Guest Editors
Guest Editors
Meinoshin Okumura, MD, PhD
Osaka Toneyama Medical Center, Toyonaka-City, Osaka, Japan
Jean-Marc Baste, MD, PhD
Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France
Douglas Z Liou, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Johan van der Merwe, MBChB (Pret), MMED (Thorax)(Pret), FETCS (EBCTS)
Atlantic Cardiovascular and Thoracic Institute, Netcare Blaauwberg Hospital, Sunningdale, South Africa
Filip P. Casselman, MD, PhD, FETCS
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, OLV Clinic, Aalst, Belgium
Faysal A Yafi, MD, FRCSC
University of California Irvine, CA, USA
Jay Simhan, MD
Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Martin Gross, MD
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA
Abbas E. Abbas, MD
Temple University Hospital, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Michel Gonzalez, MD
Service of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
Peyman Sardarri Nia, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Kimihiro Shimizu, MD, PhD
Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Integrative Center of General Surgery, Gunma University Hospital, Japan
Seshiru Nakazawa, MD, PhD
Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Integrative Center of General Surgery, Gunma University Hospital, Japan
Jose Luis J. Danguilan
Lung Center of the Philippines, Quezon Avenue, Quezon City, Philippines
Alessandro Brunelli
Department of Thoracic Surgery, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK
Federico Rea
Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Padova, Italy
Tommaso Claudio Mineo
Emeritus Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Tor Vergata University Rome, Rome, Italy
Davide Pacini
Cardiac Surgery Department, Policlinico di Sant’Orsola, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Italy
Roberto Di Bartolomeo
Chief of the Cardiac Department, Universita di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Mohamad Bashir
Cardiothoracic & Aortovascular Surgery – Manchester Heart Centre, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK
Joseph E. Bavaria
Immediate-Past President – Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), CA, USA
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
Roberto Crisci
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Reinhold Perkmann
Thoracic and Vascular Department, General Hospital, Bolzano, Italy
Francesco Zaraca
Department of Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, General Hospital, Bolzano,Italy
Dominique Gossot
Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Paris, France
Jin-Shing Chen
Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Markus Czesla
Klinikum Passau, Germany
Javier Gallego
Hospital Santa Maria Lisbon, Portugal
Meng Chia Shing William
Department of Surgey, Matilda International Hospital, Hong Kong
Jian Hu
First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China
David Tom Cooke
University of California, Davis Health (UC Davis Health), Sacramento, CA, USA
Marcello Migliore
Section of General Thoracic Surgery, University of Catania, Policlinic University Hospital, Catania, Italy
Alan D. L. Sihoe, MBBChir, FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM
Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Matthew J. Weiss, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Northwell Health Cancer Institute, Lake Success, NY, USA
Melissa Hogg
Division of Surgical Oncology, University of Pittsburgh, Scaife Hall, Pittsburgh, USA
Enrico Ruffini
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Robert J Cerfolio
Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Hiroyuki Oizumi, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular, Thoracic and Pediatric Surgery (Second Department of Surgery), Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan
Toshiaki Morikawa
The Jikei University School of Medicine Department of Surgery, Minato-ku,Tokyo, Japan
Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, MD, FECTS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain
Mahmoud Ismail
Surgical Clinic, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Hui Li
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Chao-yang Hospital, Capital Medical University, China
Alper Toker, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, WV, USA
Piergiorgio Solli, MD, PhD
Head of Department of Thoracic Surgery, AUSL Romagna – Ravenna and Forlì Teaching Hospital, Ravenna and Forlì, Italy
Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP
Department of Thoracic Surgery, AUSL Romagna Teaching Hospital, Forlì, Italy
Ricardo A. Navarro, MD
Sanatorio Allende, Cordoba, Argentina
Mingqiang Kang, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou 350001, China
Jin He, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA
Giuseppe Aresu, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Santa Maria della Misericordia University Hospital, Udine, Italy
Kamran Ali
Medanta the Medicity, Gurgaon, India
Marco Scarci, MD, FRCS, FCCP, FACS, FEBTS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy
Nan Wu, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking University Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China