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.

Editor-in-Chief

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Alan D. L. Sihoe, MBBChir, FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM

Cardiothoracic Surgery, CUHK Medical Center, Hong Kong, China; Honorary Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China.

Associate Editors-in-Chief

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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, PA, USA
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Gregor J. Kocher, MD, MBA (IHM)

Thoracic Surgery, Hirslanden Clinic Beau Site, Bern; Lindenhof Hospital, Bern & St. Clara Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Editorial Board (Thoracic Surgery)

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Patrick Bagan, MD

Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Victor Dupouy Hospital Argenteuil, University of Paris, France
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Charles T. Bakhos, MD, MBA, MS, FACS

Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP

Division of Thoracic Surgery, IEO European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy
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Raul Caso, MD, MSCI

Department of Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
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Michel Gonzalez, MD

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

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, Japan
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Sanghoon Jheon, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam-si, Korea
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Hiroto Kitahara, MD

Section of Cardiac surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago
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Peter J. Kneuertz, MD

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

Robotic Multispecialty Centre for Surgery; Minimally Invasive and Robotic Thoracic Surgery; University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Calvin S. H. Ng

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

Toneyama National Hospital, Osaka Japan
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René Horsleben Petersen

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
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Marco Scarci, MD, FRCS(Eng), FACS, FCCP, FEBTS

Department of cardiothoracic surgery, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London, UK
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K. Robert Shen, MD

Department of Surgery, Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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Yoshihisa Shimada, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Jun Suzuki

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

Department of Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, WV, USA
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Hideki Ujiie, MD, PhD, FACS, FCCP

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hokkaido University Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan
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Benny Weksler, MBA, MD, FACS, FACCP

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Stefan Welter, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lung Clinic Hemer, Hemer Germany
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Patrick Zardo

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover/ Germany
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Marcin Zielinski, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland

Editorial Board (Cardiac Surgery)

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Konstadinos A. Plestis, MD, FACS

Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery - Lankenau Heart Institute, Main Line Health, Wynnewood, PA, USA
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Andrea Amabile, MD

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA
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Danny Chu, MD, FACS

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Enrico Ferrari, MD, FETCS

Division of Cardiac Surgery and Division of Cardiovascular Research, University Hospital of Lausanne; Division of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiocentro Ticino Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland
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Patrick G. Chan, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Jama Jahanyar, MD, PhD, FACS

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Queen's Heart Institute, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
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Richard Lee, MD, MBA

Center for Comprehensive Cardiovascular Care, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, USA
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Thomas Martens, MD

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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Johan van der Merwe, MBChB (Pret), MMED (Thorax)(Pret), FETCS (EBCTS)

Atlantic Cardiovascular and Thoracic Institute, Netcare Blaauwberg Hospital, Sunningdale, South Africa
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Leonard N. Girardi, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Tom C. Nguyen, MD, FACS, FACC

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, USA
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Filip P. Casselman, MD, PhD, FETCS

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, OLV Clinic, Aalst, Belgium
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Davorin Sef, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Editorial Board (Vascular Surgery)

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Lyubov Chaykovska, MD

Hirslanden Klinic Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland; University of Nicosia Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus

Editorial Board (Gastrointestinal Surgery)

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F. Charles Brunicardi, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery, David Geffen, School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Editorial Board (Hepato-biliary and Pancreatic Surgery)

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Patrick Pessaux

The Hepato-Biliary and Pancreatic Surgical Unit, Nouvel Hopital Civil (NHC), Strasbourg, France
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John A. Stauffer, MD

Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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Rebekah R. White, MD

Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Editorial Board (Urologic Surgery)

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Eric Chung, MBBS, FRACS

The University of Queensland, Department of Urology, Princess Alexandra Hospital (Brisbane, QLD), Australia
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Roger R. Dmochowski, MD

Department of Urology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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Faysal A Yafi, MD, FRCSC

Department of Urology, University of California Irvine, CA, USA

Editorial Board (Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery)

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George J. Arnaoutakis, MD

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Jens Ahm Sørensen, MD, PhD

Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Managing Editor

Grace S. Li

Editorial Office, Journal of Visualized Surgery

Corresponding Editor

Lucine M. Gao

Editorial Office, Journal of Visualized Surgery

Science Editors

Cherry Chen

Editorial Office, Journal of Visualized Surgery

Wei-En Fan

Editorial Office, Journal of Visualized Surgery

Hailing Lian

Editorial Office, Journal of Visualized Surgery

Anne Y. Lu

Editorial Office, Journal of Visualized Surgery