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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 

 

Emeritus Editors

G. Alexander Patterson, MD, Editor 2015-2021
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

Adult Cardiac

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

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

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

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

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

Biostatistics

Mario F.L. Gaudino, MD
Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
*coronary artery bypass surgery; adult cardiac surgery; epidemiology

CME

CME

Colleen G. Koch, MD, MS
NewYork-Presbyterian, New York, NY
*anesthesiology; biostatistics, clinical study design; transesophageal echocardiography

Digital Media and Digital Scholarship

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

Education

Mara B. Antonoff, MD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
*thoracic surgery; lung cancer; minimally invasive surgery

Perioperative

Perioperative

Daniel Engelman, MD
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School-Baystate, Springfield, MA
*perioperative care; adult cardiac surgery; acute kidney injury prevention

Public Policy

Public Policy

Keith A. Horvath, MD
Association of American of Medical Colleges, Washington, DC
*health policy; clinical quality measures; value-based care

Quality

Quality

Michael E. Bowdish, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*thoracic aortic disease; coronary artery disease; outcomes research, clinical trials

Science

Science

Elaine Tseng, MD
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*aortic disease; valvular heart disease; coronary artery disease

Associate Editors

Adult Cardiac

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

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

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 

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

Asishana A. Osho, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
*adult cardiac surgery; epidemiology; thoracic transplantation

Fei Wan, MS, PhD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
*methodology; health services research; observational studies

CME

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 

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

Ethics

Robert M. Sade, MD
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*medical ethics; professionalism; history of medicine

Global Health

Global Health

Jacques Kpodonu, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
*structural heart, aortic disease; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Illustrator

Illustrator

Sarah A. Chen, MD, CMI
University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA
*3D printing for surgical planning, simulation; surgical illustration

Surgical Heritage

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

Vinay Badhwar, MD

West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
*valvular heart disease; robotic, minimally invasive surgery; transcatheter aortic, mitral, tricuspid valve

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

Pirooz Eghtesady, MD, PhD

Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
*congenital heart surgery; congenital heart disease; heart, lung transplantation

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

Peter B. Licht, MD, PhD

Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark
*video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery; robotic lobectomy; chest wall

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

All members of the Editorial Board have identified their affiliated institutions or organizations, along with the corresponding country or geographic region.

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John C. Kerpan, MA

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Andrea L. Musolf, MBA, MSMOB

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Mary K. Jedlicka

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Valerie M. Kunkel

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Gita Bhattacharji
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