Former 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
Former Associate Editor-in-Chief
Taiping Zhang, MD (Pancreatic Surgery)
Department of General Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
Former Associate Editors
Jin He
Department of Surgery, The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Ka-Li Frankie Leung (Orthopaedic Trauma)
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Kevin Phan, BSc (Adv) (Journal section: Spine Surgery)
NeuroSpine Surgery Research Group (NSURG), Sydney, Australia
Former Editorial Board (Thoracic Surgery)
Jean-Marc Baste, MD, PhD
Surgical Department of general and thoracic surgery, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France
Shanda H. Blackmon, MD, MPH, FACS
Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Alessandro Brunelli, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK
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
Hiran C. Fernando, MD
Department of Surgery, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Falls Church, VA, USA
Masatsugu Hamaji, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
Mahmoud Ismail, MD
Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany
Dawn E. Jaroszewski, MD, MBA, FACS
Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Ali Zamir Khan
Medanta, the Medicity, Delhi NCR, India
Hyun Koo Kim, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Korea University Guro Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Jang Ming Lee, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei
Toni Lerut, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Hui Li, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Chao-yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Antonio Martin-Ucar, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK
Marcello Migliore, MD, PhD, FETCS
Section of General Thoracic Surgery, University of Catania, Policlinic University Hospital, Catania, Italy
Daniela Molena, MD
Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Hiroyuki Oizumi
Department of Cardiovascular, Thoracic and Pediatric Surgery (Second Department of Surgery), Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan
Bernard J. Park, MD
Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Inderpal S. Sarkaria, MD, FACS
Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Tomaž Štupnik, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Takashi Suda
Department of Thoracic Surgery, School of Medicine, Fujita Health University Okazaki Medical Center, Gotanda, Harisaki, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan
Adrian Ooi Seng Wae, MB, BCh, BAO, LRCS&SI (NUI), MRCSEd, FRCSEd(C-Th), CCT(UK)
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Gleneagles Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Akif Turna, MD, PhD, FETCS
Istanbul University, Cerrahpaşa Medical School, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey
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
Paul Zarogoulidis, MD, MsC, PhD
Pulmonary Department, “G. Papanikolaou” General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Marcin Zielinski, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland
Former Editorial Board (Cardiac Surgery)
Tohru Asai, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa, Otsu, Shiga, Japan
Gianlorenzo Dionigi, MD, FACS
Department of Human Pathology in Adulthood and Childhood 'G. Barresi', University Hospital 'G. Martino', The University of Messina, Messina, Italy
Theodor Fischlein, MD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Mohammed Hassan, MD, FACS
University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, USA
Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero, MD, PhD
Cardiac Surgery Department, Heart Area, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
Junjiro Kobayashi, MD
National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Fujishirodai, Suita, Osaka, Japan
Nicholas T. Kouchoukos, MD
Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St Louis, MO, USA
Davide Pacini
Department of Cardiac Surgery, S Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Louis P. Perrault, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Montreal Heart Institute, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Javier Gallego Poveda, MD, PhD, FETCS
Department of Cardio-Thoracic, Santa Maria University Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal
Evelio Rodriguez, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Saint Thomas West Hospital, Nashville, TN, USA
Peyman Sardari Nia, MD, PhD
Department of cardiothoracic surgery, University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Gianluca Torregrossa, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Former Editorial Board (Gastrointestinal Surgery)
Kfir Ben-David, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Tao Chen, MD
Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Zhifen Chen, MD, PhD
Department of Colorectal Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Radwan Kassir, MD
Department of General Surgery, CHU Hospital, Jean-Monnet University, Saint Etienne, France
Seon-Hahn Kim, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery and the Director of Cancer Center, Korea University Anam Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Xinxiang Li, MD, PhD
Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China
Mi Lin, MD
Department of Gastric Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fujian, China
John J. Park, MD, FACS, FASCRS
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL, USA
Xuefei Yang, MD, PhD
Section of colorectal surgery, Department of Surgery, the University of Hong Kong- Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China.
Former Editorial Board (Hepato-biliary and Pancreatic Surgery)
Ammar A. Javed, MD
Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MA, USA
A. James Moser
The Pancreas and Liver Institute, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Matteo Ravaioli, PhD
Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, S. Orsola and Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Tao Suo, MD, PhD
Department of General Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Go Wakabayashi, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Ageo Central General Hospital, Ageo city, Japan
Former Editorial Board (Urologic Surgery)
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
Former Editorial Board (Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery)
Marco Innocenti, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Microsurgery, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy
Former Section Editor
Kunal Kochar, MBBS, MS, MD, FACS, FACRS
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA