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
JTD appreciates the support from a strong team of academic editors who help to identify newly published research articles which have great clinical significance and as well as recommend international experts in the field to comment on the new publications. The list of the academic editors is available here: http://www.theaber.com/academicEditorList.