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
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