Aleksandra Djuric-StefanovicFaculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; Department of Digestive Radiology (First Surgery University Clinic), Center of Radiology and MR, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

Adel AyedDepartment of Surgery, Health Sciences Center, Kuwait University, Kuwait

Adelino F. Leite-MoreiraDepartment of Physiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiovascular R&D Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Centro Hospitalar São João, Porto, Portugal

Adriano Massimiliano PriolaDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, San Luigi Gonzaga University Hospital, Regione Gonzole 10, 10043, Orbassano, Torino, Italy

Adrianus J. de LangenDepartment of Pulmonary Diseases, VU University Medical Center, P.O. Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Afroditi K. BoutouRespiratory Failure Unit, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; Intensive Care Unit, “G. Genimatas” Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

Agnes Sze-yin LeungDepartment of Pediatrics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Agnieszka TrzcinkaDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Ahmad KantarPediatric Asthma and Cough Centre, Istituti Ospedalieri Bergamaschi, University and Research Hospitals, via Forlanini 15, Ponte San Pietro-Bergamo, 24036, Bergamo, Italy

Ahmad ZeeshanDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Ahmed Abd ElBasset Abo-ElezzPediatric Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Gharbia Governorate, Tanta, Egypt

Ahmed H. Al-SalemDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, Maternity and Children Hospital, Qatif, P. O. Box 61015, Dammam, 31911, Saudi Arabia

Aimin WuThe 2nd Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital of WMU/ The 2nd School of Medicine, WMU, Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, China

Akihiko IkedaDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Akihiko IkedaDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Akiko YokoiDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, Kobe Children’s Hospital, Kobe, Japan

Akira YamasakiDivision of Medical Oncology and Molecular Respirology, Department of Multidisciplinary Internal Medicine, school of Medicine, Tottori University Faculty of Medicine, Yonago 683-8504, Japan

Aktas AykutFaculty of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey

Alain BernardDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Bocage Central, 14 rue Gaffarel BP 77908, 21079 Dijon Cedex, France

JTD is very grateful to everyone who reviewed for the journal.

Alberto AiolfiDivision of General Surgery, Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, University of Milan, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy

Alberto M. IslaNorthwick Park and St Mark’s Hospitals, London, UK

Alberto RebonatoRadiology Unit, Department of Surgical and Biomedical Science, Santa Maria della Misericordia University Hospital, Perugia University, Sant’Andrea delle Fratte, 06132, Perugia, Italy

Alberto SandriDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 9DU, UK

Alessandra BonottiPreventive and Occupational Medicine, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Alessandro BaisiThoracic Surgery Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera San Paolo, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Alessandro BertaniThoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies (ISMETT), Palermo, Italy

Alessandro GonfiottiThoracic Surgery Unit, University Hospital Careggi, Largo Brambilla, 1, 50134, Florence, Italy

Alex CheeDivision of Respirology, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Alex FourdrainDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Amiens University Hospital, Jules Verne University of Picardy, F-80054 Amiens, France

Alex MolassiotisSchool of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Alexandar TzankovInstitute of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Alexandre de OliveiraChief of Thoracic Surgery, Police Veterans Cruz Azul Hospital, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Thoracic Surgery Department, Albert Einstein Israeli Hospital, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Alexandros BriasoulisDivision of Cardiovascular Disease, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA

Alfons NavarroMolecular Oncology and Embryology Laboratory, Human Anatomy Unit, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain

Alfonso FiorelliThoracic Surgery Unit, Universita’ della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy

Alfredo D. GuerronDepartment of Surgery, Division of Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery, Duke University Health System, Durham, NC, USA

Ali I. SaeedDepartment of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA; Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Alicja SieminskaDepartment of Allergology and Pneumonology, Medical University of Gdansk, Debinki Str 7, Gdansk 80-211, Poland

Alireza Abdi Department of Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery School, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Amanda PiperDepartment of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Camperdown, and Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Amanjit BalDepartment of Histopathology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Sector-12, Chandigarh, India

Amit BardiaDepartment of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Anand ShahHost Defence Unit, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK

Anders JeppssonDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Andras BikovDepartment of Pulmonology, Semmelweis University, Dios arok 1/C, Budapest, H-1125, Hungary

Andrea CortegianiDepartment of Biopathology and Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Anesthesia Analgesia Intensive Care and Emergency, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Andrea MazzaCardiac Surgery Institute, Catholic University–A. Gemelli Hospital, Rome, Italy

Andrea VitiThoracic Surery, Unit Sacro Cuore Don Calabria, Negrar, Italy

Andrea ZuinDepartment of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Andreas GoetzenichClinic for Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Clinic RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Andreas Gunter BachDepartment of Radiology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Ernst-Grube-Str. 40, 06120 Halle, Germany

Andreas KellerUniv Saarland, Chair Clin Bioinformat, Saarbrucken, Germany

Andreas KirschbaumDepartment of Surgery, University Hospital, Baldingerstrasse, Marburg 35033, Germany

Andreas LeithnerPatrick Sadoghi, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Medical University of Graz, 8036 Graz, Austria

Andrés Felipe CardonaClinical and Translational Oncology Group, Thoracic Oncology Unit, Institute of Oncology, Clínica del Country, Bogotá, Colombia; Foundation for Clinical and Applied Cancer Research (FICMAC), Bogotá, Colombia

Andrew C. ChangUniversity of Michigan Medical School, 1301 Catherine, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA; Section of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, Taubman Center, 2120, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

Andrew J.E. SeelyFaculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Angela C. TramontanoInstitute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Angela De PalmaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Angelo CarrettaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy

Ankit BharatDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Anna CaliòDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; Department of Pathology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Anna-Lena VolckmarInstitute of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 224, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Anne V GonzalezRespiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Montreal Chest Institute, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Annie MalkusDepartments of Medical Physics, Radiology, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Anthony L. PanosDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Fla, USA

Anton CrnjacDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Centre Maribor, Ljubljanska 5, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia

Antonello NicoliniDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Schaffner Hospital, lens; Intensive Care Unit Hospital Morales Meseguer, Murcia; Internal Medicine Department, via Terzi 43, Sestri Levante, Italy

Antoni XaubetServei de Pneumologia, Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona Centro de Investigaciones Médicas en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES) , Villarroel 170, Barcelona 08036 , Spain

Antonino M. GrandeDivisione Cardiochirurgia, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo - Università degli Studi di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy

Antonio AlvarezThoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation Unit, University Hospital Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain; Group for the Study of Thoracic Neoplasms and Lung Transplantation, IMIBIC (Instituto Maimónides de Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba), University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

Antonio ArcadipaneDepartment of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS-ISMETT, Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad alta specializzazione, Palermo, Italy

Antonio Francisco Honguero MartínezCirugía Torácica, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Albacete, Albacete, Spain

Antonio LoforteDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantation, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna University, Via Massarenti n.9, Bologna 40138, Italy

Antonio ManentiDepartment of Surgery, University of Modena, Policlinic Hospital, v.Pozzo, 41124 Modena, Italy

Antonio Martin-UcarDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK

Antonio MessineoDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, A. Meyer Children’s University Hospital, University of Florence, Florence 50100, Italy

Antonio MolinoFirst Division of Pneumology, High Speciality Hospital “V. Monaldi” and University “Federico II” Medical School, Naples, Italy

Antonio RossiDivision of Medical Oncology, S G Moscati Hospital, Avellino 83100, Italy

Apar K. GantiDivision of Oncology-Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-7680, USA

Aref RashedDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Zala County Hospital, University of Pécs, Zalaegerszeg, Hungary

Ari MennanderDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center Co., Tampere University Hospital, University of Tampere, SDSKIR, Tampere, Finland

Ariel M. Modrykamien Respiratory Care Services, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, 3600 Gaston Avenue, Suite 960, Dallas, TX 75246, USA

Arjun ChatterjeeDepartment of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA

Arjun KhannaMetro Center for Respiratory Diseases, Metro Multispeciality Hospital, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Asmita A MehtaDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Ponekkara, Kochi - 682 041, Kerala, India

Assane NdiayeClinic of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Fann University Hospital Center, Dakar, Sénégal

Atsushi IwaiAureo Science Co., Ltd., Hokudai Business Spring, North 21, West 12, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 001-0021, Japan

Atsushi MiyamotoDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Respiratory Center, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Atsushi SanoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Chigasaki Municipal Hospital, Honson 5-15-1, Chigasaki, Kanagawa, 253-0042, Japan

Awadhesh Kumar SinghDepartment of Endocrinology, G.D Hospital & Diabetes Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Ayako MatsudaDepartment of Hygiene and Public Health, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Bahaaldin AlsoufiDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Bahig M. ShehataDepartment of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA

Bart De GeestCentre for Molecular and Vascular Biology, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Catholic University of Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Bart MaesenDepartment of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Bart ReymenDepartment of Radiation Oncology (MAASTRO clinic), GROW - School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Bartosz Hudzik3rd Department of Cardiology, Silesian Centre for Heart Disease, SMDZ in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Beata MorawiecDepartment of Cardiology, School of Medicine with the Division of Dentistry, Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

Bedrettin YildizeliDepartment of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery and Heart-Lung Transplantation, Hôpital Marie-Lannelongue, Paris-Sud University, Le Plessis Robinson, France

Ben DunneWestern Australian Cardiothoracic Research and Audit Group, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Perth, WA, Australia

Benedetta BedettiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Malteser Hospital, Bonn, Germany

Benjamin WeiDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center, Birmingham, AL, USA

Benny WekslerDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Benoit Jacques BibasDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Berhane WorkuDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, New York, NY; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

Bernhard MoserChristian Doppler Laboratory for Cardiac and Thoracic Diagnosis and Regeneration, Medical University, Vienna, Austria; Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University, Vienna, Austria

Bernward PasslickDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Medical Center–University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Freiburg, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany

Bing Yen WangDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan

Biniam KidaneSection of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Max Rady College of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Bob T. Li Thoracic Oncology Service, Division of Solid Tumor Oncology, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

Bobby YanagawaDivision of Cardiac Surgery, Terrence Donnelly Heart Center, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bodil M. K. LarsenNutrition Service, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Bojan ZaricInstitute for Pulmonary Diseases of Vojvodina, Clinic for Thoracic Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Borislav A. AlexievDepartment of Pathology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 251 East Huron St, Feinberg, Chicago, IL 60611, USA

Brendon M. StilesDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

Britt NakstadThe Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, 1478 Lørenskog, Oslo, Norway; Institute of Clinical Medicine, Campus Akershus University Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Bruce RubinThe Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University, 1000 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23298, USA

Bruno NeunerCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow Klinikum and Campus Charité Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Bulat A. ZiganshinAortic Institute at Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Surgical Diseases # 2, Kazan State Medical University, Kazan, Russia

Carlo BanfiDivision of Cardiovascular Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Geneva Hemodynamic Research Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Carlo ContiniDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Ferrara, Italy

Carlos CampsMolecular Oncology Laboratory, General University Hospital Research Foundation, University General Hospital of Valencia, Valencia, Spain; Department of Medicine, Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain; Department of Medical Oncology, University General Hospital of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Carmen S. V. BarbasAdult ICU, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Avenida Albert Einstein, 627, 5 andar, São Paulo, SP, CEP:05652-900, Brazil.;Respiratory ICU, University of São Paulo Medical School, Avenida Dr Eneas de Carvalho Aguiar, 255, 6 andar, São Paulo, CEP: 05403-000, Brazi

Carolina VitaleDepartment of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, Section of Respiratory Diseases, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

Carolyn Peddle-McIntyreExercise Medicine Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, 6027, Australia.

Chae-Man LimDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Songpa-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Chaicharn PothiratDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Allergy, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand

Chang Dong YeoDivision of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine, 65-1, Geumodong, Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi 480-821, South Korea

Chang-Hoon LeeDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine Seoul, Republic of Korea

Chao-Chi HoDepartment of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, 7 Chung Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan

Chao-Yu LiuDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chen ChenDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha,China

Cheng ZhanDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Cheng-Chuan SuSchool of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan; Department of Clinical Pathology, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, 2, Minsheng Road, Dalin Town, Chiayi County, 622, Taiwan; Department of Anatomic Pathology, Buddhist Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Chiayi County, Taiwan

Che-Wei WuFaculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University HospitalKaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chia-Hsun LinDivision of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chiara LazzeriIntensive Cardiac Coronary Unit, Heart and Vessel Department, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy

Chiara LestuzziCardiology, IRCCS National Cancer Institute (CRO), Aviano (PN), Italy

Chiara RobbaNeurocritical Care Unit, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK

Chien-Sheng HuangDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Surgery, Taiwan

Chien-Sung TsaiDivision of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Centre, Taipei, Taiwan; Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taoyuan Armed Forces General Hospital, National Defense Medical Centre, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chien-Ying LiuDepartment of Thoracic Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chih-Cheng HsiehDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Clinical Medicine and Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chih-Hao LinDepartment of Emergency Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Chin A YiDepartment of Radiology and Center for Imaging Science, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, 135-710, Korea

Ching Feng WuChang Gung University, Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan

Choon Sik ParkDepartment of Interdisciplinary Program in Biomedical Science Major, Soonchunhyang Graduate School, Bucheon, Korea; Division of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Soonchunhyang, University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, Korea

Chris HensmanLapSurgery Australia, Melbourne, Australia

Christian BodeDepartment of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Christian DullinInstitute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Goettingen, Robert Koch Strasse 40, Goettingen, Lower Saxony 37075, Germany

Christina R. BellingerDepartment of Pulmonary/Critical Care, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Medical Center Blvd, Winston Salem, NC, 27157, USA

Christoph BeisswengerDepartment of Internal Medicine V-Pulmonology, Allergology, and Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, Saarland University Hospital, Homburg, Germany

Christopher A. FrenchDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, oston, Massachusetts, USA

Christopher R. GilbertDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine-Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

Christophoros N. ForoulisAristotle University Medical School, AHEPA University Hospital, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Thessaloniki, Greece

Christos ChouaïdService de pneumologie, CHI Créteil, 40 avenue de verdun, 94010 Créteil, France

Chuen-Chau ChangDepartment of Anesthesiology, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Health Policy Research Center, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wuxing St., Taipei, 11031, Taiwan

Chunhui HanDepartment of Radiation Oncology, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA

Chun-Ru ChienDepartment of Radiation Oncology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Clare D. RamseySection of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, RS 314, 810 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3A 1R8, Canada

Clement FournierService d’Endoscopie Respiratoire, CHU Lille, Lille, France

Colin J. McMahonDepartment of Paediatric Cardiology, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, Dublin 12, Ireland

Conroy WongDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Middlemore Hospital, Counties Manukau District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand

Cristina AurigemmaIstituto di Cardiologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy

Dae Joon KimDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, 120-752, South Korea

Daichi FujimotoDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, 2 Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 650-0047, Japan

Daijiro HoriDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fujigaoka Hospital, Showa University, Kanagawa, Japan

Daisuke MinamiDepartment of Hematology, Oncology, and Respiratory Medicine, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan

Damian KaweckiSecond Department of Cardiology, Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

Dan J. RazDivision of Thoracic Surgery, City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA

Dania NachiraDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Catholic University, Rome, Italy

Daniel E. BanksStaff physician, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Orlando, Florida, USA

Daniel E. BanksDepartment of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the health Sciences, and Department of Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Tex, USA

Daniel FranzenDepartment of Pulmonology, University Hospital and University of Zurich, Raemistrasse 100, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland

Daniel GrandmouginDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery and Heart Transplantations, ILCV CHU-Nancy, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

Daniel J. BoffaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, BB205, New Haven, CT 06520-8062, USA

Daniel R PerezDepartment of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany

Daniela NegriniDepartment of Surgical and Morphological Sciences, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Daniele PironiDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Danny RamzyDivision of Cardiac Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Blvd, A3105, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Darryl HoffmanArnot Ogden Medical Center - Cardiothoracic Surgery, Chief of Surgical Specialties, 600 Roe Ave., Elmira, N.Y., USA

Dave SinghDivision of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Medicines Evaluation Unit, University Hospital of South Manchester Foundation Trust, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

David A. DorwardDepartment of Pathology, Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SA, UK

David BaldwinNottingham University Hospitals and University of Nottingham, Respiratory Medicine Unit, David Evans Centre, Nottingham City Hospital Campus, NG5 1PB, UK

David BennettRespiratory Diseases and Lung Transplantation Unit, AOUS - Department of Medical, Surgical and Neurological Sciences, University of Siena, Italy

David J. MaronDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

David L.S. MoralesCardiothoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

David M. PariserInternational Hyperhidrosis Society, Quakertown, PA 18951, USA; Department of Dermatology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, 601 Medical Tower, Norfolk, VA 23507, USA

David O WilsonDivision of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

David SanchezDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Davide ChiumelloDipartimento di Anestesia, Rianimazione (Intensiva e Subintensiva) e Terapia del Dolore, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via F. Sforza 35, Milan, Italy

Davor StamenovicDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, St Vincentius Kliniken, Karlsruhe, Germany

Dawn S. HuiCenter for Comprehensive Cardiovascular Care, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA

Delia ReinaDepartment of Rheumatology, Hospital de Sant Joan Despí Moisès Broggi, Barcelona, Spain

Denise Duprat NevesFederal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Denise Rossato SilvaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Deog Gon ChoDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, St. Vincent’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Suwon, Republic of Korea

Deok Heon LeeDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyungpook National University Hospital, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, 130 Dongdeok-ro, Jung-gu, Daegu 700-721, Republic of Korea

Desheng SunDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical College, Zunyi, Guizhou province, China

Diamantis ChlorosPulmonary Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Diana L. DiesenDepartment of Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390-9092, USA

Dimitrios N. TziakasUniversity Cardiology Department, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Dragana, GR-68131, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Dimos KarangelisDepartment of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Dinesh MehtaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Ambala, Haryana, India

Dirk Van RaemdonckDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

Domenico GalettaDivision of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Dominick E ShawRespiratory Research Unit, Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of Nottingham, Clinical Sciences Building, Nottingham City Hospital, Edwards Lane, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK

Don PoldermansDepartment of Anesthesiology, Erasmus MC’s Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Donald B. SandersNeuromuscular Section, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Donglin LiDepartment of Vascular Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Dorota DiakowskaDepartment of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery, Wroclaw University of Medicine, Sklodowskiej-Curie 66, 50-367 Wroclaw, Poland

Dusko NezicDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, “Dedinje” Cardiovascular Institute, Belgrade, Serbia

E. MouloudiIntensive Care Unit, “Hippokratio” University Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

Eduard QuintanaCardiovascular Surgery Department, Institut Clínic Cardiovascular, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, University of Barcelona Medical School, Barcelona, Spain

Edward A. BittnerDepartment of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Edward ChanDepartment of Medicine and Academic Affairs, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado; Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado USA

Eero SihvoDepartment of Surgery, Central Finland Central Hospital, Jyväskylä, Finland

Efstathios D. PagoureliasThird Cardiology Department, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Eleftherios PelechasDepartment of Medicine, Section of Rheumatology, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

Elif KupeliPulmonary Disease Department, Baskent University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Elisa MeacciDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli- Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Rome, Rome, Italy

Elisabeth QuoixDepartment of Pulmonology, Nouvel Hôpital Civil, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg Cedex, France

Elise KaspiAix Marseille Univ, INSERM, GMGF, Marseille, France; Medical genetics and functional genomics, Faculty of Medicine la Timone, Marseille, France

Elliot WakeamDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Elvis M. IrusenDivisions of Pulmonology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University, PO Box 19063, 7505, Cape Town, South Africa

Elżbieta RadzikowskaNational Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Plocka Street 26, Warsaw, Poland

Emanuela TaioliDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, New York; Department of Population Health Science and Policy and Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY, USA

Emanuele BertagliaDepartment of Cardiological, Thoracic, and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua, Padova, Italy

Enrico M. CamporesiDepartment of Surgery and Anesthesiology, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida ; TeamHealth Anesthesia, Tampa General Hospital, 1 Tampa General Hospital Circle, Suite A327, Tampa, Florida 33606, USA

Enrico RuffiniDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Eric DannaouiUnité de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Service de Microbiologie, Université Paris-Descartes, Faculté de Médecine, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

Eric I. ChangDivision of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Erich StoelbenDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Witten/Herdecke, Lung Clinic Merheim, Campus Cologne, Ostmerheimerstr. 200, 51109, Cologne, Germany

Erik E. FolchDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Bulfinch 148, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

Erik ThunnissenMedical Center, Department of Pathology, VU University, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsErnest NadalThoracic Oncology Unit, Department of Medical Oncology, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), L’Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain

Esteban Sáez-GonzálezDigestive Functional Disorders Unit, Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, Spain

Esther NossentPulmonology, Vrije University Medical Centre (VUMC), Amsterdam, Netherlands

Eugenio PompeoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Policlinico Tor Vergata University, V.le Oxford, 81, Rome, Italy

Eva A.M. van EerdDept of Family Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre, CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Eva Fieira CostaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain

Evaldas GirdauskasDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Central Clinic Bad Berka, Bad Berka, Germany

Evaldo MarchiThoracic Surgery Division, Medical College of Jundiai, Sao Paolo, Brazil

Eveline InternulloDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Fabio DavoliDepartment of Thoracic Surgery – Ausl Romagna, S. Maria delle Croci Teaching Hospital, Ravenna, Italy

Fanfang YanDepartment of Radiation Oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Fausto SessaDepartment of Surgical and Morphological Sciences, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

Federico RavegliaThoracic Surgery Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera San Paolo, University of Milan, Via Di Rudinì 8, 20142 Milan, Italy

Federico ReaDivision of Thoracic Surgery, University of Padua, via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padua, Italy

Federico TacconiDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Tor Vergata, Tor Vergata University School of Thoracic Surgery, Rome, Italy

Felix BalzerDepartment of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum / Campus Charité Mitte, Augustenburger Platz 1, D-13353 Berlin, Germany

Fernanda Ferreira CruzLaboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Institute of Biophysics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fernando HernanzOncoplastic Breast Unit, Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

Filip CasselmanDepartment of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, OLV Clinic, 164 Moorselbaan, Aalst, 9300 Belgium

Filippo SanfilippoCardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, Oxford Heart Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital-Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK; School of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Fizan AbdullahDivision of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, 225 E. Chicago Avenue, Box 63, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA

Florence Boissiere-MichotPathology Department, Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, 208 rue des Apothicaires, 34 298, Montpellier Cedex 5, France

Florian S. SchoenhoffDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Francesca ColoneseMedical Oncology Unit, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy

Francesca MalentacchiClinical Biochemistry Unit, Department of Clinical Physiopathology, University of Florence, Viale Morgagni 6, I-50139 Florence, Italy

Francesco CacciatoreDepartment of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II,” Naples, Italy; IRCCS Salvatore Maugeri Foundation, Scientific Institute of Telese, Benevento, Italy

Francesco InzirilloDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Morelli Hospital, AOVV, Sondalo, Italy

Francisco SchlottmannDepartment of Surgery and Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 4030 Burnett Womack Building, 101 Manning Drive, CB 7081, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-7081, USA

Frank-Martin HaeckerDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, University Children’s Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Fred H. MenkoAntoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Frederic SeriesInstitut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec, 2725, chemin Sainte-Foy, Quebec, QC G1V 4G5, Canada

Frederic TriponezDepartment of Thoracic and Endocrine Surgery, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Frederic W. Grannis Jr.Department of Thoracic Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA

Gabriele PiffarettiVascular Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria School of Medicine, Varese, Italy

Gabriella AgnolettiDivision of Pediatric Cardiology, Citta’ della Salute e della Scienza, Turin, Italy

Gareth J. HughesHealth Protection Agency East of England, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, UK

Gary E. SanderTulane University Heart and Vascular Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Gavin M. WrightDepartment of Surgery, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Surgical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Gennaro D’AmatoDepartment of Respiratory Diseases, Division of Pneumology and Allergology, High Specialty Hospital “A. Cardarelli” Napoli, Italy, University of Naples Medical School, Via Rione Sirignano, 10, 80121 Napoli, Italy

George D. BablekosFaculty of Health and Caring Professions, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens, Agiou Spyridonos Street, Egaleo, 12243 Athens, Greece

George MakdisiDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA; Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, IN, USA

George V. GuibasDivision of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of South Manchester, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Georgia KarpathiouDepartment of Pathology, Medical School University of Ioannina Greece, Ioannina, Greece

Georgia TunnicliffeChest clinic, St George’s Hospital, London, UK

Georgios KoulaxouzidisDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Geraldine OoiCentre for Obesity Research and Education, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Department of General Surgery, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Centre for Obesity Research and Education, Monash University, Level 6, The Alfred Centre, 99 Commercial Road, Prahran, 3163, Australia

Géraud GalvaingDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Jean Perrin Comprehensive Cancer Center, 58 rue Montalembert, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France

Gerhard HamiltonDepartment of Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Giacomo MugnaiUZ Brussel VUB, Heart Rhythm Management Ctr, Laarbeeklaan 101, B-1090 Brussels, Belgium

Gian KayserInstitute of Pathology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Gianfranco CervellinEmergency Department, Academic Hospital of Parma, Italy

Gianluca RigatelliSection of Adult Congenital and Adult Heart Disease, Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Endoluminal Interventions, Rovigo General Hospital, Rovigo, Italy; Department of Cardiovascular Disease, Cittadella General Hospital, Padua, Italy

Gianluigi SavareseCardiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Gianna CamiciottoliSection of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Giorgio CastellanaInstitute of Respiratory Disease, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy

Giovanni L. CarboniDivision of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stadtspital, Triemli, Zurich, Switzerland; Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Berne, Switzerland

Gisele P. OliveiraLaboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Institute of Biophysics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21949-902, Brazil

Giulio CalcagniDepartment of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital and Research Institute, Rome, Italy

Giulio MauriziDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Via di Grottarossa, 1035, 00189 Rome, Italy

Giulio RossiIRCCS Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova, viale Risorgimento, 80 42100, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Section of Pathologic Anatomy, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Giulio TarroSbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Center for Biotechnology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; USA

Giuseppe CardilloUnit of Thoracic Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo Forlanini, Rome, Italy

Giuseppe GattiDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti, Trieste, Italy

Giuseppe TarantiniDepartment of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University Hospital of Padova, Via Giustiniani, 2 35128 Padova, Italy

Göran ErikssonDepartment of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

Gregor J. KocherDivision of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland

Grigorios KorosoglouDepartment of Cardiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Grzegorz WallnerII Department of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery and Surgical Oncology of the Alimentary Tract, Medical University of Lublin, Poland

Guangliang QiangDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China

Guillermo MartinezConsultant Anaesthetist, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK

Guoping CaiDepartment of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, 310 Cedar St, CB506B, New Haven, USA

Guy PinesDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kaplan Medical Center and The Hebrew University School of Medicine, Rehovot, Israel

György LangDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Ha X. DangDivision of Oncology, McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA

Haifeng WangDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai; China

Haitham DagashDepartment of Paediatric Surgery, University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, UK

Hajime SaitoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan

Han ChangDepartment of Pathology, School of Medicine, China Medical University, No. 91 Hsueh-Shih Road, Taichung, Taiwan

Hang Fai KwokFaculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Avenida de Universidade, Taipa, Macau SAR, China

Hannah CopelandDepartment of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, USA

Hans PilegaardDepartment of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Skejby, Palle Juul-Jensens Boulevard 99, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark

Hans-Beat RisDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, 1011, Lausanne, Switzerland

Han-Shui HsuDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, No. 155, Section 2, Linong Street, Taipei 112, Taiwan

Haruhiko SugimuraDepartment of Tumor Pathology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu 431-3192, Japan

Hasan V KaraDepartment of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Hauke LangDepartment of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital of Mainz, Langenbeckstrasse 1, 55131 Mainz, Germany

Hee Chul YangCenter for Lung Cancer, Research Institute and Hospital, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea;Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Heiko EnderlingDepartment of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, 12902 Magnolia Drive, SRB 4, Tampa, FL 33612 USA; Department of Radiation Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL 33612 USA

Heleen VromanDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Helen E. JoDepartment of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Helmi Ben SaadDepartment of Physiology and Functional Exploration, Farhat HACHED University Hospital of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia; Laboratory of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia; Research Laboratory N° LR14ES05: Interactions of the Cardiopulmonary System, Faculty of Medicine of Sousse, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

Henry C. QuevedoTulane University Heart and Vascular Institute, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA

Herbert D. SpapenICU Department, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 101 Laarbeeklaan, 1090, Jette, Brussels, Belgium

Herbert WallimannThoraxchirurgie Zentralschweiz, Klinik St. Anna, Lucerne, Switzerland

Hermann WriggeDepartment of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Hideaki YamakawaDivision of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kashiwa Hospital, Jikei University School of Medicine, 163-1 Kashiwashita, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8567, Japan

Hidefumi AoyamaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Asahimachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata, Japan

Hidetoshi HayashiDepartment of Medical Oncology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Hiroaki KawanoDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan

Hiroaki KurodaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, 1-1 Chikusa-ku Kanokoden, Nagoya, Aichi, 464-8681, Japan

Hiroaki MiyoshiDepartment of Pathology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan

Hironori IshibashiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8519, Japan

Hironori IzutaniDepartment of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Ehime University Graduate School of Medicine, Shitsukawa, Toon City, Ehime 791-0295, Japan

Hiroo TakayamaDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi KubotaDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi MiyataDepartment of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan

Hiroshi OkamotoDepartment of Advanced Surgical Science and Technology, Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574 Japan

Hiroshige NakamuraDivision of General Thoracic Surgery, Tottori University Hospital, Tottori, Japan

Hiroyuki AdachiDepartment of Surgery, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan

Hiroyuki DaikoDepartment of Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Hiroyuki ItoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Yokohama, Japan

Hiroyuki KanedaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kansai Medical University Medical Center, 10-15 Fumizonocho, Moriguchishi, Osaka, 570-8507, Japan

Hiroyuki TaoDivision of Thoracic Surgery, NHO Yamaguchi-Ube Medical Center, Ube, Japan

Hisao ImaiDepartment of Medicine and Molecular Science, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan.; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Gunma Prefectural Cancer Center, 617-1, Takahayashi-nishi, Ohta, Gunma, 373-8550, Japan.

Hisashi ItoDepartment of Neurology, Shonan Fujisawa Tokushukai Hospital, Japan

Hongcheng ZhuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Horiana B. GrosuDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Unit 1462, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA

Howard Leong-PoiDivision of Cardiology, Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Huanxi ShenKunshan Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Hyeon-Jong YangSCH Biomedical Informatics Research Unit, Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Pediatric Allergy and Respiratory Center, Department of Pediatrics, Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Hyojin KimDepartment of Pathology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea

Hyun Suk YangDepartment of Cardiovascular medicine, Konkuk University Medical Center, Research Institute of Medical Science, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Ibrahim O. ALICIAtatürk Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery Education and Research Hospital, 06280, Ankara, Turkey

Igor KranjecDepartment of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ikenna C. OkerekeDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

Ilkka IlonenDepartment of General Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery, Helsinki University Hospital, Heart and Lung Center, Helsinki, Finland

In Kyu ParkDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Inderpal S. SarkariaDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa, USA

Ioannis KokkonouzisBronchoscopic Unit, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hellenic Air Force General Hospital, Athens, Greece

Ioannis LoumiotisMontefiore Med Ctr, Albert Einstein Coll Med, Dept Cardiothorac Surg, 3400 Bainbridge Ave, Bronx, NY 10467 USA

Iraklis E KatsoulisUpper Gastrointestinal Surgery Unit, Watford General Hospital, 60 Vicarage Road, Watford, Hertfordshire WD18 0HB, UK

Irfan UllahProgrammatic Management of Drug resistant TB Unit, TB Culture Laboratory, Mufti Mehmood Memorial Teaching Hospital, Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan; Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Isaac AlmendrosUnitat Biofísica i Bioenginyeria, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Madrid, Spain; Institut Investigacions Biomediques August Pi Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain

Isao NozakiDepartment of Surgery, Shikoku Cancer Center Hospital, 160 Minami-umemoto, Matsuyama, 791-0280, JapanIsrael Fernandez-PinedaDepartment of Surgery, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 226 Danny Thomas Place, MS133, Memphis, TN, 38105, USA

Ivan VollmerDepartment of Radiology, Hospital del Mar, Passeig Maritim 25, 08003, Barcelona, Spain

J Dawn AbbottDepartment of Cardiology, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02903, USA

J. David RichardsonDepartment of Surgery, University of Louisville, Kentucky 40292, USA

Jacob A. KlapperDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Jacopo VannucciDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University of Perugia Medical School, Perugia, Italy

Jae Won LeeDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Jae Y. KimDepartment of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, City of Hope Cancer Center, 1500 East Duarte Road, Duarte, CA 91010, USA

James D. QuirkDepartment of Radiology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA

James P. DolanDivision of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Orego, USA

Jan H. N. LindemanDepartment of Vascular Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

Jan MartinekDepartment of Hepatogastroenterology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, IKEM, Videnska 1921, 140 21, Prague 4, Czech Republic

Jane YuanDepartment of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 983135 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-3135, USA

Janefriel Melissa McDonnellDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Galway University Hospitals, Newcastle Road, Galway, Ireland

Janet BensonToxicology Division, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, USA

Janice P. DutcherCancer Research Foundation of New York, Chappaqua, NY, USA

Janos VargaDepartment of Pulmonology, University of Szeged, Deszk, Hungary; National Koranyi Institute for TB and Pulmonology, Budapest, Hungary

Javad JavanbakhtDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

Javier García-TiradoThoracic Surgery Department, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain

Jayanta DasDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Jean Jacques LehotService d’Anesthésie Réanimation, Groupement Hospitalier Est, Hôpital Louis Pradel, 28, avenue du Doyen Lépine, 69677 Bron, France

Jean-Baptiste SternDépartement thoracique, institut mutualiste Montsouris, 42, boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France

Jean-Claude M. RwigemaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Radiation Oncology, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Jean-Marc BasteDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France

Jean-Philippe BerthetGeneral Thoracic Surgery Department, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Division of Thoracic Surgery, Arnaud de Villeneuve University Hospital, Montpellier, France; U1046, INSERM, Montpellier University 1, Montpellier University 2, Montpellier, France

Jee Won ChangDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Jeju National University Hospital, Jeju National University School of Medicine, 15 Aran 13-gil, Jeju 63241, Korea

Jeffrey A. HagenDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

Jelena StojsicDepartment for Respiratory and Thoracic Pathology, Service for Pathology, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Pasterova 2, 11000, Belgrade, Serbia

Jennifer E. Cheesborough Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

Jennifer FurinTuberculosis Research Unit, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA

Jen-Ping ChangDivision of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Jens C. RückertDept of General, Visceral, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Jeonghyun KangDepartment of Surgery, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 211 Eonju-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06273, Korea

Jeremy FranklinInstitute of Medical Statistics, Informatics and Epidemiology, University of Cologne, Medical School, Kerpener Str. 62, 50937 Cologne, NRW, Germany

Jerry W. SimeckaDepartment of Cell Biology and Immunology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, 3500 Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA

Jesper PedersenDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 9, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark

Jesse RomanUniv Louisville, Dept Med, Div Pulm Crit Care & Sleep Disorders Med, 550 South Jackson St,3rd Floor, Louisville, KY 40202 USA

Jesus PeteiroDepartment of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain

Jianfei ShenDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510120, China; ; Guangzhou Research Institute of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou 510120, China; ; Key Cite of National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou 510120, China; ; Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province, Wenzhou Medical University, Linhai 317000, China

Jimmy T. EfirdDepartment of Cardiovascular Sciences, East Carolina Heart Institute, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina; Center for Health Disparities, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina; College of Nursing, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

Jinling ZhangCancer Center, LinYi People Hospital, Affiliated to Shandong University, School of Medicine, Jinan, Shandong Province, China

Jitka ViragDepartment of Physiology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, 600 Moye Blvd, Greenville, NC 6N-98, USA

Jitsuo UsudaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

Joaquim GeaServei de Pneumologia, Hospital del Mar, Pg Marítim 27, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain

Jodie L. SimpsonDepartment of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Hunter Medical Research Institute, Level 2, West Wing, Lot 1 Kookaburra Circuit, New Lambton Heights, NSW, 2305, Australia; Priority Research Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Disease, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Joerg LindenmannDivision of Thoracic and Hyperbaric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical University Graz, Austria

John D. HainsworthSarah Cannon Research Institute, 3322 West End Ave. Suite 900, Nashville, TN, 37203, USA; Tennessee Oncology, PLLC, Nashville, TN, USA

John J. ParentDivision of Pediatric Cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine - Riley Hospital, Indiana University Health, 705 Riley Hospital Drive, RR 127, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA

John M. TrahanasDepartment of Surgery, Extracorporeal Life Support Laboratory, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Surgery, Section of General Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

John ÖhrvikCentre for Clinical Research, Uppsala University Västmanland County Hospital, Västerås, Sweden; Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

John R. BachDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School, Behavioral Health Building, F5759, 60 Orange Avenue, Newark, NJ 07103, USA; Center for Mechanical Ventilation Alternatives and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, University Hospital, 150 Bergen Street, Newark, NJ 07103, USA

John R. DotyDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Intermountain Healthcare, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, Utah, USA

John W. FehrenbacherIndiana University Health Cardiovascular Surgeons and the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

John W. UphamSchool of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Translational Research Institute, Woolloongabba, Brisbane, Australia; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Jolanda KluinDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Leiden University Center, Leiden, Netherlands; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jon O. WeeDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Jonathan D’CunhaDivision of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Jonathan E. DowellHematology/Oncology, Veterans Affairs North Texas Healthcare System, Dallas, Texas, USA

Jonathan PuchalskiInterventional Pulmonology, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Jonathan W. GoldmanDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Jonathan WilliamsonPopulation Health Research Institute, St George’s University of London, London, UK

Jong Bum ChoiDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chonbuk National University Medical School, 20 Geonji-Ro, Deokjin-Gu, Jeonju, Chonbuk, 561-712, Republic of Korea

Jong Shin WooDivision of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Joo Young ChoDigestive Disease Center, CHA Bundang Medical Center, 59 Yatapro, Bundang-gu, Seongnam, Korea

Joonas H. KauppilaUpper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

José M. MierThoracic Surgery Department, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias “Ismael Cosío Villegas” (INER), Calzada de Tlalpan 4502. Col. Sección XVI., Tlalpan, Mexico D.F., Mexico

Jose Ribas Milanez de CamposDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

José Zapatero GaviriaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain

Josef YayanDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Saarland University Medical Center, Kirrberger Straße. D-66421 Homburg/Saar, Germany

Joseph I. MillerSection of General Thoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, 6th Floor, Medical Office Tower, 550 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30308-2225, USA

Joseph SeitlingerDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Strasbourg University Hospital, Strasbourg, France

Joseph W. TurekDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

Joshua L. HermsenDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA

József FurákDepartment of Surgery, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

Jr-Rung LinClinical Informatics and Medical Statistics Research Center, Chang Gung University, 259 Wen-Hwa 1st Road, Kwei-Shan Tao-Yuan 333, Taiwan

Juergen WolfDepartment I of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne, Center for Integrated Oncology Köln Bonn, Köln, Germany

Jui-Ying LeeDepartment of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 80756, Taiwan

Jules LinDepartment of Surgery, Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Mich, USA

Julie CleuziouDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, German Heart Center, Munich, Germany

Jun WangNanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China

Junichi ShimadaDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

Junji IchinoseDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Toranomon Hospital, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Jun-Neng RoanDivision of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Junya FukuokaDepartment of Pathology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8523, Japan

Justyna Fert-BoberThe Heart Institute and Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Advanced Clinical BioSystems Research Institute, Advanced Health Science Building, 9229, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Bayview Proteomics Center, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Kaid DarwicheDepartment of Interventional Pneumology, Ruhrlandklinik, University Hospital Essen, University of Essen, Tüschener Weg 40, 45239, Essen, Germany

Kaoru MatsuuraDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Funabashi Municipal Medical Center, Funabashi City, Chiba, Japan

Karan MadanDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine & Sleep Disorders, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

Kartik PatelDepartment of Cardio vascular and Thoracic Surgery, U. N. Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Center, (Affiliated to B. J. Medical College), New Civil Hospital Campus, Asarwa, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 380016, India

Kartik RamakrishnaDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, USA

Kasra ShaikhrezaiDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill), Glasgow, UK

Katalin A. WilkinsonClinical Infectious Disease Research Initiative, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; The Francis Crick Institute Mill Hill Laboratory, London NW7 1AA, UK

Katharina Rose Luise SchmittDepartment of Congenital Heart Disease/Pediatric Cardiology, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Kathy GatelyThoracic Oncology Research Group, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, St. James’s Hospital, James’s Street, Dublin (D8), Republic of Ireland

Kazuma NagataDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Japan

Kazuma OkamotoDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Kazumasa OrihashiDivision of Cardiovascular Surgery, Second Department of Surgery, Kochi Medical School, Kohasu, Oko-cho, Nankoku, Kochi, 783-8505, Japan

Kazuo KasaharaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Cellular Transplantation Biology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-8641, Japan

Kazuo KoyanagiDivision of Esophageal Surgery, Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan

Kazuo NakagawaDivision of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan

Keerati HongsakulDivision of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand

Keith B. AllenDepartment of Cardiothoracic/Vascular Surgery, St. Luke’s Mid America Heart & Vascular Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Keith S. NaunheimDivision of Thoracic Surgery, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo, USA

Kemp H. KernstineDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine, Dallas, Texas, USA

Kenichi SudaDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, 377-2 Ohno-higashi, Osaka-Sayama, Japan

Kenji SakataDivision of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine, 13-1, Takara-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-8641, Japan

Kenji SugioDepartment of Thoracic Oncology, National Kyushu Cancer Center, Fukuoka, Japan; Clinical Research Institute, National Kyushu Cancer Center, Fukuoka, Japan; Department of Thoracic and Breast Surgery, Oita University, Yufu, Oita, 879-5593, Japan

Kenji TsuboshimaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Takasago Municipal Hospital, 33-1 Kamimachi, Arai Town, Takasago City, Hyogo, 676-8585, Japan

Kenneth K.Y. WongDepartment of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong , Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Kenneth KeslerIndiana Univ, Dept Surg, Cardiothorac Div, Barnhill Dr EM 212, Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA

Ketty SavinoDivision of Cardiology – S. Maria della Misericordia Hospital, University of Perugia School of Medicine, Perugia, Italy

Khosro HekmatDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Ki Suck JungDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, 896 Pyeongchon-dong, Dongan-gu, Anyang 431-070, Korea

Kian Fan ChungNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London SW3 6LY, UK

Kimihiro ShimizuDivision of General Thoracic Surgery, Integrative Center of General Surgery, Gunma University Hospital, 3-39-22 Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan; Department of Thoracic and Visceral Organ Surgery, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, 3-39-22 Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma, 371-8511, Japan

Kinya FurukawaDivisions of Thoracic Surgery and Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Medical University, Ibaraki Medical Center Hospital, Ami, Ibaraki 300-0395, Japan

Kiran ChawlaDepartment of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Kishan S. ParikhDuke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina; Division of Cardiology, USA, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Kiyoshi MoriyamaDepartment of Anesthesiology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Koen J. HarteminkDepartment of Surgery, Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Kohei FujitaDivision of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Kyoto Medical Center, Kyoto, Japan

Kohei YokoiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

Koichi SughimotoDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Kongming WuDepartment of Oncology, Tongji Hospital of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Building 303, 1095 Jiefang Avenue, Wuhan 430030, China

Konrad PazdrakDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA

Konstantin KrychtiukDepartment of Internal Medicine II-Division of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria

Konstantinos A. FilisDepartment of Propaedeutic Surgery, Hippokrateion Hospital, Athens Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Ko-pen WangDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA

Kosuke TakahashiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Aichi Cancer Center Aichi Hospital, 18 Kuriyado Kake-machi, Okazaki, Aichi 444-0011, Japan

Krzysztof BartusDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantation, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

Krzysztof BartusDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantation, Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

Kuan Leong YewCardiology Department, Sarawak General Hospital Heart Center, Kota Samarahan 94300, Sarawak, Malaysia

Kwan-Hwa ChiDepartment of Radiation Therapy and Oncology, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei City, Taiwan

Kyoji HiraiDepartment of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Chiba Hokusou Hospital, Inzai, Chiba, Japan

Kyung Soo KimDepartment of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, Catholic Medical Center School of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Seocho-gu, 06591, Republic of Korea

L. Caetano M. AntunesOswaldo Cruz Foundation, National Laboratory for Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterioses, Professor Hélio Fraga Reference Center, National School of Public Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, National Institute for Science and Technology on Innovation on Diseases of Neglected Populations, Center for Technological Development in Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Lakshmi PulakatDepartment of Medicine, Columbia School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65212, USA; Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans Affairs Hospital, Columbia, MO 65201, USA; Division of Cardiology, Columbia School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65212, USA; Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA

Lambros TselikasInterventional Radiology Unit, Medical Imaging Department, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, 114 rue Edouard Vaillant, F-94805, Villejuif, France

Lamia Ait-AliInstitute of Clinical Physiology, The National Research Council (CNR), Via Aurelia Sud, 54100, Massa-Pisa, Italy

Lars Henning SchmidtDepartment of Medicine A, Hematology, Oncology and Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany

Laura BonannoMedical Oncology 2, Istituto Oncologico Veneto IRCCS, Padova, Italy

Laura DonahoeDivision of Thoracic Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Laura MezquitaGustave Roussy Cancer Campus, 114 Rue Edouard Vaillant, 94805 Villejuif, France

Laura Socci Thoracic Surgery Units, Sheffield Teaching Hospital, Sheffield, UK

Laurits FrøssingDepartment of Endocrinology, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark

Lei HuangCardiac Center of Tianjin Third-Central Hospital, Tianjin, China

Lei PanDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, The First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical College, 151 Yanjiang Road, Guangzhou 510120, China

Leonardo PedrazzaLaboratório de Pesquisa em Biofísica Celular e Inflamação, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Leonello FusoBronchoscopy and Pneumology Unit, Catholic University, Rome, Italy

Leonhard MüllauerDepartment of Pathology, Medical University Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria

Li WangComputational Biologist, The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT Cambridge, MA, USA

Lieuwe D. BosDepartment of Respiratory Medicine and Intensive Care, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lieven DepypereDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumLieven Peter DepypereDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Ling LiDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Shanghai Cancer Center, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Lizza E HendriksDepartment of Pulmonary Diseases, Maastricht University Medical Center+, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands

Ljudmila StojanovichInternal Medicine, “Bezanijska Kosa” University Medical Centre, Belgrade, Serbia

Lorenzo RossoThoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Luca AmpolliniThoracic Surgery, Department of Surgical Science, University Hospital of Parma, Via Gramsci 14, 43126 Parma, Italy

Luca Salvatore De SantoUniversity of Foggia, Foggia, Italy; Cardiac Surgery Unit, Clinica Montevergine, Mercogliano, Avellino, Italy

Lucas DonovanDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Lucía MendezDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain

Lucio CaginiOsped S Maria Misericordia, Unita Chirurg Torac, I-06156 Perugia, Italy

Ludwig J. DuboisDepartment of Radiation Oncology (MAASTRO Lab), GROW – School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands

Luigi BonavinaDivision of General Surgery, Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Luigi CavannaOncology-Hematology Department, Piacenza Hospital, Via Taverna, 49, 29121 Piacenza, Italy

Luis Alejandro Pérez de LlanoDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Hospital Lucus Augusti, Lugo, Spain

Luka BrcicInstitute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 25, 8036, Graz, Austria

Lukas BuschleGerman Cancer Research Center, E010 Radiology, INF 280, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Łukasz J. KrzychDepartment of Cardiac Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Lynette M. ShollDepartment of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

M. Blair MarshallDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington DC, USA

Mace M. SchuurmansUniversity Hospital Zurich, Pulmonology, Zurich, Switzerland

Madhu KumarDepartment of Pathology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Maher AboudaFaculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, El Manar, Tunisia; F.S.I. Hospital (Interior Security Forces Teaching Hospital), Rue Taher Ben Achour, Marsa, Tunisia

Małgorzata SzołkowskaDepartment of Pathology, National Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland

Malin AxelssonDepartment of Care Science, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

Mangala NarasimhanDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Hofstra-Northwell School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY, USA

Manoj MeenaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India

Manuel LopezUnit of Chest Wall Deformities Children and Adults, University Hospital of Saint Etienne, Faculty of Medicine Jacques Lisfranc, PRES Lyon 42023, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France; Department of Pediatric Surgery & Urology, University Hospital of Saint Etienne, Faculty of Medicine Jacques Lisfranc, PRES Lyon 42023, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France; Department of Physiology Clinical of Exercise, University Hospital of Saint Etienne, Faculty of Medicine Jacques Lisfranc, PRES Lyon 42023, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France

Marc BoadaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Marc LickerDepartment of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Intensive Care, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Marc RiquetThoracic Surgery Department, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris, France Oncology Department, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris, France

Marcello MiglioreSection of Thoracic Surgery, Department of General Surgery & Medical Specialities, University of Catania, Policlinico University Hospital, Catania, Italy

Marcelo F. BenvenisteDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Marcelo F. JimenezThoracic Surgery Service, Salamanca University Hospital, Salamanca, Spain

Marcin SadowskiDepartment of Interventional Cardiology, Świętokrzyskie Cardiology Center, Kielce, Poland

Marcin ZielińskiDepartment of the Thoracic Surgery, Pulmonary Hospital, Zakopane, Poland

Marco ConfalonieriDepartment of Pneumology & Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital of Cattinara, Trieste, Italy

Marco AlifanoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Paris Center University Hospital, 27 rue du Faubourg St Jacques, 75014 Paris, France

Marco ChiappettaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Largo F. Vito n 1, Rome, Italy

Marco E. AllaixCenter for Esophageal Diseases and Department of Surgery, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Ave, MC 5031, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

Marco GhionzoliDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, University of Florence and Children’s University Hospital A. Meyer, Florence, Italy

Marco LucchiDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Marco RussoCardiac Surgery Division, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Policlinico Tor Vergata, Viale Oxford 81, 00133 Rome, Italy

Marco ScarciDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire, UK

Marco NardiniDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK

Marcos de Carvalho BorgesFaculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes 3900, Monte Alegre 14049-900 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil

Marcus LindenbergerDepartment of Cardiology and Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Maren SchuhmannDepartment of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik, Heidelberg, Germany

María RodríguezThoracic Surgery Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Maria Teresa CongedoDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

Marie-Liesse Asselin-LabatACRF Stem Cells and Cancer Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3052 Australia

Marie-Pierre RevelDepartment of Radiology, hôpital Hôtel-Dieu (AP–HP), 1, place du Parvis-Notre-Dame, 75004 Paris, France

Mario LimaPediatric Surgery Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Mario NosottiThoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Mariusz ChabowskiDepartment of Surgery, Fourth Military Teaching Hospital, 5 Weigla St., 50-981, Wroclaw, Poland

Marjukka MyllärniemiDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Heart and Lung Center and the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Mark HennonDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA; Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, NY, USA

Mark J. RumbakDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, The James A. Haley Veterans Affairs Hospital and the Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

Mark JonesDepartment of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University Health New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA

Mark W. OnaitisDepartment of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Marko KutlešaDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine and Neuroinfectology, University of Zagreb - School of Medicine, University Hospital for Infectious Diseases “Dr. Fran Mihaljević”, Mirogojska 8, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

Markus KredelDepartment of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, University Hospital of Würzburg, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Marta KaminskaRespiratory Division & Sleep Laboratory, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Martin DresDepartment of Pulmonology, AP-HP, Georges Pompidou European Hospital, Paris, France

Martin HuertgenDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Katholisches Klinikum Koblenz-Montabaur, Rudolf-Virchowstraße 7, 56073 Koblenz, Germany

Martin KolbFirestone Institute for Respiratory Health, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Martin LarhammarDepartment of Neuroscience, Genentech, Inc., San Francisco, USA

Martin ReichertDepartment of General, Visceral, Thoracic, Transplant and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim Strasse 7, 35392, Giessen, Germany

Martina VrankarInstitute of Oncology Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Maryam HassanzadPediatric Respiratory Diseases Research Center, NRITLD, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Marzia CottiniDepartment of Heart and Vessels, Cardiac Surgery Unit and Heart Transplantation Centre, “S. Camillo-Forlanini” Hospital, Rome, Italy

Masahiro YamazoeDepartment of Cardiology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Masaki FujitaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan

Masaki HashimotoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

Masaki IzumoDivision of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki, Japan

Masaki TomitaDepartment of Thoracic and Breast Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan

Masanari KuwabaraDepartment of Cardiology, Toranomon Hospital, and Department of Cardiology, St. Luke’s International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Masanori TsuchidaDivision of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Masao NakataDepartment of Surgery, National Shikoku Cancer Center, Ehime, Japan

Masatsugu HamajiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan

Masayoshi InoueDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Masayuki WatanabeDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Masayuki TakedaDepartment of Medical Oncology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Masayuki WatanabeDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital of the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Masood A. ShariffDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Staten Island University Hospital - Northwell Health, Staten Island, New York, USA

Massimo BonacchiCardiac Surgery, Medical and Surgical Critical Care Department, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Massimo BrogginiIRCCS Ist Ric Farmacol Mario Negri, Dept Oncol, Milan, Italy

Massimo MilioneDivision of Pathology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, IRCCS Foundation National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy

Massimo ZambonDepartment of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, ASST Melegnano-Martesana, Presidio di Cernusco sul Naviglio, Via Uboldo 21, 20063, Cernusco sul Naviglio, MI, Italy

Mathur S. KannanDepartment of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

Matteo RevelliUnit of Radiology, San Bartolomeo Hospital, ASL 5 “Spezzino”, Sarzana (SP), Italy

Matthew G. HartwigDepartment of Surgery, Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Matthias HeckerUniversity of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC) , Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen , Giessen, Germany

Maurizio CariatiDepartment of Diagnostic Science - Radiology and Interventional Radiology Unit, ASST Santi Paolo and Carlo Hospital, Milano, Italy

Maurizio MarvisiDepartments of Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Pneumology, Istituto Figlie di S. Camillo, Cremona, Italy

Maxime HeyndrickxDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Caen, Caen, France

Maxime PatoutIntensive Care Unit, Respiratory Department, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France

Meena NathanDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Meinoshin OkumuraDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

Meletios A. KanakisDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Sismanoglio General Hospital of Athens, Maroussi, Athens, Greece

Michael A. PuskarichDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA

Michael ChristieDepartment of Pathology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Colorectal Translational Oncology Group, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; Department of Pathology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Michael J. ReardonDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA

Michael JaklitschDepartment of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH)/Harvard Medical School (HMS), 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Michael K. HsinDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Michael KoldehoffDepartment of Bone Marrow Transplantation, West German Cancer Center, Essen, Germany

Michael MilanoDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Rochester Medical Center, 601 Elmwood Ave, 647, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA

Michael RothPulmonary Cell Research, Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, 4031, Switzerland

Michael ZervosDivision of Thoracic Surgery, NYU Langone Medical Center, 530 First Avenue, Suite 9V, New York, NY, 10016, USA

Michał CiurzyńskiDepartment of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, Medical University, Warsaw, Poland

Michel GonzalezDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Miguel GallegoDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Hospital de Sabadell, Institut Universitari Parc Taulí-UAB, Sabadell, Spain; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Esfera UAB, Barcelona, Spain; CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias, CIBERES, Bunyola, Spain

Millie DasDepartment of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA; Palo Alto Veterans Administration Health Care System, Palo Alto, California, USA

Milos ArsenijevicDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia

Milos BjelovicDepartment for Minimally Invasive Upper Digestive Surgery, Hospital for Digestive Surgery, Clinical Center of Serbia, Dr Koste Todorovica Street No 6, Belgrade 11000, Serbia; University of Belgrade, School of Medicine, Dr Subotica Street No 8, Belgrade 11000, Serbia

Milton SauteDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tiqva and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Min-Chi LuDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Minehiko InomataFirst Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, Toyama 930-0194, Japan

Mineji HayakawaEmergency and Critical Care Center, Hokkaido University Hospital, N14W5, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8648, Japan

Mineo KurokawaDepartment of Hematology and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan

Ming-Hui HungDepartment of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Mingming ZhangThe First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University, Urumchi, China

Mingyon MunDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Mirko BaroneDepartment of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Chieti, via dei Vestini n.1, 66100, Chieti, Italy

Mirko Di MartinoDepartment of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service, Roma, Italy

Mirta KoželjDepartment of Cardiology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Zaloška 7, 1525 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Misbah KhanDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, SKMCH & RC, 7-A Block R-3, Johar Town, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan

Misha D. LuyerDepartment of Surgery, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Mishie TaninoDepartment of Cancer Pathology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, North 15, West 7, Kita-Ku, Sapporo, 060-8638, Japan

Mitsuaki IshidaDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Division of Diagnostic Pathology, Shiga University of Medical Science Shiga, Japan

Mitsuaki SakaiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8558, Japan; Department of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan

Mitsugu OmasaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Nichi-kobe Medical Center, Kobe, Japan

Mitsuhiro KamiyoshiharaDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Maebashi Red Cross Hospital, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

Mitsunori HiguchiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Fukushima Red Cross Hospital, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Mohamed NassarDepartment of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, NHS Foundation Trust, Freeman Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE7 7 DN, UK

Mohamed RegalDepartment of Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit, King Fahd University Hospital, King Faisal University, Al-Khobar, Eastern Province, P.O. Box: 40233, 31952 Saudi Arabia

Mohammad VaziriMinimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Rasoul Akram Hospital, Niayesh Avenue, Sattar Khan Street, Tehran 1448933, Iran

Mohammed Ismail NizamiDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad 500082, Telangana, India

Mohsen IbrahimDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sant’Andrea Hospital, University of Rome Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Moises Rodriguez-GonzalezDepartment of Pediatric Cardiology, Puerta del Mar University Hospital, Cadiz, Spain

Mona MlikaDepartment of Pathology, Abderrahman Mami Hospital, Université de Médecine, Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

Monica CasiraghiDivision of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Monish S. RautDepartment of Cardiac Anesthesiology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India

Montserrat Blanco RamosDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Vigo University Clinical Hospital, 36204 Vigo, Spain

Moonkyoo KongDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Kyung Hee University Medical Center, Kyung Hee University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Moshe HashmonaiDepartment of Surgery, Rambam Medical Center & Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, PO Box 359, Zikhron Ya’akov, Haifa 3095202, Israel

Motoi UgajinDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Ichinomiya-Nishi Hospital, Ichinomiya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Motoki YanoDivision of Chest Surgery, Department of Surgery, Aichi Medical University, 1-1 Yazakokarimata, Nagakute, 480-1195, Japan

Mustafa ZakkarDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. George’s Hospital, London, UK

Nagy N. NaguibInstitute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Johan Wolfgang Goethe - University Hospital, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590, Frankfurt, Germany; Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Alexandria University Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt

Naofumi MukaidaDivision of Molecular Bioregulation, Cancer Research Institute, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

Naoto FukunagaDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, 2-1-1 Minatojimaminamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, 650-0047, Japan

Naoya HimuroDivision of Chest Surgery, Department of Surgery, Showa University School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan; Division of Chest Surgery, Showa University School of Medicine, 1-5-8 Hatanodai, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 142-8666, Japan

Narin SriratanaviriyakulDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, 4150 V Street, Suite 3100, Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA

Natalia V BogatchevaDivision of Cardiology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Nataniel H. Lester-CollDepartment of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Natasa MujovicClinic for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia; Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Natasha SaburDepartment of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alta., Canada

Nazia ChaudhuriNorth West Interstitial Lung Disease Unit, University Hospital of South Manchester, Wythenshawe Hospital, Southmoor Road, Wythenshawe, Manchester M23 9LT, UK

Neil J. GreeningCentre for Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, Leicester Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester LE3 9QP UK

Nelson WoloskerDivision of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil

Nera AgabitiDepartment of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service, Rome, Italy

Niccolò Giaj-LevraRadiation Oncology, Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Via Don A. Sempreboni 5, Negrar, 37024, Verona, Italy; Department of Oncology, University of Torino, Turin, Italy

Nicholas ScreatonDepartment of Radiology, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Papworth Everard Hospital, Cambridge, UK

Nicholas T. KouchoukosDivision of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St Louis, Missouri, USA

Nick A. MaskellDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, North Bristol NHS Trust, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, BS10 5NB, UK

Nicola RotoloCenter for Thoracic Surgery, University of Insubria, Ospedale di Circolo, Varese, Italy

Nicolas GirardDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Institute of Oncology of the Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France

Nicole P JuffermansDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Nikhil MeenaDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4201W. Markham Mail Slot #555, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA

Niki KarachaliouDr Rosell Oncology Institute, Quirón Dexeus University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain

Nir PeledThoracic Cancer Unit, Davidoff Cancer Center, Rabin Medical Center and Tel-Aviv University, Kaplan Street, Petah Tikva, 49100, Israel

Nirmal VeeramachaneniSurgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7065, USA

Nobuhisa IshiguroDepartment of Pediatrics, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Nobukazu FujimotoDepartment of Medical Oncology, Okayama Rosai Hospital, Okayama, Japan

Nobuyuki HoritaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Saiseikai Yokohamashi Nanbu Hospital, 3-2-10, Kounandai, Kounan-ku, Yokohama 234-8503, Japan

Nora GöbelDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany

Noriaki SadanagaDepartment of Surgery, Saiseikai Fukuoka General Hospital, 1-3-46 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka, 810-0001, Japan

Noriaki SakakuraDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

Norio OkamotoDepartment of Thoracic Malignancy, Osaka Prefectural Medical Center for Respiratory and Allergic Diseases, Osaka, Japan

Noriyuki HiraharaDepartment of Digestive and General Surgery, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, 89-1 Enya-cho, Izumo, Shimane, 693-8501, Japan

Noriyuki MatsutaniDepartment of Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Nousheen IqbalAga Khan University, Department of Medicine, Section of pulmonary and critical care, Pakistan

Nuno MorenoImaging and Cytometry Unit (UIC), Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal/Departamento de Fisiologia e Cirurgia Cardiotorácica, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Nuntra SuwantaratMedical Microbiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; Chulabhorn International College of Medicine, Thammasat University, Pathumthani, Thailand

Nuria NovoaGeneral Thoracic Service, University Hospital of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

Nuttapol RittayamaiDivision of Respiratory Diseases and Tuberculosis, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand

O Kyu NohDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Republic of Korea

Oisin O’ConnellDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

Olaf HolzDepartment of Clinical Airway Research, Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine, 30625 Hannover, Germany

Oleg EpelbaumDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, 100 Woods Road, Macy Pavilion, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA

Olfred HansenInstitute of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; Department of Oncology, Odense University Hospital, Denmark

Ottavio RenaThoracic Surgery Unit, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy

Oussama BaraketCHU Habib Bougatfa, service de chirurgie générale, 7000 Bizerte, Tunisie

Pablo Guisado VascoInternal Medicine Department, Complejo Hospitalario Ruber Juan Bravo, European University, Juan Bravo Street 39-49, 28006, Madrid, Spain

Pankaj Kumar GargDepartment of Surgery, University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, University of Delhi, Dilshad Garden, Delhi, 110095, India

Pankaj Kumar MishraDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart and Lung Centre, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

Paola CiriacoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Scientific Institute and University Vita-Salute H. San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

Paolo MendogniThoracic Surgery and Lung Transplant Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Paolo MontuschiDepartment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Largo Francesco Vito, 1, 00168 Rome, Italy

Paolo ScanagattaDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Via G. Venezian 1, 20133Milan, Italy

Paolo SolidoroDivision of Pneumology, Cardiothoracic Department, A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Presidio Molinette, and University of Torino, Turin, Italy

Parima DarouiDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA

Parissa FarniaMycobacteriology Research Centre, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease [NRITLD], Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran,19556, P.O, Iran

Patricia Cornejo-JuárezDepartment of Infectious Disease, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Av. San Fernando No. 22, Col. Sección XVI, Tlalpan, 14080 México, D.F., Mexico

Patrick G. P. CharlesDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, VIC, Australia

Patrizia PresbiteroDepartment of Invasive Cardiology, Istituto Clinico Humanitas Mirasole Spa, Milan, Italy

Paul C. TangDepartment of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Paul E. MarikPulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, 825 Fairfax Av, Suite 410, Norfolk, VA 23507, USA

Paul E. Van SchilDepartment of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium

Paul PictonDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Paul SchoenhagenDepartment of Diagnostic Radiology and in the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland,Ohio, USA

Paul TangDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Paulo Cury RezendeDepartment of Atherosclerosis, Heart Institute (InCor) of the University of São Paulo, Av. Dr. Eneas de Carvalho Aguiar 44, AB, Sala 114, 05403-000, Cerqueira César, São Paulo, Brazil

Paulo Roberto Barbosa EvoraFaculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo, Department of Surgery and Anatomy, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil

Pedro J. MarcosComplejo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña A Coruña, Spain

Peng LuoDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou ,Guangdong province, China

Peter B. LichtDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Odense University Hospital, Sdr Blvd 29, DK-5000 Odense, Denmark

Peter GibsonUniv Newcastle, Ctr Asthma & Resp Dis, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia

Peter LeeVirginia Commonwealth Univ, Pulm & Crit Care Med, Intervent Pulmonol, Med, 1200 E Marshall St,10th Floor, Richmond, VA 23219 USA

Petr StarostikMolecular Diagnostics Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA

Petros Bakakos1st Respiratory Medicine Department, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

Philip W. RaakeDepartment of Internal Medicine III, Cardiology, University Hospital Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Philippe DemersDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Philippe G. JorensDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium

Piergiorgio SolliDivision of Thoracic Surgery, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

Pierluigi NovellisThoracic Surgery Division, Humanitas Cancer Center, Rozzano, Italy

Pierre MordantService de chirurgie thoracique, HEGP, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

Pierre TattevinInfectious Diseases and Intensive Care Unit, Pontchaillou University Hospital, 2, rue Henri Le Guilloux, 35033 Rennes Cedex 9, France

Pierre-Yves BrichonDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Grenoble, Grenoble, France

Pietro BertoglioDivision of Thoracic Surgery Sacro Cuore-Don Calabria Research Hospital and Cancer Care Centre

Pim A. de JongDepartment of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Pingal DesaiHospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA

Piotr GabryelDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University in Poznan, 62 Szamarzewskiego St., 60-561 Poznań, Poland

Piroze M. DavierwalaDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Po-Kuei HsuDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Pranab DeyDepartment of Cytology and Gynaecologic Pathology, Chandigarh, India

Prashant N ChhajedInstitute of Pulmonology, Medical Research and Development, A/405, Sangam, Corner of S. V. Road and Saibaba Road, Santacruz West, Navi Mumbai - 400 054, Maharashtra, India

Prudence A. RussellDepartment of Anatomical Pathology, St Vincent’s Hospital, University of Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Puja GaurDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA

Qiang LuDepartment of thoracic surgery, Tangdu Hospital, Xi’an, Shanxi

Qiang WangDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Qing TianThe 301 General Hospital of PLA, Fuxing Road, Beijing 100853, China

Qingyuan HuangDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Quentin BallouheyDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Hospital, Limoges, France

R. Dale BrownPediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Colorado, USA

Rachael MurrayThe Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia

Rachel E. SanbornRobert W. Franz Cancer Research Center, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Providence Portland Medical Center, 4805 NE Glisan St., 2N35, Portland, OR 97213, USA

Rafael Martinez-GirónProtozoal Respiratory Pathology Research Unit, INCLINICA Foundation, Oviedo-33207, Asturias, Spain

Rafael PerellóServicio de Infecciones, Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS, Barcelona, España

Rafael RosellCatalan Inst Oncol, Ctra Canyet, Badalona 08916, Spain

Raffaele GiordanoFondazione G. Monasterio CNR - Regione Toscana, Massa and Pisa, Italy

Rahul KhoslaDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 50 Irving Street NW, Washington, DC 20422, USA

Rahul Tyagi Department of Medicine, INHS Asvini, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Rajesh ShahDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of South Manchester, Wythenshawe, UK

Rakesh GargDepartment of Anesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Care, Dr. BRAIRCH, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Ralph DamianoDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Ramachandra BarikDepartment of Cardiology, Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Punjagutta, Hyderabad 500082, Telangana, India

Ramcés Falfán-ValenciaHLA Laboratory, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico

Rami M. AbazidDepartment of Cardiology, Prince Sultan Cardiac Centre, Al-Qassim, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia. Department of Cardiac Imaging, Prince Sultan Cardiac Centre, Al-Qassim, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia

Ran MoDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, the Affiliated Hospital of Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Rana O. AfifiDepartment of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, Texas, USA

Randy F. SweisDepartment of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Raphaël GiraudIntensive Care Service, Geneva University Hospitals, 4 Rue Gabrielle Perret-Gentil, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Geneva Hemodynamic Research Group, Geneva, Switzerland

Rashmi SinghDepartment of Zoology, MMV, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India

Rasoul AliannejadDepartment of Pulmonary, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Raul Cavalcante MaranhãoLipid Metabolism Laboratory, Heart Institute (InCor), Medical School Hospital, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Instituto do Coração (InCor) do Hospital das Clínicas, FMUSP, Av. Dr. Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, 44, 1º subsolo, São Paulo, SP, 05403-000, Brazil

Raul EmbunDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain

René Horsleben PetersenDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark

Renee DixonDivision of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 110 Paca St., 2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA

René-Olivier MirimanoffDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland

Ricardo JoseCentre for Inflammation and Tissue Repair, University College London, London, UK

Ricardo Mingarini TerraThoracic Surgery Division, Heart Institute (InCor), Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo Medical School, Avenida Dr. Eneas de Carvalho Aguiar, 44 - 2o Andar Sala 9, São Paulo, SP, CEP 05403-000, Brazil

Richard D. TurnerDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Homerton University Hospital, London, UK

Richard J. CassidyDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

Richard T. MahonDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Naval Medical Center San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

Richard van HillegersbergDepartment of Surgery Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3508 GA, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Riken KawachiDepartment of Thoracic and Thyroid Surgery, Kyorin University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Rishindra M. ReddyDepartment of Surgery, Section of Thoracic Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

Rita ChiariDepartment of Medical Oncology, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Rita LinkoIntensive Care Units, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Division of Surgery, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

Ritsushi KatoDepartment of Cardiology, Saitama Medical University, International Medical Center, 1397-1 Yamane Hidaka, Saitama 350-1298, Japan

Ritu GillDepartment of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Robert Anton CesnjevarDepartment of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany

Robert H. BartlettECMO Lab, University of Michigan Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Robert HallifaxOxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit, Oxford, UK

Robert S. GeorgeDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Leeds, UK

Roberta RicciardiDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Neurology Unit, 2Division of Thoracic Surgery, Robotic Multidisciplinary Centre for Surgery, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Department, University of Pisa, Italy

Roberto CangemiDepartment of Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Roberto CopettiEmergency Department, Latisana General Hospital, Latisana (Udine), Italy

Robin L. JonesSarcoma Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital, London SW3 6JJ, UK

Rocco TrisoliniInterventional Pulmonology Unit, Policlinico Sant’Orsola-Malpighi, via Albertoni 15, 40138, Bologna, Italy; Thoracic Endoscopy and Pulmonology Unit, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Rodrigo BagurDivision of Cardiology, London Health Sciences Centre, Department of Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Roland DärrDepartment of Cardiology and Angiology I, University Heart Centre Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Rony AtouiDivision of Cardiac Surgery, Health Sciences North, Sudbury, ON, Canada

Rubens ChojniakDirector, Imaging Department, A.C.Camargo Cancer Center, Professor at School of Medicine, Universidade Nove de Julho (Uninove), São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Runzhe ChenDepartment of Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States; Department of Hematology and Oncology, Zhongda Hospital of Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Ruoyu ZhangDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Center for Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery, Schillerhoehe Hospital, Teaching hospital of the University of Tuebingen, Solitudestr. 18, Gerlingen, Germany

Russell K. McAllisterDepartment of Anesthesiology, Baylor Scott & White Health, Temple, TX 76508, USA

Ryo TakahashiDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Chiba-East Hospital, Chiba 260-0856, Japan

Ryoichi NakanishiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Shin-Kokura Hospital, Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations, Kitakyusyu, Japan

Ryota UshioDepartment of Pulmonology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Salah A.M. SaidDepartment of Cardiology, ZGT location Hengelo, Hengelo, the Netherlands

Sabina Antonela AntoniuDepartment of Medicine II-Nursing/Palliative Care , University of Medicine and Pharmacy Grigore T Popa Iasi, Romania, Iasi, Romania

Sadayuki MurayamaDepartment of Radiology, Graduate School of Medical Science, University of the Ryukyus, 207 Uehara, Nishihara-cho, Okinawa, 903-0215, Japan

Sai YendamuriRoswell Pk Canc Inst, Dept Thorac Surg, Elm & Carlton St, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA

Salah A. MohamedUniversity of Schleswig-Holstein Campus Luebeck, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Luebeck, Germany

Samad E. J. GolzariCardiovascular Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Daneshgah Street, Tabriz, 51664, Iran

Sameer K. NathDepartment of Therapeutic Radiology, Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven, 35 Park Street, Ste LL 513, New Haven, CT 06511, USA

Sanghoon JheonSeoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seungnam, Korea; Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Sang-We KimDepartment of Oncology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 86, Asanbyeongwon-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul, 138-736, Korea

Sarah SchottDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany

Sara-Joan Pinto-SietsmaDepartment of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Satoshi HamadaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Satoshi ShionoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Yamagata Prefectural Central Hospital, Yamagata, Japan

Satoshi YanagisawaDepartment of Advanced Cardiovascular Therapeutics, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Sébastien BonnetPulmonary Hypertension Research Group, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada; Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec Research Center, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada; Department of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada

Se Hoon ChoiDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Sean WalshDepartment of Radiation Oncology (MAASTRO), GROW-School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), Maastricht 6229 ET, The Netherlands and Department of Oncology, Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7DQ, UK

Sebahat OcakDivision of Pulmonology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dinant-Godinne, Université Catholique de Louvain Namur, Avenue G. Thérasse, 1, B5530 Yvoir, Belgium

Semir VranicDepartment of Pathology, University of Sarajevo Clinical Center, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sergey LeontyevDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Leipzig Heart Center, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Sergio BuccheriDivision of Cardiology, Ferrarotto Hospital, University of Catania, Via Citelli 1, 95100, Catania, Italy

Seung Heon LeeDivision of Pulmonary, Sleep, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Korea University College of Medicine, Ansan, Korea

Severin SchmidDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Shahed N. BadiyanUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 21201, USA

Shah-Hwa ChouDepartment of Surgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Shahzad RajaDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Harefield Hospital, London, UK

Shams Y-HassanDepartment of Cardiology, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Shanbeh ZienolddinyDepartment of Biological and Chemical Work Environment, National Institute of Occupational Health, Pb 8149 Dep, N-0033, Oslo, Norway

Shanda H. BlackmonDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, MA-12-00-1, 200 First Street, Rochester, MN 55905, USA

Shane LloydRadiation Oncology Department, University of Utah, Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA ; 2 Division of Cardiology, University of Utah, University Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA

Shangwen DongTianjin Medical University General Hospital, China

Shankar SivaDivision of Radiation Oncology and Cancer Imaging, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Shaohua CuiShanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Shashikant C.U. PatneDepartment of Pathology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Shawn C. WestAssistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Heart and Heart-Lung Transplantation, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, 4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA

Shekhar GhamandeProgram Director, Pulmonary and Fellowship Program, Baylor Scott and White Health, Temple, Texas, USA

Shenhai WeiDepartment of Thoracic surgery, First Hospital of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Shigeki SawadaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Himeji Red Cross Hospital, Himeji, Hyogo Pref, Japan

Shigeo MuroDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University 53 Kawahara-cho, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan

Shi-Jye ChuDepartment of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Shin MatsuokaDepartment of Radiology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, 2-16-1 Sugao, Miyamae-Ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 216-8511, Japan

Shinichiro MiyoshiDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

Shinji AbeDivision of Pulmonary Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Hiroo Hospital, 2-34-10 Ebisu Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0013, Japan

Shinji MineDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital, 3-8-31, Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-8550, Japan; Department of Esophageal and Gastroenterological Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

Shinji SasadaDepartment of Endoscopy, Respiratory Endoscopy Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan

Shinji TeramotoDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Hitachinaka Medical Education and Research Center, University of Tsukuba, 20-1 Hitachinaka-shi, Ibaraki 329-8575, Japan

Shinsaku TogoDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University, School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan

Shinsuke MiyazakiCardiovascular Center, Tsuchiura Kyodo Hospital, Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan

Shintaro YokoyamaDepartment of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

Shinzo TakamoriDepartment of Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Asahi-machi 67, Kurume FU 830-0011, Japan

Shiro NakaharaDepartment of Cardiology, Dokkyo Medical University Koshigaya Hospital, Saitama, Japan

Shizhao ChengDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Tianjin Chest Hospital, Tianjin, China

Shotaro OkachiDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8560, Japan

Shouguo YangZhongshan Hospital of Fudan university, the Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Shanghai, China

Shuichi ShinoharaSecond Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, 807-8555, Japan

Shuichiro KajiDepartment of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, Kobe, Japan

Shyama JainDepartment of Pathology, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India

Si PhamDepartment of Surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA

Sibu P. SahaDivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Silvia BielsaPleural Medicine Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Arnau de Villanova University Hospital, Institute for Biomedical Research Dr Pifarre Foundation, IRBLLEIDA, Avda Alcalde Rovira Roure 80, 25198, Lleida, Spain

Silvia MarianiEast Midlands Congenital Heart Centre, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK

Silvia PlacidiCardiac Arrhythmia Complex Unit and Syncope Unit, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital and Research Institute, Rome, Italy

Simon C. BodyDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Simon P. HartHull York Medical School, Academic Respiratory Medicine, Castle Hill Hospital, Castle Road, Cottingham, East Yorkshire HU16 5JQ, UK

Simone ScarlataGeriatrics, Unit of Respiratory Pathophysiology, Campus Bio Medico University, Rome, Italy

Sisko AnttilaDepartment of Pathology, HUSLAB and Helsinki University Hospital, Finland

Siva RajaDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Sixto AriasSection of Interventional Pulmonology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Sławomir JabłońskiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, General and Oncological Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, 113 Żeromskiego St,, 90-547, Łódź, Poland

Snigdha JainDepartment of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

So Young ParkDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Soji OzawaDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa, 259-1193, Japan

Solomon A. GrafDepartment of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA 98108, USA

Sook Whan SungDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Soon-Ho ChonDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, S-Jungang Hospital, Jeju, South Korea

Sophia E. SchizaSleep Disorders Center, Department of Thoracic Medicine, University General Hospital, Medical School of the University of Crete, 71110, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Soumitesh ChakravortyDepartment of Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA

Sourya AcharyaDepartment of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences University, Sawangi (Meghe), Wardha - 442 004, Maharashtra, India

Stamatis KatsenosDepartment of Pneumonology, Army General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

Stavros Dimopoulos1st Critical Care Medicine Department, Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing and Rehabilitation Laboratory, “Evgenidio Hospital,” National Kapodistrian University of Athens, 20, Papadiamantopoulou St, Athens 11528, Greece

Stefan RiekenDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; Heidelberg Institute of Radiation Oncology, Germany

Stefan Schulz-DrostOrthopedic and Trauma Surgery, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany

Stefania GoriMedical Oncology, Ospedale Sacro Cuore don Calabria, Negrar, Verona, Italy

Stefano M.M. BassoDepartment of Surgery, S. Maria degli Angeli Hospital, 33170 Pordenone, Italy

Stefano PalmucciRadiodiagnostic and Radiotherapy Unit, University Hospital “Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele”, Via Santa Sofia 78, 95123, Catania, Italy

Stefano RomagnoliDepartment of Health Science, Section of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Florence, Florence, Italy; Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Largo Brambilla, Florence, Italy

Stella Chin-Shaw TsaiDepartment of Medical Research, Tung’s Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan Department of Food and Nutrition, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

Stephen M. VindigniDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, 1959 Northeast Pacific Street, Box 356424, Seattle, WA 98195-6424, USA

Steven LeongDepartment of Thoracic Medicine, The Prince Charles Hospital, Rode Rd, Chermside, Brisbane, Queensland 4032, Australia

Steven TaylorDivision of Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA

Suguru OhiraKyoto Prefectural Univ Med, Dept Cardiovasc Surg, Kamigyo Ku, 465 Kajii Cho, Kyoto 6028566, Japan

Sukki ChoDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam-si, South Korea Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Suleiman MassarwehDivision of Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine; Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford, CA, USA

Sumeet K. MittalNorton Thoracic Institute, Dignity Health, Creighton University School of Medicine, Phoenix, Arizona; Department of Surgery, Creighton University School of Medicine, Creighton Univesity Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Sun Shim ChoiDivision of Biomedical Convergence, College of Biomedical Science, Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Chuncheon 24341, South Korea

Sunghoon KimDivision of Pediatric Surgery, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, Oakland and San Francisco, CA, USA

Susana Garcia-GutierrezUnidad de Investigación, Hospital Galdakao-Usansolo (Osakidetza)-Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC) , Galdakao , Bizkaia , Spain

Susana PintoInstituto de Medicina Molecular and Instituto de Fisiologia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Susetta FinottoLaboratory of Cellular and Molecular Lung Immunology, Department of Molecular Pneumology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Hartmannstraβe 14, Erlangen 91052, Germany

Su-Ying LowDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Outram Rd, Singapore 169608, Singapore

Sven DiederichsUniversity Clinic Freiburg, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Division of Cancer Research, Germany

Sven PeterssDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Munich, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany

Syed S. RaziDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, New York, New York, USA

Sylvie DelanianDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Centre Clinique de la Porte de Saint Cloud, Boulogne-Billancourt, France; Department of Radiation Oncology, Hôpital Saint Louis, APHP, Paris, France

Sze Li SiowDepartment of Surgery, Sarawak General Hospital, Jalan Hospital, 93586 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

Tadashi KitamuraDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan

Tae-Eun JungDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Yeungnam University Hospital, Daegu, South Korea

Tae-Hyung KimDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hanyang University Guri Hospital, Hanyang University College of Medicine, 153 Gyeongchun-ro, Guri 11923, Korea

Takahiro MimaeDepartment of Surgical Oncology, Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan

Takahiro NakajimaDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Takashi NakayamaDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 173-8606, Japan

Takashi OhtsukaDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Takayuki FukuiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya, 466-8550, Japan

Takayuki ShiroyamaDepartment of Thoracic Malignancy, Osaka Prefectural Medical Center for Respiratory and Allergic Diseases, Osaka, Japan

Takenori OgawaDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan

Takeo FujitaDivision of Esophageal Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital East, 6-5-1 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-0882, Japan

Takeshi IwayaDepartment of Surgery, Iwate medical University School of Medicine, Morioka, Japan

Takeshi KuboDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Takeshi MatsumotoDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, 2-1-1 Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0047, Japan

Takeyoshi OtaDepartment of Surgery, Section of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill, USA

Takushi YasudaDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kinki University, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan

Tamás Forster2nd Department of Medicine and Cardiology Center, Albert Szent-Györgyi Clinical Center, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

Tamer AltinokDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Atatürk Center For Chest Disease and Thoracic Surgery, Ankara, Turkey

Tanel LaisaarDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Tartu University Clinics, Tartu, Estonia

Tanyong PipanmekapornDepartment of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Tarun JhaNatural Science Laboratory, Division of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Tarun K. MittalRoyal Brompton & Harefield NHS Fdn Trust, Dept Cardiol & Imaging, London UB9 6JH, England

Tatsuo NakagawaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Tenri Hospital, 200, Mishima, Tenri, Nara, 632-8552, Japan

Tatsuro OkamotoDepartment of Surgery and Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Tatsuro OkamotoDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Tatsuya NakamaMiyazaki Medical Association Hospital, Cardiovascular Center, Funato 738-1, Shinbeppu-tyo, Miyazaki, Japan

Tatsuya YoshidaDepartment of Thoracic Oncology, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Aichi, Japan

Tawee TanvetyanonDepartment of Thoracic Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA

Te-Chun ShenDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan; Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.

Terry W. MoodyDepartment of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, Office of the Director, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

Teruya KomatsuDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Nagara Medical Center, Gifu, Gifu, Japan

Teruya KomatsuDivision of Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Queen Elizabeth II Health Science Centre, 7S-012 1278 Tower Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 2Y9, Canada

TG RanganathDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Thi Dan Linh Nguyen-KimInstitute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich/University Zurich, Rämistrasse 100, CH-8091 Zürich, Switzerland

Thomas FrauenfelderInstitute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Thomas MüllerDepartment of Internal Medicine II, University Medical Centre, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93053 Regensburg, Germany

Thomas TsitsiasDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Guy’s Hospital, London, UK

Thorsten KesslerDeutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, Lazarettstr. 36, 80636 München, Germany; DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Technische Universität München, Lazarettstr. 36, 80636 München, Germany

Tianyu ZhangTuberculosis Research Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Tijana StankovicDepartment of Neurobiology, University of Belgrade, Institute for Biological Research “Sinisa Stankovic”, Bulevar Despota Stefana 142, Belgrade, 11060, Serbia

Tilak PasalaStructural and Congenital Heart Center, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ, USA

Till PlönesDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Freiburg, Hugstetterstrasse 55, 79106 Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Tim SzczykutowiczDepartments of Radiology, Medical Physics, and Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, USA

Tom J. PollardLaboratory for Computational Physiology, MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

Tom WigginsDepartment of Surgery and Cancer, St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College London, London, UK

Tomasz GrodzkiPomeranian Medical University, Thoracic Surgery Department of the Regional Hospital for Lung Diseases, Sokołowskiego str 11, PL 70-891 Szczecin Zdunowo, Poland

Tommaso Claudio MineoUniv Roma Tor Vergata, Div Thorac Surg, Viale Oxford 81, I-00133 Rome, Italy

Tommaso MauriDepartment of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Emergency, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Tomohiro HarukiDivision of General Thoracic Surgery, Tottori University Hospital, Yonago, Tottori, Japan

Tomohisa OkumaDepartment of Radiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka City University, 1-4-3 Asahi-machi, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8585, Japan

Tomoki NakamuraDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu-city, Mie, Japan

Tomoyuki HishidaNatl Canc Ctr Hosp East, Dept Thorac Surg, 6-5-1 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 2778577, Japan

Tony WhitehouseDepartment of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham B15 2GW, UK; College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

Torben GlatzDepartment of General and Visceral Surgery, Medical Center - University of Freiburg and Faculty of Medicine - University of Freiburg, Hugstetter Str. 55, D-79106, Freiburg, Germany

Torben K. BeckerThe Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Torben Riis RasmussenDepartment of Respiratory Diseases and Allergy, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

Toru NakanoDivision of Advanced Surgical Science and Technology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8574, Japan

Toshinari EmaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Itabashi Central Medical Center, 2-12-7 Azusawa, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, 174-0051, Japan

Toshiya NishibeDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Tsai-Wang HuangDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital and National Defense Medical Center, Taipei 114, Taiwan

Tunc LacinDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Ugo CioffiDepartment of Surgery, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Uliano MorandiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

Ulla Møller WeinreichDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark Respiratory and critical care group (RCARE), Centre for Model Based Medical Decision Support Systems, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark The Clinical Institute, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Ulrik SartipyKarolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Usman AhmadDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, J4-1, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA

Valdes BollelaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Avenida Eugênio Nascimento s/n, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais 3603-833, Brazil

Valeria AscoliDepartment of Radiological, Oncological and Anatomo-Pathological Sciences, Sapienza University, Viale Regina Elena, 324, 00161 Rome, Italy

Valerio PernaDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Hospital Universitario Son Espases Carretera de Valldemossa, Palma, Spain

Valliappan MuthuDepartment of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh 160 012, India

Vasile ForisDept of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Vasileios K. KouritasDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK

Vassilis GeorgouliasLaboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Crete, Greece

Vera CapelozziDepartment of Pathology, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo 01246903, Brazil

Viboon BoonsarngsukDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand

Victoria Villena GarridoServicio de Neumología, Fundación Investigación, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, CIBERES, Madrid, España

Vincent Thomas de MontprévilleDepartment of Pathology, Centre Chirurgical Marie Lannelongue, 133 avenue de la Résistance, Le Plessis Robinson, 92350 Paris, France

Vincenzo AmbrogiThoracic Surgery, Tor Vegata University, Via Orazio Raimondo, Roma, Italy

Virginia R. LitleDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Boston University, Boston, Mass, USA

Vito D. BrunoDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Bristol Heart Institute, Bristol, UK

Vittorio DonatoDepartment of Radiation Oncology, San Camillo-Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy

Vivian CoxCentre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Walter KlepetkoDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Wan ZhangDepartment of Vascular Surgery, Shanghai Huadong Hospital Affiliated with Fudan University, Shanghai 200040, China

Wanis IbrahimPulmonary Section, Hamad General Hospital and Weill-Cornell Medical College, Doha, Qatar

Wassim FaresPulmonary Vascular Disease Program, Yale University School of Medicine, 15 York Street, LCI 105-C, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Weihong HeVirginia Commonwealth University, Floyd Ave, Richmond, VA, USA

Weijie GuanState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou, China

Wen-Hsien LuDepartment of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Wensen ChenVice director of Infection Management Office, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

William F. CarsonDepartment of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Wojciech DudekDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Wojtek KarolakDepartment of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, Silesian Center for Heart Disease, Zabrze, Poland

Wolfgang JungraithmayrDivision of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich 8091, Switzerland

Wolfgang SchuetteDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Hospital Martha-Maria, Halle-Dölau, Halle, Germany

Woong-Han KimDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Children’s Hospital, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110-744, South Korea

Wu Ching-YangChang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan

Wu-Wei LaiDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Xiangbin PanDepartment of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, National Center for Cardiovascular Disease and Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Xiangshan FanDepartment of Pathology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China

Xian-wei YeDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, The People’s Hospital of Guizhou Province, Guiyang, China

Xiao LiDepartment of Urology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 300 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing, 210029, China

Xiaohan YangShenzhen Sun Yat-sen Cardiovascular Hospital, Shenzhen Heart Institute, Guangdong, China

Xiaoqiang LiDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China

Xiaoyan WangDepartment of Cardiology, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Xicheng DengDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Hunan Children’s Hospital, Changsha, China

Xin SunThe First Affiliation Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Xi-ping LiuWisconsin Medical College, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Xue-Feng LengAffiliated hospital of Chengdu University, Sichuan, China

Xufeng GuoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Section of Esophageal Cancer, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200030, China

Yanglu ZhaoHeart Disease Prevention Program, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA

Yasuhiro MatsudaDepartment of Surgery, Kishiwada Tokushukai Hospital, 4-27-1 Kamori-chou, Kishiwada City, Osaka 596-8522, Japan

Yasuhiro ShirakawaDepartment of Gastroenterological Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama 700-8558, Japan

Yasunobu HayabuchiDepartment of Pediatrics, Tokushima University, Kuramoto-cho-3, Tokushima, 770-8503, Japan

Yasunori EnomotoSecond Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan; Department of Regenerative and Infectious Pathology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Shizuoka, Japan

Yasutaka WatanabeDivision of Diagnostic Pathology, Saitama Prefectural Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, 1696 Itai, Kumagaya City, Saitama, 360-0105, Japan; Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Clinical Department of Internal Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Saitama Medical Center, 1-847, Amanuma-cho, Omiya City, Saitama, 330-8503, Japan; Department of Clinical Oncology, Tokyo Medical University Hachioji Medical Center, 1163 Tatemachi, Hachioji City, Tokyo, 193-0998, Japan

Ye CuiDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Yeonyee E. YoonDepartment of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea

Yin-Kai ChaoDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Linko, Chang Gung University, No 5. Fu-Hsing Street, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yipeng GeBeijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Yi-Pin ChouDivision of Trauma, Department of Emergency, Veterans General Hospital-Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Research Center for Industry of Human Ecology, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Kweishan, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yo KawaguchiDivision of General Thoracic Surgery, Kohka Public Hospital, Shiga, Japan

Yogesh Kumar VashistDepartment of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany

Yong Chan AhnDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Yong QiangNanjing General Hospital, Nanjing, China

Yong ZhangDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Yoshikane YamauchiDepartment of Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan

Yoshimasa ManiwaDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

Yoshio MisawaDivision of Cardiovascular Surgery, Jichi Medical University, 3311-1 Yakushiji, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, 329-0498, Japan

Yoshiro NakaharaDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, 1-15-1 Kitasato Minami-Ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-0374, Japan

Yoshito InoueDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hiratsuka City Hospital, Hiratsuka, Japan

Yoshito YamadaDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Young Sik ParkDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Young-Du KimDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Bucheon St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 137-701, Republic of Korea

Youngkyu MoonDepartment of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Young-Nam YounDivision of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Severance Cardiovascular Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Yousef RezaeiHeart Valve Disease Research Center, Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Yousser MohammadNational Center for Research on Chronic Respiratory Diseases, Tishreen University, Tishreen Hospital, Lattakia, Syria; Department of Internal Medicine, Syrian Private University, Damascus, Syria

Yu KoyamaDivision of Digestive and General Surgery, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

Yu Kyung ChoDepartment of Internal Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, The College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Yuan BaiChanghai Hospital, The Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China

Yu-Chung WuDivision of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yuichi SakairiDepartment of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Yuji HiraiDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Women’s Medical University; Department of General Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Toyko, Japan

Yujin KudoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

Yuki NakayamaTokyo Metropolitan Inst Med Sci, Lab Nursing Res Intractable Dis, Setagaya Ku, 2-1-6 Kamikitazawa, Tokyo 1568506, Japan

Yukihiro YoshidaDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan

Yukinori YamagataDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; Department of Surgery, Dokkyo Medical University Koshigaya Hospital, 2-1-50 Minami-Koshigaya, Koshigaya City, Saitama, Japan

Yuko OnoEmergency and Critical Care Medical Center, Fukushima Medical University Hospital, Fukushima, 960-1295, Japan; Department of Anesthesiology, Ohta General Hospital Foundation, Ohta Nishinouchi Hospital, Koriyama, Japan

Yun Su SimDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Daerim 1-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, 150-950, Korea

Yusuke TaniyamaDivision of Advanced Surgical Science and Technology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

Yutakafu FujiwaraDepartment of Thoracic Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Zhantao DengDepartment of Orthopedics, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Zhengcheng LiuDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Chest Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University School of Medicine, Guangzhou Road No215, Nanjing, China

Zhengfei ZhuDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Zhi-De HuDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China

Zhiheng XuState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, Department of Intensive Care, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

Zhi-Rui ZhouDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai

Zhongheng ZhangDepartment of emergency medicine, Sir Run-Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Ziwei LiVice President, Shanghai Biotecan Health Management Co. Ltd., Shanghai, China

Ziyad M. BinsalamahDepartment of Surgery, Division of Congenital Heart Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, 6621 Fannin St, MC19345H, Houston, TX 77030, USA

Zsuzsanna LelovicsInstitute of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiation Oncology, Health Center, Kaposvár University, Kaposvár, Hungary

Runzhe ChenDepartment of Thoracic/Head & Neck Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Hematology and Oncology, Zhongda Hospital of Southeast University, Nanjing, China

Shaohua CuiShanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Shangwen DongDepartment of Cardiothoracic, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, China

Lei HuangCardiac center of Tianjin Third-Central Hospital, Tianjin, China

Xiao LiDepartment of Urologic Surgery, The Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Jiangsu Province of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

Xin SunThe Affiliation Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

Zhiqiang WangDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, West China Hospital, Chengdu, China

Jie YaoThe Second Affiliation Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China