Former Editorial Board

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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