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Editor-in-Chief
Joanna Chikwe, MD, FRCS
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*mitral valve repair; coronary revascularization; minimally invasive cardiac surgery
G. Alexander Patterson, MD, Editor 2015-2020
L. Henry Edmunds, Jr, MD, Editor 2000-2015
Thomas B. Ferguson†, MD, Editor 1984-2000
Herbert Sloan†, MD, Editor 1969-1984
John D. Steele†, MD, Editor 1964-1969
†Deceased
Senior Editors
Adult Cardiac
Vinay Badhwar, MD
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
*valvular heart disease; robotic, minimally invasive surgery; transcatheter aortic, mitral, tricuspid valve
Pedro Catarino, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*myocardial gene expression; mechanical circulatory support; heart, lung transplantation
Tirone E. David, MD
Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Canada
*valvular heart disease; thoracic aortic disease; myocardial infarction
G. Chad Hughes, MD
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*aortic dissection; thoracic endovascular aortic repair; transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Nahush A. Mokadam, MD
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
*coronary artery bypass surgery; valvular heart disease; thoracic transplantation
Asishana A. Osho, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*adult cardiac surgery; epidemiology; thoracic transplantation
Sigrid Sandner, MD
Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
*coronary artery bypass surgery; mechanical circulatory support; epidemiology
Vinod Thourani, MD
Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, GA
*transcatheter valve surgery; mitral valve repair; device innovation in valve surgery
Congenital Heart
Yves d’Udekem, MD
Children’s National Heart Institute, Washington, DC
*pediatric vascular assist device, transplantation; pediatric valve diseases; single ventricle conditions, Fontan procedure
Pirooz Eghtesady, MD, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
*congenital heart surgery; congenital heart disease; heart, lung transplantation
Danielle Gottlieb-Sen, MD
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
*congenital heart disease; neonatal heart surgery; pediatric devices
Jeffrey P. Jacobs, MD
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*congenital heart surgery; pediatric heart surgery; databases and outcomes
David M. Overman, MD
Children’s Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*complex neonatal heart surgery; surgery for atrioventricular septal defect; Ross procedure
Jennifer C. Romano, MD
University of Michigan Congenital Heart Center, Ann Arbor, MI
*congenital heart surgery; neonatal heart surgery; pediatric cardiac intensive care
General Thoracic
Elizabeth A. David, MD, MAS
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus School of Medicine, Aurora, CO
*minimally invasive thoracic surgery; robotic thoracic surgery; risk, survival analysis
Farhood Farjah, MD
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
*thoracic oncology; lung cancer
Benjamin D. Kozower, MD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
*lung cancer; esophageal cancer; health service research
Brian Mitzman, MD
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
*lung cancer; thoracic oncology; robotic surgery
Erino A. Rendina, MD
University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
*tracheal surgery; bronchovascular reconstruction; lung cancer
Valerie W. Rusch, MD
Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
*molecular biology of lung cancer; clinical trials; esophageal cancer
Biostatistics
Mario F.L. Gaudino, MD
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
*coronary artery bypass surgery; adult cardiac surgery; epidemiology
CME
Colleen G. Koch, MD, MS
NewYork-Presbyterian, New York, NY
*anesthesiology; biostatistics, clinical study design; transesophageal echocardiography
Digital Media and Digital Scholarship
Amy G. Fiedler, MD
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*mechanical circulatory support; heart, lung transplantation; heart failure
Education
Mara B. Antonoff, MD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
*thoracic surgery; lung cancer; minimally invasive surgery
Perioperative
Daniel Engelman, MD
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School-Baystate, Springfield, MA
*perioperative care; adult cardiac surgery; acute kidney injury prevention
Public Policy
Keith A. Horvath, MD
Association of American of Medical Colleges, Washington, DC
*health policy; clinical quality measures; value-based care
Quality
Michael E. Bowdish, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*thoracic aortic disease; coronary artery disease; outcomes research, clinical trials
Science
Elaine Tseng, MD
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*aortic disease; valvular heart disease; coronary artery disease
Associate Editors
Adult Cardiac
Vincent Chan, MD, MPH
University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada
*coronary artery bypass grafting; mitral valve repair; heart transplantation
Isaac George, MD
NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
*valvular heart disease; transcatheter valve procedures; adult valvular surgery
John Ikonomidis, MD
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
*aortic surgery; transcatheter valve procedures; heart transplantation, mechanical circulatory support
Marjan Jahangiri, MD
St. George’s Hospital and Medical School, London, United Kingdom
*aortic valve, aortic surgery; coronary artery disease; minimally invasive surgery
Ourania Preventza, MD
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
*aortic, valvular heart disease; new technology; education
Scott C. Silvestry, MD
AdventHealth, Orlando, FL
*mechanical circulatory support; heart transplantation; public policy
Bobby Yanagawa, MD, PhD
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada
*surgical revascularization; valvular surgery; basic science
Congenital Heart
S. Adil Husain, MD
University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT
*congenital heart surgery; single ventricle palliation; pediatric valve disease, Ross procedure
Damien J. LaPar, MD, MSc
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
*pediatric, congenital heart surgery; neonatal heart surgery; clinical trials
Meena Nathan, MD, MPH
Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
*congenital heart disease; neonatal heart surgery; adults with congenital heart disease
General Thoracic
Ian Christopher Bostock, MD, MS
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*lung cancer; esophageal cancer; minimally invasive thoracic surgery
Andrew R. Brownlee, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*lung cancer; innovation in lung surgery; minimally invasive lung surgery
Kathryn E. Engelhardt, MD, MS
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*lung cancer; esophageal cancer; health services research
Shawn S. Groth, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*thoracic surgical oncology; robotic surgery; health services research
Virginia R. Litle, MD
Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
*lung cancer surgery; esophageal cancer; global health
Biostatistics
Natalia N. Egorova, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
*propensity matching; regression analysis; risk, survival analysis
Stephen Fremes, MD
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
*aortic, valve replacement; coronary artery bypass grafting; myocardial protection
Andrew B. Goldstone, MD, PhD
NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, New York, NY
*congenital heart surgery; congenital heart disease; mitral valve repair
Gary Grunkemeier, PhD
Oregon Health & Science University, Banks, OR
*epidemiology; long-term surgical results
Alexander Iribarne, MD
Northwell Health, New York, NY
*valvular heart disease; aortic surgery; coronary revascularization
Paul Kurlansky, MD
Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY
*coronary artery disease; structural heart, aortic disease; mechanical circulatory support
Esther Lu, MS, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
*implementation science; computational, financial mathematics
CME
Jessica S. Donington, MD
The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
*non-small cell lung cancer; multimodality therapy
Stephanie M. Fuller, MD
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
*congenital heart surgery; single ventricle palliation; adult congenital heart surgery
Nadia Hensley, MD
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*anesthesiology; blood management; coagulation management
Gabriel Loor, MD
Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, Houston, TX
*heart, lung transplantation; aortic surgery; complex valve, coronary disease
Digital Media and Digital Scholarship
Alexander A. Brescia, MD, MSc
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
*aortic dissection; aortic, mitral valve; opioid prescribing and use
Aleksander Dokollari, MD
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada
*aortic surgery, Ross procedure; transcatheter aortic, mitral, tricuspid valve; minimally invasive, robotic surgery
Joshua C. Grimm, MD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*aortic valve disease; endocarditis; transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Jason Han, MD
Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
*coronary revascularization; surgical education
Jessica G.Y. Luc, MD
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
*adult cardiac surgery; education; quality improvement
Amy N. Roach, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*heart transplantation; mitral valve disease
Dominique Vervoort, MD, MPH
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
*global health, global cardiac surgery; health economics; health policy, health services research
Moritz Wyler von Ballmoos, MD
Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
*structural heart disease; minimally invasive surgery, transcatheter therapies; quality improvement
M. Mujeeb Zubair, MD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*congenital heart surgery; neonatal heart surgery; adult congenital heart disease
Ethics
Robert M. Sade, MD
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*medical ethics; professionalism; history of medicine
Fellowship
Hiba Ghandour, MD
Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC
*mitral valve repair; mechanical circulatory support; aortic surgery
Global Health
Jacques Kpodonu, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
*structural heart, aortic disease; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Illustrator
Sarah A. Chen, MD, CMI
University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA
*3D printing for surgical planning, simulation; surgical illustration
Surgical Heritage
Keith S. Naunheim, MD
St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO
*minimally invasive thoracic surgery; esophageal surgery; political advocacy
Editorial Board Members
Jake H. Abernathy III, MD, MPH
Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*cardiac anesthesiology; human factors engineering; transesophageal echocardiography
Enoch Akowuah, MD
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
*valvular heart disease; coronary artery disease; adult cardiac surgery
Bahaaldin Alsoufi, MD
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
*neonatal heart surgery; pediatric heart transplantation; pediatric valvular surgery
Jehangir J. Appoo, MDCM
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
*thoracic aortic disease; artificial intelligence; endovascular surgery
Arman Arghami, MD
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*coronary disease; aortic valve disease; mitral valve disease
Faisal G. Bakaeen, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
*coronary artery disease; aortic disease; valvular heart disease
Yaron D. Barac, MD, PhD
Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel
*thoracic transplantation, mechanical circulatory support; aortic disease; valvular heart disease
Alejandro Bribriesco, MD
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*thoracic oncology; robotic, minimally invasive surgery; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, extracorporeal life support
Marisa Cevasco, MD, MPH
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*heart transplantation; mechanical circulatory support; coronary artery disease
Ke-Neng Chen, MD, PhD
Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China
*thoracic surgical oncology; multimodality therapy; outcomes research
Danny Chu, MD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
*valvular heart disease; thoracic aortic disease; coronary artery disease
Michael Chu, MD, FRCSC
Western University, Ontario, Canada
*valvular heart disease; thoracic aortic disease; transcatheter, minimally invasive surgery
Traves D. Crabtree, MD
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL
*esophageal cancer; lung cancer
Todd Crawford, MD
The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
*valvular heart disease; thoracic aortic disease; coronary artery disease
Marcelo Cypel, MD
University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
*thoracic surgery; lung transplantation; extracorporeal life support
Chadrick E. Denlinger, MD
Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
*esophageal cancer; lung cancer; lung transplantation
Nimesh D. Desai, MD, PhD
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
*imaging research; aortic root surgery; endovascular surgery
J. Michael DiMaio, MD
Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital, Plano, TX
*thoracic surgery; cardiopulmonary transplantation; minimally invasive surgery
Dominic Emerson, MD, FACS
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*thoracic transplantation; valvular heart disease; adult cardiac surgery
Anthony L. Estrera, MD
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, Houston, TX
*aortic surgery; thoracic aortic surgery; acute kidney injury prevention
Felix G. Fernandez, MD
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*lung cancer; esophageal cancer
Victor A. Ferraris, MD
University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY
*adult cardiovascular, thoracic surgery; outcome and risk assessment; bleeding, blood conservation
Kirsten Finucane, MD
Starship Children’s Health, Auckland, New Zealand
*congenital heart surgery; congenital tracheal surgery; adult congenital heart surgery
James S. Gammie, MD
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
*cardiac transplantation; mitral valve surgery; atrial fibrillation surgery
Arnar Geirsson, MD
NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
*valvular heart disease; mitral valve disease; minimally invasive cardiac surgery
Tracy R. Geoffrion, MD, MPH
Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
*congenital heart surgery; healthcare delivery science; public health
A. Marc Gillinov, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
*mitral valve surgery; robotic surgery; ablation of atrial fibrillation
Kendra J. Grubb, MD, MHA
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*structural heart, valve disease; transcatheter valve procedures; outcomes research, clinical trials
Michael C. Grant, MD, MSE
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
*perioperative care; cardiac anesthesiology; systems engineering, patient safety/quality
Matthew G. Hartwig, MD
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*lung transplantation; esophageal cancer; robotic thoracic surgery
Makoto Hibino, MD
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*robotic surgery; aortic, endovascular surgery; epidemiology
Tain-Yen Hsia, MD
Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando, FL
*congenital heart surgery; computational modeling; bioengineering
Dawn S. Hui, MD
The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
*aortic surgery; coronary artery bypass surgery; valvular heart disease
Syed T. Hussain, MD
NYU Langone Health, New York, NY
*heart transplantation; infective endocarditis
Tara Karamlou, MD
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*congenital heart disease; single ventricle palliation; biostatistics
Masashi Kawabori, MD
Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA
*heart, lung transplantation; mechanical circulatory support; aortic surgery
Armin Kiankhooy, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*arrhythmia surgery; minimally invasive cardiac surgery
Anthony W. Kim, MD, FACS
Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA
*esophageal injury; lung cancer; neoadjuvant induction therapy
Peter Kneuertz, MD
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
*thoracic surgical oncology; robotic surgery, bronchoscopy; outcomes research
Michael Lanuti, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*lung cancer; esophageal cancer; thermal ablation of lung tumors
Eric J. Lehr, MD, PhD
Swedish Heart & Vascular Institute, Seattle, WA
*coronary artery bypass grafting; mitral valve surgery; hybrid coronary revascularization
Scott A. LeMaire, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*aortic surgery; aortic aneurysm; aortic dissection
Lunxu Liu, MD
West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
*lung cancer surgery; video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
Thomas E. MacGillivray, MD
MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC
*adult cardiac surgery; thoracic aortic disease
Susan Moffatt-Bruce, MD, PhD
Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH
*outcomes, quality improvement; medical ethics; thoracic surgery
David L.S. Morales, MD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
*congenital heart disease; heterotaxy syndrome; mechanical circulatory support
Jun Nakajima, MD, PhD
Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
*thoracic surgery; lung transplantation; thymoma, thymic cancer
Jennifer S. Nelson, MD, MS
Nemours Children’s Hospital, Orlando, FL
*pediatric and adult congenital heart surgery; tetralogy of Fallot; single ventricle palliation
Olugbenga T. Okusanya, MD
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
*thoracic oncology; robotic surgery; intraoperative molecular imaging
David Ouyang, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*cardiology; artificial intelligence; echocardiography
Kalpaj R. Parekh, MD
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
*lung transplantation; thoracic oncology; benign esophageal diseases
Puja Parikh, MD
Stony Brook Medicine, Stony Brook, NY
*transcatheter valve therapies; coronary artery revascularization; thoracic aortic disease
Gregory Pattakos, MD, MS
Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
*valvular heart disease; coronary artery bypass grafting; thoracic aortic disease
Keshava Rajagopal, MD
Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
*thoracic transplantation, mechanical circulatory support; valvular heart disease; ventricular, valvular mechanics
T. Brett Reece, MD
University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
*thoracic aortic surgery; aortic endografting; aortic dissection
Heidi J. Reich, MD
Community Regional Medical Center, Fresno, CA
*aortic disease; transcatheter valve procedures; coronary artery disease
Mark D. Rodefeld, MD
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
*single ventricle physiology; neonatal heart surgery; mechanical circulatory support
Evelio Rodriguez, MD
Saint Thomas Heart, Nashville, TN
*robotic surgery; mitral valve surgery; aortic valve, transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Aya Saito, MD
Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
*coronary artery bypass surgery; valvular heart disease; national clinical database
Andrew J. Seely, MD, PhD
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
*minimally invasive surgery; critical care medicine; variability analysis
Ashish S. Shah, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
*thoracic transplantation; mechanical circulatory support
Fawwaz R. Shaw, MD
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*congenital cardiac surgery; heart transplantation; mechanical circulatory support
Christian Shults, MD
MedStar Heart & Vascular Institute, Washington, DC
*valvular disease cardiology; structural heart disease
Nicholas G. Smedira, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
*heart failure; aortic valve disease; minimally invasive surgery
Elizabeth H. Stephens, MD, PhD
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*vascular rings; single ventricle patients; myectomy
Ibrahim Sultan, MD, FACS
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
*aortic disease; aortic valve disease; structural heart therapies
Li-Zhong Sun, MD
Beijing Anzhen Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
*aortic valve replacement, repair; endovascular repair; mitral valve repair
Hiroo Takayama, MD
Columbia University, New York, NY
*aortic disease; heart failure
Johanna J.M. Takkenberg, MD, PhD
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
*valvular heart disease; prognostic modeling; clinical decision making
Betty C. Tong, MD, MHS
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*lung cancer surgery; chest wall; minimally invasive thoracic surgery
Rachel Vanderlaan, MD
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
*pediatric cardiac surgery; congenital heart disease; adult congenital heart surgery
Jeffrey B. Velotta, MD
Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, Oakland, CA
*lung cancer; minimally invasive esophagectomy; mesothelioma
Giulia Veronesi, MD
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy
*robotic surgery; lung cancer; mediastinal disease
Kerem M. Vural, MD
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
*adult cardiac surgery; education, surgical training; vascular surgery
Aaron J. Weiss, MD
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*transplantation, heart failure; coronary artery bypass grafting; mechanical circulatory support
Benny Weksler, MD
Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
*lung cancer; esophageal cancer; robotic surgery
Sai S. Yendamuri, MD
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY
*lung cancer; cancer immunology; cancer prevention
*Areas of expertise
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