Former Editorial Board

Former Editor-in-Chief

Mark W. Onaitis, MD

Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego Health - La Jolla, Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA

Former Associate Editors-in-Chief

Michel Gonzalez, MD

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

Dominique Gossot, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France

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, USA

Alberto Aiolfi, MD

IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi - Sant'Ambrogio, Division of General Surgery, Department of Biomedical Science for Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Omar Awais, DO

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

Patrick Bagan, MD

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

Benoît Bédat, MD

Section of Thoracic and Endocrine Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Pietro Bertoglio, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS Bologna University Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Thomas J. Birdas

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Stefano Bongiolatti, MD

Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Cardiothoracic Department, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy

Alessandro Brunelli, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK

Bryan M Burt, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

Lucio Cagini, MD

Department of Medicine, Thoracic Surgery, Ospedale S. Maria Perugia, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Alessio Campisi, MD

Thoracic Surgery Department, University and Hospital Trust - Borgo Trento, Verona, Italy

Stephen D. Cassivi, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS, FRCS

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

DuyKhanh P. Ceppa, MD, FACS

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Medical Affairs, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Marco Chiappetta

Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Roberto Crisci, MD

Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of L’Aquila, “G. Mazzini” Hospital, Teramo, Italy

Niccolò Daddi, MD, PhD

Thoracic Surgery Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna Medical School, Bologna, Italy

Tiziano De Giacomo, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, "Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy

Alexandre de Oliveira, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Albert Einstein Israeli Hospital, São Paulo, Brazil

Malcolm M. DeCamp Jr., MD

Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA

Todd Demmy, MD, FACS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, USA

Joel Dunning, FRCS, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK

Thomas A. D’Amico, MD

Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, USA

Felix G. Fernandez, MD, MSc

Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA

Alfonso Fiorelli, MD, PhD, FCCP

Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Caserta, Italy

Erik Folch, MD

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Seth D. Force, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA

Christophoros N. Foroulis, MD, PhD, FETCS, FEBTS

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, AHEPA University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

Piotr Gabryel, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland

Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, MD, FECTS

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

Tomasz Grodzki, MD, PhD, FETCS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Regional Hospital for Lung Diseases, Szczecin-Zdunowo, Poland

Wael C. Hanna, MDCM, MBA

Division of Thoracic Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Sebron Harrison, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Matthew G. Hartwig, MD, MHS

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Mark William Hennon, MD, FACS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA

Tomoyuki Hishida, MD

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

Mohsen Ibrahim, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Sant Andrea Hospital, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy; Mary Culver Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Junji Ichinose, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, the Cancer Institute Hospital of Japanese Foundation of Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Andrea Imperatori, MD

Department of Surgical and Morphological Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Maurizio V. Infante, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University and Hospital Trust, Verona, Italy

Mahmoud Ismail, MD

Surgical Clinic, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Henrik Jessen Hansen, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

David R. Jones, MD

Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA

Chang Hyun Kang, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

Masato Kanzaki, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Mark R. Katlic, MD, MMM, FACS

Department of Surgery, Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA

Anthony W. Kim, MD

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

Hyun Koo Kim, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University Guro Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jacob A. Klapper, MD, FACS

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Peter J. Kneuertz, MD

Thoracic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

Hiroaki Kuroda, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, at the Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Jaroslaw Kużdżał, PhD, FETCS

Professor, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum; Chief of Thoracic Surgery, John Paul II Hospital, Cracow, Poland

Chia-Chuan Liu, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taiwan

Marco Lucchi, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Department, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Hideyuki Maeda, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Giuseppe Marulli, MD

Department of Cardiologic, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University Hospital, Via Giustiniani, Italy

Natsumi Matsuura, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic, Breast and Endocrinological Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

Giulio Maurizi, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Ospedale Sant’Andrea, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Rachel L. Medbery, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA

Robert E. Merritt, MD, FACS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Ohio State University-Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

Marcello Migliore, MD, PhD, FETCS

Section of General Thoracic Surgery, University of Catania, Policlinic University Hospital, Catania, Italy

John D. Mitchell, MD

University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA

Ryoichi Nakanishi, MD, PhD

Department of Oncology, Immunology and Surgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan

Marco Nardini, MD

Barts Thorax Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK

Takashi Ohtsuka, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Nishi-Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Jiro Okami, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan

Kostas Papagiannopoulos, MD, MMED THORAX, MD (CTh) (Surgery: Lung Surgery)

Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK

Kalpaj R. Parekh, MBBS

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA

Valerio Perna, MD, PhD

Thoracic Surgery Unit, Hospital Universitario Son Espases Palma, Palma, Spain

René Horsleben Petersen

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark

Francesco Petrella, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Allan Pickens, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

Eugenio Pompeo, MD

Policlinico Tor Vergata University; Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Tor Vergata Univer-sity, Rome, Italy

Cecilia Pompili MD, PhD

Section of Patient Centred Outcomes Research, Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

Jari Räsänen, MD

Department of General Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery, Heart and Lung Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Sara Ricciardi

Minimally Invasive and Robotic Thoracic Surgery, Robotic Multispecialty Center for Surgery, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Giovanna Rizzardi, MD

Thoracic Surgery Unit, Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital, Bergamo, Italy

Gaetano Rocco, MD, FRCS (Ed), FETCS, FCCP

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy

Cristina Rodrigues

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Pulido Valente, Lisbon, Portugal

Alberto Sandri, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Luigi Hospital, Turin, Italy

Noriyoshi Sawabata, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Nara Medical University School of Medicine, Nara, Japan

Paolo Scanagatta, MD

Thoracic Surgeon, Thoracic Surgery Division, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Marco Scarci, MD, FRCS(Eng), FCCP

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University College of London Hospitals, London, UK

Yoshihisa Shimada, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Kimihiro Shimizu, MD, PhD

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

Joseph B. Shrager, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

Piergiorgio Solli, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Franco Stella, MD, PhD

Chief of Thoracic Surgery, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Brendon M. Stiles, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA

Zsolt Szabo, MD, PhD

Institute of Surgical Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

Federico Tacconi, MD, MEBTS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Science, Policlinico Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

Alper Toker, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Hospital, Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, WV, USA

Yasuhiro Tsutani, MD, PhD

Department of Surgical Oncology, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Ori Wald, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

David Waller, BMedSci, BM, BS, FRCS(Eng), FRCS(CTh), FCCP

Barts Thorax Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK

Gavin M. Wright, MBBS (Melb), FRACS, PhD

Division of Cancer Surgery, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre and Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia