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

Mark J. Lambrechts, MD

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

Qing-Guo Li, MD

Department of Cardiovascular Center, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Ling Lu, MD, PhD

The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China

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

Lee A. Tan, MD

Department of Neurosurgery, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA

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

Tarik Z Ali, MD, RPVI, FACS

Vascular Surgery, Penn State Health, Hershey, PA, USA

Zhen Hao Ang, BMed/MD, MSc, FRACS

Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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

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

Roberto Colasanti, MD, PhD

Department of Neurosurgery, Azienda Ospedali Riuniti Ancona, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy; Department of Neurosurgery, Maurizio Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy

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

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

Mitchell S. Fourman, MD

Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Montefiore Einstein, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA

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

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

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

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

Aung Y Oo, MBBS, FRCSEd (CTh), MD (Res)

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

Giuseppe Francesco Papalia, MD, PhD

Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy

Alessandro Pardolesi

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

Stefano M. Priola, MD

Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, Northern Ontario School of Medicine University, Health Sciences North, Sudbury, ON, Canada

Amir H. Sadeghi, MD, MSc, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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

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

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

Biagio Zampogna, MD, PhD

Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Via Alvaro del Portillo, Roma, Italy

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

Editorial Team

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Editors-in-Chief

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Editorial Board

Section Editor (Colorectal Surgery)

Managing Editor

Corresponding Editor

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