Editorial Team
Editorial Board (Thoracic Surgery)

Patrick Bagan, MD
Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Victor Dupouy Hospital Argenteuil, University of Paris, France

Charles T. Bakhos, MD, MBA, MS, FACS
Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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

Benoit Jacques Bibas, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Raul Caso, MD, MSCI
Department of Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA

Michel Gonzalez, MD
Service of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Tomoyuki Hishida, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, Japan

Sanghoon Jheon, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam-si, Korea

Peter J. Kneuertz, MD
Thoracic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

Calvin S. H. Ng
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China

René Horsleben Petersen
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark

K. Robert Shen, MD
Department of Surgery, Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Yoshihisa Shimada, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Jun Suzuki
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery 2, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Alper Toker, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, WV, USA

Yuichiro Ueda, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Breast and Pediatric Surgery, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan

Hideki Ujiie, MD, PhD, FACS, FCCP
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hokkaido University Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan

Takuya Watanabe, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Respiratory Disease Center, Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan

Benny Weksler, MBA, MD, FACS, FACCP
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Stefan Welter, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lung Clinic Hemer, Hemer Germany

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

Marcin Zielinski, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland