Former Editorial Board

Abbas E. Abbas, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Temple University Hospital, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA

Thomas J. Birdas

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

Bryan M Burt, MD

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

Stephen D. Cassivi, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS, FRCS

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Medical Affairs, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Tiziano De Giacomo, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, "Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy

Todd Demmy, MD, FACS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, USA

Joel Dunning, FRCS, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK

Thomas A. D’Amico, MD

Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, USA

Felix G. Fernandez, MD, MSc

Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA

Erik Folch, MD

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Seth D. Force, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA

Christophoros N. Foroulis, MD, PhD, FETCS, FEBTS

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

Tomasz Grodzki, MD, PhD, FETCS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Regional Hospital for Lung Diseases, Szczecin-Zdunowo, Poland

Wael C. Hanna, MDCM, MBA

Division of Thoracic Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Matthew G. Hartwig, MD, MHS

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Mark William Hennon, MD, FACS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA

Maurizio V. Infante, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University and Hospital Trust, Verona, Italy

Mahmoud Ismail, MD

Surgical Clinic, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Henrik Jessen Hansen, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

David R. Jones, MD

Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA

Chang Hyun Kang, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

Masato Kanzaki, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Hyun Koo Kim, MD, PhD

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

Jacob A. Klapper, MD, FACS

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Hiroaki Kuroda, MD, PhD

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

Jaroslaw Kużdżał, PhD, FETCS

Professor, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum; Chief of Thoracic Surgery, John Paul II Hospital, Cracow, Poland

Chia-Chuan Liu, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taiwan

Hideyuki Maeda, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Giuseppe Marulli, MD

Department of Cardiologic, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University Hospital, Via Giustiniani, Italy

Rachel L. Medbery, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA

John D. Mitchell, MD

University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA

Ryoichi Nakanishi, MD, PhD

Department of Oncology, Immunology and Surgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan

Jiro Okami, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan

Kostas Papagiannopoulos, MD, MMED THORAX, MD (CTh)

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

Kalpaj R. Parekh, MBBS

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA

Valerio Perna, MD, PhD

Thoracic Surgery Unit, Hospital Universitario Son Espases Palma, Palma, Spain

Francesco Petrella, MD

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

Eugenio Pompeo, MD

Policlinico Tor Vergata University; Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Tor Vergata Univer-sity, Rome, Italy

Cecilia Pompili MD, PhD

Section of Patient Centred Outcomes Research, Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Giovanna Rizzardi, MD

Thoracic Surgery Unit, Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital, Bergamo, Italy

Gaetano Rocco, MD, FRCS (Ed), FETCS, FCCP

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy

Noriyoshi Sawabata, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Nara Medical University School of Medicine, Nara, Japan

Marco Scarci, MD, FRCS(Eng), FCCP

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University College of London Hospitals, London, UK

Kimihiro Shimizu, MD, PhD

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

Joseph B. Shrager, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

Franco Stella, MD, PhD

Chief of Thoracic Surgery, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Brendon M. Stiles, MD

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

Yasuhiro Tsutani, MD, PhD

Department of Surgical Oncology, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Ori Wald, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

David Waller, BMedSci, BM, BS, FRCS(Eng), FRCS(CTh), FCCP

Barts Thorax Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK

Gavin M. Wright, MBBS (Melb), FRACS, PhD

Division of Cancer Surgery, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre and Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Kazuhiro Yasufuku, MD, PhD, FCCP

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Sai Yendamuri, MD, FACS, FCCP

Thoracic Oncology Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, USA

Marcin Zielinski, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland

Former Editorial Board

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