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
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
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
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)
Patrick Bagan, MD
Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Victor Dupouy Hospital Argenteuil, University of Paris, France
Charles T. Bakhos, MD, MBA, MS, FACS
Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP
Division of Thoracic Surgery, IEO European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milan, Italy
Raul Caso, MD, MSCI
Department of Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
Michel Gonzalez, MD
Service of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Tomoyuki Hishida, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, Japan
Sanghoon Jheon, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam-si, Korea
Hiroto Kitahara, MD
Section of Cardiac surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago
Peter J. Kneuertz, MD
Thoracic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Franca Melfi, MD
Robotic Multispecialty Centre for Surgery; Minimally Invasive and Robotic Thoracic Surgery; University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Calvin S. H. Ng
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China
Meinoshin Okumura, MD, PhD
Toneyama National Hospital, Osaka Japan
René Horsleben Petersen
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Marco Scarci, MD, FRCS(Eng), FACS, FCCP, FEBTS
Department of cardiothoracic surgery, Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, London, UK
K. Robert Shen, MD
Department of Surgery, Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Yoshihisa Shimada, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Jun Suzuki
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery 2, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan
Alper Toker, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, WV, USA
Hideki Ujiie, MD, PhD, FACS, FCCP
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hokkaido University Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan
Benny Weksler, MBA, MD, FACS, FACCP
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Stefan Welter, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lung Clinic Hemer, Hemer Germany
Patrick Zardo
Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover/ Germany
Marcin Zielinski, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland
Editorial Board (Cardiac Surgery)
Konstadinos A. Plestis, MD, FACS
Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery - Lankenau Heart Institute, Main Line Health, Wynnewood, PA, USA
Andrea Amabile, MD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA
Danny Chu, MD, FACS
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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
Patrick G. Chan, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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
Richard Lee, MD, MBA
Center for Comprehensive Cardiovascular Care, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, USA
Thomas Martens, MD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Johan van der Merwe, MBChB (Pret), MMED (Thorax)(Pret), FETCS (EBCTS)
Atlantic Cardiovascular and Thoracic Institute, Netcare Blaauwberg Hospital, Sunningdale, South Africa
Leonard N. Girardi, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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
Filip P. Casselman, MD, PhD, FETCS
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, OLV Clinic, Aalst, Belgium
Davorin Sef, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Editorial Board (Vascular Surgery)
Lyubov Chaykovska, MD
Hirslanden Klinic Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland; University of Nicosia Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus
Editorial Board (Gastrointestinal Surgery)
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)
Patrick Pessaux
The Hepato-Biliary and Pancreatic Surgical Unit, Nouvel Hopital Civil (NHC), Strasbourg, France
John A. Stauffer, MD
Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Rebekah R. White, MD
Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Editorial Board (Urologic Surgery)
Eric Chung, MBBS, FRACS
The University of Queensland, Department of Urology, Princess Alexandra Hospital (Brisbane, QLD), Australia
Roger R. Dmochowski, MD
Department of Urology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Faysal A Yafi, MD, FRCSC
Department of Urology, University of California Irvine, CA, USA
Editorial Board (Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery)
George J. Arnaoutakis, MD
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL, USA
Jens Ahm Sørensen, MD, PhD
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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