Former Editorial Board
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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
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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
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Edward Araujo Júnior
Department of Obstetrics, Paulista School of Medicine - Federal University of São Paulo (EPM-UNIFESP), São Paulo-SP, Brazil
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Wilbert S. Aronow, MD (Internal Medicine: Cardiology)
Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA
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Ankur Arora, MD, DNB, FRCR, EdiR (Radiology)
Department of Radiology at the Western Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, UK
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Adrian Baranchuk, MD, FACC, FRCPC, FCCS
Division of Cardiology, Kingston General Hospital, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
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Mohamad Bashir, MD, PhD, MRCS
Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Royal Blackburn Hospital, Blackburn, UK
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Mark F. Berry, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
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Federico Bilotta, MD, PhD (Anaestehsiology)
Professor of Medicine at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
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Marouane Boukhris, MD (Cardiology)
Assistant professor in Cardiology at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia
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Davide Carino, MD
San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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Chiwai Cheung, MBBS(HK), MD(HKU), FHKCA
Department of Anaesthesiology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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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
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Hiran C. Fernando, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Dept Surgery, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Falls Church, VA, USA
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Marios E. Froudarakis, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Medical School Democritus University of Thrace, and University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupol, Greece
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Fernando Gomes Romeiro, PhD
Professor of Medicine at Botucatu Medical School, UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo State, Brazil
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Matthew G. Hartwig, MD, MHS
Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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Hitoshi Hirose, MD (Surgery: Heart & Thoracic Surgery)
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc
Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Heart Vascular Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Meghan O. Kelly, MD
Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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Simon P. Kim, MD (Oncology: Genitourinary Cancer)
Division of Urology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO, USA
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Tadashi Kitamura, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Japan
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Yasuhiko Koga, MD, PhD (Biomedical Science & Technology-Molecular Biology)
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma, Japan
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Takayuki Kosaka, MD, PhD, FACS (Surgery: Lung Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Takasaki General Medical Center, Gunma, Japan
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Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, MD, FACC, FHRS
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Kansas Hospital & Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, 6616, USA
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Adelino Leite-Moreira, MD, PhD, FETCS
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Marc Leone, MD, PhD (Anesthesiology)
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Aix Marseille University, North Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille, Marseille, France
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Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri
Division of General Surgery and Liver Transplantation, San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy
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Xiao Li, MD
Department of Urology, Jiangsu Cancer Hospital & Jiangsu Institute of Cancer Research & Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Nanjing Medical University , Nanjing 210009, China
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Michael Lichtenauer
Clinic of Internal Medicine II, Department of Cardiology, Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
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Jessica G. Y. Luc, MD
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Brittany MA. Salter, MD, PhD (Respirology)
Research Associate at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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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
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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
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Andrea Mancuso, MD (Internal Medicine: Gastroenterology & Hepatology)
Internal Medicine at ARNAS Civico, Palermo, Italy
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M.Blair Marshall, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, USA
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Walter McNicholas, MD, FRCPI, FRCPC, FCCP
University College Dublin (UCD), St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
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Manuela Merli, MD
Gastroenterology, Department of Clinical Medicine, 'Sapienza' University of Rome, Rome, Italy
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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
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Marco Moschini, MD
Clinic of Urology, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne, Switzerland
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Matthew Mowry, MSN, RN, CEN (Internal Medicine: Emergency Medicine & Catastrophe Medicine)
Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Takashi Ohtsuka, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Nishi-Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Takashi Oite, MD, PhD
Department of Clinical Engineering and Medical Technology, Faculty of Medical Technology, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan
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Federico Pappalardo
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Raffaele Scientific Institute and San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milan, Italy
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Nimesh K. Patel, MD, FACP, FACC, RPVI
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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Xiaolong Qi, MD (General Surgery)
Xiaolong Qi, MD. Department of General Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
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Dragan R. Subotic (Surgery: Heart & Thoracic Surgery)
Clinic for Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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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
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Renata Riha, BMedSc MBBS (Hons) RPSGT FRACP MD (Edin) FRCP (Internal Medicine: Pulmonology)
Department of Sleep Medicine, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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Paul Schoenhagen, MD
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Samira Shojaee, MD, MPH, FCCP
Division of pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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Eugene Shostak, MD (Internal Medicine: Pulmonology)
Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
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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.
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Nirmish Singla, MD, MSCS
Urology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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Piergiorgio Solli, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Maggiore Hospital and Bellaria Hospital, Bologna, ITA
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Yasuhiko Sugawara, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Department of Transplantation/Pediatric Surgery, Postgraduate School of Life Science, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
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Kei Suzuki, MD, FACS
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
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Malgorzata Szolkowska, MD, PhD (Pathology)
Department of Pathology, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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Frank Tacke, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterology, Metabolic Diseases and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Aachen, Germany
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Yugo Tanaka, MD, PhD
Associate professor of General Thoracic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
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Shanhong Tang, PhD (Digestive disease)
Department of Digestion, General Hospital of Chengdu Military Command, Chengdu, 610083, Sichuan Province, China
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Paul Van Schil, MD
Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium
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Srikanth Yandrapalli, MD (Cardiology)
Department of Cardiology, Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA
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Sien-Sing Yang, MD, FAASLD
Liver Unit, Cathay General Hospital, Fu-Jen Catholic University School of Medicine, Taipei 10630, Taiwan
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Zhongheng Zhang, MM (Critical Care Medicine)
Department of emergency medicine, Sir Run-Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
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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
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Hufeng Zhou, PhD
Instructor, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA