The reviewers of JTD 2019

Posted On 2019-12-24 03:40:32

 

We appreciate and thank the reviewers of JTD for their tremendous efforts to support and improve our work. Hereby, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to them, which are listed as follows.


Rami Abazid

Department of Cardiology, Prince Sultan Cardiac Centre, Al-Qassim, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia. Department of Cardiac Imaging, Prince Sultan Cardiac Centre, Al-Qassim, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia

 

Asghar Abbasi

Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory & Critical Care Physiology & Medicine, he Lundquist Institute of Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA, USA

 

Fernando Conrado Abrao

Oncology Center Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, Faculdade de Medicina Universidade, Rua Sousa Ramos, 144, Apt 03 - Sao Paulo (SP), Brazil

 

Hiroyuki Adachi

Department of Surgery, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan 

 

Alfredo Addeo

Oncology Department, University Hospital Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

 

Gabriella Agnoletti

Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Citta’ della Salute e della Scienza, Turin, Italy

 

Linda Agolli

Institute of Radiation Oncology, Sapienza University, Sant'Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy; Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstraße 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany

 

Silvia Di Agostino

Oncogenomic and Epigenetic Unit, Department of Diagnostic Research and Technological Innovation, IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome 00144, Italy

 

Yong Chan Ahn

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

 

Hyo Yeong Ahn

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Republic of Korea; Biomedical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Republic of Korea

 

Jiyeon Ahn

Division of Radiation Cancer Research, Korea Institute of Radiological & Medical Sciences (KIRAMS)

 

Clemens Aigner

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Endoscopy, West German Lung Center, Ruhrlandklinik - University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

 

Alberto Aiolfi

Division of General Surgery, Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy

 

Firas Abu Akar

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Shaare Zedek Medical Center (SZMC), Jerusalem, Israel

 

Nousheen Akhter

Department of Chest Medicine, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Rafique Shaheed Road, Karachi, Pakistan

 

Ali Akil

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Support, Ibbenbueren General Hospital, Grosse Strasse 41, 49477, Ibbenbueren, Germany

 

Rodolpho M. Albano

Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

Timothy E. Albertson

Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA

 

Jacopo Alfonsi

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, S.Orsola Hospital, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

 

Jason Ali

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

 

Marco Alifano

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Cochin Hospital, 27, rue du Faubourg Saint Jacques, 75014, Paris, France

 

Yasser Aljehani

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia

 

João Almeida

Serviço de Cardiologia. Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho. Vila Nova de Gaia. Portugal

 

Nasri Alotti

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Zala St. Raphael County Hospital, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary

 

Antonio Alvarez

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, University Hospital Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain; Group for the Study of Thoracic Neoplasms and Lung Transplantation, IMIBIC (Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba), University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

 

Ramón Fernández Álvarez

Área de Gestión de Pulmón, Servicio de Neumología, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, España

 

Gina Amanda

Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Persahabatan Hospital, Jalan Persahabatan Raya No. 1, Rawamangun, Jakarta 13220, Indonesia

 

Pascal Amedro

Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology Department, Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France

 

Khalid Amer

University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, The Cardiovascular and Thoracic Centre, Southampton General Hospital, Southhampton, UK

 

Arya Amini

Department of Radiation Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA

 

Dario Amore

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Monaldi Hospital, Leonardo Bianchi Street, 80131, Naples, Italy

 

Luca Ampollini

Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Science, University Hospital of Parma, Via Gramsci 14, 43126 Parma, Italy

 

Takashi Anayama

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery II, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Kohasu Oko Nankoku Kochi, 783-8505, Japan

 

Marco Andolfi

Division of Thoracic Surgery, S. Maria della Misericordia Hospital, University of Perugia Medical School, 06156 Perugia, Italy

 

Claudio Andreetti

Division of Thoracic Surgery, "G. Mazzini" Hospital of Teramo, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of L'Aquila, Piazza Italia 1, 64100 Teramo, Italy

 

Marco Anile

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy

 

Mara B. Antonoff

Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA

 

Juan L. Antón-Pacheco

Pediatric Airway Unit, Division of Pediatric Surgery, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

 

L. Caetano M. Antunes

Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, National Laboratory for Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterioses, Professor Hélio Fraga Reference Center, National School of Public Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, National Institute for Science and Technology on Innovation on Diseases of Neglected Populations, Center for Technological Development in Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

Luigi Arcieri

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Unit, Heart Hospital, G. Monasterio Foundation, via Aurelia Sud 54100, Massa, Italy

 

Francesco Ardissone

University of Torino, Department of Oncology, Thoracic Surgery Unit, San Luigi Hospital, Regione Gonzole 10, 10043 Orbassano, Torino, Italy

 

Albert Ariza-Solé

Cardiology Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

 

David T. Arnold

Academic Respiratory Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

 

Wilbert S. Aronow

Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA

 

Tetsuhiko Asao

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

 

Valeria Ascoli

Department of Radiological, Oncological and Anatomo-Pathological Sciences, Sapienza University, Viale Regina Elena, 324, 00161 Rome, Italy

 

John-David Aubert

Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

 

 

Hideo Baba

Kumamoto Univ, Grad Sch Med Sci, Dept Surg Gastroenterol, 1-1-1 Honjo, Kumamoto 8608556, Japan

 

George D. Bablekos

Faculty of Health and Caring Professions, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens, Agiou Spyridonos Street, Egaleo, 12243 Athens, Greece

 

Renata Báez-Saldaña

Servicio Clínico de Neumología Oncológica, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Ciudad de México, México; División de Posgrado, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Ciudad de México, México

 

Quentin Ballouhey

Department of Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital, Limoges, France

 

Aki Nilanga Bandara

The Faculty of Land and Food Systems, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada

 

Oussama Baraket

CHU Habib Bougatfa, service de chirurgie générale, 7000 Bizerte, Tunisie

 

Carmen S. V. Barbas

Adult ICU, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Avenida Albert Einstein, 627, 5 andar, São Paulo, SP, CEP:05652-900, Brazil.;Respiratory ICU, University of São Paulo Medical School, Avenida Dr Eneas de Carvalho Aguiar, 255, 6 andar, São Paulo, CEP: 05403-000, Brazil

 

Luciano Barbato

Department of Cardiovascular, Maria Pia Hospital, GVM Care & Research, Torino, Italy

 

Umberto Barbero

Santissima Annunziata Hosp, Div Cardiol, Savigliano, Italy

 

Eduardo J. Mortani Barbosa Jr

Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

 

Amit Bardia

Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

 

Ramachandra Barik

Department of Cardiology, Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Punjagutta, Hyderabad 500082, Telangana, India

 

 

Krzysztof Bartus

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantology, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Pradnicka 80, 31-202, Krakow, Poland

 

Stefano Basso

Department of Surgery, S. Maria degli Angeli Hospital, 33170 Pordenone, Italy

 

Torben K. Becker

The Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

 

Benoît Bédat

Division of Thoracic and Endocrine Surgery, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

 

Anne-Pauline Bellanger

Chrono-Environnement UMR 6249 Research Team, Franche-Comté University, Besançon, France; Parasitology-Mycology Department, Besançon University Hospital, Besançon, France

 

Elisabeth Bendstrup

Department of Respiratory Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, DK-8000, Denmark

 

Kálmán Benke

Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary; Hungarian Marfan Foundation, Budapest, Hungary

 

David Bennett

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Neurosciences, Respiratory Diseases Unit, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

 

Sadia Benzaquen

Interventional Pulmonology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

 

Rossana Berardi

Clinica Oncologica AOU Ospedali Riuniti Ancona-Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

 

Neville Berkman

Institute of Pulmonary Medicine, Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

 

Pascal Berna

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Amiens University Hospital, Amiens, France

 

Ngo Nonga Bernadette

Department of Surgery and Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Alain Bernard

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Bocage Central, 14 rue Gaffarel BP 77908, 21079 Dijon Cedex, France

 

Mark F. Berry

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford, CA, USA

 

Emanuele Bertaglia

Department of Cardiological, Thoracic, and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padova, Italy

 

Jean-Philippe Berthet

General Thoracic Surgery Department, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Division of Thoracic Surgery, Arnaud de Villeneuve University Hospital, Montpellier, France; U1046, INSERM, Montpellier University 1, Montpellier University 2, Montpellier, France

 

Pietro Bertoglio

Division of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS Sacro Cuore-Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy

 

Luca Bertolaccini

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Maggiore Teaching Hospital, Bologna, Italy

 

Himanshu Bhardwaj

Dept of Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK. and 2 Heart Rhythm Institute, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA

 

Amit Bhargava

Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

 

Faiz Y. Bhora

Mt Sinai Hlth Syst, Icahn Sch Med, Dept Thorac Surg, 1000 10th Ave, New York, NY 10019 USA

 

Andras Bikov

Department of Pulmonology, Semmelweis University, Dios arok 1/C, Budapest, H-1125, Hungary

 

Rocco Bilancia

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow, UK

 

Filio Billia

Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Division of Cardiology, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

Federico Bilotta

Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

 

 

Ziyad M. Binsalamah

Department of Surgery, Division of Congenital Heart Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, 6621 Fannin St, MC19345H, Houston, TX 77030, USA

 

Thomas J. Birdas

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

 

Rodica Birla

General and Esophageal Surgery Department, Center of Excellence in Esophageal Surgery, Sf. Maria Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania

 

Abhishek Biswas

Director of Interventional Pulmonology, Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, IN, USA

 

Thomas C. Blakeman

Division of Trauma and Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

 

Marc Boada

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

 

Christian Bode

Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

 

Servet Bölükbas

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kliniken Essen-Mitte Evang, Huyssens-Stiftung/Knappschafts-Krankenhaus, Essen, Germany

 

Massimo Bonacchi

Unit of Cardiac Surgery, Department Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

 

Luigi Bonavina

Division of General Surgery, Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

 

Sheldon J. Bond

Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, University of Louisville, 315 E. Broadway, Ste 565, Louisville, KY, 40202, USA

 

Francesco Bonella

Univ Duisburg Essen, Interstitial & Rare Lung Dis Unit, Ruhrlandklin, D-45239 Essen, Germany

 

Viboon Boonsarngsuk

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

 

Raphael Borie

Hop Bichat Claude Bernard, AP HP, Ctr Reference Constitutif Malad Pulm Rares, DHU FIRE,Serv Pneumol A, 46 Rue Henri Huchard, F-75877 Paris 18, France

 

Uberto Bortolotti

Section of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital, Università di Pisa, Via Paradisa, 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy

 

Denis Bouchard

Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Québec, Canada; Department of Cardiac Surgery, Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Québec, Canada

 

Yanis Boumber

Department of Hematology/Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA

 

Jillian Bracht

Pangaea Oncology, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Quirón-Dexeus University Institute, Barcelona, Spain

 

Luka Brcic

Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 25, 8036, Graz, Austria

 

Emilio Bria

Medical Oncology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, I.R.C.C.S., Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

 

Olivier Brugière

Service de Pneumologie B et Transplantation, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France; INSERM U1152, Paris, France; University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France; Département hospitalo-universitaire FIRE, Paris, France

 

Vito D. Bruno

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol, UK

 

Claudia Brusasco

Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, University of Genoa, 16132 Genoa, Italy

 

Sergio Buccheri

Division of Cardiology, Ferrarotto Hospital, University of Catania, Via Citelli 1, 95100, Catania, Italy

 

Alfredo Budillon

Experimental Pharmacology Unit, Laboratori di Mercogliano, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, IRCCSFondazione G. Pascale, Napoli, Italy

 

Gianfranco Butera

Department of Congenital Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese, Italy

 

Lucio Cagini

Osped S Maria Misericordia, Unita Chirurg Torac, I-06156 Perugia, Italy

 

Guoping Cai

Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

 

Fiorella Calabrese

Univ Padua, Med Sch, Dept Cardiac Thorac Vasc Sci & Publ Hlth, Pathol, Via A Gabelli 61, I-35121 Padua, Italy

 

Anna Caliò

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; Department of Pathology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

 

Robert Cameron

Severin Wunderman Division of Thoracic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

Suzanne Cannegieter

Department of Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

 

Massimo Caputo

Bristol Heart Institute, School of Clinical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

 

Michele Caraglia

Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and General Pathology, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Via L. De Crecchio, 7, 80138 Naples, Italy

 

Gaetano Caramori

Pneumologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Odontoiatriche e delle Immagini Morfologiche e Funzionali (BIOMORF), Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy

 

Giovanni L. Carboni

Division of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stadtspital, Triemli, Zurich, Switzerland Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Berne, Switzerland

 

Giuseppe Cardillo

Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo Forlanini, Rome, Italy

 

 

Daniela Cardinale

Cardioncology Unit, European Institute of Oncology, I.R.C.C.S., Milan, Italy

 

Carl-Johan Jakobsen

Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

 

Thierry P Carrel

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital and University of Bern, 3010, Bern, Switzerland

 

Angelo Carretta

Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Raffaele Hospital, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

 

Xavier Carrillo

Cardiology Department, H. U. Germans Trias i Pujol, Carretera de Canyet SN. 08916, Badalona, Spain; Department of Medicine, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

 

Kristin V. Carson-Chahhoud

Respiratory Medicine, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville South; The Clinical Practice Unit, Basil Hetzel Institute for Translational Health Research, Woodville South; School of Medicine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia

 

Monica Casiraghi

Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

 

Raul Caso

Division of Thoracic Surgery, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, USA

 

Umberto Caterino

Thoracic Endoscopic Unit, V. Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Via L. Bianchi, 80100 Naples, Italy

 

Vinicius Cavalheri

School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Faculty of Health Science, Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia; Institute for Respiratory Health, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

 

Claudio Caviezel

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

 

Alessandro Celi

Cardiothoracic and Vascular Department, UO Pneumologia Universitaria, University of Pisa and Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Pisana, Pisa, Italy

 

Fabrizio Ceresa

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Papardo-Piemonte Hospital, Messina, Italy

 

Robert Anton Cesnjevar

Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany

 

Mariusz Chabowski

Department of Surgery, Fourth Military Teaching Hospital, 5 Weigla St., 50-981, Wroclaw, Poland

 

Ahmad Chaddad

Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

 

Sayan Chakraborty

Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A-STAR), 61 Biopolis Drive, Proteos, Singapore 138673, Singapore

 

David Maurice Chambers

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Disorders Medicine, 550 S. Jackson St., ACB, A3R43, Louisville, KY 40202, United States

 

Hiang Ping Chan

Divison of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, University Medicine Cluster, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore

 

Edward Y. Chan

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, 6550 Fannin Street, Suite 1661, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

 

Daniel L. Chan

Department of Surgery, St George Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

 

Jen-Ping Chang

Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

 

Yin Kai Chao

Associate Professor, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei

 

Sampurna Chatterjee

Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

 

Nazia Chaudhuri

North West Interstitial Lung Disease Unit, University Hospital of South Manchester, Wythenshawe Hospital, Southmoor Road, Wythenshawe, Manchester M23 9LT, UK

 

Alex Chee

Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

 

Wen-Jone Chen

Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Emergency Medicine, Lotung Poh-Ai Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan

 

Chih-Yi Chen

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Chung Shan Medical University, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taiwan

 

Chin-Ming Chen

Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Yongkang District, Tainan

 

Jin-Shing Chen

Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University and National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei

 

Yi-Jen Chen

Radiation Oncology, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, CA 90603, USA

 

Ya-Jung Cheng

Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei

 

Toyofumi F. Chen-Yoshikawa

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

 

Nai-Hsin Chi

Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei

 

Kwan-Hwa Chi

Department of Radiation Therapy and Oncology, Shin-Kong Memorial Hospital, Taipei

 

Marco Chiappetta

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Largo F. Vito n 1, Rome, Italy

 

Chun-Ru Chien

School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, No.91 Hsueh-Shih Road, North District, Taichung 40402

 

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

 

Emiliano Chisci

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, "San Giovanni di Dio" Hospital, Florence, Italy

 

Wei-Hsin Chiu

Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan

 

Davide Chiumello

Dipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione (Intensiva e Subintensiva) e Terapia del Dolore, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via F. Sforza 35, Milan, Italy

 

Sukki Cho

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam-si, South Korea Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

 

Jong Ho Cho

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Young-Jae Cho

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National

University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, 166 Gumi–ro, Bundang–gu, Seongnam–si, Gyeonggi–do 463-707, Seoul, Korea

 

Jong Bum Choi

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chonbuk National University Medical School, 20 Geonji-Ro, Deokjin-Gu, Jeonju, Chonbuk, 561-712, ROK

 

Se Hoon Choi

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Jae Young Choi

Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Center for Congenital Heart Disease, Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea

 

Chang-Min Choi

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 88, Olympic-Ro 43-Gil, Songpa-Gu, Seoul 05505, South Korea

 

Yoon-La Choi

Department of Pathology and Translational Genomics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea; Department of Health Sciences and Technology, SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

Soon-Ho Chon

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, S-Jungang Hospital, Jeju, South Korea

 

Shah-Hwa Chou

Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung

 

Christos Chouaïd

Service de pneumologie, CHI Créteil, 40 avenue de verdun, 94010 Créteil, France

 

Romy B. Christmann

Rheumatology Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

 

Petros Christopoulos

Department of Thoracic Oncology, Thoraxklinik at Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany; Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC-H), Heidelberg, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Germany

 

Shi-Jye Chu

Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei

 

Mui Teng Chua

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

 

Andrew Churg

Department of Pathology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada

 

Ugo Cioffi

Department of Surgery, University of Mian, Via Sforza 35, 20122 Milano (MI), Italy

 

Paola Ciriaco

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Scientific Institute and University Vita-Salute H. San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

 

Michał Ciurzyński

Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Medical University, Warsaw, Poland

 

Damian L. Clarke

Pietermaritzburg Metropolitan Trauma Service, Department of Surgery, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa; Department of Surgery, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

Julie Cleuziou

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

 

 

Donald W. Cockcroft

Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Royal University Hospital, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

 

Robert A. Cohen

Northwestern Univ, Feinberg Sch Med, Div Pulm & Crit Care Med, 676 North St Clair St, Chicago, IL 60611 USA

 

Sara Colella

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

 

Andrea Colli

Cardiac Surgery Unit, Department of Cardiology, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padova Medical School, Padua, Italy

 

Francesca Colonese

Medical Oncology Unit, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy

 

Giovanni M. Comacchio

Thoracic Surgery Unit, Department of Cardiologic, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University Hospital, Padova, Italy

 

Délio Marques Conde

Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, School of Medicine, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil

 

José Francisco Corona-Cruz

Thoracic Surgery Department, Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, México City, México; Thoracic Oncology Unit, Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, México City, México

 

Erin M Corsini

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States

 

Bernardo Cortese

San Carlo Clinic, Milano, Italy

 

J Coutinho Costa

Pneumology B Unit, University Hospital Centre of Coimbra - Hospital Geral, Coimbra, Portugal

 

Eva Fieira Costa

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain

 

Ioana Costache

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

 

 

Marzia Cottini

Department of Heart and Vessels, Cardiac Surgery Unit and Heart Transplantation Centre, "S. Camillo-Forlanini" Hospital, Rome, Italy

 

Remi Coudroy

Médecine Intensive et Réanimation, CHU de Poitiers, Poitiers, France

 

Pierfilippo Crucitti

Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Campus Bio Medico, University of Rome, Rome, Italy

 

Miguel A. Cuesta

Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Vesna Cukic

Clinic for Pulmonary Diseases and Tuberculosis "Podhrastovi", Clinical Centre of Sarajevo University, Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

Markus Czesla

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Passau, Passau, Germany

 

Ronald A. M. Damhuis

Department of Research, Comprehensive Cancer Organization, P.O. Box 19079, 3501 DB Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

Giuseppe D'Ancona

Department of Cardiology and Cardiac Intervention, Vivantes Klinikum im Friedrichshain und Am Urban, Landsberger Allee 49, 10249, Berlin, Germany; Rostock University Medical Center, Rostock, Germany

 

Rolando M. D'Angelillo

Department of Radiation Oncology, Università Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy

 

Dan Li

MidSouth Bioinformatics Center and Joint Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program, University of Arkansas at Little Rock and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 2801 S. University Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72204 USA

 

Eric Dannaoui

Unité de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Service de Microbiologie, Université Paris-Descartes, Faculté de Médecine, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

 

Omar K. Danner

Department of Surgery, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 

Sonia D'Arrigo

Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli" IRCCS, Rome, Italy

 

Santanu Dasgupta

Cellular and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Texas, USA

 

Fabio Davoli

Thoracic Surgery, AUSL Romagna, S. Maria delle Croci Teaching Hospital, Ravenna, Italy

 

David E. Dawe

Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, CancerCare Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

 

Jonathan D'Cunha

Division of Lung Transplantation and Lung Failure, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA

 

Vladmir C. Cordeiro de Lima

Medical Oncology Department, A.C. Cancer Center 01509-900, Liberdade, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

 

Michiel F. G. de Maat

Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

 

Constance de Margerie-Mellon

Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA

 

Gilles Defraene

Department of Oncology, Experimental Radiation Oncology, KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

 

Juliette H R J Degens

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, Netherlands; NUTRIM School for Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Center+, Maastricht, Netherlands

 

Chadrick E. Denlinger

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina

 

Lieven Depypere

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

 

Neeraj R. Desai

Chicago Chest Center and Suburban Lung Associates, 800 Biesterfield Road, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007, USA

 

Edward P. Desmond

California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA, USA

Andrew P. Dhanasopon

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

 

Francisca Dias

Molecular Oncology and Viral Pathology Group, IPO-Porto Research Center (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto (IPO-Porto), Rua Dr António Bernardino de Almeida, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal/Abel Salazar Institute for the Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS), University of Porto, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal

 

Ioannis Dimarakis

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Southmoor Road, Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, M23 9LT, UK

 

Hiroshi Doi

Department of Radiation Oncology, Meiwa Cancer Clinic, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan; Department of Radiology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan; Department of Radiation Oncology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

 

Christian Domingo

Pulmonary Service, Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain

 

Laura Donahoe

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth Street, 9N-946, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4, Canada; Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth Street, 9N-985, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4, Canada

 

John R. Doty

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Intermountain Healthcare, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, Utah, USA

 

Dimitrios Dougenis

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Patras University School of Medicine, Patras, Greece

 

Wojciech Dudek

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

 

David M. Dudzinski

Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, New York, USA

 

Robert Dunne

Department of Emergency Medicine Wayne State University School of Medicine Detroit MI, USA

 

Anna Duprée

Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany

 

Marion Durand

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ramsay Générale de Santé, Hôpital Privé d’Antony, Antony, France

 

Iryna Dykun

West German Heart and Vascular Center, Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, University Hospital Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

 

Agata Dżeljilji

Department of Surgery, Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, 26 Płocka St, 01-617 Warsaw, Poland

 

Robert Dziedzic

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

 

Katherine East

National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, 4 Windsor Walk, Denmark Hill, SE5 8BB, London, UK; UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, University of Nottingham, NG5 1PB, Nottingham, UK

 

Michael I. Ebright

Department of Surgery, Stamford Hospital, Stamford, Connecticut; Division of Thoracic Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA

 

Jan Hendrik Egberts

Clinic for General Surgery, Visceral, Thoracic, Transplantation and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

 

John Elefteriades

Department of Surgery, Section of Cardio-Thoracic surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

 

Islam Y Elgendy

Univ Florida, Div Cardiovasc Med, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA

 

Nashwa El-Khazragy

Department of Clinical Pathology, Oncology Diagnostic Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

 

Sora Ely

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

 

Raul Embun

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain

 

Makoto Endoh

Department of Surgery II, Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University, Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

 

Oleg Epelbaum

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, 100 Woods Road, Macy Pavilion, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA

 

Raimund Erbel

Department of Cardiology, West-German Heart and Vascular Center Essen and University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry, Epidemiology, University Clinic Essen, Germany

 

Göran Eriksson

Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

 

Abdallah M. Eteleeb

Department of Internal Medicine, Oncology Division, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, United States of America.

 

Francesco Facchinetti

Medical Oncology Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy

 

Gianluca Faggioli

Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

 

Mina Farag

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, INF 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

 

Paola Faverio

Dipartimento Cardio-Toraco-Vascolare, University of Milan Bicocca, Respiratory Unit, San Gerardo Hospital, ASST di Monza, Via Pergolesi 33, 20900, Monza, Italy

 

Charles Feldman

Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

Ana Fernández-Cruz

Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Spain

 

Corrado Ficorella

Medical Oncology Unit, St. Salvatore Hospital, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy; Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy

 

Alfonso Fiorelli

Department of Cardio-Thoracic Disease, University “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy

 

Paul Fisch

Institute for Surgical Pathology, Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

 

Oliver M Fisher

Gastroesophageal Cancer Research Group, St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, 405 Liverpool Street, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia

 

Arjan Flora

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Toledo Medical Center, 3000 Arlington Ave, MS 1186, Toledo, OH 43614 USA

 

Paolo Formenti

Unità Operativa di Anestesia e Rianimazione, Azienda Ospedaliera San Paolo-Polo Universitario, Milano, Italy

 

Francesco Formica

Mechanical Circulatory Support Program Coordinator, Cardiac Surgery Unit, San Gerardo Hospital, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy

 

Christophoros N. Foroulis

Aristotle University Medical School, AHEPA University Hospital, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Thessaloniki, Greece

 

Marc Fortin

Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Ville de Québec, Canada

 

Spyridon Fortis

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

 

Jesús Fortún

Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal, Instituto de Investigación Ramón y Cajal, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain

 

Orazio Fortunato

Tumor Genomics Unit, Department of Experimental Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, via Venezian 1, 20133, Milan, Italy

 

Christos Fountzilas

Department of Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, USA

 

Alex Fourdrain

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Amiens University Hospital, Jules Verne University of Picardy, F-80054 Amiens, France

 

Davide Franceschini

Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery Department, Humanitas Clinical and Research Hospital, Rozzano (Milan), Italy

 

Laura FC Fransen

Department of Surgery, Catharina Hospital, 5623 EJ, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

 

Thomas Frauenfelder

Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland

 

Hermann Frieboes

Department of Bioengineering, University of Louisville, KY, USA

 

Oren Fruchter

The Pulmonary Division, Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel, and The Sackler School of Medicine , Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

Martin Früh

Department of Oncology, Haematology, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

 

Nobukazu Fujimoto

Department of Medical Oncology, Okayama Rosai Hospital, Okayama, Japan

 

Takeo Fujita

Division of Esophageal Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital East, 6-5-1 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-0882, Japan

 

Ikuo Fukuda

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, 5 Zaifu-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori, 036-8562, Japan

 

Minoru Fukuda

Clinical Oncology Center, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan

 

Toshihiro Fukui

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan

 

 

Shigefumi Fukui

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan

 

Takayuki Fukui

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan

 

Naoto Fukunaga

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, 2-1-1 Minatojimaminamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 650-0047, Japan

 

Jacopo Fumagalli

UOC Anestesia e Terapia Intensiva Adulti, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milano, Italy

 

Satoshi Fumimoto

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan

 

Kazuhito Funai

First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

 

József Furák

Department of Surgery, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

 

Hiroshi Furukawa

Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki, 701-0192, Japan

 

Leonello Fuso

Bronchoscopy and Pneumology Unit, Catholic University, Rome, Italy

 

Piotr Gabryel

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University in Poznan, 62 Szamarzewskiego St., 60-561 Poznań, Poland

 

Domenico Galetta

Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

 

Ursula Galway

Cleveland Clin, Inst Anesthesiol, Dept Gen Anesthesiol, Cleveland, OH 44195 USA

 

Franco Gambazzi

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Aarau, Tellstrasse 25, 5001 Aarau, Switzerland

 

 

Javier García-Tirado

Thoracic Surgery Department, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain

 

Ovidio A Garcia-Villarreal

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Zambrano-Hellion, Sierra Nayarita 143, Col. Virginia Tafich, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México

 

Victoria Villena Garrido

Servicio de Neumología, Fundación Investigación, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, CIBERES, Madrid, España.

 

Roberto Gasparri

Department of Thoracic Surgery, IEO, European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, 20141 Milan, Italy

 

Asmae Gassa

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heartcenter, University of Cologne, Kerpener Strasse 62, 50931 Cologne, Germany

 

Giuseppe Gatti

Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Department, Division of Cardiac Surgery, of the Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Integrata di Trieste, Italy

 

Mario F. L. Gaudino

Guest Editor; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, NYC, NY, USA

 

Nischal K. Gautam

Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX, USA

 

Francesco Gavelli

Hop Bicetre, Serv Med Intens Reanimat, 78 Rue Gen Lederc, F-94270 Le Kremlin Bicetre, France

 

Jacek Gawrychowski

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Silesian Medical Academy, Katowice, Poland

 

Bart De Geest

Univ Leuven, Ctr Mol & Vasc Biol, Campus Gasthuisberg,Herestr 49, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium

 

Christian Geltner

Department of Pulmonology, Klinikum Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Feschnigstr. 11, AT 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

 

Damiano Gentile

Department of Upper Gastro-Intestinal Surgery, Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy

 

 

Niccolò Giaj-Levra

Radiation Oncology, Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Via Don A. Sempreboni 5, Negrar, 37024, Verona, Italy; Department of Oncology, University of Torino, Turin, Italy

 

Kieran Gillick

Department of Intensive Care, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol, BS2 8HW, UK

 

Raffaele Giordano

Adult and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

 

Konstantinos Gioutsos

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

 

Nicolas Girard

Inst Curie, Dept Oncol Med, 26 Rue Ulm, F-75248 Paris, France

 

Massimo Girardis

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, University Hospital of Modena, Via del Pozzo, Modena, Italy

 

Raphaël Giraud

Intensive Care Service, Geneva University Hospitals, 4 Rue Gabrielle Perret-Gentil, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Geneva Hemodynamic Research Group, Geneva, Switzerland

 

Suzanne S. Gisbertz

Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Sorin Giusca

Department of Cardiology, Vascular Medicine, Pneumology, Gastroenterology and Diabetology, GRN Academic Teaching Hospital Weinheim, Roentgenstrasse 1, 69469, Weinheim, Germany

 

Torben Glatz

Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Medical Center - University of Freiburg and Faculty of Medicine - University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

 

Nora Göbel

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany

 

Ines Gockel

Department of Visceral, Transplant, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

 

 

Sunny Goel

Department of Cardiology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11219, USA

 

Lucas Goense

Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX, 77030, USA

 

Scott Goldman

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lankenau Medical Center, Wynnewood, PA, USA

 

Alessandro Gonfiotti

Thoracic Surgery Unit, University Hospital Careggi, Largo Brambilla, 1, 50134, Florence, Italy

 

Michel Gonzalez

Service of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

 

Jose Luis Gonzalez-Larriba

Department of Medical Oncology, San Carlos University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

 

Vinod Gopalan

Cancer Molecular Pathology of School of Medicine, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

 

Alex Gordon-Weeks

Univ Oxford, John Radcliffe Hosp, Nuffield Dept Surg Sci, Room 6607,Level 6,Headley Way, Oxford OX3 9DU, England

 

Yasushi Goto

Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

 

Taichiro Goto

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

 

Akiteru Goto

Department of Cellular and Organ Pathology, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan

 

Allan Gottschalk

Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

 

Judith M. Graber

Rutgers State Univ, Environm & Occupat Hlth Sci Inst, 170 Frelinghuysen Rd, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA

 

 

Solomon A. Graf

Assistant Professor, Medical Oncology Division, University of Washington School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Oncology, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, 1660 S Columbian Way, S-111-ONC, Seattle, WA 98108, USA

 

Leonardo Del Grande

Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Departamento de Cirurgia, São Paulo, SP, Brasil

 

Daniel Grandmougin

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Heart Transplantations, ILCV CHU-Nancy, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

 

Konstantinos Grapatsas

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, Germany

 

Martin Grapow

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Basel, Spitalstrasse 21, CH-4031, Basel, Switzerland

 

Mark Greer

Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; Biomedical Research in End-Stage and Obstructive Lung Disease (BREATH), German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany

 

Philippe A. Grenier

Department of Radiology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

 

Ewen A. Griffiths

Queen Elizabeth Hosp Birmingham, Dept Upper Gastrointestinal Surg, Area 6, 7th Floor,Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham B15 2WB, W Midlands, England

 

Peter Grimminger

Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

 

Remco B. Grobben

Department of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands; Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands

 

Karsten Grote

Cardiology and Angiology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany

 

Shawn S. Groth

Baylor College of Medicine, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Division of General Thoracic Surgery, One Baylor Plaza, BCM 390, Houston, TX 77005, USA

Erik L. Grove

Associate Professor, MD, PhD, FESC. Department of Cardiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Palle Juul-Jensens Boulevard 99, DK-8200 Aarhus, Denmark

 

Jan C. Grutters

ILD Center of Excellence, Department of Pulmonology, St. Antonius Hospital, and Division of Heart & Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

 

Juliana Guarize

Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

 

Francesco Guerrera

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, 10126, Torino, Italy

 

A. Daniel Guerron

Department of Surgery, Division of Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery, Duke University Health System, Durham, NC, USA

 

Sushilkumar Gupta

Pulmonary and Critical Care, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA

 

Christian A. Gutschow

Department of Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Rämistrasse 100, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland

 

Frank-Martin Haecker

Department of Paediatric Surgery, University Children's Hospital Basle, Switzerland

 

David Hager

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

 

Benjamin Haithcock

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

 

Robert Hallifax

Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit, Oxford, England

 

Mohamed A. Soliman Hamad

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

 

Akira Hamada

Second Department of Surgery, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan

 

 

Masatsugu Hamaji

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

 

Chunhui Han

Department of Radiation Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA

 

Hideyuki Harada

Radiation and Proton Therapy Center, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Nagaizumi-cho, Sunto-gun, Japan

 

John Harlock

Division of Vascular Surgery, Hamilton General Hospital, 237 Barton Street East, 5 North, Room 508, Hamilton, Ontario, L8L 2X2, Canada

 

Kassem Harris

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

 

Simon P Hart

Hull York Medical School, Academic Respiratory Medicine, Castle Hill Hospital, Castle Road, Cottingham, East Yorkshire HU16 5JQ, UK

 

Masashi Hashimoto

Department of Surgery, Keiyukai Sapporo Hospital, Kita1-1, Hondori14-chome, Shiroishi-ku, Sapporo-City, Hokkaido, 003-0027, Japan

 

Maged Hassan

Oxford Pleural Unit and Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit, Oxford University Hospitals, Churchill Hospital, Roosevelt Drive, OX3 7LE, Oxford, England

 

Patrick Haubruck

Heidelberg Trauma Research Group, Center for Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery and Spinal Cord Injury, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

 

Mineji Hayakawa

Emergency and Critical Care Center, Hokkaido University Hospital, N14W5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8648, Japan

 

Kazuki Hayashi

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Setatsukinowa-cho, Otsu, Shiga, 520-2192, Japan

 

Conal Hayton

North West Interstitial Lung Disease Unit, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Wythenshawe, Manchester, United Kingdom

 

 

Jiaxi He

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Guangzhou Medical University 1st Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou, China

 

Todd E. Heaton

Pediatric Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

 

Erich Hecker

Thoraxzentrum Ruhrgebiet, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus, Hordeler Straße 7-9, 44651 Herne, Germany.

 

David F Heigener

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Helios Klinik Schleswig, Schleswig, Germany

 

Khosro Hekmat

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

 

Olli Helminen

Department of Surgery, Central Finland Central Hospital, Jyväskylä, Finland

 

Emily Henkle

OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, Portland, OR, USA

 

Mark Hennon

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

 

William Hiesinger

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

 

Masahiko Higashiyama

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan

 

Annelieke Hijkoop

Department of Pediatric Surgery and Intensive Care, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

Rittu Hingorani

Department of Cardiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

 

Haruaki Hino

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology, Japan

 

 

Hirofumi Hioki

Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University Hospital, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-0003, Japan

 

Noriyuki Hirahara

Department of Digestive and General Surgery, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, 89-1 Enya-cho, Izumo, Shimane, 693-8501, Japan

 

Kyoji Hirai

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

 

Tsunahiko Hirano

Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Disease, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan

 

Keiichi Hirose

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan

 

Tomoyuki Hishida

Natl Canc Ctr Hosp East, Dept Thorac Surg, 6-5-1 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 2778577, Japan

 

Chao-Chi Ho

Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, 7 Chung Shan South Road, Taipei

 

Chiu-Ming Ho

Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Sec. 2, Shipai Rd., Beitou District, Taipei City 11217

 

Mir Alireza Hoda

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria

 

Konrad Hoetzenecker

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

 

Mariana Hoffman

Federal University of Minas Gerais, Rehabilitation Sciences Program, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Leuven, Belgium, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

 

Wolfgang Hohenforst-Schmidt

II Medical Department, "Coburg" Regional Department, University of Wuerzburg, Coburg, Germany

 

 

Erik W. Holy

Heart Center, Segeberger Kliniken, Bad Segeberg, Germany

 

Sook Hee Hong

Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Cancer Research Institute, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Jong-Myeon Hong

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chungbuk National University College of Medicine, 1 Chungdae-ro, Seowon-gu, Cheongju 28644, Korea

 

Sang-Bum Hong

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Yoonki Hong

Department of Internal Medicine and Environmental Health Center, Kangwon National University Hospital, 156 Baengnyeong-ro, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do, Korea

 

Tal Hörer

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University Hospital, 701 85, Örebro, Sweden

 

Marius Horger

Department of Radiology, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany

 

Hidehito Horinouchi

Department of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Japan

 

Nobuyuki Horita

Department of Pulmonology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

 

Zachary D. Horne

Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

 

David Horne

Section of Cardiac Surgery, Dalhousie University, IWK Health Center, Children's Heart Center Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

 

I Hoseok

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan, Korea

 

Cheng-Hung How

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan; Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei

 

David W. Hsia

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine, USA

 

Michael K Y Hsin

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

 

Chih-Hung Hsu

Department of Oncology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Oncology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei

 

Li-Han Hsu

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center 125 Lih-Der Road, Pei-Tou District, Taipei

 

Chung-Ping Hsu

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung

 

Zhi-De Hu

Department of Laboratory Medicine, General Hospital of Ji'nan Military Region of PLA, Ji'nan 250031, China

 

Han-Chung Hu

Department of Respiratory Therapy, School of Medicine, Chang-Gung University, Taoyuan

 

Chun-Ta Huang

Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7 Chung-Shan South Rd, Taipei, 100 Taiwan; Department of Traumatology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei; Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei

 

Tsai-Wang Huang

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 114

 

ChunChao Huang

Department of Radiology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, New Taipei City, Taiwan; Mackay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing, and Management, Taipei

 

Chi-Hsiang Huang

Department of Anaesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei

Shu-Chien Huang

Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei

 

Chien-Sheng Huang

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Surgery, Taipei

 

Dawn S. Hui

Center for Comprehensive Cardiovascular Care, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA

 

Zhouguang Hui

Department of VIP Medical Services, National Cancer Center/ National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academic of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Panjiayuan Nanli #17, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100021, China. Department of Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academic of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, China.

 

Maarten C.C.M. Hulshof

Department of Radiotherapy , Academic Medical Centre , Amsterdam , The Netherlands

 

Ming-Hui Hung

Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei; Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei

 

James C. Hurley

Internal Medicine Service Ballarat Health Services, PO Box 577, Ballarat, Australia

 

Junji Ichinose

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan

 

Hitoshi Igai

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Maebashi Red Cross Hospital, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

 

Akihiko Ikeda

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

 

Masaki Ikeda

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagara Medical Center, Nagara 1300-7, Gifu, 502-8558, Japan

 

Ilkka Ilonen

Department of General Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery, Helsinki University Hospital, Heart and Lung Center, Helsinki, Finland

Kazuyoshi Imaizumi

Division of Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, Fujita Health University, 1-98 Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake-cho, Toyoake, Aichi, 470-1192, Japan

 

Andrea Imperatori

Thoracic Surgery at the Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese

 

Stefano Indraccolo

Immunology and Molecular Oncology Unit, Istituto Oncologico Veneto IOV - IRCCS, Padova, Italy

 

Minehiko Inomata

First Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, Toyama 930-0194, Japan

 

Takafumi Inoue

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tsukuba Memorial Hospital, 1187-299 Kaname, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 300-2622, Japan

 

Masayoshi Inoue

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

 

Muhammad Irfan

Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Stadium Road Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

 

Alexander Iribarne

Section of Cardiac Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Dr, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA

 

Naoya Ishibashi

Department of Radiology, Nihon University School of Medicine, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan

 

Mahmoud Ismail

Competence Center of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

Michael Ison

Northwestern Univ, Div Infect Dis, Feinberg Sch Med, 645 N Michigan Ave,Ste 900, Chicago, IL 60611 USA

 

Takaaki Ito

Department of Pathology and Experimental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan

 

 

Jiro Ito

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

 

Kentaro Ito

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Matsusaka Municipal Hospital Respiratory Center, Matsusaka, Japan

 

Fabio Ius

Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplant and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

 

Hisashi Iwata

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Gifu University Hospital, Gifu, Japan

 

Salma K. Jabbour

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Department of Radiation Oncology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

 

Sławomir Jabłoński

Department of Thoracic Surgery, General and Oncological Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, 113 Żeromskiego St,, 90-547, Łódź, Poland

 

Samuel Jacob

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA

 

Nikhil Jagan

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.

 

Matthew Jankowich

Vascular Research Laboratory, Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, RI, USA; Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

 

Rolf Alexander Jánosi

Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, West-German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, , Essen, Germany

 

Luis Jara-Palomares

Medical Surgical Unit of Respiratory Diseases, Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain

 

Tommi Järvinen

Department of General Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Surgery, Clinicum, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

 

 

Byeong-Ho Jeong

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

 

Marcelo F. Jimenez

Thoracic Surgery Service, Salamanca University Hospital, Salamanca, Spain

 

Dragana Jovanovic

University Hospital of Pulmonology, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

 

Mathieu Jozwiak

Hôpitaux universitaires Paris-Sud, Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital de Bicêtre, service de réanimation médicale, 78, rue du Général Leclerc, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre F-94270, France; Inserm, UMR S_999, Univ Paris-Sud, 78, rue du Général Leclerc, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre F-94270, France

 

Oscar J. JUAN

Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Avda, Fernando Abril Martorell, Valencia 46026, Spain

 

Tae-Eun Jung

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University

 

Wolfgang Jungraithmayr

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Brandenburg Medical School

 

José Raniery Ferreira Junior

Center of Imaging Sciences and Medical Physics, Ribeirão Preto Medical School of the University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

 

Junjing Su

Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark; National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

 

Daniel C. Jupiter

Associate Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; Associate Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

 

Tomohiro Kadota

Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan

 

Kai-Hsiung

Department of Radiology, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei

 

Shuichiro Kaji

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Japan

 

Nikolaos Kakouros

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, MA, USA

 

Andreas P. Kalogeropoulos

Division of Cardiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA

 

Takashi Kamei

Department of Transplantation, Reconstruction, and Endoscopic Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8574, Japan

 

Chang Hyun Kang

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

 

Aleksander Kania

Department of Pulmonology, II Chair of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland

 

Ahmad Kantar

Pediatric Asthma and Cough Centre, Istituti Ospedalieri Bergamaschi, University and Research Hospitals, via Forlanini 15, Ponte San Pietro-Bergamo, 24036, Bergamo, Italy

 

Steven Kao

Department of Medical Oncology, Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, 119-143 Missenden Road, Camperdown, NSW 2050, Australia

 

Dimos Karangelis

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Athens Medical Center, Athens, Greece

 

Georgia Karpathiou

Department of Pathology, Medical School University of Ioannina Greece

 

Kazuo Kasahara

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Cellular Transplantation Biology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-8641, Japan

 

Jumpei Kashima

Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious diseases Center Komagome Hospital, Japan

 

Shinichiro Kashiwagi

Department of Surgical Oncology; Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

 

Lukas Käsmann

Department of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany

 

Elise Kaspi

Aix-Marseille Univ, INSERM, GMGF, INSERM UMR_S910 - Medical genetics and functional genomics, Faculty of Medicine la Timone, Marseille, France

 

George Kassimis

Department of Cardiology, Cheltenham General Hospital, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS, Foundation Trust, Cheltenham, United Kingdom; Second Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

 

Niels Katballe

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

 

Iraklis E Katsoulis

Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery Unit, Watford General Hospital, 60 Vicarage Road, Watford, Hertfordshire WD18 0HB, UK

 

Joonas H. Kauppila

Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Yo Kawaguchi

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga, Japan

 

Tomoya Kawaguchi

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan

 

Toshiaki Kawai

Toda Central Medical Laboratory, Saitama, Japan

 

Kodai Kawamura

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Social Welfare Organization Saiseikai Imperial Gift Foundation, Inc., Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, 861-4193, Japan

 

Damian Kawecki

Second Department of Cardiology, Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

 

Chul-Seung Kay

Department of Radiation Oncology, Incheon St, Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon, Korea

 

 

Hidenao Kayawake

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan

 

Bhumsuk Keam

Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

W. Brent Keeling

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

 

Kenneth Kesler

Indiana Univ, Dept Surg, Cardiothorac Div, Barnhill Dr EM 212, Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA

 

Thorsten Kessler

Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, Lazarettstr. 36, 80636 München, Germany; DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Technische Universität München, Lazarettstr. 36, 80636 München, Germany

 

Puja Khaitan

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC

 

Nikolai Khaltaev

Global Alliance Chron Resp Dis, Geneva, Switzerland

 

Fayez Kheir

Division of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Division of Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care and Environmental Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

 

Danai Khemasuwan

Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, St Elizabeth Medical Center, Brighton, MA, USA

 

Yet H. Khor

Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia; Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia; School of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

 

Onkar V. Khullar

Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 

Biniam Kidane

GH604 Hlth Sci Ctr, 820 Sherbrook St, Winnipeg, MB R3A 1R9, Canada

 

 

Arman Kilic

Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa, USA

 

Jae Jun Kim

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea

 

Jae Y. Kim

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, City of Hope Cancer Center, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, USA

 

Hee Joung Kim

Konkuk University Medical Center

 

Hojoong Kim

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul 135-710, Korea

 

Won Young Kim

Department of Emergency Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

 

Min P. Kim

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA

 

Hyun Koo Kim

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Korea University Guro Hospital, South Korea

 

Anthony W. Kim

Divisions of Thoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

Joon Bum Kim

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

 

Woo Jin Kim

Kangwon Natl Univ, Kangwon Natl Univ Hosp, Sch Med, Dept Internal Med, Chunchon 24341, South Korea

 

Kyung Soo Kim

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222, Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea

 

Heezoo Kim

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Korea University Guro Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Ho Jin Kim

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

 

Howard Kipen

Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers University, Room 208, 170 Frelinghuysen Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA

 

Margarita Kirienko

Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Milan, Italy

 

Tatsunori Kiriu

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

 

Tomoo Kishaba

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Okinawa Chubu Hospital, Uruma City, Okinawa, Japan

 

Tadashi Kitamura

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

 

Neal S. Kleiman

Departments of Cardiology (NSK) and Cardiovascular Surgery (MJR), Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, Texas, USA

 

Athanassios Kleontas

Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Interbalkan Medical Center, 10 Asclepiou, Thessaloniki, 57001, Greece

 

Fredrik Klevebro

Division of Surgery, Department of Clinical Science Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institutet and Center for Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Christopher Kloth

Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

 

Jolanda Kluin

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Leiden University Center, Leiden, Netherlands; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

Peter J. Kneuertz

Thoracic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Doan Hall N846, 410 West 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

 

 

Vladimir Koblizek

Pulmonary Department, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove, University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Charles University, Sokolska 581, 50005 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

 

Sebastian Kobold

Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich (CIPSM) and Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine IV, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80337 Munich, Germany

 

Grazyna Kochan

Navarrabiomed-Fundacion Miguel Servet, IdISNA, Irunlarrea 3, 31008 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain

 

Gregor J. Kocher

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland

 

Yskert von Kodolitsch

Centre of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

 

Alexander Kogan

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel; Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

Yasuhiro Koh

Wakayama Med Univ, Dept Internal Med 3, 811-1 Kimiidera, Wakayama, Japan

 

Utkarsh Kohli

Pediatrics, Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Division of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, 5481 S, Maryland Ave., RM-C104E, MC 4051, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

 

Tadasu Kohno

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Respiratory Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

 

Terumoto Koike

Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 1-757 Asahimachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata, Niigata, Japan

 

Tomonobu Koizumi

Respiratory Center, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

 

Jill M. Kolesar

University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy and University of Wisconsin Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center, Madison, WI, USA

 

Teruya Komatsu

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Nagahama City Hospital, Shiga, Japan

Kazuya Kondo

Department of Oncological Medical Services, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, 18-15 Kuramoto-cho 3, Tokushima 770-8509, Japan

 

Magnus Konradsson

Division of Surgery, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC) and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Chi Wan Koo

Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

 

Grzegorz Kopeć

Department of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Jagiellonian University Medical College, John Paul II Hospital in Krakow, Pradnicka 80, Kraków, Poland

 

Stylianos Korasidis

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Medical Molecular Pathology and Critical Care, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

 

Piotr Korczynski

Department of Internal Medicine, Pneumonology and Allergology, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland

 

Robert J. Korst

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

 

Nicholas T. Kouchoukos

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St Louis, MO, USA

 

Sami Kouki

Department of Radiology, Hopital Militaire Principal d’Instruction de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

 

Nicholas G. Kounis

Department of Cardiology, University of Patras Medical School, Rion, Patras, Achaia, Greece

 

Janusz Kowalewski

Head of the Clinic of Thoracic Surgery and Tomours, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Oncology Centre, Bydgoszcz, Poland

 

Ryosuke Kowatari

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Aomori, Japan

 

 

Kazuo Koyanagi

Natl Canc Ctr, Dept Gastrointestinal Oncol, Esophageal Surg Div, Chuo Ku, Tokyo 1040045, Japan

 

Igor Kranjec

Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

 

Seth Krantz

Division of Thoracic Surgery, NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, IL, USA

 

Markus Kredel

Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, University Hospital of Würzburg, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

 

Michael Kreuter

Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Thoraxklinik, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

 

Lisa Baumann Kreuziger

From the BloodCenter of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 

Łukasz J. Krzych

Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

 

Win Sen Kuan

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

 

Hiroshi Kubota

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan

 

Jakub Kucharz

Department of Oncology, University Hospital in Kraków, Kraków 31-531, Poland; Department of Experimental and Clinical Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków 31-126, Poland

 

Yujin Kudo

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

 

Gerhardus J.A.J.M. Kuiper

Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Treatment, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Laboratory for Clinical Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands

 

Koshi Kumagai

Center for Digestive Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital and Division of Surgery, CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Anupam Kumar

Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Spectrum Health-Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

 

Teruyoshi Kume

Department of Cardiology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan

 

Shuenn-Wen Kuo

Natl Taiwan Univ Hosp, Dept Thorac Surg, 7 Chung Shan South Rd, Taipei 10002

 

Elif Kupeli

Pulmonary Disease Department, Baskent University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey †Department of Thoracic Medicine, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, USA

 

Hiroaki Kuroda

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, 1-1, Kanokoden, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8681, Japan

 

Mariusz Kuśmierczyk

Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland

 

Jarosław Kużdżał

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, John Paul II Hospital, Cracow, Poland

 

Jae Kwak

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sejong General Hospital, Bucheon, Gyonggi, Republic of Korea

 

Chun Shing Kwok

Keele Cardiovascular Research Group, Centre for Prognosis Research, Keele University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom; Department of Cardiology, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

 

Kyung-Wook Jo

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea

 

Juan Lacalzada-Almeida

Cardiac Imaging Laboratory, Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Ofra s/n, La Cuesta, 38320 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

 

Wu-Wei Lai

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan

 

Amos Lal

Critical Care Medicine fellow at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota, USA

 

Nguyen Ho Lam

Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh city

 

Elbahlawan Lama

Division of Critical Care Medicine, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38103, USA

 

Adrianus J. de Langen

Department of Pulmonary Diseases, VU University Medical Center, P.O. Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Moshe Lapidot

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Lung Center and International Mesothelioma Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA

 

Johan Larsson

Department of Anesthesiology, Nordsjællands Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Hillerød, Denmark

 

Simona Lattanzi

Neurological Clinic, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy

 

Christopher Lau

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, USA

 

Kelvin K.W. Lau

St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC2A 7BE, UK

 

Harold I Lazar

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Boston Medical Center, 88 E Newton St, B404, Boston, MA 02118, USA

 

John F. Lazar

Thoracic Surgery, Medical Director PinnacleHealth Robotic Institute, UPMC PinnacleHealth, Harrisburg, PA 17104, USA

 

Chiara Lazzeri

Intensive Cardiac Coronary Unit, Heart and Vessel Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy

 

Caterina Ledda

Hygiene and Public Health, Department of Medical, Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies "G.F. Ingrassia", University of Catania, Italy

Hans Lederhuber

Department of General Surgery, Torsby Hospital, Region Värmland County Council, Värmland, Sweden

 

Chang Young Lee

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Republic of Korea

 

Joseph C. Lee

Department of Medical Imaging, The Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, Queensland, Australia

 

Chen-Chen Lee

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, China Medicine University, Taichung

 

Jui-Ying Lee

Division of Chest Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung

 

Dong-Hyup Lee

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daemyung Dong, Namgu, Daegu, Korea

 

Wei Hao Lee

Perth Children's Hospital, Locked Bag 2010, Nedlands, Western Australia 6840, Australia

 

Eun-Ho Lee

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Laboratory for Perioperative Outcomes Analysis and Research, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

 

Woo Surng Lee

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, School of Medicine, Konkuk University, Konkuk University Chungju Hospital, Chungbuk, Republic of Korea

 

Seung Jun Lee

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jiju, South Korea

 

Antoine Legras

Thoracic Surgery Department, Trousseau Hospital, Tours University Hospital Center, Avenue de la République, France

 

Marcus Leistner

Department of Thoracic, Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Goettingen University Hospital, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, 37075 Goettingen, Germany

 

 

Steven Leong

Department of Thoracic Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital, Rode Rd, Chermside, Brisbane, Queensland 4032, Australia

 

Adam B. Lerner

Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

 

Toni Lerut

Department Thoracic Surgery, Leuven University, Belgium

 

Antonin Levy

Drug Development Department, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, F-94805, Villejuif, France; Department of Radiation Oncology, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, F-94805, Villejuif, France; INSERM U1030, Molecular Radiotherapy, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, F-94805, Villejuif, France; Univ Paris Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, F-94270, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

 

Hsueh-Yu Li

Department of Otolaryngology, Sleep Center, Linkou-Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan

 

Ling Li

Associate chief physician in Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Shanghai Cancer center, Fudan University, China

 

Peter B. Licht

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

 

Tow Keang Lim

Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, University Medicine Cluster, National University Hospital, National University Health System, Tower Block, Level 10, 1E Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore

 

Cheong Lim

Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Korea

 

Jules Lin

Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

 

Chien-Chung Lin

Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan

 

Ying-Jui Lin

Division of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, No. 123, Tapei Road, Niaosung District, Kaohsiung 833

 

Sheng-Hao Lin

Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua Division of Chest Medicine, Changhua 500

 

Mong-Wei Lin

Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei

 

Rita Linko

Intensive Care Units, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Division of Surgery, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.

 

Virginia R. Litle

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Boston University, Boston, Mass, USA

 

Mingyao Liu

Department of Surgery and Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

 

Chia-Chuan Liu

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, 125 Lih-Der Road, Pei-Tou District

 

Yu-Wei Liu

Division of Chest Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung

 

Dan Loberman

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA

 

Filippo Lococo

Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Azienda Unica Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy

 

Antonio Loforte

ALMA Mater Studiorum Univ Bologna, Dept Cardiothorac Transplantat & Vasc Surg, S Orsola Hosp, Via Massarenti 9, I-40138 Bologna, Italy

 

Jason Long

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7065, USA

 

Torsten Loop

Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine; University Hospital Freiburg, Germany

 

 

Gabriel Loor

Service de pneumologie B et transplantation pulmonaire, Hôpital Bichat, APHP, Paris, France; INSERM U1152, Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7, France

 

Alberto Lopez-Pastorini

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lung Clinic Merheim, Hospital of the City of Cologne, University of Witten-Herdecke, Ostmerheimer Str. 200, 51109 Cologne, Germany

 

Hung-I Lu

Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung

 

Hong Lu

Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Kentucky, BBSRB, Room B249, Lexington, KY 40536-0509, USA

 

Marco Lucchi

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

 

Giovanni Battista Luciani

Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Verona, O. C. M. Piazzale Stefani 1, Verona, 37126, Italy

 

Alessandro Lupi

FSCAI. SOC Cardiologia, Ospedali Riuniti di Domodossola & Verbania, ASL V.C.O., Via Mazzini 117, 28887 Omegna (VB), Italy

 

Jon Lutz

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland

 

Misha D. Luyer

Department of Surgery, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

 

Victoria MacBean

Division of Asthma, Allergy & Lung Biology, King's College London Department of Respiratory Medicine, Bessemer Road, London SE5 9PJ, United Kingdom

 

Matthew Maddocks

King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, UK

 

Bart Maesen

Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

 

 

Amit K. Mahajan

Department of Interventional Pulmonology, Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA, USA

 

Kamran Mahmood

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, DUMC 102356, Durham, NC 27710, USA

 

Richard T. Mahon

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA

 

Maria Majori

Pneumologia-Endoscopia Toracica, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma, Padiglione Rasori, Via Rasori 10, Parma 43125, Italy

 

George Makdisi

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, USA

 

Yojiro Makino

Department of Surgery, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

 

Francesca Malentacchi

Clinical Biochemistry Unit, Department of Clinical Physiopathology, University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 6, I-50139 Florence, Italy

 

James D. Maloney

Department of Surgery, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI, USA

 

Costantino Mancusi

Hypertension Research Center, UOC Emergency Medicine, Federico II University Hospital, Naples, Italy

 

Martina Mandarano

Univ Perugia, Med Sch, Sect Anat Pathol & Histol, Dept Expt Med, Perugia, Italy

 

Antonis S. Manolis

Third Department of Cardiology, Athens University School of Medicine, Vas. Sofias 114, 115 27, Athens, Greece

 

Luca Di Marco

Cardiac Surgery Unit, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, S. Orsola Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

 

Fabrizio Marcucci

Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Arnaud Mari

Hop Yves Le Foll, Intens Care Unit, St Brieuc, France

 

Silvia Mariani

Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

 

Paul E. Marik

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, 825 Fairfax Av, Suite 410, Norfolk, VA 23507, USA.

 

Mirella Marino

Department of Pathology, IRCCS- Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy

 

Tomasz Marjanski

Thoracic Surgery Department, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

 

Henry M. Marshall

Thoracic Research Centre, University of Queensland, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Australia

 

Jan Martinek

Department of Hepatogastroenterology, IKEM, Prague, Czech Republic

 

Xavier Martinez-Lacasa

Unitat de Control de Tuberculosis, Hospital Universitari Mútua Terrassa, Terrassa, Barcelona, España

 

Manuel Martínez-Sellés

Department of Cardiology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Universidad Europea, Madrid, Spain

 

Gennaro Martucci

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS-ISMETT, UPMC Italy, Via Tricomi 5, 90127 Palermo, Italy.

 

Giuseppe Marulli

Department of Cardiologic, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

 

Maurizio Marvisi

Departments of Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Pneumology, Istituto Figlie di S. Camillo, Cremona, Italy

 

Eva Katharina Masel

Division of Palliative Care, Department of Internal Medicine I, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria

 

 

Nick A Maskell

Southmead Hosp, North Bristol Lung Unit, Southmead Rd, Bristol BS10 5NB, Avon, England

 

Jean-Bernard Masson

Division of Cardiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada; Centre de recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

 

Stefano Mastrobuoni

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, St Luc’s Hospital, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

 

Takeshi Masuda

Department of Respiratory Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University Hospital, Japan

 

Hidetoshi Masumoto

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

 

Douglas J. Mathisen

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

 

José María Matilla

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Clinic Hospital of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

 

Takeshi Matsumoto

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, 2-1-1 Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0047, Japan

 

Yukinori Matsuo

Department of Radiation Oncology and Image-applied Therapy, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

 

Noriyuki Matsutani

Department of Surgery, Teikyo University Hospital, Mizonokuchi, Kanagawa, Japan

 

Kaoru Matsuura

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

 

Tommaso Mauri

Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Emergency, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

 

Giulio Maurizi

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

Jean Michel Maury

Department of thoracic surgery, lung and heart-lung transplantation, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital Louis Pradel, 28 avenue du Doyen Lépine 69677 Bron cedex, France

 

Anna McGuire

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

 

Colin J. McMahon

Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12, Ireland

 

Walter McNicholas

Newman Professor, University College Dublin, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin 4, Ireland.

 

Elisa Meacci

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, A. Gemelli University Hospital, Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Rome, Rome, Italy

 

Nikhil Meena

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4201W. Markham Mail Slot #555, Little Rock, AR 72205

 

Hiren Mehta

University of Florida, Pulmonary and Critical care, Gainesville, Florida, United States

 

Boris Melloni

Department of Pulmonology, Limoges University Hospital, Limoges, France

 

Jay Menaker

R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine , Baltimore , MD , USA

 

Lucía Mendez

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain

 

Paolo Mendogni

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Milan - Italy

 

Julia Merkle

Univ Hosp Cologne, Dept Cardiac Surg, Kerpener Str 62, D-50937 Cologne, Germany

 

Carlos A. Mestres

Department of Cardiovascluar Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

 

Alessio Metere

Department of Surgical Sciences, Umberto I Hospital, "Sapienza" University of Rome, viale Regina Elena 324, Rome, 00161, Italy

 

Giulio Metro

Department of Medical Oncology, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, AOU di Perugia, I-06129 Perugia, Italy

 

Keith Meyer

Section of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin 53792-9988, USA

 

David K. Meyerholz

University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA

 

Joseph M. Miano

Aab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA

 

Antonio Miceli

Department of Cardiac and Great Vessels Surgery, Istituto Clinico Sant’Ambrogio, Gruppo Ospedaliero San Donato, Milano, Italy

 

Dimitra Micha

Department of Clinical Genetics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

José M. Mier

Thoracic Surgery Department, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias "Ismael Cosío Villegas" (INER), Calzada de Tlalpan 4502. Col. Sección XVI., Tlalpan, Mexico D.F., Mexico

 

Marcello Migliore

Department of Surgery, Policlinic Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

 

Christos G. Mihos

Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street

 

Michael Milano

Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Ave, 647, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA

 

Michael T. Milano

Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA

 

 

Joseph I. Miller

Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, 6th Floor, Medical Office Tower, 550 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30308-2225, USA

 

Takahiro Mimae

Department of Surgical Oncology, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan

 

Bushra Mina

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, USA

 

Kenji Minakata

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

 

Masamichi Mineshita

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

 

Mari Mino-Kenudson

Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

 

Dinis Reis Miranda

Department of Intensive Care, Erasmus MC, Room H-619, s Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

Yoshio Misawa

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Jichi Medical University, 3311-1 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, 329-0498, Japan

 

Naoki Misumida

Department of Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, USA

 

Hannah M. Mitchison

Genetics and Genomic Medicine, University College London (UCL) Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, UK

 

Harish Mithiran

Department of Cardiac, Thoracic & Vascular Surgery, National University Health System, Singapore

 

Sumeet K. Mittal

Norton Thoracic Institute, Dignity Health, Creighton University School of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona; Department of Surgery, Creighton University School of Medicine, Creighton Univesity Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska

 

Brian Mitzman

Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

 

Hiroshi Miyata

Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan

 

Takuro Miyazaki

Nagasaki Univ, Grad Sch Biomed Sci, Dept Surg Oncol, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 8528501, Japan

 

Teruaki Mizobuchi

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Pneumothorax Research Center and Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Tamagawa Hospital, Nissan Institute of Medicine, 4-8-1 Seta, Setagaya-Ku, Tokyo, 158-0095, Japan

 

Sabreen Mkalaluh

Department of Cardiac Surgery, European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

 

Mona Mlika

Department of Pathology. , Abderrahman Mami Hospital, University of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Research laboratory: LR18SP06. , Tunis , Tunisia

 

Salah A. Mohamed

Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, Luebeck University Hospital, Luebeck, Germany

 

Arjun Mohan

Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, East Carolina University-Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

 

Jorge Moisés

Department of Pneumology, Institut Clínic Respiratori (ICR), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, University of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain

 

Antonio Molino

First Division of Pneumology, High Speciality Hospital "V. Monaldi" and University "Federico II" Medical School, Naples, Italy

 

Andrea Montisci

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Cardiothoracic Centre, Istituto Clinico Sant’Ambrogio, Gruppo Ospedaliero San Donato, Via G. Faravelli, 16, Milan, Italy

 

Vincent Thomas de Montpréville

Department of Pathology, Centre Chirurgical Marie Lannelongue, 133 avenue de la Résistance, Le Plessis Robinson, 92350 Paris, France

Paolo Montuschi

Department of Translational Medicine-Respiratory Medicine, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara/Vercelli, Italy

 

Terry W. Moody

Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, Office of the Director, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States

 

Youngkyu Moon

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 06591, Republic of Korea

 

Mi Hyoung Moon

Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, 222, Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Mio Mori

Department of Clinical Oncology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

 

Makoto Mori

Section of Cardiac Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

 

Toshiaki Morikawa

Department of Chest Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato-City, Tokyo, Japan

 

Akimasa Morisaki

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

 

Kiyoshi Moriyama

Department of Anesthesiology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

 

Laura Moro

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy

 

Fanar Mourad

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West-German Heart and Vascular Center Essen, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany

 

Johanna Mrena

Department of Surgery, Central Hospital of Central Finland, 40620 Jyväskylä, Finland

 

Syed Saleem Mujtaba

Freeman Hospital Newcastle, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

 

 

Leonhard Müllauer

Institute of Pathology, Medical University Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria

 

Mingyon Mun

Department of Thoracic Surgical Oncology, The Cancer Institute Hospital, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan

 

Petru Emil Muntean

Pulmonology, Spitalul Clinic Judetean Mures, Targu Mures, Romania

 

Takashi Murashita

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

 

Piergiorgio Muriana

Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

 

Raghav A. Murthy

Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Dept. of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA

 

Nagarajan Muthialu

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK

 

Rexford Muza

Sleep Disorders Centre, Nuffield House, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, SE1 7EH, London, UK

 

Dania Nachira

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, “A. Gemelli” University Hospital, Rome, Italy

 

Tomohisa Nagasao

Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Faculty of Medicine/Graduate School of Medicine, Kagawa University, Japan

 

Jeevan Nagendran

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

 

Takeo Nakada

Department of Surgery, Jikei University Kashiwa Hospital, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

 

Kazuo Nakagawa

Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Japan

 

Shiro Nakahara

Department of Cardiology, Dokkyo Medical University Koshigaya Hospital, Saitama, Japan

 

 

Yoshiro Nakahara

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, 1-15-1 Kitasato Minami-Ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-0374, Japan

 

Takahiro Nakajima

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

 

Masanobu Nakajima

Dokkyo Medical University, Department of Surgery I , 880 Kitakobayashi, Mibu, Shimotsuga-gun, Tochigi 321-0293, Japan

 

Tatsuya Nakama

Miyazaki Medical Association Hospital, Cardiovascular Center, Funato 738-1, Shinbeppu-tyo, Miyazaki, Japan

 

Hiroshige Nakamura

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Tottori University Hospital, Japan

 

Shota Nakamura

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan

 

Ryoichi Nakanishi

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shin-Kokura Hospital, Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations, Kitakyusyu, Japan

 

Yasutaka Nakano

Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

 

Toru Nakano

Division of Advanced Surgical Science and Technology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8574, Japan

 

Masayuki Nakao

Nakao, M (reprint author), Canc Inst Hosp, Koto Ku, 3-10-6 Ariake, Tokyo 1358550, Japan

 

Atsushi Nambu

Department of Radiology, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO 80206, USA; Department of Radiology, Teikyo University Mizonokuchi Hospital, Kanagawa 213-8507, Japan

 

L. Christian Napp

Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

 

Francesco Nappi

Centre Cardiologique du Nord de Saint-Denis, Paris, France

Paolo Nardi

Cardiac Surgery Unit, Tor Vergata University Policlinic, Rome, Italy

 

Stefano Nardini

Italian Respiratory Society - Research Center, Milan, Italy

 

Marco Nardini

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Policlinico of Catania, Catania, Italy

 

Mitsuo Narita

Department of Pediatrics, Sapporo Tetsudo Hospital, N 3 E 1 Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-0033, Japan

 

Boulos Nassar

Cleveland Clin Abu Dhabi, Crit Care Inst, Dept Crit Care Med, Abu Dhabi, U Arab EmiratesUniv Iowa Hosp & Clin, Pulm & Crit Care Div, Iowa City, IA 52242 USA

 

Gjin Ndrepepa

Department of Adult Cardiology, Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität, Munich, Germany

 

Antonio Nenna

Unit of Cardiovascular Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy

 

Ary Serpa Neto

Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil

 

John N. Newton

Health Improvement Directorate, Public Health England, London SE1 8UG, UK

 

Calvin S. H. Ng

Associate Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China

 

William Ngatchou

Department of Emergency and Cardiac Surgery, St Pierre University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

 

Janet M C Ngu

Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

 

Thi Dan Linh Nguyen-Kim

Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich/University Zurich, Rämistrasse 100, CH-8091 Zürich, Switzerland

 

 

Antonello Nicolini

Respiratory Diseases Unit ASL4 Chiavarese, Via Terzi 43, 16039 Sestri Levante, Italy

 

Francesco Nicolini

Heart Surgery Section, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

 

Patrick Nierlich

Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Hospital Salzburg, Austria

 

Akio Niimi

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Nagoya City University School of Medical Sciences, Aichi, Japan

 

Hidekazu Nishimura

Virus Research Center, Clinical Research Division, Sendai Medical Center, National Hospital Organization, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

 

Mizuho Nishio

Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan; Preemptive Medicine and Lifestyle-related Disease Research Center, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

 

O Kyu Noh

Department of Radiation Oncology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea

 

Nicola Normanno

Cell Biology and Biotherapy Unit, Istituto Nazionale Tumori-IRCCS-Fondazione G.Pascale, Naples, Italy

 

Mario Nosotti

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Milan - Italy

 

Pierluigi Novellis

Thoracic Surgery Division, Humanitas Cancer Center, Rozzano, Italy

 

Nuria Novoa

General Thoracic Surgery Service, University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

 

Isao Nozaki

Department of Surgery, Shikoku Cancer Center Hospital, 160 Minami-umemoto, Matsuyama, 791-0280, Japan

 

 

Kenneth Nugent

Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center; Chief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; Program Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship; Director-Medical Intensive Care Unit, University Medical Center, Lubbock TX, USA

 

Shin-ichi Nureki

Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, 1-1 Idaigaoka, Hasama-machi, Yufu, Oita 879-5593, Japan

 

Fariz Nurwidya

Department of Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia, Persahabatan National Respiratory Referral Hospital, Jalan Persahabatan Raya No. 1, Rawamangun, Jakarta, Indonesia

 

Toshiro Obuchi

St. Mary's HospitalTsubuku-honmachi 422, Kurume, Japan

 

Ryoichi Ochiai

Department of Anesthesiology, Toho University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

 

Makoto Odaka

Department of Surgery, Jikei University School of Medicine, Minatoku, Tokyo, Japan

 

Olusola Oduntan

Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States

 

Mehmet Oezkur

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; Institute of Clinical Epidemiology and Biometry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

 

Hiroaki Ogata

Research Institute for Diseases of the Chest, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

 

Suguru Ohira

Kyoto Prefectural Univ Med, Dept Cardiovasc Surg, Kamigyo Ku, 465 Kajii Cho, Kyoto 6028566, Japan

 

Shinichiro Ohshimo

Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8551 Japan

 

Takashi Ohtsuka

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

 

Kazunori Okabe

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Yamaguchi-Ube Medical Center, Ube, Japan

 

Shotaro Okachi

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8560, Japan

 

Jiro Okami

Osaka Int Canc Inst, Dept Gen Thorac Surg, Chuou Ku, 3-1-69 Otemae, Osaka 5418567, Japan

 

Kazuma Okamoto

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Keio University Hospital, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan

 

Hiroshi Okamoto

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574 Japan

 

Keigo Okamoto

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan

 

Tomoya Okazaki

Emergency Medical Center, Kagawa University Hospital, 1750-1 Ikenobe, Miki, Kita, Kagawa 761-0793 Japan

 

Ikenna C. Okereke

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

 

Masahide Oki

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagoya Medical Center, Nagoya, Japan

 

Yutaka Okita

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

 

Riki Okita

Division of Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Yamaguchi Ube Medical Center, Ube, Japan

 

Katsuhiro Okuda

Department Oncology, Immunology and surgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science

 

Yusuke Okuma

Department of Thoracic Oncology and Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious diseases Center Komagome Hospital, 3-18-22 Honkomagome, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8677, Japan

 

Meinoshin Okumura

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

 

Olugbenga T Okusanya

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

 

Alexandre de Oliveira

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Beneficencia Portuguesa Hospital, Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

Anne Olland

Thoracic Surgery Department, ‘Nouvel Hôpital Civil’, University Hospital, 1 place de l’Hôpital, 67000 Strasbourg, France

 

Mitsugu Omasa

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nichi-kobe Medical Center, Kobe, Japan

 

James A. Oo

Institute for Cardiovascular Physiology, Goethe University, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, Frankfurt, Germany

 

Adrian Ooi

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Gleneagles Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

 

Frasia Oosthuizen

University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pharmaceutical Sciences

 

Isabelle Opitz

University Hospital Zurich, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Raemistrasse 100, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland

 

Kazumasa Orihashi

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Second Department of Surgery, Kochi Medical School, Kohasu, Oko-cho, Nankoku, Kochi, 783-8505, Japan

 

Foster T. Orji

Department of Otolaryngology, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria; Department of Otolaryngology, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu, Enugu, Nigeria

 

Augusto Orlandi

Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Via Montpellier, 00133 Rome, Italy

 

Bastien Orsini

Department of Thoracic Surgery, North Hospital, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

 

 

Emmanuel T. Osei

Dept of Pathology and Medical Biology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

 

Kersti Oselin

Department of Chemotherapy, North Estonia Medical Centre, Sütiste tee 19, Tallinn 13419, Estonia

 

Kiyohiro Oshima

Department of Emergency Medicine, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

 

Marcin Ostrowski

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

 

Sreekumar Othumpangat

Allergy and Clinical Immunology Branch, Health Effects Laboratory Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA

 

Koji Otsuka

Division of Gastroenterological and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Showa University School of Medicine, 142-8666 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan

 

Cécile Oury

Laboratory of Thrombosis and Hemostasis and Valvular Heart Disease, GIGA Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Liège Hospital, CHU Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium

 

Yoshiyuki Ozawa

Department of Radiology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan

 

Songul Ozyurt

Chest Department, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Rize, Turkey

 

Pierre-Benoit Pagès

Department of Thoracic Surgery, CHU Dijon Bocage Hospital, Dijon, France

 

Emanuel Palade

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Clinic for Surgery, University of Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany

 

Angela De Palma

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Piazza Giulio Cesare, Bari, Italy

 

 

Stefano Palmucci

Department of Medical Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies “GF. Ingrassia”, University of Catania, Radiology I Unit, University Hospital “Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele”, Catania, Italy

 

Tanmay S. Panchabhai

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Norton Thoracic Institute, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA

 

Rozen Le Panse

INSERM U974, Paris, France; CNRS UMR 7215, Paris, France; UPMC Univ Paris 6, Paris, France; AIM, Institut de myologie, Paris, France

 

Kostas Papagiannopoulos

Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK

 

Maria Papathanasiou

Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, University Hospital Essen, West German Heart and Vascular Center, Essen, Germany

 

Federico Pappalardo

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Raffaele Scientific Institute and San Raffaele Vita-Salute University, Milan Italy

 

Alessandro Pardolesi

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Maggiore Teaching Hospital, Bologna, Italy

 

Mihir S. Parikh

Division of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

 

Chul Hwan Park

Department of Radiology and the Research Institute of Radiological Science, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Seong Yong Park

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Ajou University School of Medicine, 206 Worldcup-ro, Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, 443-749, Republic of Korea

 

So Young Park

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

 

Chan Beom Park

Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea

Yoo Seok Park

Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Chang Min Park

Department of Radiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, and Institute of Radiation Medicine, Seoul National University Medical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

 

Chan Sun Park

Department of Internal Medicine, Inje University College of Medicine, Haeundae Paik Hospital, Busan, Korea

 

Sean Parker

Consultant Respiratory Physician, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Northumbria Healthcare NHSFT, North Tyneside General Hospital, Rake Lane, North Shields NE29 8NH, UK

 

Abdul S. Parwani

Department of Cardiology, Charite University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

 

Chetan Pasrija

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MdUSA

 

Antonio Passaro

Division of Thoracic Oncology, European Institute of Oncology (IEO), Milan, Italy

 

Francesco Passiglia

Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences, Section of Medical Oncology, University of Palermo, Via del Vespro 129, 90127 Palermo, Italy

 

Miriam Patella

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ospedale Regionale di Bellinzona e Valli Via Ospedale, 6500 Bellinzona, Ticino CH, Switzerland

 

Vikas Pathak

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, WakeMed Health and Hospitals, 3000 New Bern Ave, Raleigh, NC, USA

 

Monali Patil

Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Division, Department of Medicine, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

 

Maxime Patout

Intensive Care Unit, Respiratory Department, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France

 

 

Davide Patrini

Thoracic Surgery Department, University College London Hospitals (UCLH), London, UK

 

Marios Patronis

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

 

Konrad Pawelczyk

Wroclaw Medical University, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Wroclaw Thoracic Surgery Centre, Wroclaw, Poland

 

Konrad Pawełczyk

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw 53-439, Poland; Department of Thoracic Surgery, Lower Silesian Centre of Lung Diseases, Wroclaw 53-439, Poland

 

Krystian Pawlak

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland

 

Konrad Pazdrak

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA

 

Simon Pecha

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

 

Eirini Pectasides

1Division of Hematology and Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA;

2Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA

 

Carlos Pedraz-Valdunciel

Cancer Biology and Precision Medicine , Institute for Health Science Research Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP) , Badalona , Spain

 

Costanza Pellegrini

Klinik für Herz- und Kreislauferkrankungen, Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

 

Pete L Pelletier

Associate Program Director, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, RUSH University Medical Center,Chicago, IL, USA

 

Mariano Pellicano

Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV Clinic, Aalst, Belgium

 

 

Douglas Van Pelt

Department Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Kentucky, 900 S. Limestone, RM 210E, Lexington, KY, 40536-0200, USA

 

David Perez

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Universitario Insular de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

 

Bradford A. Perez

epartment of Radiation Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, Tampa, FL 33612, USA

 

Periklis Perikleous

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Harefield Hospital, Harefield, UK

 

Jimstan Periselneris

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust, Sydney Street, London, SW3 6NP, UK

 

Valerio Perna

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Universitario Son Espases Carretera de Valldemossa, Palma, Spain

 

Matteo Pernigo

Division of Cardiology, "La Memoria" Hospital, Brescia, Italy

 

Jesus Peteiro

Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

 

Geoffrey Peters

Cancer Care Services, Redcliffe Hospital, Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia; University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

 

René Horsleben Petersen

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark

 

Iver Petersen

Univ Jena, Jena Univ Hosp, Inst Pathol, Ziegelmuhlenweg 1, D-07743 Jena, Germany

 

Sven Peterss

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Munich, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany

 

Francesco Petrella

Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy; Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

 

Roman V. Petrov

Assistant Professor, Department of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 

Joachim Pfannschmidt

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Heckeshorn Lung Clinic–HELIOS Klinikum Emil von Behring, Berlin, Germany

 

Kevin Phan

The Collaborative Research (CORE) Group, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

 

Alexander W. Phillips

Northern Oesophagogastric Cancer Unit, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

 

Joseph D. Phillips

Section of Thoracic Surgery, One Medical Center Drive, Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, USA

 

Carl M. Philpott

James Paget University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Gorleston, UK; Rhinology and Olfactology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

 

Fabien Picard

Département de Cardiologie, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France

 

Guillaume Piessen

Univ Hosp Claude Huriez, Dept Digest & Oncol Surg, Reg Univ Hosp Ctr, Pl Verdun, F-59037 Lille, France

 

Gabriele Piffaretti

Vascular Surgery - Department of Surgery and Morphological Sciences, Circolo University Teaching Hospital, University of Insubria School of Medicine, Varese, Italy

 

Oleg Pikin

P.A. Herzen Moscow Cancer Research Institute, Moscow, Russia

 

Hans Pilegaard

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Palle Juul-Jensens Boulevard 99, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark

 

Sara Pilotto

U.O.C. Oncology, University of Verona, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata, P.le L.A. Scuro 10, Verona 37124, Italy

 

Valentina Pinelli

Divisione di Pneumologia, Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy

 

Guy Pines

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kaplan Medical Center and The Hebrew University School of Medicine, Rehovot, Israel

 

Tanyong Pipanmekaporn

Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

 

Siavash Piran

Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Thromboembolism, and Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8L 2X2 Canada

 

Calogera Pisano

Cardiac Surgery Division, Tor Vergata University Hospital, Rome, Italy

 

Francesco Pistelli

Pulmonary Unit, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Department, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy

 

Till Plönes

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Medicine Essen-Ruhrlandklinik, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

 

John T. Plukker

Department of Surgical Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

 

Francesco Pollari

Cardiac Surgery, Cardiovascular Center, Klinikum Nürnberg-Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany

 

Eugenio Pompeo

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Policlinico Tor Vergata University, V.le Oxford, 81, Rome, Italy

 

Cecilia Pompili

Section of Patient Centred Outcomes Research, Leeds Institute of Cancer and Pathology, Level 03, Bexley Wing, St James' Institute of Oncology, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TF

 

Marcus Povitz

Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

 

Filippo Prestipino

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy

 

Adriano M Priola

Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Turin, S. Luigi Gonzaga Hospital, Orbassano, Turin, Italy

Mariano Provencio

Medical oncology, Puerta de Hierro Hospital – Madrid, Spain

 

Jun Qian

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

 

Qiuran Xu

Laboratory of Molecular Diagnosis and vice director of Science Research Department in Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, China

 

Elżbieta Radzikowska

National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Plocka Street 26, Warsaw, Poland

 

Dirk Van Raemdonck

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

 

Giuseppe M. Raffa

Cardiac Surgery and Heart Transplantation Unit, Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, IRCCS-ISMETT (Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad alta specializzazione), Palermo, Italy

 

Hitesh Raheja

Department of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

 

Shahzad G. Raja

Harefield Hospital, London, United Kingdom

 

Kartik Ramakrishna

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, USA

 

Montserrat Blanco Ramos

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vigo University Clinical Hospital, 36204 Vigo, Spain

 

Danny Ramzy

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Blvd, A3105, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

Prashant Rao

Sarver Heart Center, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

 

Edoardo Raposio

Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Italy; Department of Surgical Specialties Cutaneous, Mininvasive, Regenerative and Plastic Surgery Unit, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy

 

Jari Räsänen

Department of General Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery, Heart and Lung Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

 

Aref Rashed

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Zala County Hospital, University of Pécs, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary

 

Torben Riis Rasmussen

Department of Respiratory Diseases and Allergy, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

 

Sridhar Rathinam

Univ Hosp Leicester, Glenfield Hosp, Dept Thorac Surg, Groby Rd, Leicester LE3 9QP, Leics, England

 

Federico Raveglia

Thoracic Surgery, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, Ospedale San Paolo, Milano, Italy

 

Syed S. Razi

Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Miami Hospital / Jackson Memorial Hospital

 

Federico Rea

Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Padua, via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padua, Italy

 

Ramachandra C. Reddy

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA

 

Matthias Reeh

Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

 

Majed Refai

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona, Italy

 

Martin Reichert

Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic, Transplant and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim Strasse 7, 35392, Giessen, Germany

 

Jordi Remon

Medical Oncology Department, Centro Integral Oncología Clara Campal Barcelona, HM-Delfos, Barcelona, Spain

 

Ottavio Rena

Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy

 

 

Stéphane Renaud

Department of thoracic surgery, Institut Lorrain du Coeur et des Vaisseaux Louis Mathieu, 5 Rue du Morvan, 54 500 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

 

Marie-Ange Renault

Biology of Cardiovascular Diseases, Univ. Bordeaux, Inserm, CHU de Bordeaux, F-33604 Pessac, France

 

Paulo Cury Rezende

Clinical Division, Instituto do Coracao (InCor), Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

 

Chin Kook Rhee

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seocho-Gu, Seoul 137-701, Korea

 

Davide Ricci

Division of Cardiac Surgery University Hospital of Pavia, Italy

 

Roberta Ricciardi

Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Neurology Unit, 2Division of Thoracic Surgery, Robotic Multidisciplinary Centre for Surgery, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Department, University of Pisa, Italy

 

Sara Ricciardi

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Pisa, Italy

 

J. David Richardson

Department of Surgery, University of Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA

 

Nuttapol Rittayamai

Division of Respiratory Diseases and Tuberculosis, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand

 

Ana I. Robles

Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

 

Oriol Roca

Critical Care Department, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Institut de Recerca Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain; Ciber Enfermedades Respiratorias, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

 

Danilo Rocco

Division of Pulmonary Oncology, Azienda Ospedaliera Dei Colli Monaldi, Naples, Italy

 

Anja C. Roden

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN, USA

Gaston A. Rodriguez-Granillo

Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, Diagnóstico Maipú, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Francisco Rodriguez-Panadero

Unidad Médico-Quirúrgica de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, and CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias, Sevilla, Spain

 

Oluf Dimitri Røe

Department of Clinical Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Prinsesse Kristinsgt. 1, Trondheim, NO 7491, Norway

 

Stefano Romagnoli

Health Science Department, Section of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

 

Silvio Romano

Cardiology, Department of Life, Health & Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Italy

 

Giulio Rossi

IRCCS Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, viale Risorgimento, 80 42100, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Section of Pathologic Anatomy, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

 

Lorenzo Rosso

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

 

Nicola Rotolo

Center for Thoracic Surgery, University of Insubria, Ospedale di Circolo, Varese, Italy

 

Wolfgang Rottbauer

Department of Internal Medicine II, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

 

Jens C. Rückert

Dept of General, Visceral, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

Enrico Ruffini

Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Italy

 

Mike Marvin Ruth

Department of Medical Microbiology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

 

Jean-Claude M. Rwigema

Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

 

 

Anton Sabashnikov

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center, University Hospital Cologne, Cologne, Germany

 

Robert Sabiniewicz

Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Diseases, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland

 

Ashutosh Sachdeva

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Director, Interventional Pulmonary Program, Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 110 S. Paca Street, 2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

 

Noriaki Sadanaga

Department of Surgery, Saiseikai Fukuoka General Hospital, 1-3-46 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka, 810-0001, Japan

 

Ali I. Saeed

Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States; Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

 

Salah A. M. Said

Department of Cardiology, ZGT location Hengelo, Hengelo, the Netherlands

 

Hisashi Saji

Department of Chest Surgery, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

 

Yuichi Sakairi

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-8-1, inohana, Chu-o-ku, Chiba, Chiba, Japan

 

Mathieu Salaun

Department of Pulmonology, Thoracic Oncology, and Respiratory Intensive Care and CIC-CRB 1404, Rouen, France; QuantIF- LITIS EA 4108, IRIB, Rouen University, F-76000, Rouen, France

 

Arash Salemi

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA

 

Ehab F. Salim

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Benha University, Benha, Egypt

 

George Samanidis

First Department of Adult Cardiac Surgery, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece

 

 

Marcos Naoyuki Samano

Lung Transplant Group, Thoracic Surgery Division of Heart Institute (InCor) do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP, São Paulo, Brazil

 

Joji Samejima

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center, 2-3-2 Nakao, Asahi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 241-8515, Japan

 

Rachel E. Sanborn

Robert W. Franz Cancer Research Center, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Portland Medical Center, 4805 NE Glisan St., 2N35, Portland, OR 97213, USA

 

David Sanchez-Lorente

General Thoracic Surgery Department, Clinical Respiratory Institute, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

 

Manuel Sánchez-Sánchez

Intensive Medicine Service, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Paseo de la Castellana 261, 28046, Madrid, Spain

 

Alberto Sandri

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

 

Kishore Sandu

Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Lausanne's University Hospital, CHUV, Lausanne, 1011, Switzerland

 

Stefano Sanna

Thoracic Surgery Unit, G. B. Morgagni Hospital, Forli, Italy

 

Luca Salvatore De Santo

University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy; Cardiac Surgery Unit, Clinica Montevergine, Mercogliano, Avellino, Italy

 

Imran Satia

Division of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, and Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

 

Masaaki Sato

Department of Thoracic Surgery, The University of Tokyo

 

Akira Sato

Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

 

Mitsuo Sato

Department of Pathophysiological Laboratory Sciences, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Bernd Saugel

Department of Anesthesiology, Center of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

 

Milton Saute

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

 

Ketty Savino

Division of Cardiology – S. Maria della Misericordia Hospital, University of Perugia School of Medicine, Perugia, Italy

 

Shigeki Sawada

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Himeji Red Cross Hospital, Himeji, Hyogo Pref, Japan

 

Mustafa Saygin

Suleyman Demirel Univ, Fac Med, Dept Physiol, TR-32200 Isparta, Turkey.

 

Paolo Scanagatta

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

 

Marco Scarci

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University College London Hospital, London, UK

 

Elisa Scarnecchia

Thoracic Surgery Unit, piazzale Mengoni n°1, Sant’Andrea delle Fratte, Perugia, Italy

 

Matthew B. Schabath

Departments of Cancer Epidemiology and Thoracic Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL USA

 

Peter Schellongowski

Department of Medicine I, Intensive Care Unit 13i2, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

 

Francisco Schlottmann

Department of Surgery and Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4030 Burnett Womack Building, 101 Manning Drive, CB 7081, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7081, USA

 

Severin Schmid

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

 

Martina Schmidt

Department of Molecular Pharmacology, University of Groningen, 9713AV Groningen, The Netherlands; Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, 9713AV Groningen, The Netherlands

Paul Schoenhagen

Department of Diagnostic Radiology and in the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland,Ohio, USA.

 

Waldemar Schreiner

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

 

Marcus J. Schultz

Department of Intensive Care, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Mahidol-Oxford Research Unit (MORU), Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

 

Arik Bernard Schulze

Department of Medicine A, Hematology, Oncology and Pneumology, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

 

Bernadette Schurink

Department of Anatomy, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

Valentijn A. Schweitzer

Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

Vieri Scotti

Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

 

Kay Choong See

Division of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine, University Medicine Cluster, National University Health System, 1E Kent Ridge Road, NUHS Tower Block Level 10, Singapore, 119228, Singapore

 

Agathe Seguin-Givelet

Thoracic Department, Curie-Montsouris Thorax Institute, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris, France; Paris 13 University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Faculty of Medicine SMBH, Bobigny, France

 

Joseph Seitlinger

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France

 

Ikuo Sekine

Division of Internal Medicine and Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

 

Amir H. Sepehripour

Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, 10th Floor, QEQM Building, St Mary’s Hospital Campus, South Wharf Road, London, W2 1NY, UK

 

Antonio Serra

Interventional Cardiology Unit, Cardiology Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain

 

Sergio B. Sesia

Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

 

Mingmin Shi

Orthopaedics in Zhejiang University School of Medicine

 

Norihisa Shigemura

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Temple University Health System and Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA

 

Junichi Shimada

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

 

Yoshihisa Shimada

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, 6-7-1, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

 

Kimihiro Shimizu

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

 

Kyung Min Shin

Department of Radiology, Kyungpook National University Medical Center, Daegu, South Korea

 

Shuichi Shinohara

Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Himeji Medical Center, Himeji, Japan

 

Kazu Shiomi

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, School of Medicine, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Japan

 

Satoshi Shiono

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan

 

Yasuhiro Shirakawa

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama 700-8558, Japan

 

Fumihiro Shoj

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization, Kyushu Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan

 

Samira Shojaee

Departments of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA, 23298, USA

 

Jeffrey Shuhaiber

Heart and Vascular Center and Department of Surgery at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA, USA; University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

 

Sailay Siddiqi

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Radboud Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

 

Alan Dart Loon Sihoe

Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

 

Simona Silvetti

Department of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Cardiac Anesthesia, IRCCS Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy

 

Yun Su Sim

Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Daerim 1-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, 150-950, Korea

 

Jerry W. Simecka

Department of Cell Biology and Immunology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA

 

Charles B. Simone, II

Associate Professor and the Medical Director of the Maryland Proton Treatment Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center

 

Tejas P. Singh

College of Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia; Surgical Division, The Townsville Hospital, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

 

Saurabh Singhal

Department of GI-HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India

 

Szymon Skoczynski

Med Univ Silesia, Sch Med Katowice, Dept Pneumonol Katowice, Med 14, PL-40752 Katowice, Poland

 

Alexander N. Slade

Massey Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Box 980058, Richmond, VA, 23298, USA

 

 

Bethany J. Slater

Department of Pediatric Surgery, Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children , Denver, Colorado

 

R Stephen Smith

Division of Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

 

Annemie Snoeckx

Department of Radiology, Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, 2650 Edegem, Belgium

 

Annemiek Snoeckx

Department of Radiology, Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium

 

Michal Jan Sobieszczyk

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Antonio Military Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA

 

Jonathan Sobocinski

Aortic Centre, Vascular Surgery, Hôpital Cardiologique, Lille University Hospital, Lille, France

 

Hiroshi Soda

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sasebo City General Hospital

 

Sukhwinder Singh Sohal

Respiratory Translational Research Group, Department of Laboratory Medicine, College of Health and Medicine, University of Tasmania, Launceston, TAS, 7248, Australia

 

Piergiorgio Solli

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ospedale Maggiore Largo Nigrisoli, Bologna, Italy

 

Woo-Jung Song

Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 03080, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Andrew Song

Department of Radiation Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 

Abraham Sonny

ivision of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA/Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, GRB 444, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

 

 

Lorenzo Spaggiari

Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy; Department of Oncology and Hemato-oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

 

Elena Spinelli

Dipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione ed Emergenza Urgenza, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

 

John R. Spratt

Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

 

Teresa Stachowicz-Stencel

Department of Pediatrics, Hematology and Oncology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Dębinki 7, 80-211 Gdańsk, Poland

 

Mila Stajevic

Department of Pediatric Cardithoracic Surgery, Institute for Mother and Child Health Care “Dr Vukan Cupic”, ul. Radoja Dakica 6-8, Belgrade, Serbia

 

Michael Stenger

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Odense University Hospital, Sdr. Boulevard 29, DK-5000 Odense, Denmark

 

Kurt B. Stevenson

Division of Infectious Diseases, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Division of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

 

Erich Stoelben

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Witten/Herdecke, Lung Clinic Merheim, Campus Cologne, Ostmerheimerstr. 200, 51109, Cologne, Germany

 

Jelena Stojsic

Department for Respiratory and Thoracic Pathology, Service for Pathology, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Pasterova 2, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia

 

Dragan R. Subotic

Clinic for thoracic surgery, Clinical center of Serbia, Belgrade

 

Rajeev Subramanyam

Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

 

Takashi Suda

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Kenichi Suda

Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Japan

 

Haruhiko Sugimura

Hamamatsu Univ Sch Med, Dept Tumor Pathol, Higashi Ku, 1-20-1 Handayama, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 4313192, Japan

 

Keishi Sugino

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Toho University Omori Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan

 

Yuki Sugiyama

Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan

 

Kumiya Sugiyama

Department of Respiratory Medicine and Clinical Immunology, Dokkyo Medical University Saitama Medical Center, Koshigaya, Japan

 

Ibrahim Sultan

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

 

Shih-Hsien Sung

Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei. School of Medicine and Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei

 

Jidong Sung

Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Center for Health Promotion, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Sook Whan Sung

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Somkiat Sunpaweravong

Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkla, Thailand

 

Susumu Manabe

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tsuchiura Kyodo General Hospital, 4-1-1, Ohtsuno, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, 300-0028, Japan

 

 

Thitiporn Suwatanapongched

Division of Diagnostic Radiology, Department of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, 270 Rama VI Road, Ratchathewi, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand

 

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Department of Regenerative Surgery, Fukushima Medical University, School of Medicine, 1 Hikarigaoka, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan

 

Makoto Suzuki

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

 

Kei Suzuki

Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

 

Tetsuya Suzuki

AIDS Clinical Center, National Center of Global Health and Medicine, 1-21-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-8655 Japan; Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

 

Malgorzata Szolkowska

Natl TB & Lung Dis Res Inst, Dept Pathol, Plocka 26, PL-01138 Warsaw, Poland

 

Małgorzata Szołkowska

Department of Pathology, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland

 

Federico Tacconi

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Tor Vergata, Tor Vergata University School of Thoracic Surgery, Rome, Italy

 

Yuji Tachimori

Cancer Care Center, Kawasaki Saiwai Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan

 

Catherine Tadyanemhandu

Department of Rehabilitation, College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

 

Emanuela Taioli

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY,USA; Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY,USA; Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA

 

Shinya Takahashi

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan

 

 

Noriyoshi Takahashi

Department of Radiation Oncology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574, Japan

 

Shinzo Takamori

Department of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, 67 Asahi-machi, Kurume 8300011, Japan

 

Hiroo Takayama

Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

 

Koji Takeda

Department of Medical Oncology, Osaka City General Hospital, Osaka, Japan

 

Mitsuhiro Takenoyama

Department of Thoracic Oncology, Institute for Clinical Research, National Kyushu Cancer Center, Fukuoka 811-1395, Japan

 

Kiyoshi Takeyama

First Department of Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

 

Nagio Takigawa

Department of General Internal Medicine 4, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan

 

Hiromitsu Takizawa

Department of Thoracic, Endocrine Surgery and Oncology, Tokushima University Graduate School, Japan

 

Nobuhiro Tanabe

Department of Respirology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana Chuou-ku, Chiba 260-8670, Japan; Pulmonary Circulation/Lung Injury Assembly of the Japanese Respiratory Society, Tokyo 113-0013, Japan

 

Ryou Tanaka

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Veterinary Surgery, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

 

Yugo Tanaka

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

 

Paul C. Tang

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

 

Yoshinori Tanino

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Yusuke Taniyama

Tohoku University, Department of Surgery, Sendai, Japan

 

Apichat Tantraworasin

Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

 

Tawee Tanvetyanon

Department of Thoracic Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA

 

Hideki Tashiro

Division of Cardiology, St. Mary's Hospital, Kurume, Japan

 

Giuseppe Tavilla

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

 

Cristina Teixidó

Department of Pathology, Hospital Clínic, 170 Villarroel, E3/5P Room P03-150, Barcelona 08036, Spain

 

Jiro Terada

Department of Respirology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

 

Shinji Teramoto

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Hitachinaka Medical Education and Research Center, University of Tsukuba, 20-1 Hitachinaka-shi, Ibaraki 329-8575, Japan

 

Luc Thiberville

Department of Pulmonology, Thoracic Oncology, and Respiratory Intensive Care and CIC-CRB 1404, Rouen, France; QuantIF- LITIS EA 4108, IRIB, Rouen University, F-76000, Rouen, Franc

 

David H. Tian

The Collaborative Research (CORE) Group, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia

 

Yutaka Tokairin

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan

 

Alper Toker

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey

 

Sara Tomassetti

Department of Diseases of the Thorax, GB Morgagni Hospital, Forlì, Italy

 

 

Stefania Tommasi

Molecular Diagnostics and Pharmacogenetics Unit, IRCCS-Istituto Tumori "Giovanni Paolo II", VialeOrazioFlacco 65, 70124 Bari (BA), Italy

 

Luigi Di Tommaso

Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Pansini 5, 80131, Naples, Italy

 

Christos Tourmousoglou

Thessaloniki Heart Institute, St Lucas Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

 

Christopher Wellington Towe

Division of Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA

 

Rocco Trisolini

Interventional Pulmonology Unit, Policlinico Sant'Orsola-Malpighi, via Albertoni 15, 40138, Bologna, Italy; Thoracic Endoscopy and Pulmonology Unit, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy

 

Chien-Sung Tsai

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Centre, Taipei; Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, National Defense Medical Centre, Taoyuan

 

Kosmas Tsakiridis

Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Saint "Luke" Private Hospital, Thessaloniki, Panorama, Greece

 

Hoi Nam Tse

Medical and Geriatric Department, Respiratory Unit, Kwong Wah Hospital, Hong Kong, China

 

Yau-Lin Tseng

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan

 

Athanasios Tsiouris

Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Providence Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA

 

Kenji Tsuboshima

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Takasago Municipal Hospital, 33-1 Kamimachi, Arai Town, Takasago City, Hyogo, 676-8585, Japan

 

Masanori Tsuchida

Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

 

Shigeru Tsunoda

Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 54 Kawahara-cho, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8507, Japan

 

Mauro R. Tucci

Respiratory ICU, Pulmonary Division, Heart Institute (INCOR), Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

 

Izabela Tuleta

Department of Internal Medicine II–Cardiology, Pulmonology and Angiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

 

Gerard Turino

Mt Sinai W, Mara Lung Ctr, 1000 10th Ave, New York, NY 10019 USA

 

Simon R. Turner

Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

 

J Francis Turner Jr

Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN, USA

 

Scott H. Twaddell

Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

 

Kazuhiro Ueda

Department of Surgery and Clinical Science, Division of Chest Surgery, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

 

Chikara Ueki

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shizuoka General Hospital, Kita Ando, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka 420-8527, Japan

 

Rei Umezawa

Department of Radiation Oncology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1, Seiryou-machi, Aobaku, Sendai, 980-8574, Japan

 

Mark I. van Berge Henegouwen

Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Bart Vanaudenaerde

Lung Transplant Unit, Laboratory of Pneumology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium

 

Jacopo Vannucci

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Perugia Medical School, Perugia, Italy

Gonzalo Varela

Section of Thoracic Surgery, Salamanca University Hospital, 37007 Salamanca, Spain

 

Janos Varga

Department of Pulmonology, University of Szeged, Deszk, Hungary; National Koranyi Institute for TB and Pulmonology, Budapest, Hungary

 

Pablo Guisado Vasco

Internal Medicine Department, Complejo Hospitalario Ruber Juan Bravo, European University, Juan Bravo Street 39-49, 28006, Madrid, Spain

 

Michele Claudio Vassallo

Department of Cardiac Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Fatebenefratelli-Sacco, Milan, Italy

 

Marija Vavlukis

University Clinic of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ss Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

 

Mohammad Vaziri

Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Rasoul Akram Hospital, Niayesh Avenue, Sattar Khan Street, Tehran 1448933, Iran

 

Nirmal Veeramachaneni

Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7065, USA

 

Kenneth J. Vega

Division of Gastroenterology, University of Florida/Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, USA; Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Augusta University-Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA

 

Jeffrey B. Velotta

Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Oakland, CA, USA

 

Mario Venditti

Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy

 

Giulia Veronesi

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano, Milan, Italy

 

Moniek H. P. Verstegen

Department of Surgery, Radboudumc, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 10, 6525 GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands

 

 

Anne Vertigan

John Hunter Hospital, Locked Bag 1 Hunter Region Mail Centre, NSW 2310, Australia

 

Macarena R. Vial

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

 

Andrea Vianello

Fisiopatologia Respiratoria, Azienda Ospedaliera di Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, Padova 35128, Italy

 

Carmen Vidal

Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Av. Gran Via, 199-203, 08908, Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Spain; Institute of Biomedical Research, IDIBELL, Av. Gran Via, 199-203, 08908, Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Spain

 

Wickii T. Vigneswaran

Section of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637-1470, United States

 

Patrick Villeneuve

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

 

Andrea Viti

Division of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS Sacro Cuore-Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy

 

Isabelle Vivodtzev

HP2 Laboratory, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, INSERM U1042, Grenoble Alps University, Grenoble, France; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

 

Luca Voltolini

Thoracic Surgery Unit, University Hospital of Careggi, Florence, Italy

 

David Vondrys

Department of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Our Lady's Children Hospital Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland

 

Semir Vranic

Department of Pathology, University of Sarajevo Clinical Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

Heleen Vroman

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Erasmus Cancer Institute, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

 

Nguyen Lam Vuong

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, 70000, Viet Nam; Department of Medical Statistic and Informatics, Faculty of Public Health, University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, 70000, Viet Nam

 

Gebhard Wagener

Department of Anesthesiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

 

Heather A. Wakelee

Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

 

David A. Waller

Department of Thoracic Surgery, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK

 

Liang Shun Wang

Department of Medical Research & Education, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei

 

Fengfeng Wang

Department of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

 

Bing Yen Wang

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

 

Ryuichi Waseda

Department of Thoracic, Endocrine, and Pediatric Surgery, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan

 

Masayuki Watanabe

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

 

Satoshi Watanabe

Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA; Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

 

Guilherme Watte

Department of Respiratory Medicine and Thoracic Surgery, Pavilhao Pereira Filho - Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericordia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil

 

Benjamin Wei

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA

 

 

Nargues A. Weir

Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Branch and Hematology Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA; Inova Advanced Lung Disease Program, Falls Church, USA

 

Anthonie J. van der Wekken

Department of Pulmonary Diseases, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands

 

Benny Weksler

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

 

Stefan Welter

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Endoscopy, Ruhrlandklinik, West German Lung Center, University Hospital, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

 

Shawn C. West

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, 4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA

 

Tony Whitehouse

Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham B15 2GW, UK; College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

 

Tom Wiggins

Department of Surgery and Cancer, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK

 

Julian Wijesuriya

Central London School of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK

 

Markus J. Wilhelm

Department of Cardio-Vascular Surgery, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

 

James C. Willey

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, The University of Toledo College of Medicine, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, OH, 43614, USA

 

Christina Williamson

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Lahey Hospital and Medical, Center, Burlington, Mass, USA

 

Roger A. Winkle

Silicon Valley Cardiology, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Sutter Health, E. Palo Alto and Sequoia Hospital, Redwood City, CA, USA

Kenneth K.Y. Wong

Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong , Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

 

Max K. H. Wong

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

 

Randolph H. L. Wong

Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China

 

Chang-Hoon Woo

Department of Pharmacology, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, 317-1 Daemyung-dong, Daegu, Republic of Korea

 

Frans van Workum

Department of Surgery, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

 

Stephanie G. Worrell

Department of Surgery, Divisions of Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

 

Emiel F M Wouters

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands

 

Antoinette J. Wozniak

Department of Oncology, Karmanos Cancer Center, Detroit, MI, USA

 

Hermann Wrigge

Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Bonn, Germany

 

Ching-Yang Wu

Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan

 

Zhi-Fu Wu

Department of Anesthesiology, Chi Mei Medical Center, No. 901, Zhonghua Road, Yongkang District 71004, Tainan

 

Jinlin Wu

Fuwai Hospital of Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

 

Hsing-Hsien Wu

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tainan Municipal Hospital (Managed by Show Chwan Medical Care Corporation), Tainan; Department of Nursing, Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology, Tainan

 

Sohsuke Yamada

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan; Department of Pathology, Kanazawa Medical University Hospital, Ishikawa, Japan

 

Hiromichi Yamane

Department of General Internal Medicine 4, Kawasaki Medical School, 2-1-80 Nakasange, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8505, Japan

 

Toshimitsu Yamaoka

Institute of Molecular Oncology, Showa University, Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan

 

Yoshikane Yamauchi

Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan

 

Liping Yan

Department of Tuberculosis, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, 507 Zhengmin Road, Shanghai, China

 

Andrew T. Yan

St. Michael’s Hospital, Division of Cardiology, 30 Bond Street, Room 6-030 Donnelly, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8, Canada

 

Bobby Yanagawa

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Terrence Donnelly Heart Center, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

Naoki Yanagawa

Department of Pathology, Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan

 

Masahiro Yanagiya

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

 

Hsiao-Yu Yang

Natl Taiwan Univ, Inst Occupat Med & Ind Hyg, Coll Publ Hlth, Taipei

 

Hyeon-Jong Yang

SCH Biomedical Informatics Research Unit, Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Center, Department of Pediatrics, Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Shun-Mao Yang

National Taiwan University Hospital

Hee Chul Yang

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

 

Chih-Jen Yang

Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Ta-Tung Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung

 

Motoki Yano

Division of Chest Surgery, Department of Surgery, Aichi Medical University, 1-1 Yazakokarimata, Nagakute, 480-1195, Japan

 

Takushi Yasuda

Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kinki University, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

 

Hideki Yasui

Hamamatsu Univ Sch Med, Dept Internal Med, Div 2, 1-20-1 Handayama Higashi, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 4313192, Japan

 

Chang Dong Yeo

Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

 

Kuan Leong Yew

Sarawak Gen Hosp, Dept Cardiol, Ctr Heart, Kota Samarahan 94300, Sarawak, Malaysia

 

Shams Y-Hassan

Department of Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Chin A Yi

Department of Radiology and Center for Imaging Science, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, 135-710, Korea

 

Tetsuro Yokokawa

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

 

Yeonyee E. Yoon

Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea

 

Kenji Yorita

Section of Oncopathology and Regenerative Biology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake, Miyazaki 889-1692, Japan

 

 

Hironori Yoshino

Department of Radiation Science, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Health Sciences, 66-1 Hon-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8564, Japan

 

Houssein A. Youness

Pulmonary and Critical Care Section, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences center, Oklahoma City, USA

 

Wen-Liang Yu

Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan City; Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei City

 

Jane Yuan

Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 983135 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-3135, USA

 

Yueqing Xu

武汉大学中南医院

 

Nico van Zandwijk

Asbestos Diseases Research Institute, Sydney, NSW, 2139, Australia; School of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

 

Francesco Zaraca

Department of Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Regional Hospital Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

 

Michael Zervos

Division of Thoracic Surgery, NYU Langone Medical Center, 530 First Avenue, Suite 9V, New York, NY, 10016, USA

 

Ruoyu Zhang

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Center for Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery, Chest Hospital Schillerhoehe, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Teaching Hospital of the University of Tuebingen, Stuttgart, Germany

 

Tianyu Zhang

Tuberculosis Research Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

 

Guoqiang Zhang

Emergency Department of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China

 

Konstantin Zhigalov

Department of Cardiac Surgery, European Medical School Oldenburg-Groningen, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

 

 

Carmelina Zirafa

Minimally Invasive and Robotic Thoracic Surgery, Robotic Multispecialty Center for Surgery, University Hospital of Pisa, Via Paradisa 2, 56124, Pisa, Italy

 

Charalambos Zisis

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, “Evangelismos” Hospital, Athens, Greece

 

Andrea Zuin

Thoracic Surgery Unit, Department of Cardiologic, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padova, Italy

 

Matjaz Zwitter

Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, Slovenia