The reviewers of JTD 2020

Posted On 2020-12-23 10:43:43

 

We appreciate and thank the reviewers of JTD for their tremendous efforts to support and improve our work. Hereby, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to them, which are listed as follows.

 

Raghav A. Murthy

Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA

 

Ghulam Abbas

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

 

Atefeh Abedini

Chronic Respiratory Disease Research Center, Massih Daneshvari Hospital, Shaheed Bahonar Ave, Tehran 1956944413, Iran

 

David Abia-Trujillo

Divisions of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep Medicine & Respiratory Services, Mayo Clinic Florida, United States of America; Division of Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic Florida, United States of America.

 

Maher Abouda

Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, El Manar, Tunisia; F.S.I. Hospital (Interior Security Forces Teaching Hospital), Rue Taher Ben Achour, Marsa, Tunisia.

 

Firas Abu Akar

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Al-Makassed Charitable Society Hospital, East Jerusalem, Affiliated to Al-Quds University School of Medicine, Jerusalem 97103, Palestine

 

Amitava Acharyya

Department of Public Health, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

C. Addy

Centre for Experimental Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL Northern Ireland;Regional Respiratory Centre, Belfast City Hospital, 51 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7AB Northern Ireland

 

Nera Agabiti

Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service, Rome, Italy

 

Meltem Agca

Sureyyapasa Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Training and Research Hospital Department of Pulmonology

 

Saurabh Aggarwal

Div Cardiol, Dept Med, UnityPoint Clin, 1215 Pleast St,Suite 414, Des Moines, IA 50323 USA.

 

Abhinav Agrawal

Interventional Pulmonology University of Chicago Medicine

 

Md Martuza Ahamad

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science & Technology University, Gopalganj 8100, Bangladesh

 

Yong Ai

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Department of Anesthesiology University of Maryland, Baltimore

 

Alberto Aiolfi

Division of General Surgery, Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy

 

Guntulu Ak

Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Lung and Pleural Cancers Research and Clinical Center

 

Takaki Akamine

Department of Surgery and Science Kyushu University Hospital

 

Nousheen Akhter

Department of Chest Medicine, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Rafique Shaheed Road, Karachi, Pakistan

 

Payam Akhyari

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University Medical School, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Duesseldorf, Germany

 

A Akour

Univ Jordan, Dept Biopharmaceut & Clin Pharm, Sch Pharm, Queen Rania St, Amman 11942, Jordan.

 

Rashid AL Umairi

The Royal Hospital Oman

 

Saeed Alahmari

Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida

 

Jacopo Alfonsi

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona- Polytechnic University of Marche

 

Esam Alhamad

Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

 

Jason Ali

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

 

Marco Alifano

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Cochin Hospital, 27, rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, 75014, Paris, France.

 

Yasser Aljehani

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

 

Marco E. Allaix

Center for Esophageal Diseases and Department of Surgery, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Ave, MC 5031, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

 

Mohammed Alomar

12902 Magnolia Drive, MCB-CPT, Tampa, FL 33612-9416 USA

 

Jaber S Alqahtani

UCL, UCL Resp, London, England.;  Prince Sultan Mil Coll Hlth Sci, Dept Resp Care, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

 

Abdulbaset Alromaima

Guangxi Medical University

 

Antonio Alvarez

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Hospital Reina Sofia, Cordoba, Spain

 

Gina Amanda

Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Persahabatan Hospital, Jalan Persahabatan Raya No. 1, Rawamangun, Jakarta 13220, Indonesia

 

Vincenzo Ambrogi

Thoracic Surgery, Tor Vegata University

 

Luca Ampollini

Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Science, University Hospital of Parma, Via Gramsci 14, 43126 Parma, Italy

 

Tomo Ando

Kawasaki Saiwai Hospital, Division of Cardiology, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.

 

Marco Andolfi

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, AOU Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona, Italy

 

Claudio Andreetti

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy.

 

Claudio Andreetti

Division of Thoracic Surgery, “G. Mazzini” Hospital of Teramo, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of L’Aquila, Piazza Italia 1, 64100 Teramo, Italy

 

Masaki Anraku

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan.

 

Amedeo Anselmi

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Pontchaillou University Hospital, 2 rue Henri le Guilloux, Rennes 35000, France.

 

Beatrice Aramini

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences for Children and Adults,

 

Carlos Aravena Leon

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

 

Ali Abbasian Ardakani

Iran Univ Med Sci IUMS, Sch Med, Med Phys Dept, Tehran, Iran

 

Giuseppe Aresu

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

 

Ken Arimura

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, 8-1 Kawada-cho Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8666, Japan.

 

Albert Ariza-Solé

Cardiology Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

 

Susana Armesto

Hosp Univ Marques de Valdecilla, Dept Dermatol, Ave Valdecilla S-N, Santander 39008, Spain.

 

Karuppiah Arunachalam

Department of Cardiology Fellowship Program, Aultman Hospital, 2600 6th St SW, Canton, OH 44710.

 

Tetsuhiko Asao

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

 

Ilaria Attili

1 Medical Oncology 2, Veneto Institute of Oncology IOV, Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Padua, Italy; Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

 

Olayemi Fehintola Awopeju

Obafemi Awolowo Univ, Dept Med, Resp Unit, Ife 220005, Nigeria.

 

Charles B. Simone2nd

Professor and Chief Medical Officer, New York Proton Center Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

 

Hideo Baba

Kumamoto Univ, Grad Sch Med Sci, Dept Surg Gastroenterol, 1-1-1 Honjo, Kumamoto 8608556, Japan.

 

Ulas Bagci

Center for Infectious Diseases Imaging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States; Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States

 

Charles Bakhos

Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA;Department of Surgical Oncology, Section of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 

Abhinav Banerjee

Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Tata Main Hospital, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India

 

Daniel E. Banks

Uniformed Univ Hlth Sci, Dept Med, Ft Sam Houston, TX USA

 

Giuseppe Banna

Guy’s Cancer Centre, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT, UK

 

Feichao Bao

Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

 

Stéphane Bar

Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Department, Amiens University Hospital, Rond-Point Fernand Leger, 80054, Amiens, France

 

Miguel T Barbosa

Hosp Ctr Barreiro Montijo, Pulmonol Dept, Ave Movimento Forcas Armadas, P-2834003 Barreiro, Portugal.

 

Ramachandra Barik

Department of Cardiology, Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Punjagutta, Hyderabad 500082, Telangana, India.

 

Emanuela Barisione

UOC Interventional Pulmonology IRCCS, Policlinico San Martino Hospital - Genoa, Italy

 

Hayley Barnes

Alfred Hosp, Dept Resp Med, 55 Commercial Rd, Melbourne, Vic 3004, Australia.

 

Roberto Bartolomeo

Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna University, Italy.

 

Krzysztof Bartus

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantation, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

 

Mohamad Bashir

Department of Emergency Medicine, Macclesfield General Hospital, Macclesfield, United Kingdom.

 

Jean-Marc Baste

Surgical Department of general and thoracic surgery, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France

 

Timothy J P Batchelor

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK

 

Fabien Beaufils

CHU Bordeaux, Pl Amelie Raba Leon, F-33000 Bordeaux, France.

 

Benedetta Bedetti

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Malteser Hospital, Bonn, Germany.

 

Andrei M Beliaev

Green Lane Cardiothoracic Surgical Unit, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.

 

Christina R. Bellinger

Department of Pulmonary/Critical Care, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Medical Center Blvd, Winston Salem, NC, 27157, USA.

 

Helmi Ben Saad

Department of Physiology and Functional Exploration, Farhat HACHED University Hospital of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia; Laboratory of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia; Research Laboratory N° LR14ES05: Interactions of the Cardiopulmonary System, Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

 

Elisabeth Bendstrup

Department of Respiratory Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, DK-8000, Denmark

 

Peyman Benharash

Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

 

Kálmán Benke

Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; Hungarian Marfan Foundation, Budapest, Hungary

 

Bryan Benn

Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI, USA

 

David Bennett

University of Siena, Siena, Italy (Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Neurosciences, Respiratory Diseases Unit).

 

Janna Berg

Department of Cancer Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway ;Department of Medicine, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Tønsberg, Norway

 

L. Bergantini

Siena Univ, Dept Med Sci Surg & Neurosci, Resp Dis & Lung Transplant Unit, Siena, Italy

 

Pascal Berna

Univ Picardie, Serv Chirurg Thorac, Hop Sud, CHU Amiens, Ave Rene Laennec, F-80054 Amiens 1, France

 

Mark F. Berry

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford, CA, USA

 

Pietro Bertoglio

Division of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS Sacro Cuore-Don Calabria Hospital, Via Sempreboni 5, 37024 Negrar di Valpolicella, VR, Italy

 

Luca Bertolaccini

Division of Thoracic Surgery IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan (IT)

 

Sarah Beshay

Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.

 

Amit Bhargava

Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

 

Venkatraman Bhat

Department of Radiology, Narayana Health, Narayana Hrudayalaya & Mazumdar Shaw Medical Center, Bengaluru, India

 

Rahul Bhatnagar

Academic Respiratory Unit, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK

 

Faiz Y. Bhora

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.

 

Fabrizio Bianchi

Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, Unit of Oncology Biomarkers, 71013 San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy

 

Benoit J. Bibas

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

 

Silvia Bielsa

Pleural Medicine Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Arnau de Villanova University Hospital, Institute for Biomedical Research Dr Pifarre Foundation, IRBLLEIDA, Avda Alcalde Rovira Roure 80, 25198, Lleida, Spain

 

Giovanni Biglino

Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol BS2 89HW, UK ;Cardiorespiratory Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, NHS Foundation Trust, London WC1N 3JH, UK.

 

Thomas J. Birdas

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

 

Rodica Birla

General and Esophageal Surgery Department, Center of Excellence in Esophageal Surgery, Sf. Maria Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania

 

Surinder S. Birring

Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, Denmark Hill Campus, King’s College London, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS, UK

 

Vladimir Bobek

Department of Laboratory Genetics, Laboratory Diagnostics, Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague and University Hospital Kralovske Vinohrady, Prague, Czech Republic; Cellpeutics Sp.z o.o., Wroclaw, Poland; Department of Thoracic Surgery, Krajska zdravotni a.s. Hospital Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic; 3rd Department of Surgery, University Hospital FN Motol and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Histology and Embryology, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland; Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lower Silesian Oncology Centre, Wroclaw, Poland.

 

Jiri Bonaventura

Department of Cardiology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic

 

Luigi Bonavina

Division of General Surgery, Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.

 

Stefano Bongiolatti

Thoracic Surgery Unit, University Hospital Careggi, Largo Brambilla, 1, 50134, Florence, Italy

 

Felix Bongomin

amphotericin; anidulafungin; Aspergillus; caspofungin; chronic pulmonary aspergillosis; micafungin; resistance

 

Cesar Bonome

San Rafael Hospital, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain / Department of Anesthesia

 

Marie R Bonsignore

Univ Palermo, Dept Med Pneumol Physiol & Nutr, Via Trabucco 180, I-90146 Palermo, Italy.

 

Viboon Boonsarngsuk

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

 

Alessandra Borgheresi

Division of Special and Pediatric Radiology, Department of Radiology, University Hospital “Umberto I - Lancisi - Salesi”, Via Conca 71, 60126, Ancona, AN, Italy

 

Uberto Bortolotti

Section of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital, Università di Pisa, Via Paradisa, 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy

 

Lieuwe D. Bos

Department of Respiratory Medicine and Intensive Care, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Bélaïd Bouhemad

Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Groupe Hospitalier Paris Saint Joseph, Paris, France

 

Izolde Bouloukaki

Univ Crete, Dept Thorac Med, Sleep Disorders Ctr, Iraklion 71110, Crete, Greece.

 

Jacques Boutros

Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Oncology, Université Côte d’Azur, CHU de Nice, FHU OncoAge, 06100 Nice, France

 

Lisa Jane Brighton

King’s College London, 4616, Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation , London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

 

Lars MIKAEL Broman

ECMO Centre Karolinska, Karolinska University Hospital, and Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology, KArolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

Marco Brotto

Univ Texas Arlington, Coll Nursing & Hlth Innovat, Bone Muscle Res Ctr, 655 W Mitchell St, Arlington, TX 76010 USA

 

Olivier Brugière

Service de Pneumologie B et Transplantation, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France; INSERM U1152, Paris, France; University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France; Département hospitalo-universitaire FIRE, Paris, France

 

Alex Brunelli

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

 

Tullia C. Bruno

Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States; UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

 

Sergio Buccheri

Division of Cardiology, Ferrarotto Hospital, University of Catania, Via Citelli 1, 95100, Catania, Italy

 

Terry L. Buchmiller

Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

Anja C. Roden

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

 

Vincent Cabibel

EuroMov Laboratory, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, France; Les Cliniques du Souffle, Groupe 5 Santé, France

 

Stefano Cafarotti

Thoracic Surgery Department, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland.

 

Lucio Cagini

Osped S Maria Misericordia, Unita Chirurg Torac, I-06156 Perugia, Italy.

 

Guoping Cai

Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, 310 Cedar St, CB506B, New Haven

 

Antonio Calafiore

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Pope John Paul II Foundation, Campobasso, Italy.

 

Giulio Calcagni

Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital and Research Institute, Rome, Italy.

 

Anna Caliò

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; Department of Pathology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

 

Javier H. Campos

Univ Iowa Hlth Care, Dept Anesthesia, Iowa City, IA USA

 

ipek candemir

ERS, Turkish Thoracic Society

 

Vera Capelozzi

Department of Pathology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

 

Federico Cappuzzo, MD

Director of Medical Oncology, AUSL della Romagna-Ravenna, Italy

 

Gaetano Caramori

Unità Operativa Complessa di Pneumologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Odontoiatriche e delle Immagini Morfologiche e Funzionali (BIOMORF) , Università di Messina , Messina , Italy

 

Giovanni L. Carboni

Division of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stadtspital, Triemli, Zurich, Switzerland Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Berne, Switzerland

 

Maurizio Cariati

Department of Diagnostic Science - Radiology and Interventional Radiology Unit, ASST Santi Paolo and Carlo Hospital, Milano, Italy

 

Alfonso Carleo

Univ Siena, Dept Internal & Specialist Med, UOC Resp Dis & Lung Transplantat, Via Laterina 8, I-53100 Siena, Italy.

 

Angelo Carretta

Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy

 

Lisa Carter-Harris

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences / Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

 

Vincenzo Caruso

Cardiothoracic Centre, Guy’s and Saint Thomas’ Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK

 

Raul Caso

Division of Thoracic Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA

 

Luigi Cavanna

Oncology-Hematology Department, Piacenza Hospital, Via Taverna, 49, 29121 Piacenza, Italy.

 

Ivan R Caviedes

Caviedes Univ Desarrollo, Fac Med, Clin Alemana, Serv & Lab Broncopulm,Clin Alemana Santiago, Ave Vitacura 5951, Santiago 6681920, Chile.

 

Claudio Caviezel

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

 

Alessandro Celi

Cardiothoracic and Vascular Department, UO Pneumologia Universitaria, University of Pisa and Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy

 

Alberto Francesco Cereda

Cardiovascular Department, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy

 

Piero Ceriana

IRCCS, Ist Sci Pavia, Resp Intens Care Unit, Ist Clin Sci Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.

 

Yoon Jin Cha

Department of Pathology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Korea

 

Seung-Ick Cha

Kyungpook Natl Univ Hosp, Dept Internal Med, 50 Samduk 2 Ga, Taegu 700712, South Korea.

 

Udit Chaddha

University of Chicago

 

David Maurice Chambers

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Disorders Medicine, 550 S. Jackson St., ACB, A3R43, Louisville, KY 40202, United States

 

Ming-Cheng Chan

Division of Critical Care and Respiratory Therapy, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, 1650 Taiwan Boulevard Sect. 4, Taichung, 40705, Taiwan

 

Edward Y. Chan

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, 6550 Fannin Street, Suite 1661, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

 

Hok Sum Chan

Department of Medicine, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, 6/F, Block J, 11 Chuen On Road, Tai Po, NT, Hong Kong

 

Daniel L. Chan

Department of Surgery, St George Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ;Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ;Faculty of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ;Department of Surgery, Macquarie University Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

 

Edward Chan

Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA

 

Hyoung Woo Chang

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggi-do 13620, Korea.

 

Peter Mu-Hsin Chang

Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Oncology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

 

Jen-Ping Chang

Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

 

Kenneth Chapman

Toronto Western Hosp, Asthma & Airway Ctr, Univ Hlth Network, Room 7-451 East Wing,399 Bathurst St, Toronto, ON M5T 2S8, Canada

 

Subhasis Chatterjee

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

 

Alex Chee

Division of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

 

Alex Chee

Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

 

Chun Min Chee

Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

 

Wei-Chih Chen

Taipei Vet Gen Hosp, Dept Chest Med, Taipei, Taiwan;Natl Yang Ming Univ, Inst Emergency & Crit Care Med, 201,Sect 2,Shih Pai Rd, Taipei 11217, Taiwan; Natl Yang Ming Univ, Fac Med, Med, Sch Med, 201,Sect 2,Shih Pai Rd, Taipei 11217, Taiwan.

 

Yan Chen

The Second Xiangya Hospital

 

Chih-Yi Chen

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Chung Shan Medical University, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taiwan

 

Ruchong Chen

State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University

 

Wei-Wei Chen

302 Mil Hosp China, Treatment & Res Ctr Infect Dis, Beijing, Peoples R China.

 

Yen-Yu Chen

Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

 

Yahong Chen

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China

 

Chun Chen

Department of Thoracic Surgery,  Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

 

Ke-Cheng Chen

Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Ya-Jung Cheng

Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei

 

Toyofumi Chen-Yoshikawa

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

 

Ivan Cherrez-Ojeda

Univ Especialidades Espiritu Santo, Samborondon, Ecuador.

 

Nai-Hsin Chi

Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Marco Chiappetta

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Catholic University Of Sacred Heart – Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

 

Davide Chiumello

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, San Paolo University Hospital, Milan, Italy.

 

Davide Chiumello

Dipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione (Intensiva e Subintensiva) e Terapia del Dolore, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via F. Sforza 35, Milan, Italy

 

Hwa Jin Cho

Chonnam national university medical school Chonnam national university children’s hospital

 

Peter Siu Pan Cho

Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences, School of Basic and Medical Biosciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

 

Jong Bum Choi

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chonbuk National University Medical School, 20 Geonji-Ro, Deokjin-Gu, Jeonju, Chonbuk, 561-712, ROK

 

Joon Young Choi

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

 

Jae Young Choi

Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Center for Congenital Heart Disease, Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea

 

Sehoon Choi

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

 

Soon-Ho Chon

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, S-Jungang Hospital, Jeju, South Korea

 

Shah-Hwa Chou

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University

 

Shah-Hwa Chou

Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

 

Christos Chouaïd

Service de pneumologie, CHI Créteil, 40 avenue de verdun, 94010 Créteil, France

 

Petros Christopoulos

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

 

Serafeim Chrysikos

5th Pulmonology Department, Athens Chest Hospital “Sotiria”, Athens, Greece

 

Chung-Ming Chu

Department of Medicine & Geriatrics, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong, China

 

Ming-Lung Chuang

Chung Shan Medical University Chung Shan Medical University Hospital Chung Shan Med Univ Hosp, Dept Internal Med, 110,Sect 1, Chien Kuo North Rd, Taichung 40201, Taiwan.

 

Andrew Churg

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

 

Paola Ciriaco

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Scientific Institute and University Vita-Salute H. San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

 

Michał Ciurzyński

Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Medical University, Warsaw, Poland

 

Sara Colella

Pulmonary Unit, “C. & G. Mazzoni Hospital”, Ascoli Piceno, Italy

 

Andrea Colli

Cardiac Surgery Unit, Department of Cardiology, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova Medical School, Padua, Italy

 

Davide Colombi

Department of Radiological Functions, Radiology Unit, “Guglielmo da Saliceto”Hospital, Via Taverna 49, 29121, Piacenza, Italy

 

Giovanni M. Comacchio

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

 

Marco  Confalonieri

Department of Pneumology & Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital of Cattinara, Trieste, Italy

 

Jérémy B Coquart

Faculté des Sciences du Sport et de l’Education Physique, CETAPS, Boulevard Siegfried, 76821 Mont Saint Aignan Cedex, France

 

Lorenzo Corbetta

Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy; Division on Interventional Pulmonology, University Hospital of Careggi, Bologna, Italy

 

Vladmir C. Cordeiro de Lima

Medical Oncology Department, A.C. Cancer Center 01509-900, Liberdade, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

 

Rosa Cordovilla

Complejo Asistencial Univ Salamanca, Serv Neumol, Unidad Broncoscopias, Salamanca, Spain;Asociac Espanola Endoscopia Resp & Neumol Interve, Barcelona, Spain

 

José Francisco Corona-Cruz

Thoracic Surgery Department, Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, México City, México; Thoracic Oncology Unit, Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, México City, México

 

Luis Corral-Gudino

Department of Internal Medicine, Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital El Bierzo, Calle Médicos sin Fronteras, 7, CP: 24404, Ponferrada, León, Spain

 

Alexandre Corthay

Oslo Univ Hosp, Rikshosp, Dept Pathol, Tumor Immunol Lab, Oslo, Norway.;Univ Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

 

Claudia L Cote

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

 

Marzia Cottini

Department of Heart and Vessels, Cardiac Surgery Unit and Heart Transplantation Centre, “S. Camillo-Forlanini” Hospital, Rome, Italy.

 

Courtney Crim

Respiratory Therapeutic Area Unit, GSK, Five Moore Drive, 5.3317.3A,Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-3398

 

Pierfilippo Crucitti

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

 

Markus Czesla

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Passau, Passau, Germany

 

Alan D. L. Sihoe

Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

 

Maria Grazia D’Alfonso

Cardiovascular Diagnostic Unit, Cardio‐Thoracic‐Vascular Department, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy

 

Giuseppe D’Ancona

Cardiovascular Clinical Research Unit, Vivantes Klinikum Urban and Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany; University Herzzentrum Rostock, Germany

 

Jonathan D’Cunha

Division of Lung Transplantation and Lung Failure, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA

 

Marta Dabrowska

Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases and Allergy, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

 

Ayham Daher

Univ Hosp Aachen, Dept Pneumol & Intens Care Med, Aachen, Germany

 

Roberto W. Dal Negro

Lung Dept., Orlandi General Hospital, ULSS22 Regione Veneto, Bussolengo, Verona, Italy

 

Levent Dalar

Yedikule Teaching Hospital for Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery

 

Omar K. Danner

Department of Surgery, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 

Sonia D’Arrigo

Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario “Agostino Gemelli” IRCCS, Rome, Italy

 

Undurti N Das

UND Life Sci, 2221 NW 5th St, Battle Ground, WA 98604 USA; BioSci Res Ctr, GVP Coll Engn Campus, Visakhapatnam 530048, Andhra Prades, India.

 

Lavinia Davidescu

Department of Pulmonology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Oradea, Oradea, Romania

 

Bart De Geest

Univ Leuven, Ctr Mol & Vasc Biol, Campus Gasthuisberg,Herestr 49, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium

 

Luis De León

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

 

Michiel F. G. de Maat

Department of Abdominal Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

 

Angela De Palma

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.

 

Angela De Palma

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

 

Salvatore De Rosa

Division of Cardiology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University “Magna Græcia’’ of Catanzaro, Viale Europa, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy.

 

Luca Salvatore De Santo

University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy; Cardiac Surgery Unit, Clinica Montevergine, Mercogliano, Avellino, Italy.

 

Benoit de Varennes

Division of Cardiac Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Québec, Canada

 

Julien De Wolf

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Department, Foch Hospital, Suresnes, France.

 

Richard Dekhuijzen

Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, 6525 GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

 

Bart G. J. Dekkers

Univ Groningen, Univ Med Ctr Groningen, Dept Clin Pharm & Pharmacol, Hanzepl 1, NL-9713 GZ Groningen, Netherlands.

 

Leonardo Del Grande

Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Departamento de Cirurgia, São Paulo, SP, Brasil

 

Luis Delgado

Laboratory of Immunology, Basic and Clinical Immunology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems (CINTESIS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

 

Andrea Dell’Amore

Univ Bologna, S Orsola M Malpighi Hosp, Thorac Surg Operat Unit, Via Massarenti 9, Bologna, Italy.

 

Pascal Delsart

Vascular Medicin and hypertension department, Institut‐Coeur‐Poumon, Boulevard Pr Leclercq, 59037 Lille Cedex France.

 

Tuba Denkceken

SANKO Univ, Fac Med, Dept Biophys, TR-27090 Gaziantep, Turkey.

 

Chadrick E. Denlinger

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina

 

Sahajal Dhooria

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

 

Mirko Di Martino

Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service, Roma, Italy

 

Ermindo R Di Paolo

Service of Pharmacy, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne , Lausanne , Switzerland

 

Ioannis Dimarakis

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK

 

Stavros Dimopoulos

1st Critical Care Medicine Department, Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing and Rehabilitation Laboratory, “Evgenidio Hospital,” National Kapodistrian University of Athens, 20, Papadiamantopoulou St, Athens 11528, Greece.

 

H. Erhan Dincer

Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

 

Supparerk Disayabutr

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, Box 0111, San Francisco, CA 94143-0111 USA

 

Joanna Domagala-Kulawik

Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases and Allergy, Medical University of Warsaw, ul. Banacha 1a, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland.

 

Suh Dong In

Seoul Natl Univ, Coll Med, Dept Pediat, Seoul, South Korea

 

Claudio F. Donner

Mondo Med, Multidisciplinary & Rehabil Outpatient Clin, Via Monsignor Cavigioli 10, I-28021 Borgomanero, NO, Italy.

 

Christophe Dooms

Dept of Pulmonology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

 

Tai H. Dou

Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

 

M Dowlati

Iran Univ Med Sci, Hlth Management & Econ Res Ctr, Tehran, Iran

 

Marjolein Drent

ILD Care Foundation Research Team, Ede, Netherlands; ILD Center of Excellence, St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein, Nieuwegein, Netherlands; Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Science, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

 

Guangcai Duan

Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China

 

Wojciech Dudek

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

 

Wojciech Dudek

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

 

David M. Dudzinski

Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, New York, USA

 

Jesus Duque-Afonso

Univ Med Ctr Freiburg, Dept Hematol Oncol Stem Cell Transplantat, Hugstetterstr 55, D-79106 Freiburg, Germany.

 

Iryna Dykun

West German Heart and Vascular Center, Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

 

Agata Dżeljilji

Department of Surgery, Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, 26 Płocka St, 01-617 Warsaw, Poland

 

Timothy E. Albertson

Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA

 

Satoru Ebihara

Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Toho University School of Medicine, Ota, Tokyo 143-8541, Japan

 

Jimmy T. Efird

Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, East Carolina Heart Institute, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina; Center for Health Disparities, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina; College of Nursing, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.

 

Florian Eichhorn

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Thoraxklinik, Heidelberg University, Roentgenstraße 1, 69126 Heidelberg, Germany; Translational Lung Research Center (TLRC), Member of German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany

 

Ayman Elbadawi

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA

 

Makoto Endoh

Division of general thoracic surgery, Yamagata prefectural central hospital, Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

 

Oleg Epelbaum

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, 100 Woods Road, Macy Pavilion, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA

 

begum ergan

Dokuz Eylul University

 

Vinicius Ernani

Mayo Clinic in Arizona, USA

 

Natalia Rocha do Amaral Estanislau

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Médicas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

 

Roberto F. Casal

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

 

Luciano F. Drager

Hypertension Unit, Renal Division, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

Francesco Facchinetti

Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Via Gramsci 14, 43126, Parma, Italy

 

Saadia A. Faiz

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

 

Vicenç Falcó

Infectious Diseases Department, University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

 

Bing Fan

Jiangxi Provincial People’s Hospital

 

Nicholas Fancourt

Murdoch Childrens Res Inst, 50 Flemington Rd, Melbourne, Vic 3052, Australia.; Royal Childrens Hosp, Melbourne, Vic, Australia.

 

Wentao Fang

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China

 

Arpad Farkas

Hungarian Acad Sci, Ctr Energy Res, Konkoly Thege Miklos Ut 29-33, H-1121 Budapest, Hungary.

 

Liliana Fernandez-Trujillo

Fundacion Valle del Lili University Hospital;Department of Internal Medicine;Pulmonology Service, Interventional Pulmonology. Faculty of Health Sciences. Universidad Icesi

 

Eva Fieira Costa

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain

 

Kevin E. Finucane

Department of Pulmonary Physiology and Sleep Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital , Nedlands, Western Australia , Australia;West Australian Sleep Disorders Research Institute, Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre , Perth, Western Australia , Australia

 

Alfonso Fiorelli

Department of Cardio-Thoracic Disease, University “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

 

Christophoros Foroulis

Aristotle University School of Medicine, AHEPA University Hospital, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

 

Marc Fortin

Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Ville de Québec, Canada

 

Spyridon Fortis

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA; Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

 

Francesco Fraioli

Institute of Nuclear Medicine, UCL(H) and University College London Hospital, 235 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2BU, UK

 

Robert Frantz

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN

 

Daniel Franzen

Department of Pulmonology, University Hospital and University of Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland

 

Thomas Frauenfelder

Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

 

Lutz Freitag

Department of Pulmonology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

 

Bruce French

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia; University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

 

Daniel G. French

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Queen Elizabeth II Hospital – Victoria Campus, Dalhousie University, 1276 South Park Street, Halifax, NS, Canada.

 

Antoine Froidure

Service de Pneumologie, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc,Université Catholique de Louvain, Avenue Hippocrate10 1200, Bruxelles, Belgium

 

Yves Fromes

Institute of Myology, Sorbonne University, Paris, France; Former Head of the Perfusion Unit, Groupe Hospitalier Paris St Joseph, Paris, France.

 

Nikolaj Frost

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, Berlin, Germany

 

Frédérique Frouin

Imagerie Moléculaire In Vivo, CEA-SHFJ, Inserm, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France

 

Hans F. Fuchs

Assistant Professor of Surgery; Leading Surgeon Robotic Surgery; Department of General Surgery, University of Cologne, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Köln/Germany

 

Nobukazu Fujimoto

Department of Medical Oncology, Okayama Rosai Hospital, Okayama, Japan

 

Shozo Fujino

Kawasaki Saiwai Hospital / Department of General Thoracic Surgery

 

Masaki Fujita

Fukuoka Univ, Fac Med, Dept Resp Med, Jonan Ku, 7-45-1 Nanakuma, Fukuoka 8140180, Japan

 

Yoshinosuke Fukuchi

Director of CRD Research Laboratory, Visiting Professor of Juntendo University, Japan

 

Ikuo Fukuda

Cardiovascular Center, Suita Tokushukai Hospital, Senriokanishi, Suita-shi, Osaka-fu, Japan

 

Takayuki Fukui

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan

 

Kensuke Fukumitsu

Nagoya City Univ, Grad Sch Med Sci, Dept Resp Med Allergy & Clin Immunol, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

 

Naoto Fukunaga

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, 2-1-1 Minatojimaminamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 650-0047, Japan

 

József Furák

Department of Surgery, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

 

Esteban C Gabazza

Department of Immunology, Mie University Faculty and Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu, Japan

 

Piotr Gabryel

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University in Poznan, 62 Szamarzewskiego St., 60-561 Poznań, Poland.

 

Henning A. Gaissert

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

Domenico Galetta

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

 

Angeles S. Galindo-Feria

Karolinska Univ Hosp, Karolinska Inst, Dept Med, Div Rheumatol,Ctr Mol Med, L8 04, SE-17176 Stockholm, Sweden

 

Giovanni Galluccio

Unit of Thoracic Endoscopy, San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy.

 

Yadong Gao

Department of Allergology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan UniversityChina

 

Javier García-Tirado

Thoracic Surgery Department, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain

 

Ovidio Garcia-Villarreal

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Zambrano-Hellion, Sierra Nayarita 143, Col. Virginia Tafich, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México

 

Giuseppe Gatti

Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Department, Division of Cardiac Surgery, of the Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata di Trieste, Italy

 

Mario F. L. Gaudino

Guest Editor; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, NYC, NY, USA

 

Marine Gaudry

APHM, Hôpital de La Timone, Department of Vascular Surgery, Marseille, France.

 

Lee Gazourian

Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA

 

Joaquim Gea

Servei de Pneumologia, Hospital del Mar – IMIM Dpt. CEXS,Universitat Pompeu FabraCIBERES, ISCiii. Barcelona, Spain

 

Rachel E. Gemine

Clinical Research Centre, Prince Philip Hospital, Llanelli, UK; Hywel Dda University Health Board, Wales, SA14 8QF, UK

 

Alemayehu Mekonnen Gezmu

Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana.

 

Alireza A. Ghavidel

Heart Valve Disease Research Center, Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Vali-e-Asr Avenue, Tehran, 1995614331, Iran.

 

Ali Gholamrezanezhad

Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1500 San Pablo St, Los Angeles, CA 90033.

 

Niccolò Giaj-Levra

Radiation Oncology, Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Via Don A. Sempreboni 5, Negrar, 37024, Verona, Italy; Department of Oncology, University of Torino, Turin, Italy

 

Hyun-Il Gil

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Thomas R. Gildea

Department of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA

 

Ritu Gill

Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

 

Dmitry Giller

M.I. Perelman Department of Phthisiopulmonology and Thoracic Surgery, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), 119991, 8 Trubeckaya str., Moscow, Russia

 

Raffaele Giordano

Fondazione G. Monasterio CNR - Regione Toscana, Massa and Pisa, Italy

 

Raffaele Giordano

Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Adult and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

 

Konstantinos Gioutsos

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

 

Pauline Go

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, 500 University Drive, MC H149, Hershey, PA 17033-0850, USA.

 

Nora Göbel

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany

 

Sunny Goel

Department of Cardiology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11219, USA

 

Scott Goldman

Lankenau Heart Group, Lankenau Hospital, Wynnewood, Pa

 

Samad E. J. Golzari

Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

 

Alessandro Gonfiotti

Thoracic Surgery Unit, University Hospital Careggi, Largo Brambilla, 1, 50134, Florence, Italy

 

Jicheng Gong

Assistant Professor College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China

 

Michel Gonzalez

Service of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

 

FJ GonzalezBarcala

Hosp Clin Univ Santiago De Compostela, Serv Neumol, Santiago De Compostela, A Coruna, Spain.

 

Jose Luis Gonzalez-Larriba

Department of Medical Oncology, San Carlos University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

 

Dominique Gossot

Thoracic Department, Curie-Montsouris Thoracic Institute, IMM, Paris, France

 

Umesh Goswami

Univ Minnesota, Div Pulm Allergy Crit Care & Sleep Med, 420 Delaware St SE,MMC 276, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA.; Fairview Sleep Ctr, Minneapolis, MN 55435 USA.

 

Taichiro Goto

Yamanashi Central Hospital

 

Daniel Grandmougin

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Heart Transplantations, ILCV CHU-Nancy, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

 

William B. Grant

Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A

 

Konstantinos Grapatsas

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Germany

 

Martin Grapow

Heart Center Hirslanden Zuerich Witellikerstrasse 368008 Zuerich

Switzerland

 

Philippe A. Grenier

Department of Radiology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

 

Ewen A. Griffiths

Queen Elizabeth Hosp Birmingham, Dept Upper Gastrointestinal Surg, Area 6, 7th Floor,Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham B15 2WB, W Midlands, England.

 

Peter Grimminger

Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

 

Shawn S. Groth

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, The Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA

 

Weijie Guan

State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College

 

Jian Guan

Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People’s Hospital, Shanghai

 

Nicolas Guibert

Thoracic Oncology Department, Larrey Hospital, University Hospital of Toulouse, Toulouse, France

 

H Gunen

Dept of Pulmonary Medicine, Turgut Ozal Research Centre, Inonu University, Malatya 44069, Turkey.

 

Serkan Guneyli

Koc Univ, Sch Med, Dept Radiol, Istanbul, Turkey

 

Zhi Guo

Department of Hematology and Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Cancer for Cancer/Cancer Hospital & Shenzhen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 518116 Shenzhen, China.

 

Shiv Sagar Gupta

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Era’s Lucknow Medical College, Lucknow, India

 

Nishkarsh Gupta

Department of Anaesthesia, Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya, New Delhi, India

 

Eric H. Bernicker

Cancer Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA

 

Frank-Martin Haecker

Department of Paediatric Surgery, University Children’s Hospital Basle, Switzerland.

 

Maik Haentschel

Eberhard Karls Univ Tubingen, Dept Med Oncol & Pneumol, D-72076 Tubingen, Germany.

 

Lars Hagmeyer

Klinik für Pneumologie und Allergologie, Zentrum für Schlaf- und Beatmungsmedizin, Krankenhaus Bethanien, Solingen, Germany

 

Abdul Hakami

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia.

 

Taiki Hakozaki

Department of Thoracic Oncology and Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

 

Robert Hallifax

Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit, Oxford, England.

 

Masatsugu Hamaji

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

 

Nithya Haridas

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, India

 

Amer Harky

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom

 

Kassem Harris

Director or Interventional Pulmonology, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA

 

Samantha Harrison

Teesside University, School of Health and Social Care

 

Agca Harun

Bursa Uludag Univ, Fac Med, Dept Med Microbiol, TR-16059 Gorukle, Nilufer Bursa, Turkey.

 

J. Michael Hasenkam

Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus N, Denmark

 

Maged Hassan

Oxford Pleural Unit and Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit, Oxford University Hospitals, Churchill Hospital, Roosevelt Drive, OX3 7LE, Oxford, England

 

Noriyuki Hattori

Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.

 

Kazuki Hayashi

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Setatsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, 520-2192, Japan

 

Erich Hecker

Thoraxzentrum Ruhrgebiet, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Herne, Germany

 

Mark Hennon

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA; Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY, USA

 

Claudia I. Henschke

Department of Radiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1234, New York

 

fernando herbella

Department of Surgery, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero

Heart Area, Central University Hospital of Asturias, Oviedo, Spain

 

Christian Herr

Department of Internal Medicine V–Pulmonology, Allergology, Intensive Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, 66421 Homburg, Germany

 

Maxime Heyndrickx

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Caen, Caen, France

 

Robert Higgins

Johns Hopkins University

 

Andrew Higham

Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester and University Hospital of South Manchester, NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK; Medicines Evaluation Unit, University Hospital of South Manchester, Manchester, UK

 

Ross Hill

Suny Downstate Med Ctr, Div Pulm & Crit Care, 450 Clarkson Ave,Box 19, Brooklyn, NY 11203 USA.

 

Naoya Himuro

Division of Chest Surgery, Department of Surgery, Showa University School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan; Division of Chest Surgery, Showa University School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 142-8666, Japan

 

Rittu Hingorani

Department of Cardiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

 

Haruaki Hino

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

 

Hirofumi Hioki

Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University Hospital, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan

 

Noriyuki Hirahara

Department of Digestive and General Surgery, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, 89-1 Enya-cho, Izumo, Shimane, 693-8501, Japan.

 

Kyoji Hirai

Department of thoracic surgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan

 

Miyako Hiramatsu

Section of Chest Surgery, Fukujuji Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

 

Tsunahiko Hirano

Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Disease, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan

 

Hitoshi Hirose

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 

Martin Hoenigl

Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA/German Center for Infection Research, Clinical Tuberculosis Center, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany/Division of Pulmonology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria/Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

 

Douglas Hogarth

Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

 

Wolfgang Hohenforst-Schmidt

II Medical Department, “Coburg” Regional Department, University of Wuerzburg, Coburg, Germany.

 

Aaron B Holley

Department of Pulmonary/Sleep and Critical Care Medicine, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.

 

Erik W. Holy

Heart Center, Segeberger Kliniken, Bad Segeberg, Germany

 

Takahiro Homma

Department of General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Toyama

 

Guo-Parke Hong

Queens Univ Belfast, Airway Innate Immun Grp, Wellcome Wolfson Inst Expt Med, Sch Med Dent & Biomed Sci, Belfast, Antrim, North Ireland

 

Antonio Francisco Honguero Martínez

Cirugía Torácica, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Albacete, Albacete, Spain.

 

Tal Hörer

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University Hospital, 701 85, Örebro, Sweden

 

Daijiro Hori

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery,Saitama Medical Center, Jichi M”

 

Zachary D. Horne

Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

 

Kei Hosoda

Department of Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kitasato 1-15-1, Minami-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-0374, Japan

 

Gang Hou

the First Hospital of China Medical University

 

David W. Hsia

Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90507, USA

 

Li-Han Hsu

Sun Yat Sen Canc Ctr, Div Pulm & Crit Care Med, 125 Lih Der Rd, Taipei 112, Taiwan

 

Zhi-De Hu

Second Military Medical University

 

Chien-Sheng Huang

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Surgery,  Taiwan

 

Haitao Huang

苏州大学附属医院 胸外科

 

Qingyuan Huang

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

 

Tsung-Min Hung

Department of Radiation Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Linkou Medical Center and Chang Gung University, 5 Fu-Shin Street, Kwei-Shan, Taoyuan, Taiwan

 

Ming-Hui Hung

Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Yin Hung

Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

Yun-Gyoung Hur

Yonsei University College of Medicine

 

Bin Hwangbo

Center for Lung Cancer, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea

 

Yutaka Iba

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Teine Keijinkai Hospital, 1-40 1-12 Maeda, Teine-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

 

Hitoshi Igai

Assistant Director, Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Maebashi Red Cross Hospital, Gunma, Japan

 

Hitoshi Igai

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Maebashi Red Cross Hospital, Gunma, Japan

 

Yasunori Iida

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Saiseikai Yokohamashi Tobu Hospital, 3-6-1 Shimosueyoshi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-8765, Japan; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ogikubo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.

 

Masaki Ikeda

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagara Medical Center, Nagara 1300-7, Gifu, 502-8558, Japan.

 

Norihiko Ikeda

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, 6-7-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-0023, Japan

 

Ilkka Ilonen

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

 

Andrea Imperatori

Center for Thoracic Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Ospedale di Circolo - Via Guicciardini, 9, Varese 21100, Italy

 

Ciro Indolfi

Division of Cardiology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, URT National Research Council (CNR), Magna Graecia” University, Viale Europa, 88100, Catanzaro, Italy ;Research Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, “Magna Graecia” University, Catanzaro, Italy ;Mediterranea Cardiocentro, Naples, Italy.

 

 

Minehiko Inomata

First Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, Toyama 930-0194, Japan

 

Masayoshi Inoue

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.

 

Elvis M. Irusen

Divisions of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University, PO Box 19063, 7505, Cape Town, South Africa.

 

David Alan Isenberg

Centre for Rheumatology, Division of Medicine, University College London, London, UK

 

Hironori Ishida

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center

 

Tsukasa Ishiwata

Department of Respirology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University

 

Mahmoud Ismail

Competence Center of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

Takuma Isshiki

Toho Univ, Grad Sch Med, Dept Resp Med, Tokyo, Japan;Juntendo Univ, Sch Med, Dept Immunol, Tokyo, Japan

 

Shigenori Ito

Division of Cardiology, Sankuro Hospital, 7-80 Kosaka-cho, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, 471-0035, Japan; Japan Cardiovascular Imaging Core Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan

 

Kentaro Ito

Respiratory Center, Matsusaka Municipal Hospital, Mie, Japan.

 

Fabio Ius

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplant and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.

 

Shingo Iwano

Department of Radiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

 

Hisashi Iwata

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Gifu University Hospital, Gifu, Japan

 

Akira Iyoda

Division of Chest Surgery, Department of Surgery, Toho University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

 

Jussi Jaakkola

Heart Center, Turku University Hospital and University of Turku, Turku, Finland

 

Matthieu Jamme

Poissy St Germain Hosp, Intens Care Unit, 9-10 Rue Champ Gaillard, F-78300 Poissy, France.; Jamme, M (corresponding author), UVSQ, INSERM U1018, CESP, Team EpReC Renal & Cardiovasc Epidemiol 5, Villejuif, France.

 

Seung Hun Jang

Department of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Republic of Korea

 

Luis Jara-Palomares

Medical Surgical Unit of Respiratory Diseases, Virgen del Rocio Hospital, Seville, Spain ;Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES). Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, España

 

Dawn Jaroszewski

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

 

Tommi Järvinen

Department of General Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Surgery, Clinicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

 

Aveek Jayant

Department of Anaesthesia, Postgraduate Institute for Medical Education and Research

 

Alex Jenkins

Univ Nottingham, Div Resp Med, Notting City Hosp, Clin Sci Bldg,Hucknall Rd, Nottingham NG5 1PB, England.

 

Kyeongman Jeon

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Jin Yong Jeong

Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea

 

Byeong-Ho Jeong

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine

 

Branislav Jeremic

Radiation Oncology, the BioIRC, R&D Centre for Biomedical Research, Kragujevac, Serbia

 

Wenbin Ji

Department of Radiology, Affiliated Taizhou Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, 150 Ximen Street, Linhai, 317000, Zhejiang Province, China

 

W Jiamjarasrangs

Chulalongkorn Univ, Fac Med, Dept Prevent & Social Med, Rama IV Rd, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.

 

Ning Jiang

Department of Pathology, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, People’s Republic of China

 

Wei Jiang

Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University

 

Yuchen Jiao

中国医学科学院 国家癌症中心

 

Marcelo F. Jimenez

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

 

Xiaolei Jin

Hlth Canada, Regulatory Toxicol Res Div, Bur Chem Safety, Food Directorate,HPFB, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

 

Daniela Jodorkovsky

New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York.

 

Rudolf Joerres

German Ctr Lung Res DZL, Ziemssenstr 1, D-80336 Munich, Germany

 

Arwel W. Jones

Lincoln Institute for Health, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom

 

Ricardo Jose

UCL, Ctr Inflammat & Tissue Repair, London WC1E 6JF, England.

 

Mathieu Jozwiak

 

Service de Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris-Centre, Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 27, rue du faubourg Saint Jacques, 75014, Paris, France ; Université de Paris, Paris, France.

 

Ki Jung

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, 896 Pyeongchon-dong, Dongan-gu, Anyang 431-070, Korea

 

Kenneth K.Y. Wong

Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

 

Puja Kachroo

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA

 

Tomohiro Kadota

Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan

 

Andreas Kalogeropoulos

Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

 

Ankur Kalra

Regional Section of Interventional Cardiology at Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 224 W Exchange St, Ste 225, Akron, OH 44302

 

Taro Kamigaki

Department of Virology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.

 

Maria Kamusheva

Department of Organization and Economics of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy , Medical University of Sofia , Sofia , Bulgaria

 

Tsuyoshi Kaneko

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

 

Nikolaos I Kanellakis

Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom; Laboratory of Pleural and Lung Cancer Translational Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

 

Yoshihiro Kanemitsu

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Aichi, Japan

 

Min-Woong Kang

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery, School of medicine, Chungnam National university, Daejeon, South Korea

 

Xiaozheng Kang

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China

 

Arun Kanmanthareddy

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, 6431 Fannin Street, MSB 1.240 A, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

 

Ming-Wei Kao

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, E-Da Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

 

Hasan V Kara

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina

 

dilek karadogan

Department od Chest Diseases, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, School of Medicine, Rize, Turkey ; Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University School of Medicine, Rize, Turkey.

 

Siddharth Karanth

Univ Texas Hlth Sci Ctr Houston, McGovern Med Sch, Internal Med, Houston, TX 77030 USA

 

Vidhya Karivedu

Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA

 

Mario Karolyi

Kaiser-Franz-Josef Hospital Kaiser Franz Josef Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Trop Med, Kundratstr 3, A-1100 Vienna, Austria.

 

Kazuo Kasahara

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Cellular Transplantation Biology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-8641, Japan

 

Lukas Käsmann

Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

 

Ken Kato

Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

 

Ritsushi Kato

Department of Cardiology, Saitama Medical University, International Medical Center, 1397-1 Yamane Hidaka, Saitama 350-1298, Japan

 

Joonas H. Kauppila

Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Yo Kawaguchi

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Kohka Public Hospital, Shiga, Japan.

 

Kodai Kawamura

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Social Welfare Organization Saiseikai Imperial Gift Foundation, Inc., Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, 861-4193, Japan

 

Takahisa Kawamura

Division of Thoracic Oncology, Shizuoka Cancer Center, 1007 Shimonagakubo, Nagaizumi-cho, Suntou-gun, Shizuoka, 411-8777, Japan

 

Damian Kawecki

Second Department of Cardiology, Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

 

Hidenao Kayawake

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan

 

Arkadiusz Kazimierczak

The Department of Vascular Surgery, The Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland.

 

W. Brent Keeling

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

 

Marcus P. Kennedy

From the Department of Respiratory Medicine, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Republic of Ireland

 

Kenneth Kesler

Indiana Univ, Dept Surg, Cardiothorac Div, Barnhill Dr EM 212, Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA.

 

Puja Khaitan

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC

 

Yasir Khan

Department of Medical Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia

 

Tareq Khan

Eastern Michigan Univ, Sch Engn, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 USA.

 

Irfan Sagir Khan

Department of Pathology, National University Health System, Singapore

 

Arjun Khanna

Metro Center for Respiratory Diseases, Metro Multispeciality Hospital, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.

 

Yet H. Khor

Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia; Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia; School of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

 

Rahul Khosla

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 50 Irving Street NW, Washington, DC 20422, USA

 

Hiroshi Kida

Natl Hosp Org Osaka Toneyama Med Ctr, Dept Resp Med, 5-1-1 Toneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan.

 

Nguyen Trung Kien

Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, Military Hospital 103, Vietnam Military Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam

 

Jae Jun Kim

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea

 

Anthony W. Kim

Divisions of Thoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

Dohun Kim

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University and Hospital, Cheongju, South Korea.

 

Nayoung Kim

Univ Wisconsin, Sch Med & Publ Hlth, Ctr Tobacco Res & Intervent, Dept Med, 1930 Monroe St,Suite 200, Madison, WI 53711 USA.

 

Hyun Koo Kim

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Korea University Guro Hospital, South Korea

 

Joon Bum Kim

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

 

Hojoong Kim

Division of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

 

Jong Seok Kim

Eli Lilly and Company, Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, IN, USA

 

Yong-Hee Kim

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

 

Min-Hye Kim

Ewha Womans University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

 

Woo Jin Kim

Kangwon Natl Univ, Sch Med, Dept Internal Med, 1 Gangwondaehak Gil, Chunchon 24341, South Korea

 

Kyung Soo Kim

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

 

Hideharu Kimura

Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital, Takara-machi 13-1, Kanazawa, 920-8641, Japan

 

C. Matthew Kinsey

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vermont, USA

 

Howard Kipen

Dept of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rutgers University, School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ, USA ;Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), Piscataway, NJ, USA.

 

Howard Kipen

Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA

 

Tadashi Kitamura

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

 

Pawel Kleczynski

Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

 

Neal S. Kleimand

Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston, TX, United States of America

 

Peter J. Kneuertz

Thoracic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

 

Huan-Jang Ko

Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Hsin-Chu Branch, No. 25, Lane 442, Sec.1, Jingguo Rd., Hsinchu City, 300, Taiwan

 

Mariko Kogo

Kobe City Med Ctr Gen Hosp, Dept Resp Med, Chuo Ku, 2-1-1 Minatojima Minamimachi, Kobe, Hyogo 6500047, Japan.

 

Tadasu Kohno

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Toranomon Hospital, 2-2-2 Toranomon Minatoku, Tokyo 105-8470, Japan

 

Takashi Kohno

Division of Genome Biology, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan

 

Makoto Komura

Department of Tissue Engineering, Tokyo University Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan

 

Yuta Kono

Department of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine, The Fraternity Memorial Hospital, 2-1-11 Yokoami, Sumida-ku, Tokyo, Japan

 

Stylianos Korasidis

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Medical Molecular Pathology and Critical Care, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

 

Djuro Kosanovic

Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Aulweg 130, 35392, Giessen, Germany

 

Toru Kotani

Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Showa University School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 142-8666 Japan

 

Bhik Kotecha

Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, 330 Gray’s Inn Rd, London, WC1X 8DA, UK.

 

Drosos Kotelis

European Vascular Center Aachen-Maastricht, Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

 

Nicholas T. Kouchoukos

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St Louis, MO, USA

 

Georgios Koulaxouzidis

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

 

Nobuyuki Koyama

Department of Clinical Oncology, Tokyo Medical University Hachioji Medical Center

 

Kazuo Koyanagi

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-1193, Japan.

 

Benjamin D. Kozower

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

 

Igor Kranjec

Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Robert Kratzke

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

 

Stefan Kreyer

Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, Bonn 53125, Germany.

 

Takeshi Kubo

Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

 

Hiroshi Kubota

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan

 

Gerhardus J.A.J.M. Kuiper

Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Treatment, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Laboratory for Clinical Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands

 

Teruyoshi Kume

Department of Cardiology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan.

 

Elif Kupeli

Pulmonary Disease Department, Baskent University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey †Department of Thoracic Medicine, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA.

 

Jonathan Kurman

Medical College of Wisconsin

 

Hiroaki Kuroda

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.

 

Catherine Labbé

Division of Medical Oncology and Hematology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5G 2M9, Canada; Division of Respirology and Thoracic Surgery, Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, 2725 Chemin Ste-Foy, Québec, QC, G1V 4G5, Canada.

 

Samy Lachkar

Department of Pulmonology, Thoracic Oncology and Respiratory Intensive Care & CIC- CRB 1404, Rouen University Hospital, 1, rue de Germont, 76000, Rouen, France.

 

Kefang Lai

Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, State Key Lab. of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

 

Amos Lal

Department of Medicine, Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Mass.

 

Lama Elbahlawan

Division of Critical Care Medicine, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38103, USA.

 

Philipp Lange

Department of Cardiology II: Electrophysiology, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany.

 

George Latsios

1st Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, University of Athens, “Hippokration” Hospital, Athens, Greece

 

Simona Lattanzi

Neurological Clinic, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy.

 

Kelvin K.W. Lau

St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC2A 7BE, UK.

 

Christopher Lau

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA

 

Shahar Lavi

Department of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada; Division of Cardiology, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada

 

Zsofia Lazar

Semmelweis Univ, Dept Pulmonol, 25-29 Tomo St, H-1083 Budapest, Hungary.

 

John Lazar

Georgetown University School of Medicine

 

Chiara Lazzeri

Intensive Cardiac Coronary Unit, Heart and Vessel Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy

 

Hong Kyu Lee

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea.

 

Kyung Jong Lee

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 81 Irwon-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 06351, South Korea.Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care MedicineDepartment of Medicine, Samsung Medical CenterSungkyunkwan University School of Medicine81 Irwon-roGangnam-guSeoul06351South Korea

 

Jui-Ying Lee

Kaohsiung Med Univ, Kaohsiung Med Univ Hosp, Dept Surg, Div Thorac Surg, 100,Tzyou 1st Rd, Kaohsiung 80756, Taiwan

 

Taehoon Lee

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Ulsan University Hospital

 

Luyuan Lee

Fred Zechman Professor of Physiology College of Medicine, MS 511A

University of Kentucky 800 Rose Street Lexington, KY 40536-0298

USA

 

Peter Lee

Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Pulm & Crit Care Med, Intervent Pulmonol, Med, 1200 E Marshall St,10th Floor, Richmond, VA 23219 USA

 

Jui-Ying Lee

Division of Chest Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

 

Joseph C. Lee

Department of Medical Imaging, The Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, Queensland, Australia

 

Chang Young Lee

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Republic of Korea

 

Su Jin Lee

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine, 164, Worldcup-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon 16499, Republic of Korea

 

Myung Goo Lee

Lung Research Institute, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Korea; Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Hallym University Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital, Chuncheon, Korea

 

Jaehee Lee

Kyungpook National University, School of Medicine

 

Seung Hyun Lee

Division of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea

 

Seung Jun Lee

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

Professor of Surgery, Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei

 

Choon-Taek Lee

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Bundang-Gu, Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

 

Dafne Braga Diamante Leiderman

Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

 

Adelino Leite-Moreira

Physiology, Pathophysiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal

 

Lim Beng Leong

Ng Teng Fong;Emergency Department, National University Healthcare Cluster, 1, Jurong East Street 21, Singapore 609606, Singapore

 

Toni Lerut

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium

 

Nancy H. L. Leung

Univ Hong Kong, Li Ka Shing Fac Med, Sch Publ Hlth, Pokfulam, 7 Sassoon Rd, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.

 

Sebastian Ley

Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 430, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

 

Feng Li

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, NO. 241, West Huaihai Road, Shanghai, 200030, China.

 

Xiao-Dong Li

Univ Texas Hlth San Antonio, Dept Microbiol Immunol & Mol Genet, 7703 Floyd Curl Dr,MC 7758, San Antonio, TX 78229 USA.

 

Andrew Li

Natl Univ Singapore Hosp, Div Resp & Crit Care Med, NUHS Tower Block,Level 10,1E Kent Ridge Rd, Singapore 119228, Singapore

 

Xuelian Li

China Med Univ, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Epidemiol, 77 Puhe Rd, Shenyang 110122, Liaoning, Peoples R China

 

Dan Li

MidSouth Bioinformatics Center and Joint Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program, University of Arkansas at Little Rock and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 2801 S. University Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72204 USA

 

Yahua Li

the first affiliated hospital of Zhengzhou University

 

Hecheng Li

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, China

 

Chong-Kin Liam

Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

 

Michael Lichtenauer

Paracelsus Private Medical University Paracelsus Med Univ Salzburg, Dept Internal Med 2, Div Cardiol, Salzburg, Austria.

 

Michael Lichtenauer

Clinic of Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, Paracelsus Medical University, Muellner Hauptstrasse 48, A‐5020, Salzburg, Austria

 

Tow Keang Lim

Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, University Medicine Cluster, National University Hospital, National University Health System, Tower Block, Level 10, 1E Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore

 

Cheong Lim

Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Korea

 

Yu-Ching Lin

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi

 

jiangbo lin

Fujian union hospital

 

Frank Lin

School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan ;Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.

 

Chih-Chuan Lin

Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan

 

Jules Lin

Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

 

Virginia R. Litle

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA,USA

 

Chuan Liu

Army Med Univ, Inst Cardiovasc Dis PLA, Affiliated Hosp 2, Chongqing 400037, Peoples R China.

 

Jing Liu

Stem Cell Clinical Research Center, National Joint Engineering Laboratory, Regenerative Medicine Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China; 2Dalian Innovation Institute of Stem Cells and Precision Medicine, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China

 

Ju-Chi Liu

Taipei Med Univ, Shuang Ho Hosp, Dept Internal Med, Div Cardiovasc Med, New Taipei

 

Dan Loberman

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA

 

Antonio Loforte

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantation, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna University, Via Massarenti n.9, Bologna 40138, Italy

 

Jason M. Long

Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

 

Jose Luis Lopez-Campos

Hosp Univ Virgen del Rocio, Unidad Med Quirurg Enfermedades Resp, Avda Manuel Siurot S-N, Seville 41013, Spain.

 

Ioannis Loumiotis

Montefiore Med Ctr, Albert Einstein Coll Med, Dept Cardiothorac Surg, 3400 Bainbridge Ave, Bronx, NY 10467 USA

 

Su-Ying Low

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Outram Rd, Singapore 169608, Singapore

 

Xinyan Lu

Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 15232

 

Monica Lucattelli

Univ Siena, Dept Mol & Dev Med, Via Aldo Moro 2, I-53100 Siena, Italy

 

Corinna Ludwig

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Florence Nightingale Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany

 

Natalie Lui

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

 

Yang Luo

Chongqing Univ, Med Sch, Ctr Smart Lab & Mol Med, Chongqing 400044, Peoples R China;Chongqing Univ, Sch Bioengn, Key Lab Biorheol Sci & Technol, Minist Educ, Chongqing 400044, Peoples R China.

 

Liangping Luo

The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University

 

Peng Luo

Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University

 

Misha D. P. Luyer

Department of Surgery, Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, Michelangelolaan 2, 1350, 5623 ZA Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

 

David M. Dudzinski

Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

Libing Ma

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Guilin Medical University

 

Hongyu Ma

Department of Radiotherapy, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, P. R. China.

 

Karan Madan

Department of Pulmonary Medicine & Sleep Disorders, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

 

Amir A. Mahabadi

West German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, University Clinic Essen, Essen, Germany

 

Amit K. Mahajan

Department of Interventional Pulmonology, Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA, USA

 

Richard T. Mahon

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA

 

Genevieve Mailhot

Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montreal, 2405 Cote Sainte-Catherine Rd., Montreal, QC H3T 1A8, Canada ;Research Centre, CHU Sainte-Justine, 3175 Cote Sainte-Catherine Rd., Montreal, QC H3T 1C5, Canada

 

Sara Maio

CNR Institute of Clinical Physiology, Via Trieste, 41 - 56126 Pisa, Italy

 

Alain Makinson

Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, U1175-National Institute of Health and Medical Research/Mixt International Department 233, Development Research Institute, University Montpellier, Montpellier, France

 

Fabien Maldonado

Mayo Clinic , 200 First Street SW , Rochester, Minnesota, United States

 

Francesca Malentacchi

Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Department of Clinical Physiopathology, University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 6, I-50139 Florence, Italy

 

Maximilian Malfertheiner

Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center

 

Jihad Mallat

Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine; Lens’s Hospital, Lens, France ;Critical Care Institute; Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

 

Mohammed A. Mamun

Undergraduate Research Organization, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh ;Department of Public Health and Informatics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

Swapna Mandal

Lane-Fox Respiratory Service, Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK;Division of Asthma Allergy and Lung Biology, King’s College London School of Medical Education, London, UK

 

Yariswamy Manjunath

Department of Surgery; Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, University of Missouri, One Hospital Drive, Columbia, MO 65212, USA.

 

Paul E. Marik

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA

 

Mirella Marino

Department of Pathology, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy

 

Tomasz Marjanski

Thoracic Surgery Department, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

 

Zanin Mark

GIRH

 

Theodore K. Marras

Joint Division of Respirology, University Health Network and Mount Sinai Hospital, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

Gian Luca Martinelli

Department of CardioVascular, Clinica San Gaudenzio-Gruppo Policlinico di Monza, Novara, Italy.

 

Rocio T. Martinez-Nunez

School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, Medical Research Council and Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, King’s College London, London SE19RT, United Kingdom

 

Gennaro Martucci

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS-ISMETT, UPMC Italy, Via Tricomi 5, 90127 Palermo, Italy.

 

Giuseppe Marulli

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

 

Jean-Bernard Masson

Division of Cardiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada; Centre de recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

 

Stefano Mastrobuoni

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, St Luc’s Hospital, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

 

Takeshi Masuda

Department of Respiratory Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University Hospital, Japan

 

Hidetoshi Masumoto

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

 

José María Matilla

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Clinic Hospital of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

 

Satoru Matsuda

Keio University Hospital / General Gastroenterological Surgery

 

Yorihiko Matsumoto

St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney / Cardiothoracic Surgery

 

Takeshi Matsumoto

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, 2-1-1 Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0047, Japan

 

Shin Matsuoka

Department of Radiology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, 2-16-1 Sugao, Miyamae-Ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 216-8511, Japan

 

Yosuke Matsuura

Department of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, the Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, 3-8-31, Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-8550, Japan.

 

Tommaso Mauri

Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Emergency, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

 

Giulio Maurizi

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Via di Grottarossa, 1035, 00189 Rome, Italy.

 

Michele Mauro

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

 

Stuart Mazzone

University of Melbourne

 

Russell K. McAllister

Department of Anesthesiology, Baylor Scott & White Health, Temple, TX 76508

 

Kenneth L. McClain

Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

 

Noel McElvaney

Beaumont Hosp, Royal Coll Surg Ireland, Dept Med, Resp Res Div,Educ & Res Ctr, Beaumont Rd, Dublin 9, Ireland

 

Atul C. Mehta

Respiratory Institute, Department of Pulmonary Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

 

Asmita A Mehta

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Ponekkara, Kochi - 682 041, Kerala, India.

 

Katrin Meisenbacher

Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

 

Boris Melloni

ANTADIR Federation, Paris, France;Department of Pulmonology, Limoges University Hospital, Limoges, France.

 

Paolo Mendogni

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Milan - Italy

 

Valentina Mengardo

General and Upper GI Surgery DivisionUniversity of VeronaVeronaItaly

 

HelenMari Merritt‐Genore

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska

 

Rafael Mesquita

Department of Physiotherapy, Federal University of Ceará

 

Carlos A. Mestres

Department of Cardiovascluar Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

 

Mark L. Metersky

Center for Bronchiectasis Care, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, 06030-1321, USA

 

Giulio Metro

Department of Medical Oncology, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, AOU di Perugia, Italy

 

Antonio Miceli

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

 

Paul Michael McFadden

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

José M. Mier

Thoracic Surgery Department, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias “Ismael Cosío Villegas” (INER), Calzada de Tlalpan 4502. Col. Sección XVI., Tlalpan, Mexico D.F., Mexico

 

Marcello Migliore

Department of Surgery, Policlinic Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

 

DP Migueis

LabSono, Rua Mariz e Barros 775 3 Andar, BR-20270901 Rio De Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

 

Michael Milano

Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Ave, 647, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA.

 

Massimo Milione

Division of Pathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, IRCCS Foundation National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy

 

Milan Milojevic

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Acibadem Sistina Hospital, Skopje, North Macedonia; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

Takahiro Mimae

Department of Surgical Oncology, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan

 

Bushra Mina

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, USA

 

Kenji Minakata

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

 

Seigo Minami

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Osaka Police Hospital, 10-31 Kitayama-cho, Tennoji-ku, Osaka 543-0035, Japan

 

Toshiyuki Minami

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.

 

Hiroyuko Minemura

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan.

 

Masamichi Mineshita

Departments of Internal Medicine, Division of Respiratory and Infectious Disease, St Marianna University, School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.

 

Hiroshi Mitsuoka

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka City Shizuoka Hospital, Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan.

 

Brian Mitzman

Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Utah

 

Masahiro Miyajima

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, South 1, West 16, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8543, Japan

 

Takuro Miyazaki

Department Surgical Oncology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

 

Teruaki Mizobuchi

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Pneumothorax Research Center and Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Tamagawa Hospital, Nissan Institute of Medicine, 4-8-1 Seta, Setagaya-Ku, Tokyo, 158-0095, Japan

 

Yasushi Mizukami

Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization, Hokkaido Cancer Center, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

 

Takudzwa Mkorombindo

Univ Alabama Birmingham, 1720 2nd Ave South,THT 422, Birmingham, AL 35294 USA.

 

Akira Mogi

Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

 

Shehab Mohamed

IRCCS Fondazione Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano

 

Salah A. Mohamed

Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, Luebeck University Hospital, Luebeck, Germany

 

Firdaus A. A. Mohamed Hoesein

Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

Thalachallour Mohanakumar

Norton Thoracic Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital & Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ 85013, United States

 

Pranshu Mohindra

Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Antonio Molino

First Division of Pneumology, High Speciality Hospital “V. Monaldi” and University “Federico II” Medical School, Naples, Italy

 

Pritish Mondal

Penn State Coll Med, Dept Pediat, Div Pediat Pulmonol, 500 Univ Dr,POB 850, Hershey, PA 17033 USA.

 

Michele Mondoni

Respiratory Unit, San Paolo Hospital, Department of Scienze della Salute, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

 

françois Montagne

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Rouen University Hospital, 1 rue de Germont, 76000 Rouen, France;INSERM UMRS 1138, équipe 28 Functional Genomics of Solid Tumors – FunGeST Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers Esc A 1er étage. 15, rue de l’école de médecine 75006 Paris

 

Youngkyu Moon

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 06591, Republic of Korea

 

Daniela Morales-Espinosa

Translational Research Laboratory, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, 08916 Barcelona, Spain; Dr Rosell Oncology Institute, Quirón Dexeus University Hospital, 08028 Barcelona, Spain

 

Maria Ribeiro Santos Morard

UNIRIO—Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; UNESA—Universidade Estácio de Sá, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

 

Makoto Mori

Section of Cardiac Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

 

Toshiaki Morikawa

Department of Chest Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-City, Tokyo, Japan

 

Takayuki Morisaki

Department of Bioscience and Genetics, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, 5-7-1 Fujishirodai, Suita, Osaka, 565-8565, Japan.

 

Akimasa Morisaki

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

 

Kiyoshi Moriyama

Department of Anesthesiology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

 

Laura Moro

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy

 

Paulo T. Muller

Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Maria Aparecida Pedrossian Hospital (HUMAP), Laboratory of Respiratory Pathophysiology (LAFIR), Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, MS, Brazil

 

Tobias Müller

University Hospital RWTH Aachen ;Department of Pneumology and Intensive Care Medicine

 

Mingyon Mun

Department of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, The Cancer Institute Hospital, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

 

Stine Munkholm-Larsen

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

 

Takashi Murashita

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

 

David R. Murdoch

Department of Pathology, University of Otago, Christchurch, and Microbiology Unit, Canterbury Health Laboratories, Christchurch, New Zealand

 

Piergiorgio Muriana

Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

 

Katongo Mutengo

Department of Medicine, University Teaching Hospital, University of Zambia School of Medicine, Lusaka, Zambia

 

Nagarajan Muthialu

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK

 

Katarzyna Mycroft

Med Univ Warsaw, Students Res Grp Alveolus, Warsaw, Poland

 

Jeffrey L. Myers

Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Hospital and Health Systems, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

 

Kwon Joong Na

Seoul National University Hospital

 

Hiroaki Nagano

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Okinawa Chubu Hospital, 281, Miyazato, Uruma‐shi Okinawa, Japan.

 

Masayuki Nagasawa

Musashino Red Cross Hosp, Dept Pediat, Musashino, Tokyo, Japan.

 

Masashi Nagata

Department of General Surgery, Okinawa Kyodo Hospital, 4-10-55 Kohagura, Naha 900-8558, Japan.

 

Takeo Nakada

Department of Surgery, The Jikei University Kashiwa Hospital

 

Yoshiro Nakahara

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, 1-15-1 Kitasato Minami-Ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-0374, Japan

 

Takahiro Nakajima

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan

 

Takahiro Nakajima

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

 

Akifumi Nakamura

Hyogo College of University

 

Shota Nakamura

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan

 

Masayuki Nakao

Department of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, The Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo

 

Atsushi Nambu

Department of Radiology, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO 80206, USA; Department of Radiology, Teikyo University Mizonokuchi Hospital, Kanagawa 213-8507, Japan

 

Francesco Nappi

Centre Cardiologique du Nord de Saint-Denis, Paris, France

 

Paolo Nardi

Cardiac Surgery Unit, Tor Vergata University Policlinic, Rome, Italy

 

Antonio Nenna

Unit of Cardiovascular Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy

 

Calvin S. H. Ng

Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China

 

William Ngatchou

Department of Emergency and Cardiac Surgery, St Pierre University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

 

Thi Dan Linh Nguyen-Kim

Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich/University Zurich, Rämistrasse 100, CH-8091 Zürich, Switzerland.

 

Francesco Nicolini

Heart Surgery Section, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

 

Albert Nienhaus

Univ Med Ctr Hamburg Eppendorf UKE, Competence Ctr Epidemiol & Hlth Serv Res Healthca, Martinistr 52, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany; Inst Statutory Accid Insurance & Prevent Hlth & W, Dept Occupat Med Hazardous Subst & Publ Hlth, Hamburg, Germany.

 

Akio Niimi

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Shogoin, Sakyoku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan

 

Akio Niimi

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Nagoya City University School of Medical Sciences, Aichi, Japan.

 

Hidekazu Nishimura

Virus Research Center, Clinical Research Division, Sendai Medical Center, Sendai 9838520, Japan

 

Mizuho Nishio

Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan; Preemptive Medicine and Lifestyle-related Disease Research Center, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

 

Kentaro Noda

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA

 

O Kyu Noh

Department of Radiation Oncology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea

 

Nicola Normanno

Cell Biology and Biotherapy Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione G. Pascale, 80131 Naples, Italy

 

Mario Nosotti

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Milan - Italy

 

Nuria Novoa

General Thoracic Surgery Service, University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

 

Isao Nozaki

Department of Surgery, Shikoku Cancer Center Hospital, 160 Minami-umemoto, Matsuyama, 791-0280, Japan

 

Kenneth Nugent

Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA

 

Shin-ichi Nureki

Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, 1-1 Idaigaoka, Hasama-machi, Yufu, Oita 879-5593, Japan

 

Fariz Nurwidya

Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia, Persahabatan National Respiratory Referral Hospital, Jalan Persahabatan Raya No. 1, Rawamangun, Jakarta, Indonesia

 

Ray O’Connor

Univ Limerick, Grad Entry Med Sch, Limerick 000, Ireland

 

Filiz Oezkan

Univ Duisburg Essen, Univ Hosp, West German Lung Ctr, Dept Intervent Pneumol,Ruhrlandklin, Tueschener Weg 40, D-45239 Essen, Germany.

 

Toru Oga

Kyoto Univ, Dept Resp Care & Sleep Control Med, Grad Sch Med, Kyoto, Japan.

 

Hiroshi Ohnishi

Department of Hematology and Respiratory Medicine, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Nankoku City, Kochi, Japan

 

Nobuhisa Ohno

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki Medical Center

 

Takashi Ohtsuka

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery,The Jikei University, School of Medicine Tokyo, Japan

 

Takashi Ohtsuka

Professor of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Nishi-Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

 

Hiroshi Okamoto

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574 Japan

 

Kazuma Okamoto

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Akashi Medical Center, Akashi, Hyogo, Japan

 

Mikio Okazaki

Center of Chest Medicine and Surgery, Ehime University, Toon, Ehime, Japan

 

Ikenna C. Okereke

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

 

Masahide Oki

Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Nagoya Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan

 

Yutaka Okita

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

 

Yusuke Okuma

Department of Thoracic Oncology and Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center Komagome Hospital, 3-18-22, Honkomagome, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0022, Japan; Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1, Tsukiji, Chuo, Tokyo, 104-0045, Japan

 

Yusuke Okuma

Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan ;Center for Cancer Genomic and Advanced Therapeutics, National Cancer Center Japan, Tokyo, Japan

 

Winnie Hedevang Olesen

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

 

Anne Olland

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France

 

Stefano Omboni

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

 

Yasuyuki Onishi

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0045, Japan

 

Takashi Ono

Department of Radiation Oncology, QST Hospital, 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba 263-8555, Japan.

 

Yuko Ono

Emergency and Critical Care Medical Center, Fukushima Medical University Hospital, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan; Department of Anesthesiology, Ohta General Hospital Foundation, Ohta Nishinouchi Hospital, Koriyama, Japan

 

Steven O’Reilly

Univ Durham, Sch Biol & Biomed Sci, South Rd, Durham DH3, England

 

Kazumasa Orihashi

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Second Department of Surgery, Kochi Medical School, Kohasu, Oko-cho, Nankoku, Kochi, 783-8505, Japan

 

Naoko Ose

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Toneyama Hospital, 5-1-1 Toneyama, Toyonaka-shi, Osaka, 560-8552, Japan

 

Marcin Ostrowski

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

 

Koji Otsuka

Division of Gastroenterological and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Showa University School of Medicine, 142-8666 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan

 

Yoshiyuki Ozawa

Department of Radiology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan.

 

Naoki Ozeki

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

 

Ines Paciencia

Inst Sci & Innovat Mech Engn & Ind Management INE, Porto, Portugal.;

Univ Porto, Inst Saude Publ, EPIUnit, Porto, Portugal.; Univ Porto, Fac Med, Porto, Portugal.; Portugal & Ctr Hospitalar Sao Joao, Porto, Portugal.

 

Kisoo Pahk

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Siddharth Pahwa

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.

 

Stefano Palmucci

Radiodiagnostic and Radiotherapy Unit, University Hospital “Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele”, Via Santa Sofia 78, 95123, Catania, Italy

 

Nikhil Panda

Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

 

qingfeng pang

jiangnan university

 

Vasileios F. Panoulas

Department of cardiology, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK

 

Giulia Paolocci

Section of Occupational Medicine, Respiratory Diseases and Toxicology, University of Perugia, Piazzale Gambuli, 06100 Perugia, Italy

 

Domenico Paparella

Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplant, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy; Department of Emergency and Organ Transplant, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Santa Maria Hospital, GVM Care and Research, Bari, Italy

 

Magdalena Paplinska-Goryca

Med Univ Warsaw, Dept Internal Med Pulm Dis & Allergy, Banacha 1a, PL-02097 Warsaw, Poland.

 

Federico Pappalardo

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Raffaele Scientific Institute and San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milan Italy

 

Alessandro Pardolesi

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Maggiore Teaching Hospital, Bologna, Italy

 

Kalpaj Parekh

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

 

Mihir S. Parikh

Division of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

 

Chan Beom Park

Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, Incheon, Republic of Korea.

 

Chul Hwan Park

Department of Radiology and the Research Institute of Radiological Science, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Seong Yong Park

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

 

Sukhee Park

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, International St. Mary’s Hospital, Catholic Kwandong University School of Medicine, Incheon 22711, Korea

 

Yoo Seok Park

Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Henry S. Park

Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

 

Antonio Passaro

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

 

Suhani Patel

Harefield Hosp, Harefield Pulm Rehabil & Muscle Res Grp, Harefield UB9 6JH, Middx, England

 

Rima S. Pathak

Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, The Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre, Canada

 

Susanne Paukner

Nabriva Therapeutics GmbH, Vienna, Austria

 

Krystian Pawlak

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland

 

Konrad Pazdrak

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.

 

Oneglio Pedemonte

Universidad de Valparaiso-Fundacion Jorge Kaplan Meyer

 

David Perez

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain.

 

Periklis Perikleous

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Harefield Hospital, Harefield, UK

 

Valerio Perna

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Universitario Son Espases Carretera de Valldemossa, Palma, Spain

 

Matteo Pernigo

Division of Cardiology, “La Memoria” Hospital, Brescia, Italy.

 

Eskild Petersen

Directorate General for Disease Surveillance and Control, Ministry of HealthOman

 

Francesco Petrella

Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy; Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

 

Georg A. Petroianu

Department of Pharmacology & Cell Biology, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.

 

Aldo Pezzuto

Sant’Andrea Hospital Thoracic and Crdiovascular Department Sapienza University -Rome

 

Tung Phan

Division of Clinical Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

 

Edoardo Picetti

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Parma University Hospital, Via Gramsci 14, 43100, Parma, Italy

 

Guillaume Piessen

Univ Hosp Claude Huriez, Reg Univ Hosp Ctr, Dept Digest & Oncol Surg, Surg, Pl Verdun, F-59037 Lille, France

 

Patrizia Pignatti

IRCCS, Ist Clin Sci Maugeri, Allergy & Immunol Unit, Pavia, Italy.

 

Hans Pilegaard

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Palle Juul-Jensens Boulevard 99, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark

 

Guy Pines

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kaplan Medical Center and The Hebrew University School of Medicine, Rehovot, Israel

 

Robert Pirker

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

 

Francesco Pistelli

Pulmonary Unit, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Department, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

 

Davor Plavec

Faculty of Medicine, J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia; Research Department, Children’s Hospital Srebrnjak

 

Till Plones

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Endoscopy, Ruhrlandklinik, West German Cancer Center, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

 

Camilla Poggi

Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Rome “Sapienza,” Rome, Italy

 

Francesco Pollari

Department of Cardiac surgery, Klinikum Nürnberg – Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany

 

Charles Pollick

Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

 

Esther Pompe

Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

William Poncin

Department of PneumologyUniversité Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research, Pole of Pneumology, ENT, and Dermatology, Brussels, Belgium

 

Julien Possoz

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

 

Ledford Powell

Pacific Thoracic Surgery

 

Filippo Prestipino

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy

 

Ioannis Psallidas

Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK

 

Jonathan Puchalski

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

 

Jean-Louis Pujol

Department of Thoracic Oncology, Montpellier Regional University Hospital, Montpellier, France

 

Guibin Qiao

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou 510080, China

 

Zhongmin Qiu

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Med, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine

 

Samih Raad

Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

 

Elżbieta Radzikowska

National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Plocka Street 26, Warsaw, Poland.

 

Giuseppe M. Raffa

Cardiac Surgery and Heart Transplantation Unit, Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, IRCCS-ISMETT (Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad alta specializzazione), Palermo, Italy

 

Najib Rahman

Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK

 

Najib M. Rahman

Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK; Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

 

Shahzad Raja

Harefield Hospital, London, United Kingdom.

 

Kartik Ramakrishna

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, USA

 

Montserrat Blanco Ramos

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vigo University Clinical Hospital, 36204 Vigo, Spain

 

Clare D. Ramsey

Section of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, RS 314, 810 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3A 1R8, Canada

 

Edoardo Raposio

Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Italy; Department of Surgical Specialties Cutaneous, Mininvasive, Regenerative and Plastic Surgery Unit, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy

 

Aref Rashed

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Zala County Hospital, University of Pécs, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary

 

Torben Riis Rasmussen

Department of Respiratory Diseases and Allergy, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

 

Rishindra M. Reddy

Department of Surgery, Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

 

Karen C. Redmond

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Eccles St., Dublin, Ireland

 

Martin Reichert

Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic, Transplant and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim Strasse 7, 35392, Giessen, Germany.

 

J Matthew Reinersman

Division of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.

 

Hua Ren

Department of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, 100021 Beijing, China.

 

Ottavio Rena

Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy

 

Oliver Reuthebuch

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 21, 4031 Basel, Switzerland

 

Matteo Revelli

Unit of Radiology, San Bartolomeo Hospital, ASL 5 “Spezzino”, Sarzana (SP), Italy

 

Paulo Cury Rezende

MASS Research Group, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil

 

Chin Kook Rhee

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine at Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital of The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

 

Sara Ricciardi

Unit of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

 

J. David Richardson

Department of Surgery, University of Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA

 

Jordi Riera

Department of Critical Care, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.SODIR, Vall d’Hebron Research Institute, Barcelona, Spain.CIBERES, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.

 

Matthias L. Riess

Department of Anesthesiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1161 21st Avenue South, T4202 MCN, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA; Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA; TVHS VA Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

 

Nuttapol Rittayamai

Division of Respiratory Diseases and Tuberculosis, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand.

 

Rasmus Rivinius

Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

 

Sun Kyun Ro

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

 

Jae Y. Ro

Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Houston, TX, USA

 

Danilo Rocco

Division of Pulmonary Oncology, Azienda Ospedaliera Dei Colli Monaldi, Naples, Italy

 

Evelio Rodriguez

St Thomas Heart Hospital, Nashville

 

Francisco Rodriguez-Panadero

Unidad Médico-Quirúrgica de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, and CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, Sevilla, Spain

 

Laura Andrea Rodríguez-Villamizar

Public Health Department, School of Medicine, Santander Industrial University, Bucaramanga, Colombia

 

Giovanni Rolla

Allergology and Clinical Immunology, University of Torino, Torina, Italy

 

Silvio Romano

Cardiology, Department of Life, Health & Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Italy.

 

Viveiros Rosa

Univ Fed Fluminense, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

 

Antoni Rosell

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Bellvitge Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.

 

Justin Rosenheck

Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Division, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

 

Lorenzo Rosso

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

 

Antonino S Rubino

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

 

Jens C. Rückert

Dept of General, Visceral, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

Enrico Ruffini

Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Italy

 

FERNANDO RUIZSANTIAGO

Department of Radiology, Traumatology Hospital, University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, C-Julio Verne 8, 7 B, 18003, Granada, Spain.

 

Richard E. K. Russell

Senior Clinical Researcher, Respiratory Medicine, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford Consultant Chest Physician, Lymington New Forest Hospital, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

 

Alessandro Russo

Univ Pittsburgh, Dept Med, 3459 Fifth Ave,628 NW Montefiore, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA.

 

Antonio Russo

Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences, Section of Medical Oncology, University of Palermo, Via del Vespro 129, 90127, Palermo, Italy

 

Robert S. George

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University College London Hospital, London, UK

 

Ashutosh Sachdeva

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

 

Noriaki Sadanaga

Department of Surgery, Saiseikai Fukuoka General Hospital, 1-3-46 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka, 810-0001, Japan.

 

Marcin Sadowski

Department of Interventional Cardiology, Świętokrzyskie Cardiology Center, Kielce, Poland

 

Ali Saffaei

Student Research Committee, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

 

Andrew Sage

Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.

 

Sandeep Sahay

Smith Tower, Houston Methodist Hospital, 6550 Fannin St, Ste 401, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

 

S A M Said

Department of Cardiology, ZGT location Hengelo, Hengelo, the Netherlands

 

Yuichi Sakairi

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

 

Noriaki Sakakura

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

 

Ichiro Sakanoue

Department of Thoracic Surgery ,Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital”

 

Kenji Sakata

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, 13-1, Takara-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-8641, Japan

 

Hiroyuki Sakurai

Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; Division of Respiratory Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

 

Helene Salvator

Hop Foch, Serv Pneumol, Suresnes, France.; Univ Paris Saclay, Lab Pharmacol Resp UPRES EA 220, Versailles, France.”

 

George Samanidis

First Department of Adult Cardiac Surgery, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece

 

Alberto Sandri

Unit of Thoracic Surgery, San Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, University of Turin, Orbassano, Turin, Italy.

 

Kishore Sandu

Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Lausanne’s University Hospital, CHUV, Lausanne, 1011, Switzerland

 

Stefano Sanna

Thoracic Surgery Unit, G. B. Morgagni Hospital, Forli, Italy

 

Roberto Santa Cruz

Department of Intensive Care, Hospital Regional Rio Gallegos, Rio Gallegos, Argentina ; School of Medicine, University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile.

 

José Sanz-Santos

Bronchoscopy Unit. Pulmonology Department. Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol. Carretera de Canyet S/N. 08916 Badalona (Barcelona) Spain; Pulmonology Department. Hospital Universitari Mútua Terrassa. University of Barcelona. Plaça Dr Robert 5. 08221 Terrassa (Barcelona). Spain

 

Ulrik Sartipy

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden ;Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Imran Satia

Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology, McMaster University (from 1st of April 2020), Hamilton, Canada ;Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Canada ;Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

 

Celal Satici

Gaziosmanpasa Res & Training Hosp, Chest Dis Dept, Istanbul, Turkey

 

Akira Sato

Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

 

Masaaki Sato

Department of Thoracic Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan

 

Maurício Guidi Saueressig

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Ramiro Barcelos, 2350, 90035903 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

 

Milton Saute

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

Mustafa Saygin

Suleyman Demirel Univ, Fac Med, Dept Physiol, TR-32200 Isparta, Turkey.

 

Paolo Scanagatta

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Via G. Venezian 1, 20133Milan, Italy.

 

Marco Scarci

Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy

 

Marco Scarci

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Guy’s Hospital, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9RT, UK.

 

Simone Scarlata

Geriatrics, Unit of Respiratory Pathophysiology, Campus Bio Medico University, Rome, Italy.

 

Francisco Schlottmann

Department of Surgery and Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4030 Burnett Womack Building, 101 Manning Drive, CB 7081, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7081, USA

 

Severin Schmid

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.

 

Paul Schoenhagen

Department of Diagnostic Radiology and in the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland,Ohio, USA.

 

Waldemar Schreiner

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

 

Anton Schreuder

Radboudumc, Dept Radiol & Nucl Med, Diagnost Image Anal Grp, Nijmegen, Netherlands

 

Carsten Schroeder

Department of Surgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, 1120 15th St, BA 4407, Augusta, GA 30912 USA

 

Bernadette Schurink

Department of Anatomy, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

Jess D Schwartz

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

 

Christopher W. Seder

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA

 

Kay Choong See

Division of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, University Medicine Cluster, National University Health System, 1E Kent Ridge Road, NUHS Tower Block Level 10, Singapore, 119228, Singapore

 

Akimasa Sekine

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

 

Jacobo Sellares

Resp Clin Inst, Dept Pneumol, Interstitial Lung Dis Program, Barcelona, Spain

 

Pinar Sen

Izmir Katip Celebi University Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology.

 

Sergio B. Sesia

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

 

Yaron Shargall

Department of Surgery, McMaster University, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada

 

Kiran Shekar

The Prince Charles Hospital, Rode Road, Chermside, Brisbane 4032, Australia.

 

Benjamin Shelley

Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Perioperative Medicine Research Group, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom; Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Clydebank, United Kingdom.

 

Xianli Shen

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School

 

Jianfei Shen

Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Wenzhou Medical University, Taizhou, China

 

David Shersher

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Cooper MD Anderson Cancer Center, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ, USA.

 

William Shi

Massachusetts General Hospital / Cardiothoracic Surgery

 

Norihisa Shigemura

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University Health System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

 

Norihiko Shiiya

First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1, Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, 431-3192, Japan

 

Junichi Shimada

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

 

Yoshihisa Shimada

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

 

Kimihiro Shimizu

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Integrative Center of General Surgery; Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Hospital, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan.

 

Naoki Shimojima

Department of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan.

 

Kyung Min Shin

Department of Radiology, Kyungpook National University Medical Center, Daegu, South Korea

 

Yoon Mi Shin

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chungbuk National University Hospital, Cheongju, Republic of Korea

 

Naofumi Shinagawa

First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, and Department of Surgical Pathology, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

 

Shuichi Shinohara

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chubu Rosai Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

 

Yasushi Shintani

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

 

Satoshi Shiono

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

 

Yuji Shiraishi

Respiratory Disease Center, Fukujuji Hospital, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association, 3-1-24, Matsuyama, Kiyose City, Tokyo, 204-8522, Japan.

 

Yuji Shiraishi

Section of Chest Surgery, Fukujuji Hospital, 3-1-24 Matsuyama, Kiyose, Tokyo, 204-8522, Japan

 

Yasuhiro Shirakawa

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.

 

Samira Shojaee

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, 1200 E. Broad Street, P.O. Box 980050, Richmond, VA 23298, USA

 

Jeffrey Shuhaiber

Heart and Vascular Center and Department of Surgery at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA, USA; University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

 

Sailay Siddiqi

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Postbus 9101 (615), 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

 

Eero Sihvo

Department of Surgery, Central Finland Central Hospital, Jyväskylä, Finland

 

Jerry W. Simecka

Department of Cell Biology and Immunology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA

 

MARIOARA SIMON

Department of Bronchology, “Leon Daniello” Clinic of Pulmonology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

 

Graham Simpson

Department of Thoracic Medicine, Cairns Base Hospital, Cairns, Queensland, Australia

 

Saurabh Singhal

Department of GI-HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India

 

Sudhir Sinha

Sanjay Gandhi Postgrad Inst Med Sci, Dept Clin Immunol & Rheumatol, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

 

Christian Skrabal

Clinic of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany.

 

Clare Y. Slaney

Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

 

Bethany J. Slater

Department of Pediatric Surgery, Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children , Denver, Colorado

 

Francis Edwin Smit

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

 

Piergiorgio Solli

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

 

Yuanlin Song

Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

 

Woo-Jung Song

Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

 

Abraham Sonny

Divisions of Cardiac Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

 

Wen-Jue Soong

Department of Pediatrics, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicines, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Pediatrics, Tri-service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Heather Spader

Joe DiMaggio Childrens Hosp, Div Pediat Neurosurg, 1150 N 35th Ave,Suite 520, Hollywood, FL 33021 USA.

 

Lorenzo Spaggiari

Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy; Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

 

Magda Spella

Laboratory for Molecular Respiratory Carcinogenesis, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Patras, 1 Asklepiou Str., University Campus, 26504 Rio, Greece

 

John Spratt

University of Minnesota Department of Surgery

 

Davor Stamenovic

Department of Thoracic Surgery, St Vincentius Kliniken, Karlsruhe, Germany

 

B. Payne Stanifer

Herbert Irving Pavilion, 161 Fort Washington Avenue, 3rd floor Room 333, New York, NY 10032, USA.

 

Alessia Stanzi

MYAIR Inc., Boston, MA 02116, USA.

 

Joerg Steier

King’s College London, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, London, UK;Lane Fox Respiratory Unit and Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

 

Daniel Steinfort

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

 

Jelena Stojsic

Department for Respiratory and Thoracic Pathology, Service for Pathology, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Pasterova 2, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia

 

Tomas O Stølen

Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; Department of Cardiology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway

 

Justin Stowell

Department of Radiology, Mayo University

 

Slavenka Straus

Clinic for Cardiovascular surgery, Department of Cardiac Anesthesia and Intensive Care, University Clinical Center Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina

 

Tomaž Štupnik

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Melanie Subramanian

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

 

Kenichi Suda

Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Japan

 

Hon Chi Suen

Cardio-thoracic Surgery Centre, Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, Hong Kong, China

 

Seiichiro Sugimoto

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Hospital, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.

 

Keishi Sugino

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Toho University Omori Medical Center, 6-11-1, Omori-nishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo 143-8541, Japan.

 

Kumiya Sugiyama

Department of Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Dokkyo Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Koshigaya, Japan

 

KK Sumalani

Jinnah Postgrad Med Ctr, Dept Pulmonol, Karachi, Pakistan.

 

Ryota Sumitomo

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, 2-4-20 Ohgimachi, Kita-ku, Osaka, 53

 

Jiayuan Sun

Shanghai Chest Hospital

 

Zhonghua Sun

Discipline of Medical Radiation Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia.

 

Isaac Kirubakaran Sundar

Department of Environmental Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA

 

Kei Suzuki

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

 

Justyna Swol

Department of Pulmonology, Intensive Care Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University,  Nuremberg, Germany

 

Michal Szlapka

Asklepios Klinikum Harburg, Department for Cardiac Surgery, Eißendorfer Pferdeweg 52, 21075 Hamburg

Lerchenfeld 106869 Coswig Germany

 

Federico Tacconi

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Tor Vergata, Tor Vergata University School of Thoracic Surgery, Rome, Italy

 

Yuji Tachimori

Cancer Care Center, Kawasaki Saiwai Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan

 

,Shunsuke Taito

Hiroshima Univ Hosp, Dept Clin Practice & Support, Div Rehabil, Minami Ku, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Hiroshima 7348551, Japan.

 

Gabor Tajti

Department of Health Systems Management and Quality Management for Health Care, Faculty of Public Health, University of Debrecen, Nagyerdei krt. 98, Debrecen, 4032 Hungary

 

Toshinori Takada

Uonuma Institute of Community Medicine, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Niigata, Japan.

 

Shinya Takahashi

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

 

Shinzo Takamori

Department of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Asahi-machi 67, Kurume FU 830-0011, Japan

 

Hiroo Takayama

Division of Cardiac, Vascular & Thoracic Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

 

Koji Takeda

Department of Medical Oncology, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan

 

Takayuki Takeda

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Uji‐Tokushukai Medical Center, 145, Ishibashi, Makishima‐cho, Uji, Kyoto 611‐0041, Japan.

 

Masayuki Takeda

Department of Medical Oncology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Japan

 

Kiyoshi Takeyama

First Department of Medicine, Tokyo Women’s Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

 

Nagio Takigawa

Department of General Internal Medicine 4, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan

 

Hiromitsu Takizawa

Department of Thoracic, Endocrine Surgery and Oncology, Institute of Health Bioscience, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

 

Yuval Tal

Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit and Department of Medicine, Hadassah University Medical Center, Outpatient building 7(th) floor, Jerusalem 9112001, Israel.

 

Yuichi Tambo

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

 

Naoya Tanabe

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

 

Paul C. Tang

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

 

Fengwei Tang

中国医学科学院 肿瘤医院 胸外科

 

Julian Tang

Consultant Virologist,  Dept. of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, Univ. Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, UK.

 

Masanori Taniwaki

Department of Cardiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Center Bern, Bern University Hospital, Bern 3010, Switzerland

 

Yusuke Taniyama

Tohoku University, Department of Surgery, Sendai, Japan

 

Issam Tanoubi

Ctr Integre Univ Sante & Serv Sociaux Est De LIle, Dept Anesthesiol, 5415 Blvd Assompt, Montreal, PQ H1T 2M4, Canada

 

Tawee Tanvetyanon

Department of Thoracic Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA

 

Hiroyuki Tao

Division of Thoracic Surgery, NHO Yamaguchi-Ube Medical Center, Ube, Japan

 

Hideki Tashiro

Division of Cardiology, St. Mary’s Hospital, Kurume, Japan

 

Melvin Tay

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.

 

Chee Kiang Tay

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.

 

Marcus Taylor

University Hospital of South Manchester

 

Elaine Teh

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Bristol Royal Infirmary, UK.

 

Tomohiro Terada

Shiga Univ Med Sci Hosp, Dept Pharm, Otsu, Shiga, Japan.

 

Jiro Terada

Department of Respirology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

 

Shinji Teramoto

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Hitachinaka Medical Education and Research Center, University of Tsukuba, 20-1 Hitachinaka-shi, Ibaraki 329-8575, Japan.

 

Loukas Thanos

Department of Medical Imaging and Interventional Radiology, General Hospital of Chest Diseases “Sotiria”, Athens, Greece.

 

Vincent Thomas de Montpreville

Hopital Marie Lannelongue

 

Robert Thurnheer

Kantonsspital, Div Pulm, Zentrum Schlafmed & Heimventilat, CH-8596 Munsterlingen, Switzerland.

 

Stefan Toggweiler

Heart Center Lucerne, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Switzerland

 

Yutaka Tokairin

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan

 

Jacques Tomasi

Cardio-Vascular surgery, University hospital of Rennes, France

 

zhaohui tong

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

 

Jose R. Torrealba

Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas,Texas

 

Davide Tosi

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico - Via Francesco Sforza, 35 Milan, 20122 Italy

 

Agnieszka Trzcinka

Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

Chien-Sung Tsai

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Centre, Taipei, Taiwan; Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, National Defense Medical Centre, Taoyuan, Taiwan

 

Jamsak Tscheikuna

Division of Respiratory Disease and Tuberculosis, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.

 

Kenji Tsuboshima

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Takasago Municipal Hospital, 33-1 Kamimachi, Arai Town, Takasago City, Hyogo, 676-8585, Japan

 

Naomi Tsurikisawa

Hiratuska City Hosp, Dept Allergy & Respirol, 1-19-1 Minamihara, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 2540064, Japan.

 

Chih-Yen Tu

Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, #2, Yude Road, Taichung 404, Taiwan

 

Mauro R. Tucci

Respiratory ICU, Pulmonary Division, Heart Institute (INCOR), Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

 

Izabela Tuleta

Department of Internal Medicine II–Cardiology, Pulmonology and Angiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

 

Simon R. Turner

Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

 

Scott H. Twaddell

Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

 

Keigo Uchimura

Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan

 

Hibiki Udagawa

Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan; Exploratory Oncology Research and Clinical Trial Center, National Cancer Center, Kashiwa, Japan

 

Sadashige Uemura

Division of Chest Wall Surgery, Nishinomiya Watanabe Cardiovascular Center, 3-25, Ikeda-cho, Nishinomiya City, Japan.

 

Sang-Won Um

Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine

 

Akira Umemura

Department of Surgery, Iwate Medical University, 19-1 Uchimaru, Morioka 020-8505, Japan

 

Gisela Unis

Hospital Sanatório Partenon, Ambulatório de Referência de TBDR e MNT, Avenida Bento Gonçalves, 3722, CEP 90650-000, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

 

Marilyn Urrutia

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

 

Fatih Uzer

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kastamonu State Hospital, Kastamonu, Turkey

 

Izhar Uzi

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.

 

Arschang Valipour

Otto-Wagner-Spital, Vienna, Austria

 

Mark I. van Berge Henegouwen

Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Gijs van Boxel

Wycombe Hospital, Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP11 2TT, UK.

 

Erik H.F.M. van der Heijden

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands

 

Pieter Christiaan van der Sluis

Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplant Surgery, University medical center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

 

Berend J. van der Wilk

Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

 

Martijn van Dorp

Department of Surgery, North West Clinics, Alkmaar, Netherlands

 

Robert Van Haren

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

 

Richard van Hillegersberg

Department of Surgery Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3508 GA, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

 

Sander J M van Hootegem

Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

 

Dirk Van Raemdonck

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

 

Gonzalo Varela

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Salamanca University Hospital, 37007 Salamanca, Spain

 

Brian M. Varisco

Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio ;University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

 

Mariuca Vasa-Nicotera

Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

 

Pablo Guisado Vasco

Internal Medicine Department, Complejo Hospitalario Ruber Juan Bravo, European University, Juan Bravo Street 39-49, 28006, Madrid, Spain

 

Yogesh Kumar Vashist

Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, Hamburg, Germany

 

Michele Claudio Vassallo

Department of Cardiac Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Fatebenefratelli-Sacco, Milan, Italy.

 

Marija Vavlukis

University Clinic of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.

 

Mohammad Vaziri

Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Rasoul Akram Hospital, Niayesh Avenue, Sattar Khan Street, Tehran 1448933, Iran

 

Nirmal Veeramachaneni

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, USA

 

Jeffrey Brian Velotta

Department of Surgery, Kaiser Oakland Medical Center, 3600 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94611, USA.

 

Anand N Venkata

Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas

 

Luigi Ventura

Thoracic Surgery, Department of Vascular, Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Parma, Via Gramsci 14, Parma, 43100, Italy

 

Federico Venuta

Department of Surgery “Paride Stefanini” - Thoracic Surgery Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, University of Rome SAPIENZA, Rome, Italy

 

Olga Vera

Department of Molecular Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612, USA

 

Jean-Michel Vergnon

Pneumology Department, Saint-Etienne University Hospital, North Hospital, 42055 Saint Étienne CEDEX 2, France

 

Geert M. Verleden

Department of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium.

 

Maria Gabriella Verso

Univ Palermo, Internal Med & Med Specialties G DAlessandro, Dept Hlth Promot Sci Maternal & Infant Care, Occupat Hlth Unit, Via Vespro 143, I-90127 Palermo, Italy.

 

Alonço da Cunha Viana Jr

Graduate Program of Neurology, Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ;Otorhinolaryngology Department, Marcílio Dias Naval Hospital, Cezar Zania,138, Lins de Vasconcelos, Rio de Janeiro, 20725-090, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

Isabelle Vivodtzev

HP2 Laboratory, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1042, Grenoble Alps University, Grenoble, France; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

 

Luca Voltolini

Thoracic Surgery Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy

 

Luca Voltolini

Thoracic Surgery Unit, University Hospital of Careggi, Florence, Italy

 

Žarko Vrbica

Department of Pulmonology and Immunology, General Hospital Dubrovnik, Dr. Roka Mišetića 2, Dubrovnik, Croatia;University of Dubrovnik, Branitelja Dubrovnika 29, Dubrovnik, Croatia

 

Nguyen Lam Vuong

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, 70000, Viet Nam; Department of Medical Statistic and Informatics, Faculty of Public Health, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, 70000, Viet Nam

 

Hironobu Wada

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan.

 

Shulamit B Wallach-Dayan

Hadassah Univ Hosp, Lung Cellular & Mol Lab, Inst Pulm Med, POB 12000, Jerusalem, Israel.

 

Evelyn Wang

AME groups

 

Yong Wang

Guangzhou Univ Chinese Med, Affiliated Hosp 1, Dept Anaesthesiol, 16 Jichang Rd, Guangzhou 510405, Guangdong, Peoples R China

 

Yi-Xiang Wang

The Chinese U Hong Kong

 

Chun-Hua Wang

Chang Gung Univ, Chang Gung Mem Hosp, Dept Thorac Med, 199 Tun Hwa North Rd, Taipei 105, Taiwa

 

Hao Wang

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

 

Ko-Pen Wang

Interventional Pulmonology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1800 Orleans St., Suite 7125, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA

 

Bing-Yen Wang

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, China

 

Ryuichi Waseda

Department of General Thoracic, Breast, and Pediatric Surgery,  Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan

 

Philip J. Wasicek

Program in Trauma/Critical Care RA Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Atsushi Watanabe

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine and Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

 

Takuya Watanabe

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Respiratory Disease Center, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, 3453, Mikatahara-cho, Kita-ku Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.

 

Masayuki Watanabe

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

 

Guilherme Watte

Department of Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Surgery, Pavilhao Pereira Filho - Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericordia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil

 

Benjamin Wei

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA

 

Jianjian Wei

Zhejiang Univ, Inst Refrigerat & Cryogen, Key Lab Refrigerat & Cryogen Technol Zhejiang Pro, Hangzhou 310027, Zhejiang, Peoples R China.

 

Teun Weijs

Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, Surgery, Michelangelolaan 2, 5623EJ Eindhoven, Netherlands.

 

Benny Weksler

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh ;Medical Center, 200 Lothrop St, PUH C-800, Pittsburgh, PA

15213, USA

 

Daniel Wendt

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

 

Shawn C. West

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, 4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA

 

Tony Whitehouse

Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham B15 2GW, UK; College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

 

Ory Wiesel

Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery SUNY downstate College of Medicine ;Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA

 

Heinrike Wilkens

Pneumology, Saarland University Medical Centre, Homburg, Germany

 

Ian Wong

Division of Esophageal and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

 

Stephanie G. Worrell

Department of Surgery, Divisions of Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

 

Lidia Wozniak-Mielczarek

Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Diseases, Medical University of Gdansk, 7 Debinki Street, 80-211, Gdansk, Poland.

 

Ming-Ting Wu

Department of Radiology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

 

Zhi-Fu Wu

Department of Anesthesiology, Chi Mei Medical Center, No. 901, Zhonghua Road, Yongkang District 71004, Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C

 

Kongming Wu

Department of Oncology, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Building 303, 1095 Jiefang Avenue, Wuhan 430030, People’s Republic of China

 

changgui Wu

Xi’an International Medical Center

 

Kui Xiao

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University

 

Shu-Yuan Xiao

Department of Pathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China;Department of Pathology, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois

 

Shuifang Xiao

Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China.

 

Hua Xie

General Hospital of Northern Theater Command of Chinese People’s Liberation Army

 

Jiaxing Xie

Guangzhou

 

Lixing Xie

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Function Test Lab, General Hospital of People’s Liberation Army, Beijing, China

 

Bo Xu

Section of Cardiovascular Imaging, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic

 

Eunice Xu

AME Editorial Office

 

Jing-Yuan Xu

Southeast Univ, Zhongda Hosp, Sch Med, Dept Crit Care Med, Nanjing 210009, Jiangsu, Peoples R China.

 

Zhiqiang Xue

Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Medical Centre, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.

 

Hideaki Yamakawa

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kashiwa Hospital, Jikei University School of Medicine, 163-1 Kashiwashita, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8567, Japan

 

Hidehiro Yamamoto

Department of Surgery, Yamamoto-Hidehiro Clinic, Tokyo, Japan.

 

Masaomi Yamane

Department of General Thoracic Surgery and Breast and Endocrinological Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-5-1, Shikata-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama, Okayama, 700-8558, Japan

 

Akira Yamasaki

Division of Medical Oncology and Molecular Respirology, Department of Multidisciplinary Internal Medicine, school of Medicine, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago 683-8504, Japan

 

Kotaro Yamashita

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan.

 

Naomi Yamashita

Musashino Univ, Pharmaceut Sci Res Inst, Dept Pharmacotherapy, 1-1-20 Shinmachi, Nishitokyo, Tokyo 2028585, Japan.

 

Yoshikane Yamauchi

Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan

 

Yoshikane Yamauchi

Department of Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Kaga 2-11-1, Itabashi, Tokyo 173-8605, Japan

 

Gao-wu Yan

ChongQing Medical University

 

Satoshi Yanagisawa

Department of Advanced Cardiovascular Therapeutics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

 

Masahiro Yanagiya

Department of Thoracic Surgery, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan

 

Zifeng Yang

State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou Medical University

 

Hyeon-Jong Yang

SCH Biomedical Informatics Research Unit, Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Center, Department of Pediatrics, Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Ting Yang

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center of Respiratory Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease

 

Hee Chul Yang

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Center for Lung Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea

 

Motoki Yano

Division of Chest Surgery, Department of Surgery, Aichi Medical University, 1-1 Yazakokarimata, Nagakute, 480-1195, Japan

 

Hideki Yasui

Hamamatsu Univ Sch Med, Dept Internal Med, Div 2, 1-20-1 Handayama Higashi, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 4313192, Japan.

 

Josef Yayan

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Saarland University Medical Center, Kirrberger Straße. D-66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany

 

Ilhan Yaylim

Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.

 

Xian-wei Ye

The People Hospital of Guizhou Province,

 

Jun-Jun Yeh

Ditmanson Medical Foundation Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan;Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan;

Meiho University, Pingtung, Taiwan

 

Sai Yendamuri

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA

 

Jonathan C Yeung

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

 

Fang Yi

Guangzhou University

 

Jae Suk Yoo

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sejong General Hospital, Bucheon-si, South Korea

 

Hironori Yoshino

Department of Radiation Science, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Health Sciences, 66-1 Hon-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8564, Japan

 

Houssein A. Youness

Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, OK, USA

 

Li Yu

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200065, China

 

Wen-Liang Yu

Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan City; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei City

 

Jeong H Yun

Brigham & Womens Hosp, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115 USA.; Harvard Med Sch, Boston, MA 02115 USA.

 

Haifa Zaibi

Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia, Charles Nicole Pulmonology Department, Tunis, Tunisia

 

Francesco Zaraca

Department of Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Regional Hospital Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

 

Franz Zehentmayr

Paracelsus Med Univ, Dept Radiat Oncol, Mullner Hauptstr 48, A-5020 Salzburg, Salk, Austria.

 

Rui Zhang

Chinese Acad Med Sci, Natl Ctr Clin Labs, Beijing Hosp, Natl Ctr Gerontol, Beijing, Peoples R China; Chinese Acad Med Sci, Inst Geriatr Med, Beijing, Peoples R ChinaPeking Univ, Beijing Hosp, Sch Clin Med 5, Beijing, Peoples R China; Chinese Acad Med Sci, Peking Union Med Coll, Grad Sch, Beijing, Peoples R China; Beijing Engn Res Ctr Lab Med, Beijing, Peoples R China

 

Jian Zhang

Department of Oncology ZhuJiang Hospital of Southern Medical University Guangzhou, China”

 

Zhiyong Zhang

Fudan Univ, Shanghai Publ Hlth Clin Ctr, Dept Radiol, Shanghai, Peoples R China

 

Peng Zhang

上海肺科医院胸外科

 

Tianyu Zhang

Tuberculosis Research Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

 

Zhongheng Zhang

Department of Emergency Medicine, Sir Run-Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

 

Ruoyu Zhang

The Chest Hospital Schillerhoehe, Robert Bosch Krankenhaus, Robert Bosch Foundation, Gerlingen, Germany

 

Yang Zhao

Wuhan Univ, Renmin Hosp, Dept Resp Med, 238 Jiefang Rd, Wuhan 430060, Peoples R China

 

Jincun Zhao

Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University

 

Limin Zhao

Zhengzhou Univ, Peoples Hosp, Henan Prov Peoples Hosp, Dept Resp Med, Zhengzhou, Henan, Peoples R China.

 

Ming Zhong

Department of Critical Care Medicine of Zhongshan Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China

 

Marcin Zieliński

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland

 

Vincent Zimmer

Department of Medicine, Marienhausklinik St. Josef Kohlhof, Neunkirchen, Germany; Department of Medicine II, Saarland University Medical Center, Saarland University, Homburg, Germany.

 

Chunbin Zou

Univ Pittsburgh, Acute Lung Injury Ctr Excellence Pulm Allergy Cri, Dept Med, Sch Med, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA

 

R. Aliyu Zubair

Kaduna State Univ, Barau Dikko Teaching Hosp, Dept Pediat, Kaduna, Nigeria.