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

Trana Hussaini, BScPharm, PharmD, ACPR, MHSc

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

Eric M. Yoshida, OBC, MD, MHSc, FRCP(C), FACP, FACG, FCAHS, FAASLD (Internal Medicine: Gastroenterology & Hepatology)

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

Editorial Board

Ghassan Abou-Alfa

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

Mehdi Abouzari, MD, PhD (Surgery: Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery)

Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California Irvine, CA, USA

Alberto Aiolfi, MD

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

Feredun S. Azari

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

Alessandro Belletti, MD (Critical Care)

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Elena Bonati

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

Federico Cappuzzo, MD (Oncology: Lung Cancer)

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

Angelo Carretta, MD, PhD (Surgery: Lung Surgery)

Department of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Via Olgettina 60, 20132 Milan, Italy

Kwok Ying Chan, MD

Palliative Medical Unit, Grantham Hospital, Hong Kong, China

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

Giovanni Dapri, MD, PhD (Surgery: Laparoscopic Surgery)

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

Valerio De Stefano, MD (Internal Medicine: Hematology)

Institute of Hematology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy

Gabriel Alfonso Del Corral (Plastic Surgery)

Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C. USA

Farokh R. Demehri, MD

Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Wolfram Dempke

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

Devang Desai (Surgery: Urological Surgery)

University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

George Dimopoulos, MD, PhD (Critical Care)

Department of Intensive Care, University Hospital “ATTIKON” Medical School University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Ali Dodge-Khatami, MD, PhD

Clinic for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Children’s Heart Center RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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, OH, USA

Georges El Fakhri, PhD (Medical Tests and Health Care: Nuclear Medicine, Radiotherapy & Medical Imaging)

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

Stephen J. Freedland, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)

Department of Urology, Center for Integrated Research on Cancer and Lifestyle, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Esteban C Gabazza, MD, PhD (Internal Medicine: Immunology)

Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan

Domenico Galetta, MD (Surgery: Lung Surgery)

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

Rohan Garje, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)

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

Massimo Girardis (Critical Care)

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy.

Peter T. Hanna, MD (Surgery: Urological surgery)

Department of Urology-Aswan University- Egypt

Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD

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

Michael G. Irwin, MB, ChB, MD, FRCA, FCAI, FANZCA, FHKAM (Anesthesiology)

Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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, M.D, Ph. D (Anesthesiology)

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

Youngwan Kim, MD, PhD

Clinical adjunct Professor, Department of Surgery, Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea

Seung Ho Kim, MD, PhD (Oncology: Rectal Cancer)

Department of Radiology, Inje University College of Medicine, Haeundae Paik Hospital, Haeundae-ro 875, Haeundae-gu, Busan 612-030, Korea

Daisuke Kimura

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan

Tobias Klatte, MD

Helios Klinikum Bad Saarow, Bad Saarow, Germany

Savvas Lampridis, MD, MSc, MS, MRCS(Ed)

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Guglielmo Mantica, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)

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

Francisco E. Martins, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)

Department of Urology, University of Lisbon, School of Medicine, Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal

Nahum Méndez-Sánchez, MD, MSc, PhD, FAASLD, FACG, AGAF (Internal Medicine: Gastroenterology)

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

Matias Noll, Dr (Public Health)

Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Instituto Federal Goiano, Ceres, Brazil; Department of Nutrition and Health, Universiade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia Brazil

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

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

Olugbenga Olowokure, MD (Internal Medicine: Gastroenterology)

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

Armando Orlandi, PhD (Oncology: breast cancer and colorectal cancer)

Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy

James O’Rourke, MD, PhD (Anesthesiology)

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Kostas Papagiannopoulos, MD, MMED THORAX, MD (CTh) (Surgery: Lung Surgery)

Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK

Don Young Park

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

Dilip R. Patel, MD, MBA, MPH (Pediatric Medicine)

Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, USA

Christine Pocha, MD, PhD, MPH, FAASLD (Internal Medicine: Gastroenterology)

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

Omer Raheem, MD, FACS

Section of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

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

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

Raghavan Raju, PhD (Molecular Biology)

Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia State, 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

Francesca Rubulotta, MD, PhD, FRCA, FICM, eMBA (Critical Care)

Chair of Department of Critical Care Medicine, McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Montreal, Canada

Alessandro Russo, MD, PhD (Oncology: Lung Cancer)

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

Alejandro M. Sanchez, MD (Surgery: Breast Surgery)

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

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

Charles B. Simone II, MD, FASTRO, FACRO

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

David G Smithard, BSc, MBBS, MD, FRCP, FRCSLT(Hon) (Geriatric Medicine)

Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Lewisham and Greenwich Trust, London, UK; Centre for Exercise and Active Rehabilitation, University of Greenwich, London, UK

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, MD, PhD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)

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

Nico van Zandwijk, MD, PhD, FRACP, FCCP (Oncology: Lung Cancer)

The University of Sydney, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, NSW, Australia

Giustino Varrassi, M.D (Anesthesiology)

Paolo Procacci Foundation, 00193 Roma, Italy

Luigi Vetrugno, MD (Anesthesiology: Anesthesia and Intensive Care)

Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Emergency, SS. Annunziata Hospital, Chieti, 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

Bo Xu, MD, FRACP, FACC, FASE (Internal Medicine: Cardiology)

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Zhiping Yang, PhD (Health Policy & Methodology Science: Health Policy & Services)

Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

Yojiro Yutaka, MD, PhD

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

Editorial Team

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

Editors-in-Chief

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Editorial Board

Cover Image Illustrator

Managing Editors

Corresponding Editor

Science Editors