research Hospitals, Milan, Italy
Alfredo Mussi, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Pisa, Italy
Calvin S. H. Ng
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China
Silvia Novello, MD, PhD
Department of Oncology, University of Turin, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria San Luigi Gonzaga, Turin, Italy
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
Federico Pappalardo
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Raffaele Scientific Institute and San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milan Italy
Francesco Petrella, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
David B. Price, M.B B.Chir, MA, DRCOG, FRCGP
Respiratory Effectiveness Group, UK
Centre for Academic Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Francesco Puma, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Perugia School of Medicine, Perugia, Italy
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) (Focused Issue:Minimal access cardiac surgery)
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Harefield Hospital, London, UK
Culadeeban Ratneswaran
Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, London, UK;
Erino A. Rendina, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Gaetano Rocco, MD, FRCS (Ed), FETCS, FCCP
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy
Lisa Q. Rong, MD
Associate Guest Editor; Department of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Rafael Rosell, MD
Catalan Institute of Oncology, Germans Trias i Pujol Health Sciences Institute and Hospital, Badalona, Barcelona 08028, Spain
Antonio Rossi, Sr. M.D.
Oncology Centre of Excellence, Therapeutic Science & Strategy Unit, IQVIA, Milan, Italy.
Enrico Ruffini, MD
Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Italy
Manpreet K. Sagoo
Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, London, UK
Jan D. Schmitto, MD, PhD, MBA, FCCP, FRCS (Glasg.)
Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Alan D. L. SIHOE, MBBChir, FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM
Cardiothoracic Surgery, CUHK Medical Center, Hong Kong, China; Honorary Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
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
Joerg Steier, MD, PhD
Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, London, UK;
Lane Fox Unit/Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Hon Chi Suen, MBBS, FACS
Cardio-thoracic Surgery Centre, Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Alfredo Tartarone, MD
Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Onco-Hematology, IRCCS-CROB Referral Cancer Center of Basilicata, Rionero in Vulture (Pz), Italy
J Francis Turner Jr, MD, FACP, FCCP, FCCM
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN, USA
Federico Venuta
Department of Surgery “Paride Stefanini” - Thoracic Surgery Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, University of Rome SAPIENZA, Rome, Italy
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
Bryan A. Whitson, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Anthony P. Yim
Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Ltd., Hong Kong, China
Junfeng (Jim) Zhang, PhD
Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment & Duke Global Health Institute & Duke Kunshan University, Durham, NC, USA
Paul Zarogoulidis, MD, PhD
Pulmonary Department, “G. Papanikolaou” General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Guangqiao Zeng, MD
Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou, China
Nanshan Zhong, MD
Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering. Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou