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
Executive Editor-in-Chief (Cardiovascular Surgery)
Tristan D. Yan, BSc, MBBS, MS, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; The Collaborative Research (CORE) Group, Sydney, Australia
Associate Editors-in-Chief
Alessandro Brunelli, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James's University Hospital, in Leeds, UK
Jin-Shing Chen, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University, Director, Department of Traumatology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Chief, Division of Experimental Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei
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
Yi-Jen Chen, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, USA
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
Kwun Fong, MBBS(Lon), FRACP, PhD
Department of Thoracic Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Shahzad G. Raja, MBBS, MRCSEd, FRCSEd(C-Th)
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Harefield Hospital, London, UK
Gaetano Rocco, MD, FRCS (Ed), FETCS, FCCP
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy
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, Tishreen Hospital, Latakia, Syria; Department of Internal Medicine, Syrian Private University, Damascus, Syria
Kazuaki Takabe, MD, PhD, FACS
Breast Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA; Department of Surgery, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
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 (Thoracic Surgery)
Ghulam Abbas, MD, MHCM, FACS
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
Hiroyuki Adachi, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan
Prasad S. Adusumilli, MD, FACS, FCCP
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, FACS
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 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
Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP
Department of Thoracic Surgery, AUSL Bologna, Maggiore Teaching Hospital, Bologna, Italy
Amit Bhargava
Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Servet Bölükbas, MD, PhD, FETCS, FCCP, FEBTS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany
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
Keneng Chen, MD, PhD
The First Department of Thoracic Surgery, Peking University School of Oncology, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China
Toyofumi Fengshi Chen-Yoshikawa, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
Yasuhiro Chikaishi
Second Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, 807-8555, Japan; Department of Chest Surgery, Shimonoseki City Hospital, 1-13-1 Kouyouchou, Shimonoseki, 750-8520, 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
Thomas A. D’Amico, MD
Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Jonathan D’Cunha, MD, PhD
Division of Lung Transplantation and Lung Failure, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA
Wojciech Dudek, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
Pirooz Eghtesady, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Wentao Fang, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, China
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
Pier Luigi Filosso, MD
Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Raja M. Flores
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Henning A. Gaissert
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Domenico Galetta, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
Sidhu P. Gangadharan, MD, MHCM
Division of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Robert S. George, BSc, MRCS, MBA, PhD, FRCS-CTh
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University College London Hospital, London, UK
Sebastien Gilbert, MD, FRCSC
Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Michel Gonzalez, MD
Service of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, MD, FECTS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain
Dominique Gossot, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France
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
Khosro Hekmat, MD, PhD
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Director of Thoracic Surgery Program, University of Cologne, Germany
Kyoji Hirai, MD
Department of thoracic surgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan
Chuong D. Hoang, MD
Section of Thoracic Surgery, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, and The Clinical Center, Bethesda, USA
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
Andrea Imperatori, MD
Center for Thoracic Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
Ilhan Inci, MD, FCCP
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Mahmoud Ismail, MD
Competence Center of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Hisashi Iwata, MD, PhD
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
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Salamanca University Hospital, Salamanca, Spain
Dragana Jovanovic, MD, PhD
University Hospital of Pulmonology, Clinical Center of Serbia, 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
Joon Bum Kim, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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
Robert J. Korst, MD, FCCP, FACS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY, USA; Valley/Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Care, Paramus, NJ, USA
Janusz Kowalewski, MD, PhD
Head of the Clinic of Thoracic Surgery and Tomours, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Oncology Centre, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Daniel Kreisel, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo, USA
Alexander Sasha Krupnick, MD
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Jay M Lee, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hui Li, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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
Mingyao Liu, MD, MSc
Department of Surgery and Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Deruo Liu, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, China and Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China
Lunxu Liu, MD
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Giuseppe Marulli, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiologic, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Douglas J. Mathisen, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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, 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
Thomas Ng MD, FRCSC, FACS
Department of Surgery, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Kazuma Okamoto, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Akashi Medical Center, Akashi, Hyogo, Japan
Ikenna C. Okereke, MD, FACS
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
Kostas Papagiannopoulos MD, MMED THORAX, (CTH)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK
Kalpaj Parekh, MD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Joachim Pfannschmidt, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lung Clinic Heckeshorn, Helios Hospital Emil von Behring, Berlin, Germany
René Horsleben Petersen, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark.
Francesco Petrella, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
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
Gui-Bin Qiao, MD, PhD
Department of thoracic surgery, General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command of PLA, Guangzhou, China
Yuichi Sakairi, MD, PhD
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan
Inderpal S. Sarkaria, MD, FACS
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Yukinori Sakao, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery,Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Marco Scarci, MD, FRCS, FCCP, FACS, FEBTS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy
Christopher W. Seder, MD
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Yaron Shargall, MD, FRCSC, FCCP
Department of Surgery, McMaster University, St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Norihisa Shigemura, MD, PhD, FCCP
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University Health System, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Junichi Shimada MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
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
Hon Chi Suen, MBBS, FACS
Cardio-thoracic Surgery Centre, Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, Hong Kong, China
Hiromitsu Takizawa, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic, Endocrine Surgery and Oncology, Institute of Health Bioscience, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan
Federico Venuta, MD
Department of Surgery “Paride Stefanini” - Thoracic Surgery Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, University of Rome SAPIENZA, Rome, Italy
Giulia Veronesi, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano, Milan, 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
Qun Wang, MD, FRCS
Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Benjamin Wei, MD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama, Alabama, USA
Stefan Welter, MD
Department of Surgery, Lung Clinic Hemer, Hemer, Germany
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
Jian Zeng, MD
Department of thoracic surgery, Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 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
Thierry P. Carrel
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Andrea Colli, MD, PhD, FECTS
Cardiac Surgery Unit, Department of Cardiology, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova Medical School, Padua, Italy
Giuseppe Francesco Maria D’Ancona, MD, PhD
Cardiovascular Clinical Research Unit, Vivantes Klinikum Urban and Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany; University Herzzentrum Rostock, Germany
J. Michael DiMaio, MD
Baylor Scott and White Research Institute, The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, Plano TX, USA
Ioannis Dimarakis, MD, PhD, FRCS, CTh
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK
John Elefteriades, MD
Department of Surgery, Section of Cardio-Thoracic surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Ikuo Fukuda, MD, PhD
Cardiovascular Center, Suita Tokushukai Hospital, Senriokanishi, Suita-shi, Osaka-fu, Japan
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
Martin T.R. Grapow, MD
Heart Center Hirslanden Zuerich
Witellikerstrasse 36
8008 Zuerich
Switzerland
Jianmin Gu, MD
Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero, MD, PhD
Heart Area, Central University Hospital of Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
Nan Jiang, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tianjin Chest Hospital, Tianjin, China
Richard A. Jonas, MD
Center for Neuroscience Research and Children's National Heart Institute, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC, USA
Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Ahmet Kilic, MD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Arman Kilic, MD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Nicholas T. Kouchoukos, MD
Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St Louis, MO, USA
Mariusz Kowalewski, MD
Clinical Department of Cardiac Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration in Warsaw, Poland;
Cardiothoracic Research Centre, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Markus Krane, MD
Division of Experimental Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, German Heart Center Munich, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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, CA, USA
Wei-Guo Ma, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Beijing Anzhen Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China; Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Stefano Mastrobuoni, MD
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, St Luc’s Hospital, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
Hidetoshi Masumoto, MD, PhD
RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Kobe, Japan
Michele Di Mauro, MD, PhD
SS Annunziata Hospital, University “G D’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Paul Michael McFadden, MD, FACS, FCCP, FACC
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Carlos A. Mestres, MD, PhD, FETCS
Department of Cardiovascluar Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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
Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA
Francesco Nappi, MD
Centre Cardiologique du Nord de Saint-Denis, Paris, France
Tom C. Nguyen
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas at Houston, Memorial Hermann Hospital-Heart and Vascular Institute, Houston, TX, USA
Chetan Pasrija, MD
Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Simon Pecha, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany
Francesco Pollari, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac surgery, Klinikum Nürnberg – Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany
Danny Ramzy, MD, PhD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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 Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center, Ann Arbor, MI, 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
Randall K. Wolf, MD, FACC, FACS
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 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
Editorial Board (Vascular Surgery)
Athanasios Katsargyris, MD
Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany
Drosos Kotelis, MD
European Vascular Center Aachen-Maastricht, Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Editorial Board (Gastrointestinal Surgery)
Michiel F. G. de Maat, MD, PhD
Department of Abdominal Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium
Mark I. van Berge Henegouwen, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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
Esther Barreiro, MD, PhD
Institute of Medical Research of Hospital del Mar (IMIM)-Hospital del Mar, Parc de Salut Mar, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Barcelona, Spain;
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
Chang-Min Choi, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Oncology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan, Seoul, South Korea
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
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
Kyoichi Kaira, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Center, International Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan
Kuo-Chin Kao, MD
Department of Thoracic Medicine, Department of Respiratory Therapy, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou
Tomoya Kawaguchi, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan
Bhumsuk Keam, MD, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University Hospital, 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
Antoni Torres Martí
Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Allergy, Clinical Institute of Thorax, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Spain
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
University College Dublin (UCD), St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Giovanni Battista Migliori, MD
World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Fondazione S. Maugeri IRCCS, Via Roncaccio 16, 21049, Tradate, Italy; Maugeri Institute, IRCCS, Via Roncaccio 16, 21049 Tradate, Italy
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
Hye Yun Park, MD, PhD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South 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
Jerome M Reich, MD, FCCP
Earle A Chiles Research Institute
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
Yong Song, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Jinling Hospital, Nanjing University School of Medicine, Nanjing, China
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
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 (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
Kongkiat Chaikriangkrai, MD
Heart and Vascular Center, University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, IA, USA
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
Alain Fraisse, MD, PhD.
Paediatric Cardiology, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Trust, London, UK
Hitoshi Hirose, MD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Alfonso Ielasi, MD, FESC
Cardiology Division, Bolognini Hospital, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Bergamo Est, Seriate (BG), Italy
Andreas Kalogeropoulos, MD, MPH, PhD
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Shahar Lavi, MD, BSc
Department of Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada; Division of Cardiology, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada
Christos G. Mihos, DO
Columbia University Division of Cardiology, Mount Sinai Heart Institute, Miami Beach, FL, USA
L. Christian Napp, MD
Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Stefano Omboni, MD
Clinical Research Unit, Italian Institute of Telemedicine, Solbiate Arno, Varese, Italy
Scientific Research Department of Cardiology, Science and Technology Park for Biomedicine, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
Paulo Cury Rezende, MD, PhD
MASS Research Group, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
John J. Ryan, MD, FACC, FAHA
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Utah Health Science Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Junjie Xiao, PhD
Professor, Director of Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences in Shanghai University, Shanghai, China; Vice Dean of School of Life Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
Yeonyee E. Yoon, MD
Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea
Editorial Board (Radiation Oncology)
Sara Boccalini
Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Radiology, Hopital Pradel, CHU, Lyon, France;
Department of Radiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Brett W. Carter, MD
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Damiano Caruso, MD
Radiology Unit, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Hiroshi Doi, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan.
Matthias Guckenberger, MD
Department for Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Zurich (USZ), Zurich, Switzerland
Branislav Jeremic, MD, PhD
Radiation Oncology, the BioIRC, R&D Centre for Biomedical Research, Kragujevac, Serbia
Lucyna Kepka, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Military institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
Chi Wan Koo，MD
Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Percy P. Lee
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Alexander V. Louie
Department of Radiation Oncology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jiade J. Lu, MD, MBA
Department of Radiation Oncology, Shanghai Proton and Heavy Ion Center, Shanghai, China
Michael T. Milano, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
Giuseppe Muscogiuri, MD
Department of Imaging, Centro Cardiologico Monzino-IRCCS, Milan, Italy
Henry S. Park, MD, MPH
Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Pamela Samson, MD, MPHS
Department of Radiation Oncology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
Charles B. Simone, II, MD
Professor and Chief Medical Officer, New York Proton Center
Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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
Chun Min Chee, MD
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Henri G. Colt, MD, FCCP
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, USA
David Feller-Kopman, FCCP
Interventional Pulmonology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Kassem Harris, MD, FCCP
Director or Interventional Pulmonology, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA
Fabien Maldonado, MD, FCCP
Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Masahide Oki, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagoya Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan
Ko Pen Wang, MD, FCCP
Interventional Pulmonology, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Editorial Board (Pathology)
Lucian R. Chirieac, MD
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Andrew Churg, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Akiteru Goto, MD, PhD
Department of Cellular and Organ Pathology, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan
Johannes Haybaeck, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology, Neuropathology and Molecular Pathology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Kentaro Inamura, MD, PhD
Division of Pathology, The Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan
Kazuya Kondo, MD, PhD
Department of Oncological Medical Services, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan
Mari Mino-Kenudson, MD
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Anja C. Roden, MD
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA
Editorial Board (Pediatrics)
Giovanni Piedimonte, MD, FAAP, FCCP
Center for Pediatric Research, Pediatric Institute and Children's Hospital, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Editorial Board (Oncology)
Eric H. Bernicker MD
Cancer Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA
Trever G. Bivona, MD, PhD
Department of Medicine, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Federico Cappuzzo, MD, PhD
Department of Oncology-Hematology, AUSL della Romagna, Ravenna, Italy
Wanqing Chen, MD
National Office for Cancer Prevention and Control & National Central Cancer Registry, National Cancer Center, Beijing, China
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
Leonardo M. Fabbri, MD
Department of Oncology, Hematology and Respiratory Diseases, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Hidehito Horinouchi, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Robert Kratzke, MD
Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplant, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Giulio Metro, MD
Department of Medical Oncology, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, AOU di Perugia, Italy
Daniel Morgensztern, MD
Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Yusuke Okuma, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Center for Cancer Genomic and Advanced Therapeutics, National Cancer Center Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Raymond U. Osarogiagbon, MBBS, FACP
Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program, Baptist Centers for Cancer Care, Memphis, TN, USA
Jose M Pacheco, MD
Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Anschutz Cancer Center, Aurora, Colorado, USA
Antonio Passaro, MD
Division of Thoracic Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
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.
Matthew B. Schabath, PhD
Departments of Cancer Epidemiology and Thoracic Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL USA
Kazuaki Takabe, MD, PhD, FACS
Breast Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA; Department of Surgery, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
Alfredo Tartarone, MD
Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Onco-Hematology, IRCCS-CROB Referral Cancer Center of Basilicata, Rionero in Vulture (Pz), Italy
Pieter Christiaan van der Sluis, MD, PhD
Department of General-, Visceral- and Transplant Surgery, University medical center of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Caicun Zhou, MD, PhD
Department of Oncology, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Affiliated to Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
Editorial Board (Emergency and Critical Care)
Timothy E. Albertson, MD, MPH, PhD
Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA
Won Young Kim
Department of Emergency Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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.
Paul E. Marik, MD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA
Ary Serpa Neto, MD, MSc, PhD
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
Osamu Nishida, MD, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan
Federico Pappalardo
Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Raffaele Scientific Institute and San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milan Italy
Jordi Rello, MD, PhD
CIBERES, Vall d’Hebron Institut of Research, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Kurt Ruetzler, MD
Departments of Outcomes Research and General Anesthesiology; Cleveland Clinic, Main Campus, Cleveland, OH, USA
Stefan Schraag, MD, PhD, FRCA, FFICM
Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Clydebank, UK
Abraham Sonny, MD, FASE
Divisions of Cardiac Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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
Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, Xuzhou, China
Aseem Kumar, PhD
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Biomolecular Sciences Program, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, Canada
Editorial Board (Other Fields)
John O Clarke
Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Stanford University, Redwood City, CA, USA
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, MPH, PhD
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA, USA
Xueyan Mei, Graduate Student
Graduate School of Biological Sciences at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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
Statistical Editor
Baoliang Zhong, MD, PhD
Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China
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
Language Editors
Jeremy Dean Chapnick
Chief Language Editor, AME Hong Kong office; United States University Carthage College, Wisconsin, USA (Sept. 2012 to May 2016)
John Ayric Gray
Chief Language Editor, AME Hong Kong office; University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (Sept. 2004-June 2009)
Science Editors
Anne Lu
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease, China
Wymen Chen
Editorial Office
Connie K. Chen
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease, China
Hestia S. He
Editorial Office
Hailing Lian
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease, China
Winnie Liu
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease, China
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
Vicky Wong
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease, China
Rebecca R. Wang
Editorial Office, Journal of Thoracic Disease, China
Academic Editors
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