Former Editorial Board
Mehdi Abouzari, MD, PhD (Surgery: Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery)
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California Irvine, CA, USA
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
Alessandro Belletti, MD (Critical Care)
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Marios E. Froudarakis, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Medical School Democritus University of Thrace, and University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupol, Greece
Esteban C Gabazza, MD, PhD (Internal Medicine: Immunology)
Department of Immunology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie, Japan
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
Massimo Girardis (Critical Care)
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy.
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
Peter T. Hanna, MD (Surgery: Urological surgery)
Department of Urology-Aswan University- Egypt
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
Michael G. Irwin, MB, ChB, MD, FRCA, FCAI, FANZCA, FHKAM (Anesthesiology)
Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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
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
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
Savvas Lampridis, MD, MSc, MS, MRCS(Ed)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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
Francisco E. Martins, MD (Surgery: Urological Surgery)
Department of Urology, University of Lisbon, School of Medicine, Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Omer Raheem, MD, FACS
Section of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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
Raghavan Raju, PhD (Molecular Biology)
Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia State, USA
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
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.
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
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
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
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
Fumihiko Urabe, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Urology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Paul Van Schil, MD
Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium
Nico van Zandwijk, MD, PhD, FRACP, FCCP (Oncology: Lung Cancer)
The University of Sydney, Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Concord, NSW, Australia
Jacopo Vannucci, MD, PhD (Surgery, Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Rome Sapienza, Policlinico Umberto I, Rome, Italy
Luigi Vetrugno, MD (Anesthesiology: Anesthesia and Intensive Care)
Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Emergency, SS. Annunziata Hospital, Chieti, 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
Zhiping Yang, PhD (Health Policy & Methodology Science: Health Policy & Services)
Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China
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