Former Editorial Board

Ghulam Abbas, MD, MHCM, FACS
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA

Prasad S. Adusumilli, MD, FACS FCCP
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Hisao Asamura, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Professor of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Faisal Bakaeen, MD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

Thomas J. Birdas
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Jin-Shing Chen
Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei

Teh-Ying Chou, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei

James M. Clark, MD
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis Health, Sacramento, CA, USA

Jean Deslauriers, MD, FRCS(C) (1945 - 2019)
Laval University, Quebec City, Canada

Xavier Benoit D’Journo, MD, PhD, FEBTCS
Aix-Marseille University, Thoracic Surgery Department, North Hospital, Marseille, France

Joel Dunning, FRCS, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK

Tyler Greenfield, MD
Ballad Health Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN, USA

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD
Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine, Smilow Cancer Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA

Felix Herth, MD, PhD
Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Wolfgang Hohenforst-Schmidt, MD
Sana Clinic Group Franken, Department of Cardiology/Pulmonology/Intensive Care/Nephrology, “Hof’’ Clinics, University of Erlangen, Hof, Germany

Sanghoon Jheon, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam-si, Korea

Chang Hyun Kang, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Ahmet Kilic, MD, FACS
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

Scott A. LeMaire, MD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Gunda Leschber, MD
ELK Berlin Chest Hospital, Berlin, Germany

Douglas J. Mathisen, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Bryan F. Meyers, MD, MPH
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Daniel L. Miller, MD
General Thoracic Surgery, WellStar Health System, Mayo Clinic Care Network, Marietta, GA, USA

Daniela Molena, MD
Department of Surgery, Thoracic Surgery Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, PhD
Thoracic Surgery Department, University College London Hospitals (UCLH), London, UK

Robert Pirker, MD
Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Majed Refai, MD
Thoracic Surgery Unit, Azienda Ospedali Riuniti Ancona, Ancona, Italy

Michele Salati, MD, PhD
Unit of Thoracic Surgery, United Hospital, Ancona, Italy

Matthew James Schuchert, MD
Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

K. Robert Shen, MD
Department of Surgery, Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Charles B. Simone, II, MD, FACRO
Professor and Chief Medical Officer, New York Proton Center;
Member, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

Yuji Tachimori, MD
Department of Surgery, Kawasaki Saiwai Hospital, Kawasaki, Japan

Ricardo M. Terra, MD, PhD, MPH
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Alper Toker, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute, Morgantown, WV, USA

Thorsten Walles, MD, FETCS
Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

Peter D. Wearden, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nemours Children's Hospital, Orlando, FL, USA

Sean Wightman
Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Stephen C. Yang, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MA, USA

Kazuhiro Yasufuku, MD, PhD, FCCP
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Joseph “Jay” B. Zwischenberger, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, USA
Former Section Editors

Tianxiang Chen, MD, PhD (Thoracic Oncology)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Hanyue Li, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Fabrizio Minervini, MD, PhD (Cardiothoracic Surgery)
Thoracic Surgery, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Lucerne

Xiaomin Niu, MD (Medical Oncology)
Department of Shanghai Lung Cancer Center, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China