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

The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

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

Federico Coccolini, MD

General, Trauma and Emergency Surgery Department, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, 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

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

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

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

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

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

Mark J. Lambrechts, MD

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

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

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

Zi Qin Ng, MBBS (Hons), MS, FRACS

Colorectal Surgery Unit, Department of General Surgery, The Alfred, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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

Christos Tolias, MBBS, PhD, FRCS (Engl), FRCS (SN)

Department of Neurosurgery, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Denmark Hill, London, UK

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

Patrick Zardo

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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

Editorial Team

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Editor-in-Chief

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Editorial Board

Section Editor (Colorectal Surgery)

Managing Editor

Corresponding Editor

Science Editors