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

Scott J. Swanson, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Editors-in-Chief

Lunxu Liu, MD

West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Savvas Lampridis, MD, MSc

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

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD

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

Editorial Board

Hiroyuki Adachi, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan

Alberto Aiolfi, MD

IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi - Sant'Ambrogio, Division of General Surgery, Department of Biomedical Science for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Mark F. Berry, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP

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

Andrea Bille, MD, PhD, FRCS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Alessio Campisi, MD

Thoracic Surgery Department, University and Hospital Trust - Borgo Trento, Verona, Italy

Stephanie H. Chang, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

Marco Chiappetta

Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Wojciech Dudek, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hemer Chest Hospital, Hemer, Germany

Takashi Eguchi, MD, PhD, FCCP, FACS

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

Raja M. Flores, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY, USA

József Furák

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

Stefano Giuliani, MD, PhD, FRCS (End)

Division of Specialist Neonatal and Paediatric Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust and UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street, London, UK

Maria Teresa Gómez Hernández, MD, PhD

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

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

Amer Harky, MBChB, MRCS, MSc

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK

Luis J. Herrera, MD

Thoracic Surgery Section, Orlando Health, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Chuong D. Hoang, MD, FACS

Thoracic Surgery Branch, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, and the Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA; Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA

Mohamed Kamel Kamel Hussein, MD

Department of General Surgery, Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Mount Pleasant, MI, USA

Marcelo F. Jimenez, MD, PhD

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

Hirohisa Kato, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okitama General Hospital, Yamagata, Japan

Armin Kiankhooy, MD

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart Institute Cedars-Sinai, Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, CA, USA

Biniam Kidane, MD, MSc, FRCSC

Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Anthony W. Kim, MD

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

Tadasu Kohno, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Respiratory Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

James D. Luketich, MD, FACS

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

George Makdisi, MD, FACS, EMBA, MPH, MS

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA

Giulio Maurizi, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Ospedale Sant’Andrea, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Robert A. Meguid, MD, MPH, FACS

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA

Teruaki Mizobuchi, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chibaken Saiseikai Narashino Hospital, Chiba, Japan

Calvin S. H. Ng

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

Takashi Ohtsuka, MD, PhD

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

Manabu Okawada

Department of Pediatric General and Urogenital Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Naoko Ose, MD

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

Ricard Ramos-Izquierdo, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Bellvitge University Hospital, L´Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Daniel P. Raymond, MD, FACS

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Rishindra Mamidi Reddy, MD

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

Sara Ricciardi

Minimally Invasive and Robotic Thoracic Surgery, Robotic Multispecialty Center for Surgery, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Cristina Rodrigues

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Pulido Valente, Lisbon, Portugal

Junichi Soh, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Piergiorgio Solli, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Takashi Suda, MD

Department of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, School of Medicine Fujita Health University Okazaki Medical Center, Okazaki Aichi, Japan

Zsolt Szabo, MD, PhD

Institute of Surgical Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

Federico Tacconi, MD, MEBTS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Science, Policlinico Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

Patricia A. Thistlethwaite, MD, PhD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

Gregory Trachiotis, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA; Department of Surgery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

Simon R. Turner, MD, MEd, FRCSC

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Jeffrey B. Velotta, MD, FACS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA

Jon O. Wee, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Benjamin Wei, MD

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

Abby White, DO

Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Editorial Team

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Editors-in-Chief

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Editorial Board

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Managing Editors

Corresponding Editor

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