Former Editorial Board

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

Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP
Department of Thoracic Surgery, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Toyofumi Fengshi Chen-Yoshikawa, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

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 Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

Hitoshi Fujiwara, MD, PhD
Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

József Furák
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

Mattia Glauber
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Gruppo San Donato, Milano, Italy

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

Ho-Seong Han, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Fernando A. M. Herbella, MD
Department of Surgery, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Kyoji Hirai, MD
Department of thoracic surgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan

Hitoshi Hirose, MD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Marcelo F. Jimenez, MD, PhD
University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; Department of Thoracic Surgery, Salamanca University Hospital, Salamanca, Spain

Dragana Jovanovic, MD, PhD
Thoracic Oncology and Palliative Medicine, Internal Medicine Clinic "Akta Medica", Belgrade, Serbia

Jae Jun Kim, MD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Uijeongbu St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine, Korea

Min P. Kim, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

Terumoto Koike, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Niigata, Japan

Sofía Martin-Suarez
Division of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Masaki Nakamura, MD, PhD
Department of Urology, Prostate Center, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Takaaki Oba
Division of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan

Alessandro Palleschi, MD
Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda – Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Francesco Petrella, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Tullio Piardi, MD
Department of Surgery, HPB Unit, Robert Debré Hospital-University of Reims-Champagne Ardenne-Reims, France

Calogera Pisano
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy

Bassam Redwan, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Klinikum Westfalen, Klinik am Park, Lünen, Germany

Diyar Saeed
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany

Noriaki Sakakura, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Kenichi Suda, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osakasayama, Japan

Ryan M. Thomas, MD, FACS, FSSO
Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

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

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

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