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
Assistant Director, Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, 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, United Kingdom; Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London United Kingdom; 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
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 MeSVA, University of L’Aquila, Thoracic Surgery Unit, “Giuseppe Mazzini Hospital” of Teramo, Italy
Robert J. Ellis, MD, PhD
Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Mattia Glauber
U.O. Cardiochirurgia Mininvasiva, Istituto Clinico Sant’Ambrogio, Gruppo San Donato, Milano, Italy
Francesco Guerrera, MD
Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, A.O.U. Città Della Salute e Della Scienza di Torino, Torino, Italy; Department of Surgical Sciences, Università Degli Studi di Torino, 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
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
Christopher Lau, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Sofía Martin-Suarez
Division of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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
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
Andy Petroianu
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Diyar Saeed
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Kenichi Suda, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Japan
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
Anna Witkowska, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Centre of Medical Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland
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