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.

Editor-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.

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)

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

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

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

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

Editorial Board (Cardiac Surgery)

Andrea Amabile, MD

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA

Massimo Baudo, MD

Department of Cardiac Surgery Research, Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, PA, USA

Johannes Bonatti, MD

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Heart and Vascular Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Danny Chu, MD, FACS

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Enrico Ferrari, MD, FETCS

Division of Cardiac Surgery and Division of Cardiovascular Research, University Hospital of Lausanne; Division of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiocentro Ticino Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland

Patrick G. Chan, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Tommaso Hinna Danesi, MD

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart and Vascular Center, Boston, MA, USA

Jama Jahanyar, MD, PhD, FACS

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Queen's Heart Institute, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA