Editorial Team
Former Editorial Board (Cardiac Surgery)

George J. Arnaoutakis, MD
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL, USA

Leonard N. Girardi, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Konstadinos A. Plestis, MD, FACS
Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery - Lankenau Heart Institute, Main Line Health, Wynnewood, PA, USA

Ibrahim Sultan, MD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Martin Andreas, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Tohru Asai, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

W. Randolph Chitwood Jr
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA

John M. Craig, MD
Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee, Memphis; Baptist Medical Group, Memphis, TN, USA

Gianlorenzo Dionigi, MD, FACS
Department of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood 'G. Barresi', University Hospital 'G. Martino', The University of Messina, Messina, Italy

Theodor Fischlein, MD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany

Mohammed Hassan, MD, FACS
University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, USA

Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero, MD, PhD
Cardiac Surgery Department, Heart Area, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain

Junjiro Kobayashi, MD
National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Fujishirodai, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Nicholas T Kouchoukos, MD
Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St Louis, MO, USA

Davide Pacini
Department of Cardiac Surgery, S Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Louis P. Perrault, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Montreal Heart Institute, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

Javier Gallego Poveda, MD, PhD, FETCS
Department of Cardio-Thoracic, Santa Maria University Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal

Evelio Rodriguez, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Saint Thomas West Hospital, Nashville, TN, USA

Peyman Sardari Nia, MD, PhD
Department of cardiothoracic surgery, University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands