Editorial Team

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Anthony P. Yim, MA(Cantab), MA, DM(Oxon), FRCS(Eng, Edin, Glasg)

Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Ltd., Hong Kong, China

Editor-in-Chief

Ling Lu, MD, PhD

Division of Liver Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD

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

Editorial Board

Abbas E. Abbas, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Mark F. Berry, MD

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

Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP

Department of Thoracic Surgery, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Toyofumi Fengshi Chen-Yoshikawa, MD, PhD

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

Federico Coccolini, MD

General, Trauma and Emergency Surgery Department, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy

Andrea Dell'Amore, MD, PhD

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Science University Hospital, Padua, Italy

Duilio Divisi

Department of MeSVA, University of L’Aquila, Thoracic Surgery Unit, “Giuseppe Mazzini Hospital” of Teramo, Italy

Hitoshi Fujiwara, MD, PhD

Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

József Furák

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

Mattia Glauber

U.O. Cardiochirurgia Mininvasiva, Istituto Clinico Sant’Ambrogio, Gruppo San Donato, Milano, Italy

Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, A.O.U. Città Della Salute e Della Scienza di Torino, Torino, Italy; Department of Surgical Sciences, Università Degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy

Ho-Seong Han, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Harald Hausmann, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Mediclin Herzzentrum Coswig, Lerchenfeld, Germany

Fernando A. M. Herbella, MD

Department of Surgery, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Kyoji Hirai, MD

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

Hitoshi Hirose, MD

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

Jeffrey Indes, MD, FACS

Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA

Marcelo F. Jimenez, MD, PhD

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

Dragana Jovanovic, MD, PhD

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

Jae Jun Kim, MD

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

Min P. Kim, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

Terumoto Koike, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Niigata, Japan

Christopher Lau, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Sofía Martin-Suarez

Division of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Calvin S. H. Ng

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

Aung Y Oo, MBBS, FRCSEd(CTh), MD(Res)

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Bart Heart Centre, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK

Alessandro Palleschi, MD

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda – Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Francesco Petrella, MD

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

Tullio Piardi, MD

Department of Surgery, HPB Unit, Robert Debré Hospital-University of Reims-Champagne Ardenne-Reims, France

Calogera Pisano

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy

Bassam Redwan, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Klinikum Westfalen, Klinik am Park, Lünen, Germany

Diyar Saeed

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

Noriaki Sakakura, MD, PhD

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

Kenichi Suda, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine

Ryan M. Thomas, MD, FACS, FSSO

Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Alper Toker, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, WV, USA

Davide Tosi, MD

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Dominique Vervoort, MD

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Benjamin Wei, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Ory Wiesel, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA

Anna Witkowska, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Centre of Medical Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland

Yojiro Yutaka, MD, PhD

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

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