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.

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Scott J. Swanson, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Editors-in-Chief

Lunxu Liu, MD

West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Savvas Lampridis, MD, MSc

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD

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

Editorial Board

Zaid M. Abdelsattar, MD, MS, FACS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Hiroyuki Adachi, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

Evan T. Alicuben, MD

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Mark F. Berry, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Andrea Bille, MD, PhD, FRCS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Alberto Cabañero Sánchez, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

Ilitch Diaz-Gutierrez

Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Wojciech Dudek, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hemer Chest Hospital, Hemer, Germany

Takashi Eguchi, MD, PhD, FCCP, FACS

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

Raja M. Flores, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY, USA

József Furák

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

María Teresa Gómez-Hernández, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Salamanca University Hospital, Salamanca, Spain

Takashi Harano, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Amer Harky, MBChB, MRCS, MSc

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK

Luis J. Herrera, MD

Thoracic Surgery Section, Orlando Health, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

Chuong D. Hoang, MD, FACS

Thoracic Surgery Branch, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, and the Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA; Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD, USA

Takahiro Homma, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Michal Hubka, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA

Mohamed Kamel Hussein, MD, MSc

Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, NY, USA

Taketo Kato, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Hirohisa Kato, MD, PhD

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

Armin Kiankhooy, MD

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart Institute Cedars-Sinai, Huntington Hospital, Pasadena, CA, USA

Biniam Kidane, MD, MSc, FRCSC

Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Douglas Z. Liou

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

George Makdisi, MD, FACS, EMBA, MPH, MS

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA

Taichi Matsubara, MD, PhD

Kyushu University, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fukuoka, Japan

Robert A. Meguid, MD, MPH, FACS

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, USA

Teruaki Mizobuchi, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chibaken Saiseikai Narashino Hospital, Chiba, Japan

Calvin S. H. Ng

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

Akihiro Ohsumi, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Naoko Ose, MD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Ravi Rajaram, MD, MSc, FACS

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Ricard Ramos-Izquierdo, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Bellvitge University Hospital, L´Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Daniel P. Raymond, MD, FACS

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Rishindra Mamidi Reddy, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Noriyoshi Sawabata, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Kawanishi City Medical Center, Kawanishi, Hyogo, Japan

Takashi Suda, MD

Department of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, School of Medicine Fujita Health University Okazaki Medical Center, Okazaki Aichi, Japan

Monisha Sudarshan

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart, and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Kei Suzuki, MD, MS, FACS

Surgery Service Line, Thoracic Surgery, Inova, VA, USA

Jun Suzuki, MD, PhD

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

Luis F Tapias, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Patricia A. Thistlethwaite, MD, PhD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

Gregory Trachiotis, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA; Department of Surgery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

Yoshio Tsunezuka, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Saneikai Social Medical Corporation Tsukazaki Hospital, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan

Simon R. Turner, MD, MEd, FRCSC

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Brooks Udelsman, MD, MHS

Thoracic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of USC – Los Angeles, CA, USA

Kyle J. Van Arendonk, MD, PhD, FACS, FAAP

Department of Pediatric Surgery, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA

Jeffrey B. Velotta, MD, FACS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA

Jessica E. Wahi

Department of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL, USA

Alison Wallace, MD, PHD, FRCSC

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Jon O. Wee, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Benjamin Wei, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA

Abby White, DO

Division of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Editorial Team

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Editors-in-Chief

Associate Editor-in-Chief

Editorial Board

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Managing Editors

Senior Editors

Corresponding Editor

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