Editorial Team

The management of our journal is a collaborative endeavor by the whole editorial team, featuring an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board. The editorial structure of the journal is listed as below and the roles and responsibilities of the editorial team are available at: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/journal-management#content-title.

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Philippe E. Spiess, MD, MS, FACS (Oncology: Genitourinary Cancer)

Department of Genitourinary Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL, USA

Editors-in-Chief

Yaxing Shen, MD (Surgery: Lung Surgery)

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Bryce A. Baird, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)

Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA

Xingshun Qi, MD (Internal Medicine: Gastroenterology & Hepatology)

Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Area, Shenyang, China

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Shahzad G. Raja, BSc, MBBS (Hons.), MRCS, FRCS(C-Th) (Surgery: Cardiac Surgery)

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Harefield Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Trana Hussaini, BScPharm, PharmD, ACPR, MHSc

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, BC, Vancouver, Canada.

Editorial Board

Ghassan Abou-Alfa

Gastrointestinal Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Feredun S. Azari

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Federico Cappuzzo, MD (Oncology: Lung Cancer)

Director, Division of Medical Oncology 2, IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy

Francesco Chierigo, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)

Department of Surgical and Diagnostic Integrated Sciences (DISC), University of Genova, Genova, Italy; Department of Urology, IRCCS Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy

William C. CHO, Ph. D., RCMP, FHKIMLS, FHKSMDS, Chartered Scientist (UK), FIBMS (UK) (Oncology)

Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Francesco Del Giudice, MD, PhD, FEBU

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

Wolfram Dempke

Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Medical School, Munich, Germany

Devang Desai (Surgery: Urological Surgery)

University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Dawn M. Drahnak, DNP, RN, CCNS, CCRN, CHSE (Medical Tests and Health Care: Nursing)

Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Pitt-Johnstown, Johnstown, PA, USA

Jimmy T. Efird

Department of Radiation Oncology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, USA

Naohiro Ishii, MD, PhD

Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, International University of Health and Welfare Hospital, Japan

Gaetano Isola (Dentistry)

Department of General Surgery and Surgical-Medical Specialties, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Gaëtan-Romain Joliat, MD (Sugery: Hepatobiliary Surgery)

Department of Visceral Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland

Takatoshi Kasai, MD, PhD (Internal Medicine: Cardiovascular disease)

Cardiovascular Respiratory Sleep Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Izumi Kawagoe

Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Juntendo University, Graduate school of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine.

Biniam Kidane, MD, MSc, FRCSC (Surgery: Heart & Thoracic Surgery)

Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Tobias Klatte, MD

Helios Klinikum Bad Saarow, Bad Saarow, Germany

Guglielmo Mantica, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)

Department of Urology, Policlinico San Martino Hospital, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Kazuma Okamoto, MD, PhD (Surgery: Cardiac Surgery)

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Akashi Medical Center, Akashi, Hyogo, Japan

Don Young Park

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Bassam Redwan (Surgery: Lung Surgery)

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Klinik am Park, Klinikum Westfalen, Luenen, Germany

Sara Ricciardi

Minimally Invasive and Robotic Thoracic Surgery, Robotic Multispecialty Center for Surgery, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Roger L. Royster, MD (Anesthesiology)

Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

Warren M Rozen, MD, PhD (Surgery: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery)

Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Frankston Hospital, Peninsula Health, Frankston, Victoria, Australia

Fabio Sbaraglia, MD Ph.D (Anesthesia and Intensive Care)

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Alfredo Tartarone, MD

Department of Onco-Hematology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico della Basilicata, IRCCS, via Padre Pio 1, 85028 Rionero in Vulture (PZ), Italy.

Rolf Teschke, MD

Department of Internal Medicine II, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Klinikum Hanau, D-63450 Hanau, Germany

Fumihiko Urabe, M.D., Ph.D.

Department of Urology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Giustino Varrassi, M.D (Anesthesiology)

Paolo Procacci Foundation, 00193 Roma, Italy

Nestor Villamizar, MD (Surgery: Lung Surgery)

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

Michael J. Whalen, MD

George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Science, George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA

Ory Wiesel, MD

Department of surgery, division of thoracic surgery, Rabin Medical center, Sackler Medical School, Israel

Editorial Team

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Editors-in-Chief

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Editorial Board

Cover Image Illustrator

Managing Editors

Senior Editors

Corresponding Editor

Science Editors