Editorial Team

North Shore University Hospital & Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Northwell Health; Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, NY, USA

University of Milan, Istituto Clinico Sant’Ambrogio, Milan, Italy

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic Diseases, G.B. Morgagni - L. Pierantoni University Hospital, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Forlì (FO), Italy

Department of Obstetrics, Paulista School of Medicine - Federal University of São Paulo (EPM-UNIFESP), São Paulo-SP, Brazil

Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA

Department of Radiology at the Western Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Division of Cardiology, Kingston General Hospital, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Royal Blackburn Hospital, Blackburn, UK

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

Professor of Medicine at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

General Surgery Clinic, Surgical Department, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy

Assistant professor in Cardiology at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Department of Anaesthesiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Houston, TX, USA University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Houston, TX, USA

International School Reduced Scar Laparoscopy, Minimally Invasive General & Oncologic Surgery Center, Humanitas Gavazzeni University Hospital, Bergamo, Italy

Department of Urology, AC Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil

Institute of Hematology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy

Department of Maternal Infant and Urologic Sciences, 'Sapienza' University of Rome, Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, Rome, Italy

Department of Medical Oncology and Translational Research Institute, National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Director, Gordon Center for Medical Imaging; Director, Massachusetts General Hospital PET Core; Co-Director, Division of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging (Research); Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, USA

Dept Surgery, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Falls Church, VA, USA

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Medical School Democritus University of Thrace, and University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupol, Greece

Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, FL. USA

Professor of Medicine at Botucatu Medical School, UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo State, Brazil

Division of Medical Oncology, ‘S. G. Moscati’ Hospital, Avellino, Italy

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Department of Digestive and General Surgery, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Japan

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, Gunma, Japan

Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Heart Vascular Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA

Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Division of Urology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO, USA

Associate Professor of Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Japan

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma, Japan

Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Takasaki General Medical Center, Gunma, Japan

Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Kansas Hospital & Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 6616, USA

Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Nord Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux Universitaires de Marseille, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France

Division of General Surgery and Liver Transplantation, San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy

Department of Urology, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital & Jiangsu Institute of Cancer Research & Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Nanjing Medical University , Nanjing 210009, China

Clinic of Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Research Associate at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Medical Director, Interventional Pulmonology, Department of Surgery, Inova Heart and Vascular Center, Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA, USA

Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine; Lens’s Hospital, Lens, France. Critical Care Institute; Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Urological Clinic, Department of Surgical Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences, University Hospital of Padova Medical School, Padova, Italy.

Internal Medicine at ARNAS Civico, Palermo, Italy

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, USA

University College Dublin (UCD), St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Gastroenterology, Department of Clinical Medicine, 'Sapienza' University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Department of Urology, University Clinics of Brussels, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

The Jikei University School of Medicine Department of Surgery, 3-25-8,Nishi-shimbashi, Minato-ku,Tokyo 105-8461, Japan

Clinic of Urology, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland

Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Nishi-Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Department of Clinical Engineering and Medical Technology, Faculty of Medical Technology, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA

Department of Urology, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt

Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Raffaele Scientific Institute and San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy

Medical Director, Avant Concierge Urology, 15548 W. Colonial Drive, Winter Garden, FL 34787, USA; Associate Professor, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL 32816, USA.

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

Avera Hepatology and Transplant Institute, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD, USA

Xiaolong Qi, MD. Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Clinic for Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) / New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA; Surgical Oncology Department, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cairo University, Egypt

Department of Sleep Medicine, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Department of Surgery at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA

Medical Oncology Unit, Department of Onco-Hematology, Papardo Hospital, Messina, Italy

Multidisciplinary Breast Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore

Division of pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

Cardiothoracic Surgery, CUHK Medical Center, Hong Kong, China; Honorary Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China.

New York Proton Center, New York, NY, USA; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Urology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Maggiore Hospital and Bellaria Hospital, Bologna, ITA

Associate Professor of Department of Transplantation/Pediatric Surgery, Postgraduate School of Life Science, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

Department of Pathology, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland

Department of Gastroenterology, Metabolic Diseases and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Aachen, Germany

Associate professor of General Thoracic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Department of Digestion, General Hospital of Chengdu Military Command, Chengdu, 610083, Sichuan Province, China

Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Rome Sapienza, Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy

Martini-Klinik Prostate Cancer Center, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Department of Cardiology, Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA

Liver Unit, Cathay General Hospital, Fu-Jen Catholic University School of Medicine, Taipei 10630, Taiwan

Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto, Japan

Department of emergency medicine, Sir Run-Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Department of Hepatology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, China; Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Hepatology, Wenzhou, China; Institute of Hepatology, Wenzhou Medical University, China

Instructor, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA