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
Editors-in-Chief
Ling Lu, MD, PhD
The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China
Mark J. Lambrechts, MD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Division of Spine Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Christos Tolias, MBBS, PhD, FRCS (Engl), FRCS (SN)
Department of Neurosurgery, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Denmark Hill, London, UK
Associate Editors-in-Chief
Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Zi Qin Ng, MBBS (Hons), MS, FRACS
Colorectal Surgery Unit, Department of General Surgery, The Alfred, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Editorial Board
Abbas E. Abbas, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
John M Abrahams, MD
Neurosurgery, New York Brain & Spine Surgery, White Plains, NY, USA
Alex Alfieri, MD, PhD, IFAANS, FEBNS
Neurosurgery and Spinal Surgery, Winterthur Cantonal Hospital, Winterthur, Switzerland
Zhen Hao Ang, BMed/MD, MSc, FRACS
Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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
Sean M. Barber, MD
Department of Neurosurgery, Houston Methodist Neurological Institute, Houston, TX, USA
Mark F. Berry, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, 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
Francesco Bianco, MD
Division of General, Minimally Invasive & Robotic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Stefano Bongiolatti
Thoracic Surgery Unit, University Hospital Careggi, Largo Brambilla, Florence, Italy
Jessica L. Buicko, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University Medicine, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Giorgio Cacciola, MD
Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Turin, Torino, Italy
Kenneth Siu Ho Chok
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Erik R. de Loos, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Divisions of Thoracic and Trauma Surgery, Zuyderland Medical Center, Heerlen, The Netherlands
Jean G. de Oliveira, MD, PhD, IFAANS
Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, Santa Casa de São Paulo School of Medical Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil
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
Ehsan Dowlati, MD
Department of Neurosurgery, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, USA
Behzad Eftekhar
Department of Neurosurgery, Nepean Hospital, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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
Aimée J.P.M. Franssen, PhD
Department of Surgery, Divisions of Thoracic and Trauma Surgery, Zuyderland Medical Center, Heerlen, The Netherlands
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
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
Jorge Hernández, MD, PhD
Thoracic Surgery Department, Hospital Universitari Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
Tommaso Hinna Danesi, MD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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
Arun-Kumar Kaliya-Perumal, MBBS, MS(Ortho), PhD
Rehabilitation Research Institute of Singapore, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Vasileios K Kouritas, MD, CTh, MBA(Hons), CMgr, MCMI, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK
Oscar Krol, MD
Departments of Orthopedic and Neurological Surgery, NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; New York Spine Institute, New York, NY, USA
Barry T.S. Kweh, MBBS (Honours), DipAnat
Department of Neurosurgery, Austin Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; National Trauma Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Christopher Lau, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Paul L. Linsky, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Stefan Linsler, MD, PhD, MBHA
Neurosurgical Department, Bayreuth Hospital, Medical Campus of Friedrich-Alexander University, Bayreuth, Germany
Brandon Lucke-Wold
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Giuseppe Marongiu
Orthopaedic and Trauma Clinic, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Cagliari, Policlinico Universitario Duilio Casula, AOU Cagliari, Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
Francisco E. Martins
Department of Urology, Santa Maria University Hospital, University of Lisbon, School of Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal
Michele Mercurio
Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, "Magna Græcia" University, "Renato Dulbecco" University Hospital, Catanzaro, Italy
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
Seyed Ahmad Naseri Alavi, MD
Department Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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
Stefano M. Priola, MD
Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, Northern Ontario School of Medicine University, Health Sciences North, Sudbury, ON, Canada
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
Junichi Shimamura, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA; New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
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, PhD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Wythenshawe Hospital, 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 Medical Center, Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA
Adam J. Wells, MD
Department of Surgery, The University of Adelaide; Department of Neurosurgery, The Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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
Bruno Zilberstein, MD, PhD, ECBC, TCBCD, FACS
Department of Gastroenterology, Faculdade de Medicina, Instituto do Cancer do Estado de São Paulo, Hospital das Clinicas of the University of São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Section Editor (Colorectal Surgery)
Peter C. Ambe, MHBA, FEBS, ESSO-Fellow
Department of Surgery II, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany; Department of General Surgery, Visceral Surgery and Coloproctology, GFO Kliniken Rhein Berg, Vinzenz-Pallotti-Hospital Bensberg, Bergisch Gladbach, 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