Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief:

Igor Rudez, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiac and Transplant Surgery
University Hospital Dubrava
Croatia
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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

Davor Baric, MD, PhD
Dubrava University Hospital
Zagreb, Croatia
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Ben Bidstrup, FRACS, FRCSEd
University of Queensland
Holy Spirit Northside Northside Clinical School Hospital
Chermside Queensland, Australia
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Daniel Unic, MD, PhD
Dubrava University Hospital
Zagreb, Croatia
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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

Lishan Aklog, MD
Pavilion Holdings Group
Purchase, New York, USA
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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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William E. Cohn, MD
Texas Heart Institute
Houston, Texas, USA
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Michael S. Firstenberg, MD
The Summa Health Care System
Akron, Ohio, USA
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Jan D. Galla, MD
Englewood Hospital
Englewood, New Jersey, USA
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Changqing Gao, MD
Institute of Cardiac Surgery
Chinese PLA General Hospital
Bejing, China
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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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Vassilios Gulielmos, MD
Geniki Kliniki Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Greece
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Amer Harky, MD
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital
Liverpool, United Kingdom
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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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Mehmet Kaplan
Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital
Istanbul, Turkey, Turkey
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Tomislav Klokocovnik
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
University Medical Center Ljubljana
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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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Oztekin Oto, MD, FESC, FACC
Dokuz Eylul University Hospital
Izmir, Turkey
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Mohd Ramzisham Abdul Rahman, MD
Heart & Lung Centre, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Goya V. Raikar, MD
Oklahoma Heart Hospital Physicians
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
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Lucas Ramirez-Gil, MD
Department of Surgery, Universidad de Antioquia Chairman of Cardiovascular Surgery
Hospital General de Medellin Medellin
Colombia, Colombia
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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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Edward P. Raines, MD
Cardiovascular Institute of Faith Regional Health Services
Norfolk, Nebraska, USA
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Matthew A. Romano, MD
University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Donald Ross, FRACS
The Royal North Shore Hospital
Sydney, Australia
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Hossein Shayan
Royal Columbian Hospital
British Columbia, Canada
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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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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
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Xin Zhang, MD
Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University
Department of Geriatrics
Wuhan, Hubei, China
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Lin Zhao, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiology
The Third Xiangya Hospital of the Central South University
Changsha, Hunan, China
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