Former Editor-in-Chief
Christos Tolias, MBBS, PhD, FRCS (Engl), FRCS (SN)
Department of Neurosurgery, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Denmark Hill, London, UK
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
Jessica L. Buicko, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University Medicine, Boca Raton, FL, USA
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
Piotr Gabryel, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland
Mattia Glauber
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Gruppo San Donato, Milano, Italy
Michel Gonzalez, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
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
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
Kyoji Hirai, MD
Department of thoracic surgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan
Sameer Hirji, MD, MPH
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Hitoshi Hirose, MD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 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
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
Vasileios K Kouritas, MD, CTh, MBA(Hons), CMgr, MCMI, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK
Brandon Lucke-Wold
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Sofía Martin-Suarez
Division of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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
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
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
Francesco Petrella, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
Andy Petroianu
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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
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
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
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
Patrick Zardo
Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
