Editorial Team
International Advisory Board
Nicolas Demartines
Department of Visceral Surgery, University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
Thoralf M. Sundt, MD (Cardiothoracic Surgery)
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Editors-in-Chief
Alan D. L. Sihoe, MBBChir, MA(Cantab), FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM, FCCP, FACS (Thoracic Surgery)
Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Yupei Zhao, MD (General Surgery)
Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, President of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China
Associate Editor-in-Chief
Diego Gonzalez-Rivas
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain
Associate Editor
Yaxing Shen, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Editorial Board (Thoracic Surgery)
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
Thirugnanam Agasthian, MBBS, MMed (Surgery), FRCS (Ed), FRCS (G)
Division of Surgical Oncology, National University Cancer Institute (NCIS), Singapore
Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP
Thoracic Surgery-AUSL Romagna, Santa Maria delle Croci Teaching Hospital, Ravenna, Italy
Alessandro Brunelli, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK
Robert J. Cerfolio, MD, MBA, FACS, FCCP
Clinical Division of Thoracic Surgery, New York University Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
David Tom Cooke, MD, FCCP, FACS
Section of General Thoracic Surgery, University of California, Davis Health System, Sacramento, CA, USA
Jose Luis J. Danguilan, MD
Lung Center of the Philippines, Quezon Avenue, Quezon City, Philippines
Todd L. Demmy, MD, FACS, FCCP
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
Joel Dunning, FRCS, PhD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK
Pierre-Emmanuel Falcoz, MD, PhD, FECTS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
Mohsen Ibrahim, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sant'Andrea Hospital, University of Rome 'Sapienza', Rome, Italy
Mahmoud Ismail, MD
Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany
Sanghoon Jheon, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam-si, Korea
Mingqiang Kang, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Peter J. Kneuertz, MD
Thoracic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Jang Ming Lee, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei
Jay M. Lee, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Chaoyang Liang, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China
Douglas Z Liou, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Virginia R. Litle, MD
Department of Surgery, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Franca Melfi, MD
Robotic Multispecialty Centre for Surgery; Minimally Invasive and Robotic Thoracic Surgery; University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Toshiaki Morikawa
Department of Chest Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Ricardo A. Navarro, MD, FCCP
Thoracic Surgery Service, Sanatorio Allende; Cardiothoracic Surgery, San Roque Hospital, Cordoba, Argentina
Calvin Sze Hang NG, BSc (Hons), MBBS (Hons) (Lond), MD (Res) (Lond), FRCSEd (CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM (Surgery)
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
Bernard J. Park, MD
Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
René Horsleben Petersen
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Federico Rea, MD
Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Inderpal S. Sarkaria, MD, FACS
Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Marco Scarci, MD, FRCS, FCCP, FACS, FEBTS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy
K. Robert Shen, MD
Department of Surgery, Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Takashi Suda
Department of Thoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, Fujita Health University Okazaki Medical Center, Gotanda, Harisaki, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
Alper Toker, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, WV, USA
Akif Turna, MD, PhD, FETCS
Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey
Giulia Veronesi, MD
Humanitas Research Hospital, Rozzano, Milan, Italy
Wickii Thambiah Vigneswaran, MD, MBA, FACS, FRCSC, FRCSE (CTh), FICS, FCCP
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Loyola University Health System, System Director of Thoracic Surgery, Edward-Elmhurst Health, Maywood, IL, USA
Benny Weksler, MBA, MD, FACS, FACCP
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Nan Wu, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking University Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China
Editorial Board (Cardiac Surgery)
Martin Andreas, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Tohru Asai, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
Filip P. Casselman, MD, PhD, FETCS
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, OLV Clinic, Aalst, Belgium
Patrick G. Chan, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Allen Cheng, MD
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr. MD, FACS, FRCS-England
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Danny Chu, MD, FACS
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
John M. Craig, MD
Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee, Memphis; Baptist Medical Group, Memphis, TN, 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
Theodor Fischlein, MD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Leonard N. Girardi, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero, MD, PhD
Cardiac Surgery Department, Heart Area, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
Richard Lee, MD, MBA
Center for Comprehensive Cardiovascular Care, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, 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
Louis P. Perrault, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Montreal Heart Institute, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Konstadinos A. Plestis, MD, FACS
Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery - Lankenau Heart Institute, Main Line Health, Wynnewood, PA, USA
Ibrahim Sultan, MD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Johan van der Merwe, MBChB (Pret), MMED (Thorax)(Pret), FETCS (EBCTS)
Atlantic Cardiovascular and Thoracic Institute, Netcare Blaauwberg Hospital, Sunningdale, South Africa
Editorial Board (Gastrointestinal Surgery)
Luigi Boni, MD, FACS
Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Department of Surgical and Morphological Sciences, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
F. Charles Brunicardi, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, David Geffen, School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Giovanni Dapri, MD, PhD
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, European School of Laparoscopic Surgery, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
Michael Ka Wah Li, MBBS (London), MRCS, LRCP, FRCS, FCSHK, FHKAM
Minimally Invasive & Robotic Surgery Development, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Editorial Board (Hepato-biliary and Pancreatic Surgery)
Ammar A. Javed, MD
Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MA, USA
Patrick Pessaux
The Hepato-Biliary and Pancreatic Surgical Unit, Nouvel Hopital Civil (NHC), Strasbourg, France
Matteo Ravaioli, PhD
Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, S. Orsola and Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
John A. Stauffer, MD
Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Matthew J. Weiss
Department of Surgery, Northwell Health Cancer Institute, Lake Success, NY, 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
Hiten RH Patel, BMSc.Hons, BM, BCh, MRCS, PhD, FRCS(Urol), FRCS(Eng)
Department of Urology, University Hospital North Norway, The Arctic University (University of Tromso, UiT), Tromsø, Norway
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
A. Lee Osterman, MD, FAOA
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Jens Ahm Sørensen, MD, PhD
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Odense University Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Language Editors
Jeremy Dean Chapnick
Chief Language Editor, AME Hong Kong office; United States University Carthage College, Wisconsin, USA (Sept. 2012 to May 2016)
John Ayric Gray
Chief Language Editor, AME Hong Kong office; University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (Sept. 2004-June 2009)
Science Editors
Hailing Lian
Editorial Office, Journal of Visualized Surgery
Wei-En Fan
Editorial Office, Journal of Visualized Surgery
Academic Editors
JOVS appreciates the support from a strong team of academic editors who help to identify newly published research articles which have great clinical significance and as well as recommend international experts in the field to comment on the new publications. The list of the academic editors is available here: http://www.theaber.com/academicEditorList.
