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
Mattia Glauber
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Gruppo San Donato, Milano, Italy
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
Sofía Martin-Suarez
Division of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, 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
Ryan M. Thomas, MD, FACS, FSSO
Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 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