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
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Anthony P. Yim, MA (Cantab), MA, DM (Oxon), FRCS (Eng, Edin, Glasg)
Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Ltd., Hong Kong, China
Editor-in-Chief
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Ling Lu, MD, PhD
The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China
Associate Editor-in-Chief
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Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Editorial Board
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Abbas E. Abbas, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Alex Alfieri, MD, PhD, IFAANS, FEBNS
Neurosurgery and Spinal Surgery, Winterthur Cantonal Hospital, Winterthur, Switzerland
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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
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Mark F. Berry, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford, CA, USA
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Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP
Department of Thoracic Surgery, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy
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Francesco Bianco, MD
Division of General, Minimally Invasive & Robotic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Jessica L. Buicko, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University Medicine, Boca Raton, FL, USA
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Federico Coccolini, MD
General, Trauma and Emergency Surgery Department, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy
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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
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Andrea Dell'Amore, MD, PhD
Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Science University Hospital, Padua, Italy
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Duilio Divisi
Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
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Hossein Elgafy, MD, MCh, FRCSEd, FRCSC, MBA
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo, OH, USA
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Robert J. Ellis, MD, PhD
Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Piotr Gabryel, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
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Michel Gonzalez, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Andrei I. Gritsiuta, MD, PhD
Department of Surgical Services, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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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
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Harald Hausmann, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Mediclin Herzzentrum Coswig, Lerchenfeld, Germany
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Fernando A. M. Herbella, MD
Department of Surgery, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Sameer Hirji, MD, MPH
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Tomoyuki Hishida, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Jeffrey Indes, MD, FACS
Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
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Dragana Jovanovic, MD, PhD
Thoracic Oncology and Palliative Medicine, Internal Medicine Clinic "Akta Medica", Belgrade, Serbia
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Vasileios K Kouritas, MD, CTh, MBA(Hons), CMgr, MCMI, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK
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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
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Mark J. Lambrechts, MD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Division of Spine Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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Christopher Lau, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Brandon Lucke-Wold
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Francisco E. Martins
Department of Urology, Santa Maria University Hospital, University of Lisbon, School of Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal
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Fabrizio Minervini
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
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Raghav A. Murthy, MD, DABS, FACS, FACC
Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA
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Masaki Nakamura, MD, PhD
Department of Urology, Prostate Center, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Calvin S. H. Ng
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China
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Takaaki Oba
Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan
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Satoshi Onoda, MD, PhD
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery, Toyama University Hospital, Toyama, Japan
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Aung Y Oo, MBBS, FRCSEd (CTh), MD (Res)
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Bart Heart Centre, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK
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Alessandro Palleschi, MD
Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda – Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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Alessandro Pardolesi
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy
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Andy Petroianu
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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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
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Kenichi Suda, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osakasayama, Japan
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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
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Marcus Taylor, MBChB, MRCS, MSc, MBA
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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Alper Toker, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, WV, USA
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Christos Tolias, MBBS, PhD, FRCS (Engl), FRCS (SN)
Department of Neurosurgery, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Denmark Hill, London, UK
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Davide Tosi, MD
Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Fondazione I.R.C.C.S. Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
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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
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Benjamin Wei, MD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
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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
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Ory Wiesel, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
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Ashley R. Wilson-Smith
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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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
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Yojiro Yutaka, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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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