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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 2015-2020
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

Adult Cardiac

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

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

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

Li-Zhong Sun, MD
Beijing Anzhen Hospital Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
*aortic valve replacement, repair; endovascular repair; mitral valve repair

Vinod Thourani, MD
Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, GA
*transcatheter valve surgery; mitral valve repair; device innovation in valve surgery

Congenital Heart

Congenital Heart

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

S. Adil Husain, MD
University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT
*congenital heart surgery; single ventricle palliation; pediatric valve disease, Ross procedure

Jeffrey P. Jacobs, MD
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
*congenital heart surgery; pediatric heart surgery; databases and outcomes

Meena Nathan, MD, MPH
Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
*congenital heart disease; neonatal heart surgery; adults with congenital heart disease

David M. Overman, MD
Children’s Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*complex neonatal heart surgery; surgery for atrioventricular septal defect; Ross procedure

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

Jun Nakajima, MD, PhD
Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan
*thoracic surgery; lung transplantation; thymoma, thymic cancer

Valerie W. Rusch, MD
Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
*molecular biology of lung cancer; clinical trials; esophageal cancer

Biostatistics

Biostatistics

Derrick Y. Tam, MD, PhD 
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 
*robotic cardiac surgery; mitral valve repair; health economics/economic evaluation 

CME

CME

Nicholas G. Smedira, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
*heart failure; aortic valve disease; minimally invasive surgery

Digital Media and Digital Scholarship

Digital Media and Digital Scholarship

Robbin G. Cohen, MD, MMM 
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 
*thoracic aortic surgery; coronary artery surgery; surgical education 

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

Laura DiChiacchio, MD, PhD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*heart transplantation; lung transplantation; mechanical circulatory support

Isaac George, MD
NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
*valvular heart disease; transcatheter valve procedures; adult valvular surgery

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

Danny Ramzy, MD, PhD
McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, Houston, TX
*mitral valve repair; robotic/minimally invasive cardiac surgery; structural heart disease

Scott C. Silvestry, MD
AdventHealth, Orlando, FL
*mechanical circulatory support; heart transplantation; public policy

Congenital Heart

Congenital Heart

Constantine D. Mavroudis, MD, MSc
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
*congenital heart surgery; neuroprotection; translational research

Jacob R. Miller, MD
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
*vascular rings; heart transplantation in pediatric patients with congenital heart disease; valve transplants 

Ram Kumar Subramanyan, MD
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
*congenital heart surgery; neonatal cardiac surgery; basic science research

Rachel Vanderlaan, MD
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
*pediatric cardiac surgery; congenital heart disease; adult congenital heart surgery 

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

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

Philicia Moonsamy, MD, MPH
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
*tracheal resection and reconstruction; thoracic oncology; minimally invasive thoracic surgery 

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

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

Aaron J. Weiss, MD 
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 
*transplantation, heart failure; coronary artery bypass grafting; mechanical circulatory support

CME

CME

Jessica S. Donington, MD
The University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
*non-small cell lung cancer; multimodality therapy

Stephanie M. Fuller, MD
John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
*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

Tarek Malas, MDCM, MPH
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
*robotic surgery; mitral valve surgery; minimally invasive cardiac surgery

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

Ethics

Ethics

Richard I. Whyte, MD 
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 
*lung cancer; mediastinal diseases; practice management, health policy, and ethics 

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

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

Daniel Burns, MD, MPhil

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 
*mitral valve repair; robotic and minimally invasive cardiac surgery; epidemiology and biostatistics 

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

Joseph Brian Clark, MD

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 
*pediatric mechanical circulatory support and cardiopulmonary bypass; infant cardiac 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

Chadrick E. Denlinger, MD

Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
*esophageal cancer; lung cancer; lung transplantation

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

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

Shu-Geng Gao, MD

Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
*lung cancer; thoracic oncology; video-assisted thoracoscopic 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

Duke University, Durham, NC
*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

Danielle Gottlieb-Sen, MD

Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN
*congenital heart disease; neonatal heart surgery; pediatric devices

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

Robert B. Hawkins, MD, MSc

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 
*heart failure/transplant; coronary revascularization; minimally invasive cardiac surgery 

J.W. Awori Hayanga, MD, MPH

West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
*lung failure; airway; extracorporeal support

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

Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 
*minimally invasive valve surgery; transcatheter valve surgery; complex valve surgery

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

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

Scott A. LeMaire, MD

Geisinger, Danville, PA
*aortic surgery; aortic aneurysm; aortic dissection

Kyle G. Mitchell, MD, MSc

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 
*non-small cell lung cancer; esophageal cancer; mediastinal disease 

Lunxu Liu, MD

West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
*lung cancer surgery; video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Wei-Guo Ma, MD

Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
*aortic surgery; adult cardiac surgery; congenital heart surgery

Thomas E. MacGillivray, MD

MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC
*adult cardiac surgery; thoracic aortic disease

J. Hunter Mehaffey, MD, MSc

West Virginia University Health Sciences Center, Morgantown, WV
*adult cardiac surgery; comparative effectiveness research

David L.S. Morales, MD

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
*congenital heart disease; heterotaxy syndrome; mechanical circulatory support

Jason L. Muesse, MD

University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR 
*lung cancer surgery; esophageal cancer surgery; esophageal perforation management

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

Kalpaj R. Parekh, MD

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
*lung transplantation; thoracic oncology; benign esophageal diseases

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

Scott I. Reznik, MD

UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
*thoracic malignancies; minimally invasive thoracic surgery; thoracic surgical education 

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

Elliot Servais, MD

Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA
*lung cancer; esophageal cancer; robotic and digital surgery

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

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

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

Luis F. Tapias, MD

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*lung cancer; esophageal cancer; robotic thoracic surgery

Betty C. Tong, MD, MHS

Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
*lung cancer surgery; chest wall; minimally invasive thoracic surgery

Robert Van Haren, MD, MPH

University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
*thoracic oncology; health services research; lung cancer

Jeffrey B. Velotta, MD

Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, Oakland, CA
*lung cancer; minimally invasive esophagectomy; mesothelioma

Kerem M. Vural, MD

Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
*adult cardiac surgery; education, surgical training; vascular surgery

Benny Weksler, MD

Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
*lung cancer; esophageal cancer; robotic surgery

Andrea Wolf, MD, MPH

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
*plural mesothelioma; video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery; lung cancer

Stephanie Worrell, MD

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
*esophageal cancer; minimally invasive thoracic surgery; benign foregut disease

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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