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.
Editor-in-Chief
Nanshan Zhong, MD
Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering. Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Executive Editor-in-Chief
Jianxing He, MD, FACS
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Associate Editors-in-Chief
Alessandro Brunelli, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James's University Hospital, in Leeds, UK
Rongchang Chen, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University; Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou, China
Kian Fan Chung, MD, DSc, FRCP
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK
Wentao Fang, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China
Shahzad G. Raja, MBBS, MRCSEd, FRCSEd(C-Th)
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Harefield Hospital, London, UK
Associate Editors
Keneng Chen, MD, PhD
The First Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking University School of Oncology, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China
Yousser Mohammad (GARD Section)
National Center for Research on Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Tishreen University; Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Al-Sham Private University, Damascus and Latakia, Syria
Editorial Co-Directors & Executive Editors
Guangqiao Zeng, MD
Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou, China
Daoyuan Wang, MD
The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou, China
Editorial Board (Cardiac Surgery)
Jason Ali, MA, MB, BChir, MA (Med Ed), PhD, MRCS
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Michele Di Mauro, MD, PhD
SS Annunziata Hospital, University “G D’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Giuseppe Francesco Maria D’Ancona, MD, PhD
Cardiovascular Clinical Research Unit, Vivantes Klinikum Urban and Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany; University Herzzentrum Rostock, Germany
John Elefteriades, MD
Department of Surgery, Section of Cardio-Thoracic surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Giuseppe Gatti, MD
Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Department, Division of Cardiac Surgery, of the Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata di Trieste, Italy
Mario F. L. Gaudino, MD, FECTS
Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, NY, USA
Kendra J. Grubb, MD, MHA, FACC
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta AG, USA
Nicholas T. Kouchoukos, MD
Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St Louis, MO, USA
Hiroshi Kubota, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan
Christopher Lau, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Seung Hyun Lee, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea
Adelino Leite-Moreira, MD, PhD, FETCS
Physiology, Pathophysiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Portugal
Cheong Lim, MD, PhD
Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Korea
Natalie S. Lui, MD, MAS
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA
Stefano Mastrobuoni, MD
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, St Luc’s Hospital, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
Paul Michael McFadden, M.D. FACS, FCCP, FACC, FSVS
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Antonio Miceli, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac and Great Vessels Surgery, Istituto Clinico Sant’Ambrogio, Gruppo Ospedaliero San Donato, Milano, Italy
Raghav A. Murthy, MD, DABS, FACS, FACC
Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Kazuma Okamoto, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Surgery, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan
Francesco Pollari, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac surgery, Klinikum Nürnberg – Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany
Ulrik Sartipy, MD PhD
Heart and Vascular Theme, Karolinska University Hospital and Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Jan D. Schmitto, MD, PhD, MBA, FCCP, FRCS (Glasg.)
Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Suk-Won Song, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Hiroo Takayama, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiac, Vascular & Thoracic Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
Paul C. Tang
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Joseph W. Turek, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Daniel Wendt, MD, PhD, FECTS
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
Bryan A. Whitson, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Berhane Worku,MD
New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford, CA, USA
Yunpeng Zhu
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ruijin Hospital Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
Editorial Board (Gastrointestinal Surgery)
Hon Chi Yip, M.B.ChB (Hons), FRCSEd (General Surgery), FHKAM (Surgery), FCSHK (General Surgery)
Division of Upper Gastrointestinal and Metabolic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Ian Wong
Division of Esophageal & Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Clinical Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Kenneth K.Y. Wong, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Editorial Board (Respiratory Medicine)
Peter J. Barnes, DM, DSc, FRCP, FCCP, FMedSci, FRS
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK
J. Patrick Barron, MD
Communications and Language International Communications Center, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
Michael S. Blaiss, MD
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA
Mario Cazzola, MD
Postgraduate School of Respiratory Medicine, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome, Italy
Edward D. Chan, MD
Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, USA
Anne Chang, MBBS, FRACP, PhD, FAAHMS
Menzies School of Health Research, Australia
Alvaro A. Cruz
Centre of Excellence for Asthma, Federal University of Bahia School of Medicine, Brazil
Keertan Dheda, MBBCh (Wits), FCP, FCCP, PhD (Lond), FRCP (Lond)
Division of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Peter V. Dicpinigaitis, MD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center Bronx, NY, USA
Yoshinosuke Fukuchi, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan
Esteban C. Gabazza, MD, PhD
Department of Immunology, Mie University Faculty and Graduate School of Medicine; Mie University Center for Intractable Diseases, Mie, Japan
Laurent Guilleminault, MD, PhD
University Hospital Centre of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Maida Hafiz, MD
Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Felix Herth, MD, PhD
Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Mary Sau Man Ip, MBBS(HK), MD(HK), FRCP (London, Edinburgh, Glasgow), FHKCP, FHKAM, FAPSR, FCCP
Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, HongKong, China
Richard S. Irwin, MD, Master FCCP
Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
Ki-Suck Jung, MD, PhD
Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University Medical College, Anyang, Gyunggi, South Korea
Fanny W.S. Ko
Dept. of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Martin Kolb, MD, PhD
Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Kefang Lai, PhD, MD.
Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, State Key Lab. of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China
Atul Malhotra, MD
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
Stuart Mazzone, PhD
Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Doug McEvoy, MBBC, FRACP
Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Andrew McIvor, FRCP(C), FRCP(Edin), MRCP(UK), FACP, FCCP
Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Walter McNicholas, MD, FRCPI, FRCPC, FCCP (Sleep Section)
University College Dublin (UCD), St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Alyn H. Morice, MD
Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research, Hull York Medical School, Hull, UK
Michael S. Niederman, MD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY, USA
Akio Niimi, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
Kenneth Nugent, MD
Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX, USA
Paul O’Byrne, MB, FRCP(C), FRSC
Department of Medicine, Michael G DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
In-Jae Oh, MD
Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Republic of Korea; Lung and Esophageal Cancer Clinic, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Jeonnam, Republic of Korea
Roy A. Pleasants, PharmD
Pulmonary Division, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA;
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Department, Durham VA Medical Center, NC, USA;
David Price, M.B B.Chir, MA, DRCOG, FRCGP
Primary Care Respiratory Society UK, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Klaus F. Rabe, MD, PhD
Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Center of Pulmonary Diseases and Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Großhansdorf, Großhansdorf, Germany
Chin Kook Rhee, MD, PhD
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine at Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital of The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
Imran Satia, MD, PhD
Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology, McMaster University (from 1st of April 2020), Hamilton, Canada
Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Canada
Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Woo-Jung Song, MD, PhD (Cough Section)
Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Martin R. Stampfli, PhD
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster Immunology Research Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Joerg S. Steier, MD, PhD, FRCP
Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, London, UK; Lane Fox Unit/Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Luis Taborda-Barata, MD, PhD (WHO-GARD Section)
Faculty of Health Sciences, and CICS-Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal;
Department of Immunoallergology, Cova da Beira Hospital Centre, Covilhã, Portugal;
UBIAir-Clinical & Experimental Lung Centre, UBIMedical, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal
Marie Carmen Valenza, PT, MSc, PhD
Physiotherapy Department, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Gang Wang, MD, PhD
West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Ian Yang, MBBS (Hons), PhD, FRACP, FAPSR, FThorSoc, Grad Dip Clin Epid
Thoracic Physician and Director of Thoracic Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital;
Professor, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Brendon Yee, MBChB, FRACP, PhD
Central Clinical School, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Chong-Jen Yu, MD, PhD
National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei
Editorial Board (Thoracic Surgery)
Ghulam Abbas
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
Zaid Abdelsattar, MD, MS, FACS
Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, USA
Hiroyuki Adachi, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan
Prasad S. Adusumilli
Thoracic Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; Center for Cell Engineering, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Mara B. Antonoff, MD
Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Mark F. Berry, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford, CA, USA
Amit Bhargava
Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Servet Bölükbas
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University-Medical-Center Essen - Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany
Edward Y. Chan, MD, FACS
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
Subhasis Chatterjee, MD. FACS, FACC, FCCP
Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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
Toyofumi Fengshi Chen-Yoshikawa, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
Sehoon Choi, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
Pierfilippo Crucitti, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital, Rome, Italy
Jonathan D’Cunha, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Felix G. Fernandez, MD, MSc
Section of Thoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA
Hiran C. Fernando, MBBS, FRCS
Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery 3300 Gallows Road, Falls Church, VA, USA
Victor A. Ferraris, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky and Lexington VA Medical Center, Lexington, Ky, USA
Pier Luigi Filosso, MD
Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Domenico Galetta, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
Michel Gonzalez, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
Taichiro Goto, MD
Lung Cancer and Respiratory Disease Center, Head of the center, Yamanashi Central Hospital, Fujimi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
Shawn S. Groth, MD, MS
Division of General Thoracic Surgery, The Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Masatsugu Hamaji
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University Hospital, 54 Kawaharacho, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan
Kyoji Hirai, MD
Department of thoracic surgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan
Paul Hofman, MD, PhD
Université Côte d’Azur, CHU Nice, FHU OncoAge, Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology, Pasteur Hospital, Nice, France;
Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, INSERM, IRCAN, FHU OncoAge, Team 4, Nice, France;
Université Côte d’Azur, CHU Nice, FHU OncoAge, Hospital-Integrated Biobank, Nice, France
Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Maebashi Red Cross Hospital, Gunma, Japan
Ilhan Inci, FEBTS, FCCP
Hirslanden Clinic Zurich, Switzerland
Hisashi Iwata
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Gifu University Hospital, Gifu, Japan
Akira Iyoda, MD, PhD
Division of Chest Surgery, Department of Surgery, Toho University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Dawn E. Jaroszewski, MD, MBA, FACS
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Marcelo F. Jimenez, MD, PhD
University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain; Department of Thoracic Surgery, Salamanca University Hospital, Salamanca, Spain
Dragana Jovanovic, MD, PhD
Thoracic Oncology and Palliative Medicine, Internal Medicine Clinic "Akta Medica", Belgrade, Serbia
Chang Hyun Kang, MD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
Anthony W. Kim
Divisions of Thoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jae Y. Kim, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, City of Hope Cancer Center, Duarte, CA, USA
Min P. Kim, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA
Peter J. Kneuertz, MD
Thoracic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Daniel Kreisel, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo, USA
Jay M Lee, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Wenhua Liang, MD (Oncology)
Thoracic oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, China State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease & National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou, China
Jules Lin, MD, FACS
Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Jianqun Ma
Division of Esophageal and Mediastinal Surgery, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
Giuseppe Marulli, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiologic, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
John D. Mitchell, MD
Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Takuro Miyazaki, MD, PhD
Department Surgical Oncology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
Takahiro Nakajima, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
Calvin S. H. Ng
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China
Ikenna C. Okereke, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Mich.
René Horsleben Petersen, MD PHD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark.
Camilla Poggi, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Rome "Sapienza," Rome, Italy
Eugenio Pompeo, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Policlinico Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy
Cecilia Pompili, MD
Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, St James' Institute of Oncology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Ravi Rajaram, MD, MSc, FACS
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. USA
Daniel P. Raymond, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Yuichi Sakairi, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
Lana Y. Schumacher, MD, FACS
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA
Christopher W. Seder, MD
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Norihisa Shigemura, MD, PhD, FCCP
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University Health System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Yoshihisa Shimada, MD, PhD.
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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.
Yasushi Shintani, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
Alan D. L. Sihoe, MBBChir, MA(Cantab), FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM, FCCP, FACS
Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Shelby Stewart, MD
Department of Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
Hon Chi Suen, MBBS, FACS
Hong Kong Cardiothoracic Surgery Center, Hong Kong, China
Federico Venuta, MD
Department of Surgery “Paride Stefanini” - Thoracic Surgery Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, University of Rome SAPIENZA, Rome, Italy
Luca Voltolini, MD
Thoracic Surgery Unit, University Hospital of Careggi, Florence, Italy
Hao Wang, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Benjamin Wei, MD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
Stefan Welter, MD
Department of Surgery, Lung Clinic Hemer, Hemer, Germany
Sai Yendamuri, MD, FACS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York;
Department of Surgery, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
Editorial Board (Environmental Epidemiology)
Jicheng Gong, PhD
Assistant Professor
College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
Editorial Board (Cardiology)
Rodrigo Bagur, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiology, London Health Sciences Centre, Department of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada
Adrian Baranchuk, MD, FACC, FRCPC, FCCS
Division of Cardiology, Kingston General Hospital, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Alban-Elouen Baruteau, MD, PhD, FESC, FSCAI
Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, London, UK; Department of Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
David M. Dudzinski, MD
Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Islam Y Elgendy, MD
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Aloke Finn, MD
CVPath Institute, Gaithersburg, MD, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Andreas Kalogeropoulos, MD, MPH, PhD
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Christos G Mihos
Columbia University Division of Cardiology, Mount Sinai Heart Institute, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Paulo Cury Rezende, MD, PhD
MASS Research Group, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
Yeonyee E. Yoon, MD
Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea
Editorial Board (Radiation Oncology)
Hiroshi Doi, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan.
Chi Wan Koo,MD
Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Michael T. Milano, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
Henry S. Park, MD, MPH
Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Charles B. Simone, II, MD, FASTRO, FACRO
New York Proton Center, New York, NY, USA; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Atsuya Takeda, MD, PhD
Radiation Oncology Center, Ofuna Chuo Hospital, Kamakura, Japan
Yi-Xiang Wang, MD
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HongKong SAR, China
Abraham J. Wu
Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA
Editorial Board (Interventional Pulmonology)
Roberto F. Casal, MD
Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Henri G. Colt, MD, FCCP
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, USA
Masahide Oki, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagoya Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan
Editorial Board (Pathology)
Andrew Churg, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Kentaro Inamura, MD, PhD
Division of Pathology, The Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan
Anja C. Roden, MD
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA
Editorial Board (Oncology)
Federico Cappuzzo, MD, PhD
Department of Oncology-Hematology, AUSL della Romagna, Ravenna, Italy
Petros Christopoulos, MD
Department of Medical Oncology, Thoraxklinik and National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) at Heidelberg University Medical Center, Heidelberg, Germany
Vinicius Ernani, MD
Mayo Clinic in Arizona, USA
Hidehito Horinouchi, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Chang Gon Kim, MD, PhD
Division of Medical Oncology at the Yonsei Cancer Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine, South Korea
Robert Kratzke, MD
Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplant, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Daniel Morgensztern, MD
Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Martin Pichler, MD
Research Unit for Non-Coding RNA and Genome Editing in Cancer, Division of Oncology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Antonio Rossi, MD
Division of Medical Oncology, Fondazione IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy.
Alfredo Tartarone, MD
Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Onco-Hematology, IRCCS-CROB Referral Cancer Center of Basilicata, Rionero in Vulture (Pz), Italy
Editorial Board (Emergency and Critical Care)
Sanchit Ahuja
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Timothy E. Albertson, MD, MPH, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA
Seung Jun Lee, MD, PhD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jiju, South Korea
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.
Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD
Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Haibo Zhang, MD; PhD; FCAHS (Critical Care Frontier and Horizon Section)
Anesthesia, Medicine and Physiology, University of Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Ming Zhong, MD
Department of Critical Care Medicine of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Editorial Board (Biochemical Science)
Bing Gu, MD
Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangdong, China
Aseem Kumar, PhD
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Biomolecular Sciences Program, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
Editorial Board (Other Fields)
Stine Munkholm-Larsen, MD
Collaborative Research (CORE) Group, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Junfeng (Jim) Zhang, PhD (Air Pollution Section)
Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment & Duke Global Health Institute & Duke Kunshan University, Durham, NC, USA
Managing Editors
Grace S. Li
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease, China
Eunice X. Xu
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease, China
Daisy Y. Geng
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease, China
Science Editors
Anne Lu
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease, China
Wymen Chen
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease
Connie K. Chen
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease, China
Hestia S. He
Editorial Office
Hailing Lian
Editorial Office
Winnie Liu
Editorial Office, Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery
Amy Y. Liu
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease, China
Michael C. Peng
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease, China
Tina C. Pei
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease, China
Rebecca R. Wang
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease, China