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
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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
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Yaxing Shen, MD (Surgery: Lung Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Bryce A. Baird, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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Xingshun Qi, MD (Internal Medicine: Gastroenterology & Hepatology)
Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of Shenyang Military Area, Shenyang, China
Associate Editors-in-Chief
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Trana Hussaini, BScPharm, PharmD, ACPR, MHSc
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of British Columbia, BC, Vancouver, Canada.
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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
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Ghassan Abou-Alfa
Gastrointestinal Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
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Mehdi Abouzari, MD, PhD (Surgery: Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery)
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California Irvine, CA, USA
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Alberto Aiolfi, MD
University of Milan, Istituto Clinico Sant’Ambrogio, Milan, Italy
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Feredun S. Azari
Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Alessandro Belletti, MD (Critical Care)
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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Elena Bonati
General Surgery Clinic, Surgical Department, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy
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Federico Cappuzzo, MD (Oncology: Lung Cancer)
Director, Division of Medical Oncology 2, IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy
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Angelo Carretta, MD, PhD (Surgery: Lung Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Via Olgettina 60, 20132 Milan, Italy
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Kwok Ying Chan, MD (Oncology: Palliative Medicine)
Palliative Medical Unit, Grantham Hospital, Hong Kong, China
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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
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William C. CHO, Ph. D., RCMP, FHKIMLS, FHKSMDS, Chartered Scientist (UK), FIBMS (UK) (Oncology)
Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong, China
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Giovanni Dapri, MD, PhD (Surgery: Laparoscopic Surgery)
International School Reduced Scar Laparoscopy, Minimally Invasive General & Oncologic Surgery Center, Humanitas Gavazzeni University Hospital, Bergamo, Italy
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Stênio de Cássio Zequi (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Department of Urology, AC Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil
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Valerio De Stefano, MD (Internal Medicine: Hematology)
Institute of Hematology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
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Gabriel Alfonso Del Corral (Plastic Surgery)
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C. USA
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Francesco Del Giudice (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Department of Maternal Infant and Urologic Sciences, 'Sapienza' University of Rome, Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, Rome, Italy
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Farokh R. Demehri, MD
Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Wolfram Dempke
Department of Hematology and Oncology, University Medical School, Munich, Germany
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Said Dermime (Internal Medicine: Immunology)
Department of Medical Oncology and Translational Research Institute, National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
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Devang Desai (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
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George Dimopoulos, MD, PhD (Critical Care)
Department of Intensive Care, University Hospital “ATTIKON” Medical School University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Ali Dodge-Khatami, MD, PhD
Clinic for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Children’s Heart Center RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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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
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Jimmy T. Efird
Department of Radiation Oncology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA
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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
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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
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Esteban C Gabazza, MD, PhD (Internal Medicine: Immunology)
Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan
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Domenico Galetta, MD (Surgery: Lung Surgery)
Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, IRCCS, Milan, Italy
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Rohan Garje, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, FL. USA
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Massimo Girardis (Critical Care)
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy.
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Cesare Gridelli, MD (Oncology: Lung Cancer)
Division of Medical Oncology, ‘S. G. Moscati’ Hospital, Avellino, Italy
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Peter T. Hanna, MD (Surgery: Urological surgery)
Department of Urology-Aswan University- Egypt
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Noriyuki Hirahara, M.D, Ph.D (Oncology: Gastric Cancer)
Department of Digestive and General Surgery, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Japan
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Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, Gunma, Japan
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Michael G. Irwin, MB, ChB, MD, FRCA, FCAI, FANZCA, FHKAM (Anesthesiology)
Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Naohiro Ishii, MD, PhD
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, International University of Health and Welfare Hospital, Japan
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Gaetano Isola (Dentistry)
Department of General Surgery and Surgical-Medical Specialties, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
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Gaëtan-Romain Joliat, MD (Sugery: Hepatobiliary Surgery)
Department of Visceral Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Takatoshi Kasai, MD, PhD (Internal Medicine: Cardiovascular disease)
Cardiovascular Respiratory Sleep Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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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.
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Biniam Kidane, MD, MSc, FRCSC (Surgery: Heart & Thoracic Surgery)
Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Youngwan Kim, MD, PhD
Clinical adjunct Professor, Department of Surgery, Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea
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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
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Daisuke Kimura
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Japan
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Tobias Klatte, MD
Helios Klinikum Bad Saarow, Bad Saarow, Germany
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Savvas Lampridis, MD, MSc, MS, MRCS(Ed)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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Filippo Longo
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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Mariangela Mancini, MD, FEBU (Urology)
Urological Clinic, Department of Surgical Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences, University Hospital of Padova Medical School, Padova, Italy.
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Guglielmo Mantica, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Department of Urology, Policlinico San Martino Hospital, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
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Francisco E. Martins, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Department of Urology, University of Lisbon, School of Medicine, Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal
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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
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Georges Mjaess, MD (Oncology: Genitourinary Cancer)
Department of Urology, University Clinics of Brussels, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
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Katie S. Murray (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
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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
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Kazuma Okamoto, MD, PhD (Surgery: Cardiac Surgery)
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Akashi Medical Center, Akashi, Hyogo, Japan
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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
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Mohamed Omar, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Department of Urology, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
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Armando Orlandi, PhD (Oncology: breast cancer and colorectal cancer)
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy
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James O’Rourke, MD, PhD (Anesthesiology)
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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Kostas Papagiannopoulos, MD, MMED THORAX, MD (CTh) (Surgery: Lung Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK
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Sijo J. Parekattil, M.D (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
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.
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Don Young Park
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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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
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Christine Pocha, MD, PhD, MPH, FAASLD (Internal Medicine: Gastroenterology)
Avera Hepatology and Transplant Institute, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD, USA
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Omer Raheem, MD, FACS (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Section of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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Shahzad G. Raja, BSc, MBBS (Hons.), MRCS, FRCS(C-Th) (Surgery: Cardiac Surgery)
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Harefield Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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Raghavan Raju, PhD (Molecular Biology)
Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia State, USA
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Bassam Redwan (Surgery: Lung Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Klinik am Park, Klinikum Westfalen, Luenen, Germany
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Sara Ricciardi
Minimally Invasive and Robotic Thoracic Surgery, Robotic Multispecialty Center for Surgery, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Michael P. Rogers, MD, MS (Surgery: Heart & Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Surgery at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA
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Roger L. Royster, MD (Anesthesiology)
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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Warren M Rozen, MD, PhD (Surgery: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery)
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Frankston Hospital, Peninsula Health, Frankston, Victoria, Australia
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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
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Alessandro Russo, MD, PhD (Oncology: Lung Cancer)
Medical Oncology Unit, Department of Onco-Hematology, Papardo Hospital, Messina, Italy
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Alejandro M. Sanchez, MD (Surgery: Breast Surgery)
Multidisciplinary Breast Center, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
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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
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Vishal G Shelat, FRCS, FAMS, FEBS (HPB Surg)
Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
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Charles B. Simone II, MD, FASTRO, FACRO
New York Proton Center, New York, NY, USA; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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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
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Alfredo Tartarone, MD (Internal Medicine: Blood)
Department of Onco-Hematology, Centro di Riferimento Oncologico della Basilicata, IRCCS, via Padre Pio 1, 85028 Rionero in Vulture (PZ), Italy.
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Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh, MBBS, FRCSEd (Urol), FCSHK, FHKAM (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Rolf Teschke, MD
Department of Internal Medicine II, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Klinikum Hanau, D-63450 Hanau, Germany
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Fumihiko Urabe, MD, PhD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Department of Urology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Nico van Zandwijk, MD, PhD, FRACP, FCCP (Oncology: Lung Cancer)
The University of Sydney, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, NSW, Australia
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Jacopo Vannucci, MD, PhD (Surgery, Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Rome Sapienza, Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy
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Giustino Varrassi, M.D (Anesthesiology)
Paolo Procacci Foundation, 00193 Roma, Italy
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Luigi Vetrugno, MD (Anesthesiology: Anesthesia and Intensive Care)
Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Emergency, SS. Annunziata Hospital, Chieti, Italy
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Nestor Villamizar, MD (Surgery: Lung Surgery)
Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
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Michael J. Whalen, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Science, George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
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Ory Wiesel, MD
Department of surgery, division of thoracic surgery, Rabin Medical center, Sackler Medical School, Israel
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Christoph Würnschimmel, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Martini-Klinik Prostate Cancer Center, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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Bo Xu, MD, FRACP, FACC, FASE (Internal Medicine: Cardiology)
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Zhiping Yang, PhD (Health Policy & Methodology Science: Health Policy & Services)
Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China
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Yojiro Yutaka, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto, Japan
Managing Editors
Eunice X. Xu
Editorial Office, AME Medical Journal, China
Grace S. Li
Editorial Office, AME Medical Journal, China
Science Editors
Wei-En Fan
Editorial Office, AME Medical Journal, China
Hestia S. He
Editorial Office, AME Medical Journal, China