Editorial Team

The management of our journal is a collaborative endeavor by the whole editorial team, featuring an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board. The editorial structure of the journal is listed as below and the roles and responsibilities of the editorial team are available at: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/journal-management#content-title.

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

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

Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Ltd., Hong Kong, China

Editor-in-Chief

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Ling Lu, MD, PhD

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

Associate Editor-in-Chief

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Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD

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

Editorial Board

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Abbas E. Abbas, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Arian Arjomandi Rad, MBBS, BSc (Hons)

Division of Medical Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, School for Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
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Mark F. Berry, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford, CA, USA
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Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP

Department of Thoracic Surgery, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy
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Jessica L. Buicko, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University Medicine, Boca Raton, FL, USA
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Federico Coccolini, MD

General, Trauma and Emergency Surgery Department, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy
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Andrea Dell'Amore, MD, PhD

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

Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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Hossein Elgafy, MD, MCh, FRCSEd, FRCSC, MBA

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH, USA
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Robert J. Ellis, MD, PhD

Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Piotr Gabryel, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
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Michel Gonzalez, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Andrei I. Gritsiuta, MD, PhD

Department of Surgical Services, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Francesco Guerrera, MD, PhD

Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Cardio-Vascular and Thoracic Department, Molinette Hospital, Città della Salute e della Scienza, Turin, Italy; Department of Surgical Science, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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Harald Hausmann, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Mediclin Herzzentrum Coswig, Lerchenfeld, Germany
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Fernando A. M. Herbella, MD

Department of Surgery, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Sameer Hirji, MD, MPH

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Tomoyuki Hishida, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Jeffrey Indes, MD, FACS

Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
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Dragana Jovanovic, MD, PhD

Thoracic Oncology and Palliative Medicine, Internal Medicine Clinic "Akta Medica", Belgrade, Serbia
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Vasileios K Kouritas, MD, CTh, MBA(Hons), CMgr, MCMI, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK
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Mark J. Lambrechts, MD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Division of Spine Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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Christopher Lau, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Brandon Lucke-Wold

Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Francisco E. Martins

Department of Urology, Santa Maria University Hospital, University of Lisbon, School of Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal
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Fabrizio Minervini

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
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Raghav A. Murthy, MD, DABS, FACS, FACC

Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA
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Masaki Nakamura, MD, PhD

Department of Urology, Prostate Center, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Calvin S. H. Ng

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

Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
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Satoshi Onoda, MD, PhD

Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery, Toyama University Hospital, Toyama, Japan
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Aung Y Oo, MBBS, FRCSEd (CTh), MD (Res)

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

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

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
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Andy Petroianu

Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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Ishith Seth, BSc, BBiomedSc(Hons), MD, MS

Department of Plastic Surgery, Peninsula Health, Frankston, VIC, Australia; Faculty of Science, Medicine, and Health, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Department of Surgery, Bendigo Hospital, Bendigo, VIC, Australia
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Kenichi Suda, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osakasayama, Japan
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Panagiotis T. Tasoudis, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Marcus Taylor, MBChB, MRCS, MSc, MBA

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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Alper Toker, MD

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

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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Dominique Vervoort, MD, MPH, CPH, MBA

Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Benjamin Wei, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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Daniel Wendt, MD, PhD, FECTS, FACS, MHBA

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
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Ory Wiesel, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
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Ashley R. Wilson-Smith

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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Tomohiro Yazawa, MD, PhD

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Integrative Center of General Surgery; Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Hospital, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
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Yojiro Yutaka, MD, PhD

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

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Managing Editor

Grace S. Li

Editorial Office, AME Surgical Journal

Corresponding Editor

Skylar F. Gao

Editorial Office, AME Surgical Journal

Science Editors

Cherry Chen

Editorial Office, AME Surgical Journal

Kenney Hong

Editorial Office, AME Surgical Journal

Teresa C. Lin

Editorial Office, AME Surgical Journal

Anne Y. Lu

Editorial Office, AME Surgical Journal

Julia Wang

Editorial Office, AME Surgical Journal