Editorial Team

Editors-in-Chief

Yaxing Shen, MD (Thoracic Surgery)

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Philippe E. Spiess, MD, MS, FACS (Genitourinary Oncology)

Department of Genitourinary Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA

Xingshun Qi, MD (Gastroenterology and Hepatology)

Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Area, Shenyang, China

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Trana Hussaini, BScPharm, Pharm D, ACPR (Pharmaceutical Science)

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, BC, Vancouver, Canada.

Dragan R. Subotic (Thoracic surgery)

Clinic for Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Eric M. Yoshida OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCP(C), FACP, FACG, FCAHS, FAASLD (Gastroenterology)

Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Associate Editor

Alan D. L. Sihoe, MBBChir, MA(Cantab), FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM, FCCP, FACS

Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Editorial Board

Ghassan Abou-Alfa, MD (Liver Cancer)

Gastrointestinal Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

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

Wilbert S. Aronow, MD (Cardiology)

Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA

Beatrice Aramini, MD, PhD

Thoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Edward Araujo Júnior

Department of Obstetrics, Paulista School of Medicine - Federal University of São Paulo (EPM-UNIFESP), São Paulo-SP, Brazil

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

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

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

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

Valerio De Stefano, MD

Institute of Hematology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy

Dawn M. Drahnak, DNP, RN, CCNS, CCRN, CHSE

Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pitt-Johnstown, Johnstown, PA, USA

Director, Gordon Center for Medical Imaging; Director, Massachusetts General Hospital PET Core; Co-Director, Division of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging (Research); Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, 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

Matthew G. Hartwig, MD, MHS

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

Hitoshi Hirose, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Gaëtan-Romain Joliat, MD

Department of Visceral Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland

Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc

Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Heart Vascular Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA

Takatoshi Kasai, MD, PhD

Cardiovascular Respiratory Sleep Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Meghan O. Kelly, MD

Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Simon P. Kim, MD

Division of Urology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO, USA

Tadashi Kitamura, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Japan

Yasuhiko Koga, MD, PhD (Pulmonology)

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma, Japan

Takayuki Kosaka, MD, PhD, FACS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Takasaki General Medical Center, Gunma, 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

Division of General Surgery and Liver Transplantation, San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy

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

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 (Liver diseases)

Internal Medicine at ARNAS Civico, Palermo, Italy

Guglielmo Mantica, MD

Department of Urology, Policlinico San Martino Hospital, University of Genova, Genova, 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

Nahum Méndez-Sánchez, MD, MSc, PhD, FAASLD, FACG, AGAF

Liver Research Unit. Medica Sur Clinic & Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico

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

Mr. Matthew Mowry, MSN, RN, CEN

Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Takashi Ohtsuka, MD, PhD (Thoracic Surgery)

Professor of Surgery, 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

Kazuma Okamoto, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Akashi Medical Center, Akashi, Hyogo, Japan

Kostas Papagiannopoulos, MD, MMED THORAX, MD (CTh)

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

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

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

Shahzad G. Raja, BSc, MBBS (Hons.), MRCS, FRCS(C-Th)

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Harefield Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Sara Ricciardi, MD

Unit of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Renata Riha, BMedSc MBBS (Hons) RPSGT FRACP MD (Edin) FRCP

Department of Sleep Medicine, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Fernando Gomes Romeiro, PhD

Professor of Medicine at Botucatu Medical School, UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo State, Brazil

Brittany MA. Salter, MD, PhD (Respirology)

Research Associate at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Paul Van Schil, MD (Thoracic Surgery)

Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

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

Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

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

Rolf Teschke, MD

Department of Internal Medicine II, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Klinikum Hanau, D-63450 Hanau, Germany

Bo Xu, MD, FRACP, FACC, FASE

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Srikanth Yandrapalli, MD (Cardiology)

Department of Cardiology, Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA

Hufeng Zhou, PhD

Instructor, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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