Former Editorial Board

Usman Ahmad, MD, FACS

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute, Cleveland, USA

Yong Chan Ahn, MD, PhD

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

Marcello Carlo Ambrogi, MD, PhD

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

Hisao Asamura, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Giuseppe Banna, MD

Division of Medical Oncology, Cannizzaro Hospital, Catania, Italy

Angelo Carretta, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, San Raffaele HospitalVita Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

Monica Casiraghi, MD

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

Ugo Cioffi, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Fabio Davoli, MD, PhD

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

Jens Eckardt, MD

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

Francesco Facciolo, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy

Hasan Fevzi Batirel, MD, PhD

The Ministry of Health of Turkey – Marmara University Hospital, Thoracic Surgery Department, Istanbul, Turkey

Pier Luigi Filosso, MD

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

Seth D. Force, MD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

Stefano Gasparini, MD, FCCP

Pulmonary Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria "Ospedali Riuniti", Ancona, Italy

Maged Hassan, MD

Chest Diseases Department, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

Haruaki Hino, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Monique M. H. Hochstenbag, MD, PhD

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Raffaele Iorio, MD, PhD

Institute of Neurology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Michael T. Jaklitsch, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Wolfgang Jungraithmayr, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Brandenburg Medical School, Neuruppin, Germany

Chang Hyun Kang, MD

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

Ryu Kanzaki, MD, PhD

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

Jumpei Kashima, MD

Division of Pathology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Ayten Kayi Cangir, MD, FEBTS

Thoracic Surgery, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Kazuya Kondo, MD, PhD

Department of Oncological Medical Services, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan

Brandon T. Larsen, MD, PhD

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

Edward Y. Lee, MD, MPH

Division of Thoracic Imaging, Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Hecheng Li, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, China

Yangchun Liu, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Jiangxi Provincial People’s Hospital, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Marco Lucchi, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Sumiko Maeda, MD, PhD

Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Dokkyo Medical University, Tochigi, Japan

Jos G. Maessen, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands

Giulio Melloni, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Cuneo General Hospital, Cuneo, Italy

Paolo Mendogni, MD, PhD

Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant Unit, University Hospital “Foundation IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale maggiore Policlinico”, Milan, Italy

Corina Millo, MD

Positron Emission Tomography Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Takahiro Mimae, MD, PhD

General Thoracic Surgery/Surgical Oncology, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

Cesar A. Moran, MD

Department of Pathology, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Unit of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Development Therapeutics, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS Fondazione Pascale, Campania, Napoli, Italy; Coordinating Rare Tumors Reference Center of Campania Region, University Hospital Federico II, Naples, Italy

Yoshiyuki Ozawa, MD, PhD

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

Giovannella Palmieri, MD

Rare Tumors Reference Center, University Federico II, Naples, Italy

Till Ploenes, MD

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

Laura Alejandra Ramírez Tirado, MD, MSc

Thoracic Oncology Unit, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (INCan), Mexico City, Mexico

Doris Rassl, MD, MRCPath

Department of Pathology, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

Luisella Righi, MD, PhD

Department of Oncology, University of Turin at San Luigi Hospital, Orbassano, Turin, Italy

Eric D. Roessner, MD, PhD, FEBTS

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Interdisciplinary Academic Thoracic Center, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Noriaki Sakakura, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Fumihiro Shoji, MD, PhD

Clinical Research Institute, Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization, Kyushu Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan

Takehito Shukuya, MD, PhD

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

Masahiro Tsuboi, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Japan

Federico Venuta, MD

Department of Surgery “Paride Stefanini” - Thoracic Surgery Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, University of Rome SAPIENZA, Rome, Italy

Benny Weksler, MBA, MD, FACS

Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

Ory Wiesel, MD

Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Cardio-Vascular Institute, Baruch-Padeh Medical Center of the North, Poriya, Israel

Eric Y. Chuang, ScD

Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, NTU YongLin Biomedical Engineering Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei

Masahiro Yanagiya, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Zhentao Yu, MD, PhD

Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital & Shenzhen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Shenzhen, China

Peng Zhang, MD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China

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