Authors - Journal of Thoracic Disease

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Firas Abu Akar

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Al-Makassed Charitable Society Hospital, East Jerusalem, Affiliated to Al-Quds University School of Medicine, Jerusalem 97103, Palestine

Fernando Conrado Abrão

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Oswaldo Cruz Germany Hospital, 1815, Treze de Maio Street, Rio de Janeiro 0132700, Brazil

Yong Chan Ahn, MD, PhD

Department of Radiation Oncology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Ahmed S. BaHammam, MD, FRCP

The University Sleep Disorders Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Martin Balik

Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Alain Bernard

Department General Thoracic, Surgery, CHU Dijon University of burgundy, France

Pietro Bertoglio, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS Sacro Cuore-Don Calabria Hospital, Via Sempreboni 5, 37024 Negrar di Valpolicella, VR, Italy

Abraham B. Bohadana, MD

Pulmonary Institute, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Alvin Shao Qiang Ong

Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore

Massimo Bonacchi

Cardiac Surgery, Medical and Surgical Critical Care Department, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Bruno Cabrita, MD

Praceta António Coelho Figueiredo, nº56, 4º Esquerdo Traseiras, 4405-080 V. N. Gaia, Portugal

Marcin M. Cackowski

Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Research Institute of Chest Diseases, Warsaw, Poland

Vera Luiza Capelozzi, MD, PhD

Department of Pathology, University of São Paulo Medical School (USP), São Paulo, Brazil

Cristiano Matteo Carbonelli

Department of Medical Sciences, Fondazione IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, (FG), Italy

Thierry P. Carrel

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Angelo Carretta

Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy

Chun Chen, MD(Thoracic Surgery)

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, Fuzhou, Fujian, China

Rodrigo A. Cornejo MD

Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile. Member of Universidad de Chile's Faculty since 2001

Xiangping Chai, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Hunan, China

Haiquan Chen, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai 200032, China; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China

Chao Cheng, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China

Chung-Ming Chu, MD, MSc, FRCP, FCCP

Department of Medicine & Geriatrics, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Chong Chu

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430022, Wuhan, China

Emergency Medicine Department, National University Hospital, National University Health System, Singapore; Department of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Jae Ho Chung, MD, PhD

Department of Internal Medicine, International St. Mary’s Hospital, Catholic Kwandong University College of Medicine, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Kristoffer Mazanti Cold, MB

Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation (CAMES), Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Sara Colella, MD

Pulmonary Unit, “C. & G. Mazzoni Hospital”, Ascoli Piceno, Italy

Miguel A. Cuesta , MD

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Vrije University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Yuanrong Dai, MD

Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Antonio D'Andrilli, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sapienza University, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189 Rome, Italy

Paul Davis, PhD

St John Ambulance Service, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand; Northern Rescue Helicopter Trust, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand

Li Deng, MD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Heilongjiang, China

Oliver Deutsch, MD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, German Heart Centre Munich, Munich, Germany

Nianguo Dong, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430022, China

Xinling Du, MD, PHD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Leonardo Duranti , PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy

Sora Ely

Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco – East Bay, Oakland, CA, USA

Shunsuke Endo, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan

Laura Evangelista, MD, PhD

Nuclear Medicine Unit – Department of Medicine – DIMED, University of Padua, Italy

Wentao Fang, MD, Professor

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China

Giovanni Ferrara, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Divisional Director, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, 3-134 Clinical Sciences Building, 11304 83 Ave., Edmonton, AB T6G 2G3, Canada

Ricard Ferrer, MD, PhD

Department of Intensive Care, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Passeig de Vall d’Hebron 119-129, 08035 Barcelona, Spain

Silvia Fiorelli, MD

Department of Clinical and Surgical Translational Medicine, University Sapienza, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy

Pr. Marios E. Froudarakis, MD, PhD

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Medical School Democritus University of Thrace, and University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupol, Greecei

Yutaka Fujii, PhD

Department of Clinical Engineering and Medical Technology, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan

John W. Gamel, MD

Department of Ophthalmology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky, USA

Taichiro Goto, MD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan

Bastian Grande, MD, PD

Institute of Anesthesiology, University Hospital Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland

Shanghui Guan, MD

Department of Radiation Oncology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan 250012, China

Paul Halford, MBBS, BSc

Academic Respiratory Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Zhijun Han, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, CAMS & PUMC, Beijing, China

Waqar Haque, MD

Department of Radiation Oncology, Houston Methodist Hospital, Cancer Center and Research Institute, Weil Cornell Medical College, Houston, TX 77030, USA

Kassem Harris, MD, FCCP

Department of Medicine, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA

Mark Hennon, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, NY, USA

Kyoji Hirai, MD

Department of thoracic surgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan

Hong Hu, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai 200032, China; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China

Runlei Hu, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hangzhou First People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Fang Huang

Associate Professor, Institute for Immunization and Prevention, Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Beijing, China

Juan Lacalzada-Almeida, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain

Masayoshi Inoue, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Atsushi Ito, MD

Department of General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Mie University School of Medicine, Mie, Japan

Young-Hoon Jeong

Changwon Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Korea

Lei Jiang, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, No. 507 Zhengmin Road, Shang Hai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai 200433, China

Wei Jiang, MD, Associate Senior Physician

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Wenjie Jiao

Jiangsu Road, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China

Shou-De Jin, PhD

Department of Respiratory Medicine, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, China

Satoshi Kainuma, MD, PhD, FJCC

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Dohun Kim

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University and Hospital, Cheongju, South Korea

Hojoong Kim

Division of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jae Hyun Kim, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Jae Yeol Kim, MD

Department of Internal Medicine, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, 102 Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Joon Bum Kim, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Athanasios D. Kleontas, BSc, MD, MSc, Dr(Med)Sc, BTS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Interbalkan Medical Center, Thessaloniki, Greece

Hiroshi Kubota, MD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan

Masatoshi Kurihara, MD, PhD

Pneumothorax Research Center, Nissan Tamagawa Hospital, Public Foundation Nissan Kohseikai, Tokyo, Japan

Woo Surng Lee, MD, PhD

Professor in Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery & Intensive Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Konkuk University, Republic of Korea

He-Fei Li, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University, Baoding, China

Yongde Liao

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Marc J. Licker, MD

Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Intensive Care, University Hospital Geneva, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Frank Cheau-Feng Lin, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung

HuiQing Lin, MD, Ph.D

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Hongxu Liu, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Cancer Hospital of China Medical University, Liaoning Cancer Hospital & Institute, Shenyang 110042, China

Lingxiang Liu, MD

Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Yangchun Liu, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Jiangxi Provincial People's Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Shun Lu

Shanghai Lung Cancer Center, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China

JieTao Ma, MD

Department of Clinical Oncology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110022, China

Kaoru Matsuura

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Funabashi Municipal Medical Center, Funabashi City, Chiba, Japan

Yafei Mi, MD, PHD

Department of Cardiology, Affiliated Taizhou Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Taizhou 317000, China

Andrew C. Miller, MD

Department of Emergency Medicine, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC, USA

Takuro Miyazaki, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department Surgical Oncology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Tiffany Moon, MD

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Management, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390-9068, USA.

Youngkyu Moon, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 1021, Tongil-ro, Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul 03312, Republic of Korea

Clinton T. Morgan, MD, PhD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky 740 S. Limestone, Suite A301, Lexington, KY 40536, USA

Dania Nachira, MD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Catholic University, Rome, Italy

Takuya Nagashima

Department of thoracic surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan

Calvin S. H. Ng, BSc (Hons), MBBS (Hons) (Lond), MD (Res) (Lond), FRCSEd (CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM (Surgery)

Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China

Takashi Ohtsuka MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery The Jikei University, School of Medicine Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki Oizumi, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiovascular, Thoracic and Pediatric Surgery (Second Department of Surgery), Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Japan

Angela De Palma, MD, PhD

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, Medical School, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

Xiangbin Pan

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, China & Fuwai Cardiovascular Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Philip Y.K. Pang, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore

Joo Hun Park, MD

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine, Worldcup Road 164, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do 16499, Republic of Korea

Kay-Hyun Park, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do 13620, Republic of Korea

Pyo Won Park, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea and Director of Cardiovascular Center, Mediplex Sejong Hospital, Incheon, Korea

Joachim Pfannschmidt, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lung Clinic Heckeshorn, Helios Hospital Emil von Behring, Berlin, Germany

Roberto Piro, MD

Pulmonology Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale - IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Via Amendola, 2 42122 Reggio Emilia, Italy

Mohamed Rahouma, MD

Surgical Oncology Department, National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cairo University, Egypt Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) / New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA

Dr. Rasmus Rivinius

Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Noriaki Sakakura, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Yuichi Sakairi, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-8-1, Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba 260-8677, Japan

Adriana Scamporlino, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy

Stefan Schraag, MD, PhD, FRCA, FFICM

Department of Anaesthesia and Periopera;ve Medicine, Golden Jubilee Na;onal Hospital, Agamemnon Street, Clydebank G81 4DY, UK

Lele Song, MD, PhD

Department of Radiotherapy, the Eighth Medical Center of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100091, China

Masaaki Sato, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan

Kenneth Patrick Seastedt, EMBA, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA

Kimihiro Shimizu, MD, PhD

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Integrative Center of General Surgery; Department of General Surgical Science, Gunma University Hospital, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan.

Shuichi Shinohara

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chubu Rosai Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Yasushi Shintani, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Redmond B. Shouldice, PhD, MBA

ResMed Sensor Technologies. Blocks 9/10, NexusUCD, Belfield Office Park, Dublin 4, Ireland

Chang Shu, MD, PhD

Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100037, China

Phillip M. Singer

Political Science Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Adrianna Skoczek, MA

The Clinical Department of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases with the Intensive Cardiac Supervision Subdivision, Institute of Cardiology, Collegium Medicum of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (Poland), John Paul II Hospital, Cracow, Poland

Marco Sperandeo

Unit of Interventional and Diagnostic Ultrasound in Internal Medicine, Department of Medical Sciences, IRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy

Giulia M. Stella, MD, PhD

Department of Hematological, Pneumological and Cardiovascular Sciences - Section of Pneumology, University and Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico, Pavia, Italy

Erich Stoelben, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lung Clinic, Hospital of the City of Cologne, University of Witten-Herdecke, Cologne, Germany

Ying-Shi Sun, MD

Department of Radiology, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, China

Yihua Sun, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai 200032, China; Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China

Kei Suzuki, MD, FACS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

Yusuke Takahashi, MD, PhD

Division of Oncoimmunology, Aichi Cancer Center Research Institute, 1-1 Kanoko-den, Chikusa, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8681, Japan

Yugo Tanaka, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Qing Tang, MD

Department of Ultrasound, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, 151 Yanjiang Rd., Guangzhou 510120, China

Min Tian, MD

Department of Vascular Surgery, Yan’an Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Xue Tian, MD

Emergency Critical Care Center, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Davide Tosi

Unit of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Guo-wei Tu, MD, PhD

Department of Critical Care Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Hideki Ujiie, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan

Alberto Caballero Vázquez, MD (Pulmonology)

Interventional Pulmonology Unit, Pneumology Service, Universitary Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain

Song Wan, MD, FRCS, FACC

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hong Kong, China; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Bing-Yen Wang, MD, PhD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, China

jinguang wang

Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medicine University, Dalian 116000, China

Qun Wang, MD, Professor

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Fu-Zong Wu, MD

Section Chief of Division of Cardiothoracic Imaging, Department of Radiology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung

Jin-Bo Zhao, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Medical University (The Fourth Military Medical University, FMMU), Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Guang-Ping Wu M.D. Ph.D. Professor. Chief physician, Doctoral tutor

Department of Pathology, The First Affiliated Hospital and College of Basic Medical Sciences, China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China

Jingxiang Wu, MD, Professor

Department of Anaesthesiology, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China

Shin-ichi Yamashita, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic, Breast, and Pediatric Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Nanakuma, Jonanku, Fukuoka, Japan

Hee Chul Yang, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Center for Lung Cancer, National Cancer Center, Goyang, South Korea

Sai Yendamuri, MD, FACS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA

Yi Yang, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China

Fenglei Yu, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China

Zhentao Yu, PhD, MD, FRCS

Department of Esophageal Cancer, Tianjin’s Clinical Research Center for Cancer and Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin 300060, China

Jia Yuzhu, MD

Jia Yuzhu Deputy chief radiologist, MD ，Tongde Hospital of Zhejiang Provence, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Yuansheng Zang, MD, PhD

Department of Medical Oncology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China

Bu-Chun Zhang, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiology, The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Jiangsu, PR China

Qi Zhang, MD (Cardiology)

Associate Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tongji University Deputy Director, Department of Cardiology, Shanghai East Hospital Tongji University Director, Coronary Intervention Center, Shanghai East Hospital Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Chongbo Zhao, MD

Department of Neurology, Huashan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Jinbo Zhao, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, Airforce Military Medical University (The Fourth Military Medical University), Xi’an, China

Ni Zhang, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, China

Zhengjun Wang, MD,PhD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shandong Provincial Hospital affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, China