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
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
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
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
Jessica L. Buicko, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University Medicine, Boca Raton, FL, USA
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 Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
Hossein Elgafy, MD, MCh, FRCSEd, FRCSC, MBA
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH, USA
Robert J. Ellis, MD, PhD
Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Piotr Gabryel, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
Michel Gonzalez, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
Andrei I. Gritsiuta, MD, PhD
Department of Surgical Services, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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
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
Sameer Hirji, MD, MPH
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Tomoyuki Hishida, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Jeffrey Indes, MD, FACS
Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
Dragana Jovanovic, MD, PhD
Thoracic Oncology and Palliative Medicine, Internal Medicine Clinic "Akta Medica", Belgrade, Serbia
Vasileios K Kouritas, MD, CTh, MBA(Hons), CMgr, MCMI, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK
Mark J. Lambrechts, MD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Division of Spine Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Christopher Lau, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Brandon Lucke-Wold
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Francisco E. Martins
Department of Urology, Santa Maria University Hospital, University of Lisbon, School of Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal
Fabrizio Minervini
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Raghav A. Murthy, MD, DABS, FACS, FACC
Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Masaki Nakamura, MD, PhD
Department of Urology, Prostate Center, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Calvin S. H. Ng
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China
Takaaki Oba
Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
Satoshi Onoda, MD, PhD
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery, Toyama University Hospital, Toyama, Japan
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
Alessandro Pardolesi
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
Andy Petroianu
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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
Kenichi Suda, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osakasayama, Japan
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
Marcus Taylor, MBChB, MRCS, MSc, MBA
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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, 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
Benjamin Wei, MD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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
Ory Wiesel, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
Ashley R. Wilson-Smith
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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
Yojiro Yutaka, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Patrick Zardo
Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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