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
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic Diseases, G.B. Morgagni - L. Pierantoni University Hospital, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Forlì (FO), Italy

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

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

Georges El Fakhri, PhD
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

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

Takatoshi Kasai, MD, PhD
Cardiovascular Respiratory Sleep Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Simon P. Kim, MD
Division of Urology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO, USA

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

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

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

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

Francisco E. Martins, MD
Department of Urology, University of Lisbon, School of Medicine, Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal

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

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

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

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

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

Zhiping Yang, PhD (Health Policy and Management)
Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China
Managing Editors
Eunice X. Xu
Editorial Office, AME Medical Journal, China
Grace S. Li
Editorial Office, AME Medical Journal, China
Science Editors
Wei-En Fan
Editorial Office, AME Medical Journal, China
Hestia S. He
Editorial Office, AME Medical Journal, China