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, MA(Cantab), FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM, FCCP
Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary 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