Former Editorial Board

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

Alberto Aiolfi, MD
University of Milan, Istituto Clinico Sant’Ambrogio, Milan, Italy

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

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

Wilbert S. Aronow, MD
Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA

Ankur Arora, MD, DNB, FRCR, EdiR (Radiology)
Department of Radiology at the Western Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Adrian Baranchuk, MD, FACC, FRCPC, FCCS
Division of Cardiology, Kingston General Hospital, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada

Mohamad Bashir, MD, PhD, MRCS
Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Royal Blackburn Hospital, Blackburn, UK

Mark F. Berry, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

Federico Bilotta, MD, PhD (Anaestehsiology)
Professor of Medicine at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

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

Marouane Boukhris, MD (Cardiology)
Assistant professor in Cardiology at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

Davide Carino, MD
San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Chiwai Cheung, MBBS(HK), MD(HKU), FHKCA
Department of Anaesthesiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Erin M. Corsini, MD, MSc
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

Giovanni Dapri, MD, PhD (Surgery: Laparoscopic Surgery)
International School Reduced Scar Laparoscopy, Minimally Invasive General & Oncologic Surgery Center, Humanitas Gavazzeni University Hospital, Bergamo, Italy

Stênio de Cássio Zequi (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Department of Urology, AC Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, Brazil

Valerio De Stefano, MD (Internal Medicine: Hematology)
Institute of Hematology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy

Francesco Del Giudice (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Department of Maternal Infant and Urologic Sciences, 'Sapienza' University of Rome, Policlinico Umberto I Hospital, Rome, Italy

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

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

Hiran C. Fernando, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Dept Surgery, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Falls Church, VA, USA

Marios E. Froudarakis, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Medical School Democritus University of Thrace, and University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupol, Greece

Domenico Galetta, MD
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

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

Cesare Gridelli, MD (Oncology: Lung Cancer)
Division of Medical Oncology, ‘S. G. Moscati’ Hospital, Avellino, Italy

Matthew G. Hartwig, MD, MHS
Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Noriyuki Hirahara, M.D, Ph.D
Department of Digestive and General Surgery, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Japan

Hitoshi Hirose, MD (Surgery: Heart & Thoracic Surgery)
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Maebashi Hospital, Gunma, Japan

Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc
Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Heart Vascular Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA

Meghan O. Kelly, MD
Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Simon P. Kim, MD (Oncology: Genitourinary Cancer)
Division of Urology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO, USA

Tadashi Kitamura, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Japan

Yasuhiko Koga, MD, PhD (Biomedical Science & Technology-Molecular Biology)
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma, Japan

Takayuki Kosaka, MD, PhD, FACS (Surgery: Lung Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Takasaki General Medical Center, Gunma, Japan

Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, MD, FACC, FHRS
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Kansas Hospital & Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 6616, USA

Adelino Leite-Moreira, MD, PhD, FETCS
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Marc Leone, MD, PhD (Anesthesiology)
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Nord Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux Universitaires de Marseille, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France

Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri
Division of General Surgery and Liver Transplantation, San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy

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

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

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

Jessica G. Y. Luc, MD
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Brittany MA. Salter, MD, PhD (Respirology)
Research Associate at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Amit Bobby Mahajan, MD, FCCP, DAABIP
Medical Director, Interventional Pulmonology, Department of Surgery, Inova Heart and Vascular Center, Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA, USA

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

Mariangela Mancini, MD, FEBU (Urology)
Urological Clinic, Department of Surgical Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences, University Hospital of Padova Medical School, Padova, Italy.

Andrea Mancuso, MD (Internal Medicine: Gastroenterology & Hepatology)
Internal Medicine at ARNAS Civico, Palermo, Italy

M.Blair Marshall, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, USA

Walter McNicholas, MD, FRCPI, FRCPC, FCCP
University College Dublin (UCD), St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

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

Manuela Merli, MD
Gastroenterology, Department of Clinical Medicine, 'Sapienza' University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Georges Mjaess, MD (Oncology: Genitourinary Cancer)
Department of Urology, University Clinics of Brussels, Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.

Toshiaki Morikawa, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
The Jikei University School of Medicine Department of Surgery, 3-25-8,Nishi-shimbashi, Minato-ku,Tokyo 105-8461, Japan

Marco Moschini, MD
Clinic of Urology, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland

Matthew Mowry, MSN, RN, CEN (Internal Medicine: Emergency Medicine & Catastrophe Medicine)
Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Katie S. Murray (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

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

Takashi Oite, MD, PhD
Department of Clinical Engineering and Medical Technology, Faculty of Medical Technology, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, 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

Mohamed Omar, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Department of Urology, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt

Armando Orlandi, PhD (Oncology: breast cancer and colorectal cancer)
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy

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

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.

Nimesh K. Patel, MD, FACP, FACC, RPVI
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

Christine Pocha, MD, PhD, MPH, FAASLD (Internal Medicine: Gastroenterology)
Avera Hepatology and Transplant Institute, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD, USA

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

Dragan R. Subotic (Surgery: Heart & Thoracic Surgery)
Clinic for Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Mohamed Rahouma, MD, MSc
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

Renata Riha, BMedSc MBBS (Hons) RPSGT FRACP MD (Edin) FRCP (Internal Medicine: Pulmonology)
Department of Sleep Medicine, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

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

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.

Paul Schoenhagen, MD
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Vishal G Shelat, FRCS, FAMS, FEBS (HPB Surg)
Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore

Samira Shojaee, MD, MPH, FCCP
Division of pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

Eugene Shostak, MD (Internal Medicine: Pulmonology)
Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

Alan D. L. SIHOE, MBBChir, FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM (Surgery: Lung Surgery)
Cardiothoracic Surgery, CUHK Medical Center, Hong Kong, China; Honorary Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China.

Charles B. Simone II, MD, FASTRO, FACRO
New York Proton Center, New York, NY, USA; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Nirmish Singla, MD, MSCS
Urology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Piergiorgio Solli, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Maggiore Hospital and Bellaria Hospital, Bologna, ITA

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

Kei Suzuki, MD, FACS
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

Malgorzata Szolkowska, MD, PhD (Pathology)
Department of Pathology, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland

Frank Tacke, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterology, Metabolic Diseases and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Aachen, Germany

Yugo Tanaka, MD, PhD
Associate professor of General Thoracic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Shanhong Tang, PhD (Digestive disease)
Department of Digestion, General Hospital of Chengdu Military Command, Chengdu, 610083, Sichuan Province, China

Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh, MBBS, FRCSEd (Urol), FCSHK, FHKAM (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Paul Van Schil, MD
Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

Jacopo Vannucci, MD, PhD (Surgery, Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Rome Sapienza, Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy

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

Srikanth Yandrapalli, MD (Cardiology)
Department of Cardiology, Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA

Sien-Sing Yang, MD, FAASLD
Liver Unit, Cathay General Hospital, Fu-Jen Catholic University School of Medicine, Taipei 10630, Taiwan

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

Yojiro Yutaka, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto, Japan

Zhongheng Zhang, MM (Critical Care Medicine)
Department of emergency medicine, Sir Run-Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Ming-Hua Zheng, MD, PhD
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

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