Guest Editors

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.

Guest Editors

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Meinoshin Okumura, MD, PhD

Osaka Toneyama Medical Center, Toyonaka-City, Osaka, Japan
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Jean-Marc Baste, MD, PhD

Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France
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Douglas Z Liou, MD

Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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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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Filip P. Casselman, MD, PhD, FETCS

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, OLV Clinic, Aalst, Belgium
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Faysal A Yafi, MD, FRCSC

University of California Irvine, CA, USA
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Jay Simhan, MD

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA 
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Martin Gross, MD

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA
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Abbas E. Abbas, MD

Temple University Hospital, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Michel Gonzalez, MD

Service of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Peyman Sardarri Nia, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Kimihiro Shimizu, MD, PhD

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Integrative Center of General Surgery, Gunma University Hospital, Japan
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Seshiru Nakazawa, MD, PhD

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Integrative Center of General Surgery, Gunma University Hospital, Japan
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Jose Luis J. Danguilan

Lung Center of the Philippines, Quezon Avenue, Quezon City, Philippines
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Alessandro Brunelli

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

Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Padova, Italy
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Tommaso Claudio Mineo

Emeritus Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Tor Vergata University Rome, Rome, Italy
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Davide Pacini

Cardiac Surgery Department, Policlinico di Sant’Orsola, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Italy
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Roberto Di Bartolomeo

Chief of the Cardiac Department, Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Mohamad Bashir

Cardiothoracic & Aortovascular Surgery – Manchester Heart Centre, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK
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Joseph E. Bavaria

Immediate-Past President – Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), CA, USA
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Allen Cheng

Surgical Director of Advanced Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Oklahoma Heart Institute, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK, USA
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Roberto Crisci

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of L’Aquila, Italy
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Reinhold Perkmann

Thoracic and Vascular Department, General Hospital, Bolzano, Italy
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Francesco Zaraca

Department of Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital, Bolzano,Italy
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Dominique Gossot

Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Paris, France
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Jin-Shing Chen

Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
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Markus Czesla

Klinikum Passau, Germany
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Javier Gallego

Hospital Santa Maria Lisbon, Portugal
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Meng Chia Shing William

Department of Surgey, Matilda International Hospital, Hong Kong
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Jian Hu

First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China
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David Tom Cooke

University of California, Davis Health (UC Davis Health), Sacramento, CA, USA
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Marcello Migliore

Section of General Thoracic Surgery, University of Catania, Policlinic University Hospital, Catania, Italy
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Alan D. L. Sihoe, MBBChir, FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM

Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China
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Matthew J. Weiss, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery, Northwell Health Cancer Institute, Lake Success, NY, USA
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Melissa Hogg

Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Pittsburgh, Scaife Hall, Pittsburgh, USA
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Enrico Ruffini

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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Robert J Cerfolio

Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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Hiroyuki Oizumi, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiovascular, Thoracic and Pediatric Surgery (Second Department of Surgery), Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan
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Toshiaki Morikawa

The Jikei University School of Medicine Department of Surgery, Minato-ku,Tokyo, Japan
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Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, MD, FECTS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain
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Mahmoud Ismail

Surgical Clinic, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
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Hui Li

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Chao-yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, China
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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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Piergiorgio Solli, MD, PhD

Head of Department of Thoracic Surgery, AUSL Romagna – Ravenna and Forlì Teaching Hospital, Ravenna and Forlì, Italy
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Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP

Department of Thoracic Surgery, AUSL Romagna Teaching Hospital, Forlì, Italy
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Ricardo A. Navarro, MD

Sanatorio Allende, Cordoba, Argentina
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Mingqiang Kang, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou 350001, China
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Jin He, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA
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Giuseppe Aresu, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Santa Maria della Misericordia University Hospital, Udine, Italy
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Kamran Ali

Medanta the Medicity, Gurgaon, India
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Marco Scarci, MD, FRCS, FCCP, FACS, FEBTS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy
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Nan Wu, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking University Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China