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The management of our journal is a collaborative endeavor by the whole editorial team, featuring an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board. The editorial structure of the journal is listed below and the roles and responsibilities of the editorial team are available at:
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Editors-in-Chief
Lunxu Liu, MD
West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Mark W.Onaitis, MD
Thoracic Surgeon, Professor of Medicine, Moores Cancer Center, UC San Diego Health - La Jolla, Moores Cancer Center, 3855 Health Sciences Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Editorial Board
Luca Bertolaccini, MD, PhD, FCCP
Thoracic Surgery-AUSL Romagna, Santa Maria delle Croci Teaching Hospital
Mark F Berry, MD, MS, MHS
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University
Alessandro Brunelli, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James's University Hospital, in Leeds, UK
Bryan M Burt, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, United States
Thomas A. D’Amico, MD
Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, USA
Todd Demmy, MD, FACS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA
Alfonso Fiorelli, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Thoracic Surgery Unit，Second University of Naples，p.zza Miraglia 3，80138 Naples, Italy
Tiziano De Giacomo M.D.
Department of Thoracic Surgery, "Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy
Marulli Giuseppe, MD
Thoracic Surgery Unit, Department of Cardiologic, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University Hospital, Via Giustiniani, 2 35100, Padova, Italy
Dominique Gossot, MD
Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Paris, France
Tomasz Grodzki, M.D., PhD, FETCS
Head of Thoracic Surgery Department of Regional Hospital for Lung Diseases in Szczecin-Zdunowo, Poland
Henrik Jessen Hansen, MD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2152, Rigshospitalet (National University Hospital), Copenhagen, Denmark
Mohsen Ibrahim, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Sapienza University Of Rome, Italy; Instructor of SurgeryWashington University in St. Louis, MO, USA
Hitoshi Igai, MD, PhD
Assistant Director, Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Maebashi Red Cross Hospital, Gunma, Japan
Andrea Imperatori, MD
Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Center for Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical and Morphological Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Insubria, Via Guicciardini 9 - 21100 Varese, Italy
Mahmoud Ismail, MD
Surgical Clinic, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
David R. Jones, M.D.
Professor and Chief, Thoracic Surgery Service, Fiona & Stanley Druckenmiller Chair of Lung Cancer Research; Vice Chair Quality and Safety, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York
Chang Hyun Kang, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
Hyun Koo Kim, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Korea University Guro Hospital, Seoul, Korea
Chia-Chuan Liu, MD
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taiwan
Marcello Migliore, MD, PhD, FETCS
Section of General Thoracic Surgery, University of Catania, Policlinic University Hospital, Catania, Italy
Tommaso Claudio Mineo
Emeritus Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery and Experimental Medicine, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy.
John D. Mitchell, M.D.
Courtenay C. and Lucy Patten Davis Endowed Chair in Thoracic Surgery; Professor and Chief, Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA
Ryoichi Nakanishi, MD, PhD
Department of Oncology, Immunology and Surgery, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
Calvin Sze Hang Ng, BSc(Hons), MBBS(Hons), MD(Res)(Lond), FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM(Surg), FCCP
Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
Kostas Papagiannopoulos, MD, MMED THORAX, MD (CTh) (Thoracic Surgery)
Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK
Valerio Perna, MD, PhD
Thoracic Surgery Unit, Hospital Universitario Son Espases Palma, Spain
Francesco Petrella, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy
Eugenio Pompeo, MD
Head, Thoracic Surgery Clinical Program, Policlinico Tor Vergata University; Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy
Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, MD, FECTS
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain
Gaetano Rocco, MD, FRCS (Ed), FETCS, FCCP
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy
Marco Scarci, MD, FRCS(Eng), FCCP
Department of Thoracic Surgery, University College of London Hospitals, London, UK
Joseph B. Shrager, MD
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Chief of Division of Thoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California,USA
Yoshihisa Shimada, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, 6-7-1, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Brendon M. Stiles, M.D.
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065,USA
Scott J. Swanson, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital/ Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts, USA
Alper Toker, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul Medical School, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
Gavin M Wright, MBBS (Melb), FRACS, PhD
Division of Cancer Surgery, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre and Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Sai Yendamuri, MD, FACS, FCCP
Professor and Chair, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Director, Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratory, Co-leader, Lung Disease Site Research Group, Physician Leader, Thoracic Oncology Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA
Section Editors
Hu Liao, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Wei Guo, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruijin Hospital Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine. Shanghai, China
Federico Raveglia, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, ASST - Santi Paolo e Carlo, University of Milan Medical School, Milan, Italy
Xue-Feng Leng
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Chengwu Liu, MD,PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Lin Ma
The Thoracic Surgeon, Attending Doctor, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, China
Qiang Pu, MD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Managing Editors
Eunice X. Xu
Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery, AME Publishing Company
Grace S. Li
Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery, AME Publishing Company
Chao-Xiu (Melanie) He
Editorial Office, Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery, AME Publishing Company
Jiandong Mei, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Science Editors
Celine G. Lin
Editorial Office, Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery, AME Publishing Company
