Former Editorial Board
Abhinav Agrawal, MD
North Shore University Hospital & Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Northwell Health;
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, NY, USA
Beatrice Aramini, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic Diseases, G.B. Morgagni - L. Pierantoni University Hospital, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Forlì (FO), Italy
Edward Araujo Júnior
Department of Obstetrics, Paulista School of Medicine - Federal University of São Paulo (EPM-UNIFESP), São Paulo-SP, Brazil
Wilbert S. Aronow, MD (Internal Medicine: Cardiology)
Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA
Ankur Arora, MD, DNB, FRCR, EdiR (Radiology)
Department of Radiology at the Western Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Adrian Baranchuk, MD, FACC, FRCPC, FCCS
Division of Cardiology, Kingston General Hospital, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Mohamad Bashir, MD, PhD, MRCS
Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Royal Blackburn Hospital, Blackburn, UK
Mark F. Berry, MD (Surgery: Heart & Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Federico Bilotta, MD, PhD (Anaestehsiology)
Professor of Medicine at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Marouane Boukhris, MD (Cardiology)
Assistant professor in Cardiology at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia
Davide Carino, MD
San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
Chiwai Cheung, MBBS(HK), MD(HKU), FHKCA
Department of Anaesthesiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Erin M. Corsini, MD, MSc
Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Houston, TX, USA
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Houston, TX, USA
Hiran C. Fernando, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Dept Surgery, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Falls Church, VA, USA
Marios E. Froudarakis, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Medical School Democritus University of Thrace, and University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupol, Greece
Fernando Gomes Romeiro, PhD
Professor of Medicine at Botucatu Medical School, UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo State, Brazil
Matthew G. Hartwig, MD, MHS
Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Hitoshi Hirose, MD (Surgery: Heart & Thoracic Surgery)
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc
Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Heart Vascular Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA
Meghan O. Kelly, MD
Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Tadashi Kitamura, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Japan
Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, MD, FACC, FHRS
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Kansas Hospital & Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 6616, USA
Adelino Leite-Moreira, MD, PhD, FETCS
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Marc Leone, MD, PhD (Anesthesiology)
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Aix Marseille University, North Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille, Marseille, France
Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri, MD, PhD (Sugery: Hepatobiliary Surgery)
Division of General Surgery and Liver Transplantation, San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy
Xiao Li, MD
Department of Urology, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital & Jiangsu Institute of Cancer Research & Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Nanjing Medical University , Nanjing 210009, China
Michael Lichtenauer
Clinic of Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Jessica G. Y. Luc, MD
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Brittany MA. Salter, MD, PhD (Respirology)
Research Associate at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Amit Bobby Mahajan, MD, FCCP, DAABIP
Medical Director, Interventional Pulmonology, Department of Surgery, Inova Heart and Vascular Center, Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA, USA
Jihad Mallat, MD
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine; Lens’s Hospital, Lens, France.
Critical Care Institute; Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Andrea Mancuso, MD (Internal Medicine: Gastroenterology & Hepatology)
Internal Medicine at ARNAS Civico, Palermo, Italy
M.Blair Marshall, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, USA
Walter McNicholas, MD, FRCPI, FRCPC, FCCP
University College Dublin (UCD), St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Manuela Merli, MD
Gastroenterology, Department of Clinical Medicine, 'Sapienza' University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Toshiaki Morikawa, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
The Jikei University School of Medicine Department of Surgery, 3-25-8,Nishi-shimbashi, Minato-ku,Tokyo 105-8461, Japan
Marco Moschini, MD
Clinic of Urology, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland
Takashi Ohtsuka, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Nishi-Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Takashi Oite, MD, PhD
Department of Clinical Engineering and Medical Technology, Faculty of Medical Technology, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan
Federico Pappalardo
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Raffaele Scientific Institute and San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy
Nimesh K. Patel, MD, FACP, FACC, RPVI
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Xiaolong Qi, MD (General Surgery)
Xiaolong Qi, MD. Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
Dragan R. Subotic (Surgery: Heart & Thoracic Surgery)
Clinic for Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Mohamed Rahouma, MD, MSc
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) / New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA;
Surgical Oncology Department, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cairo University, Egypt
Renata Riha, BMedSc MBBS (Hons) RPSGT FRACP MD (Edin) FRCP (Internal Medicine: Pulmonology)
Department of Sleep Medicine, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Paul Schoenhagen, MD
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Samira Shojaee, MD, MPH, FCCP
Division of pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
Eugene Shostak, MD (Internal Medicine: Pulmonology)
Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Alan D. L. SIHOE, MBBChir, FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM (Surgery: Lung Surgery)
Cardiothoracic Surgery, CUHK Medical Center, Hong Kong, China; Honorary Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China.
Nirmish Singla, MD, MSCS
Urology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Piergiorgio Solli, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Maggiore Hospital and Bellaria Hospital, Bologna, ITA
Yasuhiko Sugawara, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Department of Transplantation/Pediatric Surgery, Postgraduate School of Life Science, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
Kei Suzuki, MD, FACS
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Malgorzata Szolkowska, MD, PhD (Pathology)
Department of Pathology, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Frank Tacke, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterology, Metabolic Diseases and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Aachen, Germany
Yugo Tanaka, MD, PhD
Associate professor of General Thoracic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
Shanhong Tang, PhD (Digestive disease)
Department of Digestion, General Hospital of Chengdu Military Command, Chengdu, 610083, Sichuan Province, China
Paul Van Schil, MD
Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium
Srikanth Yandrapalli, MD (Cardiology)
Department of Cardiology, Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
Sien-Sing Yang, MD, FAASLD
Liver Unit, Cathay General Hospital, Fu-Jen Catholic University School of Medicine, Taipei 10630, Taiwan
Zhongheng Zhang, MM (Critical Care Medicine)
Department of emergency medicine, Sir Run-Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Ming-Hua Zheng, MD, PhD
Department of Hepatology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, China; Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Hepatology, Wenzhou, China; Institute of Hepatology, Wenzhou Medical University, China
Hufeng Zhou, PhD
Instructor, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA