Former Editorial Board
Luca Ampollini, MD, PhD
Thoracic Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy
Beatrice Aramini, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor in Thoracic Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Moises Auron, MD, FAAP, FACP
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Zaid H. Baqain, BDS, FDS RCS and MSc (Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery)
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan
Marie Budev, MD
Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Qi Cao, PhD (Microbiology and Immunology)
Center for Inflammation & Epigenetics and Cancer Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
Federico Cappuzzo, MD
Director of Oncology and Hematology Department, AUSL della Romagna-Ravenna, Italy
Monica Casiraghi, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
João L. Cavalcante, MD
Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Claudio Caviezel, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Mariusz Chabowski, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, 4th Military Teaching Hospital, Wroclaw, Poland
Lu Chen, MD
Department of Urology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China
Duilio Divisi
Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of L’Aquila, “G. Mazzini Hospital” of Teramo, Italy
Maan Fares, MD (Cardiovascular Medicine)
Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Yunlin Feng, MD (Nephrology)
Division of Nephrology, Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, Chengdu, China
Nenad D. Filipovic
Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
Alfonso Fiorelli
Department of Science and Translational Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy
Katarzyna Gil, MD (Heart Failure and Cardiovascular Imaging)
Department of Invasive Cardiology, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of the Interior, Warsaw, Poland
Michel Gonzalez, MD
Service of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Petros Grivas, MD, PhD
Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA, USA
Francesco Guerrera, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Unit of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, A.O.U. Città Della Salute e Della Scienza di Torino, Torino, Italy
Department of Surgical Sciences, Università Degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy
Ajit H. Goenka, MD
Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, NY, USA
Kyoji Hirai, MD (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Chiba, Japan
Tan Ai Huey
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Mohsen Ibrahim, MD, PhD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sant'Andrea Hospital, University of Rome 'Sapienza', Rome, Italy
Bruce Jennings
Department of Health Policy and the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee
Michael V. Johnston, MD
Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Dinesh K. Kalra, MD (Cardiac Imaging)
Department of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Yu Kataoka, MD
Cardiovascular Department, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
Ali Zamir Khan, MBBS, MS, FRCS (Glasgow), FRCS (CTH), FEBTS, MBA (Minimally Invasive Thora
Department of Minimally Invasive and Robotic Thoracic Surgery, Medanta - The Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, MPH (Public Health)
Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
Jason Kovac, MSc, MD, PhD
Men’s Health Center, Urology of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Quan-Zhen Li, MD, PhD (Immunology/Internal Medicine)
Department of Immunology and Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
Alberto Martini
Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
Giuseppe Marulli, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiologic, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Thoracic Surgery Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Tarek M. Mekhail, MD
Florida Hospital Cancer Institute, Orlando, FL, USA
Ramon Andrade De Mello, MD, FACP, PhD (Oncology)
Division of Medical Oncology, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil
Marcello Migliore, MD, PhD, FETCS
Section of General Thoracic Surgery, University of Catania, Policlinic University Hospital, Catania, Italy
Michael T. Milano, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
Pawel Miotla MD, PhD
2nd Department of Gynecology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
Sundeep Mishra, MD, DM, FACC, FSCAI (Cardiology)
Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India
Rainer G. H. Moosdorf, MD, PhD, FAHA
University Hospital Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Kazuaki Negishi, MD, PhD
Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Australia; Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania, Australia
Antonio Nenna, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy
Francesco Paneni, MD, PhD, FESC
Center for Molecular Cardiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Nikolaos Papageorgiou, MD, PhD, FESC
Barts Heart Centre, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Stuart Pitson, PhD (Cell Signalling)
Centre for Cancer Biology, University of South Australia and SA Pathology, Adelaide, Australia
Graeme Poston DSc, MS, MB BS, FRCS(Eng), FRCS(Ed) (Hepatobiliary Surgery)
Liverpool Hepatobiliary Centre, Aintree University Hospital, Longmoor Lane, Liverpool, UK
Majed Refai, MD
Thoracic Surgery Unit, Azienda Ospedali Riuniti Ancona, Ancona, Italy
Alberto Ricci, MD (Respiratory Medicine)
Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Gaston A. Rodriguez-Granillo, MD, PhD (Cardiovascular imaging)
Department of Cardiovascular Imaging, Diagnostico Maipu, Buenos Aires, Argentina
John Sandy, PhD (Biochemistry)
Department of Biochemistry, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Marco Scarci
Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy
Jorge Sequeiros, MD, PhD (Medical Genetics)
Instituto Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Wenyin Shi, MD, PhD
Department of Radiation Oncology, Thomas Jefferson University; Co-Director, Jefferson Brain Tumor Center; Radiation Oncology Director, Jefferson Cutaneous Lymphoma Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Shuichi Shinohara (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chubu Rosai Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Fumihiro Shoji, MD, PhD
Clinical Research Institute, Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization, Kyushu Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan
Christoph Sinning, MD
Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Michael Spartalis, MD
Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece
Kenichi Suda, MD, PhD (Thoracic Surgery)
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Japan
Eng-King Tan, PhD
Research Department, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore General Hospital (SGH) Campus, Singapore, Singapore
Michael Zhen-Yu Tong, MD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Emmanuel A. Tsochatzis, MD, PhD
UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, Royal Free Hospital and UCL, London, UK
Alessandro Vitale, MD, PhD
Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplant Center, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy
Andrea Viti, MD, PhD (Thoracic Surgery)
Division of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS Sacro Cuore-Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy
Vera von Dossow, MD
Heart and Diabetescenter Bad Oeynhausen, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Xiaofeng Wang, PhD
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Binhuan Wang, PhD (Biostatistics)
Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health, New York University, NY, USA
Ryuichi Waseda, MD, PhD (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of General Thoracic, Breast, and Pediatric Surgery, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan
Joseph Wee, MD, PhD (Radiation Oncology)
Division of Clinical Trials and Epidemiological Sciences, National Cancer Centre, and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore
Hans Rudolf Weiss, MD
Koob Scolitech GmbH, Neu Bamberg, Germany
Phil Wiffen, PhD (Pharmacy)
Cochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care Group, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK
Nathan D. Wong, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA
Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Wen-Cheng Xiong, PhD (Neuroscience)
Department of Neuroscience & Regenerative Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA
Homayoun (Homi) Zargar, MD, PhD (Urological Surgery)
Department of Urology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Xiong-bing Zu, MD, PhD (Urology)
Department of Urology, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University (CSU), Changsha, China