Editorial Team

The management of our journal is a collaborative endeavor by the whole editorial team, featuring an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board. The editorial structure of the journal is listed as below and the roles and responsibilities of the editorial team are available at: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/journal-management#content-title.

Editors-in-Chief

Alan D. L. Sihoe, MBBChir, FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM

Cardiothoracic Surgery, CUHK Medical Center, Hong Kong, China; Honorary Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China.

Marco Scarci, MD, FRCS(Eng), FACS, FCCP, FEBTS

Department of cardiothoracic surgery, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London, UK

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Masatsugu Hamaji, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Nara, Japan

Abbas E. Abbas, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Temple University Hospital, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Gregor J. Kocher, MD, MBA (IHM)

Thoracic Surgery, Hirslanden Clinic Beau Site, Bern; Lindenhof Hospital, Bern & St. Clara Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Editorial Board (Thoracic Surgery)

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

Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, Japan

Hirohisa Kato, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Okitama Public General Hospital, Yamagata, Japan

Naoya Kitamura, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Toyama University Hospital, Sugitani, Toyama, Japan

Savvas Lampridis, MD, MSc

National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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

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

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, 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

Editorial Board (Cardiac Surgery)

Editorial Board (Hepato-biliary and Pancreatic Surgery)

Editorial Board (Urologic Surgery)

Kiarad Fendereski, MD

Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Editorial Board (Neurosurgery)

Kenan Arnautovic, MD, PhD, FAANS, FACS, FCNS

Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, TN, USA

Editorial Board (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery)

Karl Waked, MD

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department, Brussel Universitair Ziekenhuis - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Editorial Team

Editors-in-Chief

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Editorial Board (Thoracic Surgery)

Editorial Board (Cardiac Surgery)

Editorial Board (Hepato-biliary and Pancreatic Surgery)

Editorial Board (Urologic Surgery)

Editorial Board (Neurosurgery)

Editorial Board (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery)

Managing Editors

Senior Editors

Corresponding Editor

Science Editors