Editorial Team
Editor-in-Chief:
Giuseppe Santarpino, MD, PhD
Paracelsus Medical University Nuremberg, Germany
GVM Care & Research Lecce, Italy
Magna Graecia University Catanzaro, Italy
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Associate Editor:
Curt Tribble, MD
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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Founder and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Mark M. Levinson, MD
Department of Cardiology
Confluence Health
Wenatchee, Washington, USA
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Assistant Editors
Ben Bidstrup, FRACS, FRCSEd
University of Queensland
Holy Spirit Northside Northside Clinical School Hospital
Chermside Queensland, Australia
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Song Wan, MD, FRCS
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Prince of Wales Hospital
Hong Kong, China
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Editorial Board
Alberto Aimo, PhD, MD
Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Pisa, Italy
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Lishan Aklog, MD
Pavilion Holdings Group
Purchase, New York, USA
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Ivan Aleksic, MD, PhD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
University Hospital Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany
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Tohru Asai, MD
Shiga University of Medical Science
Otsu, Japan
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Federico Jose Benetti, MD
Fundación Benetti
Rosario, Argentina
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Castigliano M. Bhamidipati
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR, USA
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Giacomo Bianchi, MD, PhD
Division of Adult Cardiac Surgery
Massa, Italy
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Massimo Bonacchi, MD
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Florence, Italy
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Eduardo Celentano, MD
Department of Electrophysiology, Humanitas Gavazzeni
Bergamo, Italy
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Zhenguang Chen, MD, PhD
The 1st Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, China
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William E. Cohn, MD
Texas Heart Institute
Houston, Texas, USA
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Angelo Maria Dell'Aquila
Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Halle
Saale, Germany
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Michael S. Firstenberg, MD
The Summa Health Care System
Akron, Ohio, USA
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Toshihiro Fukui, MD, PhD
Kumamoto University Hospital
Kumamoto, Japan
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Jan D. Galla, MD
Englewood Hospital
Englewood, New Jersey, USA
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Hrvoje Gasparovic, MD, PhD, FETCS
Assoc. Professor of Surgery Director
Department of Cardiac Surgery
University Hospital Rebro
Zagreb, Croatia
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Amer Harky, MD
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital
Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Guo-Wei He, M.D., D.Sc
Center for Basic Medical Research & Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital, Tianjin University & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
Tianjin, China
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Philip Hess Jr., MD
Shands Hospital, University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
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Hitoshi Hirose, MD,
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, USA
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Ho Young Hwang, MD, PhD
Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine
Seoul, South Korea
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Jurij Matija Kalisnik, PhD
Klinikum KABEG Klagenfurt, University of Graz affiliated Academic tertiary centre, Klagenfurt am Woertersee, Austria
School of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Nuremberg, Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany
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Mehmet Kaplan
Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital
Istanbul, Turkey, Turkey
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Alexandros N. Karavas, MD
Boston Medical Center
Boston, United States
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Michael Knaut, MD
Heart Center Dresden University Hospital,
Dresden, Germany
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Emmanuel Lansac, MD, PhD
L'Institut Mutualiste Montsouris
Paris, France
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Tong Liu, MD
The Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University
Tianjin, China
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Tomas D. Martin, MD
University of Florida Hospital
Orlando, Florida, USA
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John Murkin, MD, FRCPC
London Health Sciences Centre
London, Ontario, Canada
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Francesco Nappi,
Centre Cardiologique du Nord St Denis,
Saint-Denis, France
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Francesco Nicolini, MD, PhD
Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Parma
Parma, Italy
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Davide Pacini
DIMEC Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Cardiac Surgery Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Francesco Pollari, MD, PhD
Klinikum Nürnberg-Paracelsus Medical University
Nurnberg, Germany
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Shahzad Gull Raja, MD, MRCS, FRCS(C-Th)
Harefield Hospital
Harefield, United Kingdom
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Ardawan Julian Rastan, MD, PhD
Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg, Standort Marburg
Marburg, Germany
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Hermann Reichenspurner, MD
University Hospital Eppendorf
Hamburg, Germany
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Friedrich-Christian Riess, MD
Albertinen Heart Center
Hamburg, Germany
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Petar Risteski, MD
University Hospital Zürich,
Department of Cardiac Surgery
Zürich, Switzerland
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Matthew A. Romano, MD
University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Michael Schmoeckel
Klinikum der Universität München
Munich, Germany
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Hossein Shayan
Royal Columbian Hospital
British Columbia, Canada
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Mohammed Shurrab, MD, MSc, PhD
Cardiology Department, Health Sciences North, Health Sciences North Research Institute
Northern Ontario School of Medicine University
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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Tadahisa Sugiura, MD, PhD
Montefiore Medical Center
NYC, USA
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Cristiano Spadaccio, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac Surgery
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Nicholas R. Teman, MD
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, CO, USA
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Gregory D Trachiotis
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
The George Washington University Medical Center
Washington, D.C., USA
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Hendrik Treede, MD, PhD
University Heart Center Hamburg
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Martinistrasse 52
Hamburg, Germany
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Guowei Tu, MD
Fudan University, Zhongshan Hospital, Department of Cardiac Intensive Care Centre
Shanghai, China
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Christina Vassileva, MD
SIU School of Medicine
Springfield, Illinois, USA
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Dominique Vervoort
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Ferdinand Aurel Vogt, PhD, MD, MHBA
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University
Nuremberg, Germany
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Murali Prabhakaran Vettath
MEITRA HOSPITAL Kozhikode
Kerala, India
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Grayson H. Wheatley III
Temple University School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Leora Yarboro, MD
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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Vipin Zamvar, MD, FRCS
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Tao Zhang, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery,
Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University
Jinan, Shandong, China
ORCID
Xin Zhang, MD
Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University
Department of Geriatrics
Wuhan, Hubei, China
ORCID
Lin Zhao, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiology
The Third Xiangya Hospital of the Central South University
Changsha, Hunan, China
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