Editorial Board
79 editors and editorial board members in 15 countries/regions
- Argentina (1)
- Canada (5)
- China (15)
- Croatia (1)
- France (2)
- Germany (11)
- India (1)
- Italy (10)
- Japan (2)
- Netherlands (1)
- Republic of Korea (1)
- Switzerland (1)
- Turkey (1)
- United Kingdom (UK) (5)
- United States (USA) (22)
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Editor-in-Chief

Paracelsus Medical University Nuremberg, Germany; GVM Care & Research Lecce, Italy; Magna Graecia University Catanzaro, Italy
Interests: cardiopulmonary bypass; cardiovascular; cardiac surgery; cardiothoracic surgery; aortic valve; coronary artery bypass; heart failure; heart valve diseases; echocardiography; pacemakers
Associate Editors

Center for Basic Medical Research & Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital, Tianjin University & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Tianjin, China
Interests: protection of coronary circulation in cardiac surgery; surgical outcome research; cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology; coronary artery bypass grafting; aortic surgery; heart valve repair; myocardial protection; proteomics in cardiovascular system; protein post-translational modifications

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
Interests: adult cardiac surgery; transcatheter aortic and mitral valve replacement; transcatheter mitral and tricuspid valve repair; hybrid cardiac surgery; minimally invasive valve surgery; minimally invasive; robotic assisted coronary bypass surgery; thoracic aortic endograft; transcatheter valve in mitral annular calcium
Founder and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Editorial Board Members

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
Interests: adult cardiac surgery; MCS; VAD; HTX; lung cancer; mediastinum; VATS

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Interests: saphenous vein bypass graft; myocardial protection; cardiopulmonary bypass techniques; blood conservation; coronary artery bypass surgery; beating heart; arterial revascularisation

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Kamakura, Japan
Interests: malperfusion; the skeletonized gastroepiploic artery; mitral valve repair; butterfly resection

Fundación Benetti, Rosario, Argentina
Interests: thecnology for cardiac surgery; arritmias; stem cells; cardiomyopathy; basic minimally invasive surgery; coronary artery surgery; valve surgery; aneurysms; coronary artery disease

Castigliano M. Bhamidipati DO, FACC, MSc, PhD
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Interests: congenital cardiac surgery; aortic surgery; connective tissue disorders; heart valve
Special Issue in IMR Press journals
Special Issue in Recent Advances in Congenital Cardiac Care

Division of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Interests: heart valve surgery; basic science; mechanical assistance devices; cellular cardiomyoplasty; experimental surgery; congenital heart disease

Cardiac Surgery Unit, Clinical and Experimental Department, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Interests: aortic surgery; adult cardiac surgery; heart failure; mechanical circulatory assistance; total arterial myocardial

Eduardo Celentano FACC, FHRS, MD
Department of Electrophysiology, Humanitas Gavazzeni, Bergamo, Italy
Interests: clinical research; medical education; medical devices; complex cardiac ablations; lead extractions; life sciences; medicine

Tianjin Key Laboratory of Ionic-Molecular Function of Cardiovascular disease, Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Institute of Cardiology, Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
Interests: coronary intervention; artificial intelligence and cardiovascular disease

The 1st Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
Interests: lung; heart; thymus; myasthenia gravis; transplantation; artificial intelligence; machine learning; 3D printing

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Interests: valve repair and replacement surgery; minimally invasive thoracoscopic valve repair; rheumatic valve repair; open surgery; interventional surgery; hybrid surgery for aortic dissection; thoracic and abdominal aorta replacement surgery; beating heart coronary artery bypass grafting; minimally invasive small incision coronary artery bypass grafting; various robotic minimally invasive cardiac surgeries; end-stage heart transplantation and artificial heart surgery

Stephen Charles Clark FACC, FESC, MD
Cardiothoracic Centre, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Interests: coronary artery surgery; aortic valve and root surgery; mitral valve replacement; atrial fibrillation

Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
Interests: cardiovascular surgery; cardiac surgery; aortic diseases; heart transplantation; cardiac function; heart valve diseases; cardiac imaging; coagulation; blood transfusion; coronary artery bypass surgery

Angelo Maria Dell'Aquila MBA, MD
Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Halle, Germany
Interests: cardiac surgery; statistics; aortic dissection; aortic dissecting aneurysm; thoracic aortic aneurysm; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; cardiogenic shock; extracorporeal life support; heart failure; ventricular assist device

Alessandro Della Corte MD, PhD
Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Cardiac Surgery Unit, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy
Interests: aorta surgery; aortic valve surgery; aortopathies; aortic dissection; bicuspid aortic valve; heart valve diseases; endocarditis; hereditary thoracic aorta diseases

Department of Surgery, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, ND, USA; Sanford Health Fargo, Fargo, ND, USA
Interests: coronary artery bypass grafting; valve repair and replacement; atrial fibrillation; blood pressure; cardiovascular disease; chest injuries; computed tomography; postoperative complications

Department of Surgery, Maui Memorial Medical Center, Wailuku, HI, USA
Interests: superior vena cava obstruction; cryopreserved aortic allograft; acute ascending aortic dissection; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; acute respiratory distress syndrome

Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy; Cardiac Surgery Clinic, Vito Fazzi Hospital, Lecce, Italy
Interests: coronary surgery; ECMO; heart failure surgery; mechanical complication of acute myocardial infarction; endocarditis outcome; cardiac surgery in adults; meta-analysis, statistics

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
Interests: ardiovascular surgery; endarterectomy; coronary artery disease; aortic dissection; thoracic aortic aneurysm; internal thoracic artery; coronary artery; echocardiography; mitral valve surgery; thoracoabdominal aortic surgery; endarterectomy

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Rebro, Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: ventricular assist device; cardiac surgery; minimally invasive aortic valve surgery; mitral valve repair; arrhythmia surgery; cardiac transplantation; assist device implantation; mechanical circulatory assist; coronary artery bypass grafting; minimally invasive surgery; pericarditis

Department of Heart, Lung and Mechanical Circulatory Support, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
Interests: thoracic surgery; thoracic transplantation; DCD and NRP organ retrieval; heart and lung failure

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK
Interests: cardiac surgery; aortic diseases; cardiovascular surgery; aortic dissecting aneurysm; thoracic aortic aneurysm; coronary artery bypass grafting; internal thoracic artery; coronary artery; mitral valve surgery; endovascular surgery; vascular transplantation

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL, USA
Interests: thoracic endovascular aortic repairs; aortic dissection; congenital heart surgery; heart and lung transplantation; aortic valve reconstruction/salvage surgery; thoracic aortic endovascular transplantation; aortic surgery; endocarditis surgery; heart valve disease; valve preservation surgery; endovascular surgery; vascular transplantation; thoracic aortic aneurysm

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Larner School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Interests: shock; ECMO; mechanical circulatory support; intensive care; heart failure; cardiogenic shock; extracorporeal life support

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Daping Hospital, Chongqing, China
Interests: pulmonary hypertension; thoracic surgery; video-assisted thoracic surgery; pediatric cardiac surgery; video-assisted surgery; cardiovascular surgery

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Interests: robotic cardiac surgery; coronary artery bypass graft; heart transplantation; adult heart; ventricular assist device; valve surgery; arrhythmia surgery

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
Interests: atrial fibrillation; coronary heart disease; valvular heart disease; congenital heart disease; aortic disease; carotid stenosis; minimally invasive surgery and interventional therapy

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
Interests: cardiac surgery; translational research; minimal invasive; arhythmias; associated with cardiac surgery; artificial intelligence-supported; multidisciplinary approaches; recovery after cardiovascular surgery

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Health Practice and Research Center, University of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey
Interests: small aortic annulus; aortic root aneurysm; cardiac surgery; bloodless surgery; cardiopulmonary bypass

Alexandros N. Karavas FACC, MD
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Interests: high-risk coronary revascularization; valve repair; surgical management of endocarditis; surgical critical care; mechanical cardiovascular; pulmonary support
Special Issue in IMR Press journals
Special Issue in Surgical Management of Endocarditis

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinik für Herzchirurgie, Herzzentrum Dresden Universitätsklinik an der Technischen Universität, Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Interests: minimally invasive cardiac surgery; heart-lung transplantation; heart transplantation; surgical treatment of AF; mitral valve reconstruction

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Pitié-Salpêtrière APHP Hospital, Paris, France
Interests: aortic valve sparing and/or repair; aortic annuloplasty; dynamics of the aortic root; bicuspid aortic valves; aortic valve reconstruction with autologous pericardium; mitral valve repair

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Peking University People's Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China
Interests: cardiovascular diseases; artificial intelligence; epidemiology; bioinformatics

Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Interests: ECMO systems; ventricular assist devices; total artificial heart; mechanical circulatory support engineering; aortic surgery; minimally invasive heart surgery; heart and lung transplantation

Tomas D. Martin BA, BSc, FRCSC, MSc
Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA
Interests: cardiac surgery; chest aortic aneurysm repair; aortic dissection; aortic dissection; valve surgery, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Marfan syndrome; thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR); thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA); valvular disease

Department of Cardiology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Interests: pediatric cardiology; cardiovascular disease; pediatrics; congenital heart disease; echocardiography

Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Interests: cardiac surgery; mitral valve disease; neurological support

Hani K. Najm FACC, FESC, FRCSC, MD, MSc
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA
Interests: cardiac surgery; coronary artery bypass; cardiovascular surgery; mitral valve annuloplasty; congenital heart disease

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Centre Cardiologique du Nord St Denis, Saint-Denis, France
Interests: valvular heart disease; congenital heart defects; heart failure; aortic aneurysms and dissections; cardiac tumors; thoracic aortic disease

Cardiac Surgery Unit, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy
Interests: adult heart surgery; extracorporeal circulation techniques; myocardial protection during cardiac surgery; coronary surgery; mitral valve replacement

DIMEC Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy; Cardiac Surgery Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Interests: cardiac surgery; aortic surgery; heart transplantation; minimally invasive surgery

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Nürnberg-Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany
Interests: percutaneous aortic valve replacement; minimal invasive surgery; TAVI; mechanical circulatory support

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Harefield Hospital, London, UK
Interests: coronary artery bypass surgery; minimal access aortic valve surgery; arterial revascularisation; endoscopic vein harvesting; keyhole heart surgery; TAVI
Special Issue in IMR Press journals
Special Issue in Updates and Challenges in Coronary Surgery

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Interests: adult cardiac surgery; therapies for heart; lung failure, coronary artery; valvular heart disease; cardiovascular research

Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, Marburg University Hospital, Marburg, Germany
Interests: surgery of atrial fibrillation; minimally invasive CABG; vascular surgery; TAVR; surgical nursing

Cardiac Surgery Department, Albertinen Heart Center, Hamburg, Germany
Interests: cardiac surgery; multivessel coronary artery disease; surgical device development; neurological diseases; off-pump arterial revascularization; minimally invasive cardiac surgery; valvular reconstruction

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Interests: minimally invasive aortic surgery; conventional and frozen elephant trunk; reoperative aortic arch surgery; David operation; total arterial CABG and OPCAB; minimally invasive multiple valve surgery; brain protection during arch repair

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Interests: heart and lung transplantation; mechanical circulatory support; cardiac surgery; aortic valve replacement, coronary artery bypass grafting, cardiogenic shock; heart valve prosthesis; thoracic aortic aneurysm
Special Issue in IMR Press journals

Department of Surgery, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA
Interests: myocardial protection; warm heart surgery; off-pump cardiac surgery; valvular surgery; aortic surgery

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Interests: general cardiac surgery; thoracic surgery; adult cardiac surgery; surgeons; frailty; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; acute respiratory distress syndrome; coronary artery bypass grafting; percutaneous aortic valve replacement

Department of Cardiac Surgery, LMU Klinikum, Munich, Germany
Interests: heart valve reconstruction; xenotransplantation; valve transplantation; coronary artery bypass grafting; radiofrequency ablation

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, BC, Canada
Interests: ECMO; transcatheter aortic valve implant; mechanical circulatory support; heart and lung transplantation

The Wellman Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Interests: aortic valve replacement; mitral valve repair; surgical outcomes; transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Dominique Shum-Tim FRCSC, MD, MSc
Division of Cardiac Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
Interests: cardiopulmonary bypass; heart failure; coronary artery disease; tissue engineering; cell therapy; cardiac valve disease; cerebral protection during cardiac surgery; aortic surgery

Cardiology Department, Health Sciences North, Health Sciences North Research Institute, Northern Ontario School of Medicine University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Interests: atrial fibrillation; oral anticoagulation therapy; cardiac implantable electronic devices; anticoagulant; heart valve prosthesis; defibrillator

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Interests: transcatheter aortic valve replacement; aortic surgery; valvular heart; thoracic aortic aneurysm

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Interests: cardiothoracic surgery; cardiac surgery; cardiovascular surgery; regenerative medicine; coronary artery disease; surgery; cardiac surgery

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
Interests: cardiac regenerative therapy; structural heart disease; heart failure; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)

Yannick J.H.J. Taverne MD, MSc, PhD
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Interests: cardiovascular system; congenital heart disease; heart failure; cardiac function

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA
Interests: deleterious effects of cardiopulmonary bypass; improving the care of patients after cardiac surgery; surgical education; heart failure; ventricular assist devices; fibrinolytic therapy; embolectomy; postoperative complications; aortic valve

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, George Washington University Medical Center and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Interests: end stage heart and lung disease; video assisted thoracic surgery; thoracic oncology (lung cancer); mechanical assist devices; coronary artery disease; aortic valvular disease; mitral valve disorders; off-pump coronary revascularization; off-bypass coronary revascularization

Department of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Interests: minimally invasive mitral valve reconstruction; minimally invasive bypass surgery; transcatheter valve interventions; aortic valve repair; aortic surgery; fully endoscopic atrial ablation

Fudan University, Zhongshan Hospital, Department of Cardiac Intensive Care Centre, Shanghai, China
Interests: intensive care; hemodynamic monitoring; acute kidney injury; ECMO

Division of Cardiac Surgery, St Vincent Hospital, Worcester, MA, USA
Interests: mitral valve repair; coronary artery bypass; atrial fibrillation; minimally invasive aortic valve surgery; valvular heart disease in women minimally invasive; mitral valve repair; coronary artery disease in women

Dominique Vervoort MBA, MD, MPH
Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Interests: aortic surgery; congenital heart surgery; disparities in accessing cardiac care; extracorporeal circulation; heart failure; coronary artery disease; tissue engineering; cell therapy; valvular heart disease

Cardiovascular and Thoracic Centre, MEITRA Hospital, Kozhikode, Kerala, India
Interests: extracorporeal coronary artery bypass surgery; off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting; revascularization; non-surgical coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB); Bentalls procedure

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany
Interests: valve surgery; catheter-based therapies; coronary bypass grafting; beating heart mitral valve repair; aortic surgery; echocardiography

Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Interests: valve reconstruction; minimally invasive cardiac surgery; vein graft research; coronary revascularization; surgical history

Department of Heart Transplant and VAD, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Interests: end-stage heart disease surgery; heart transplantation and ventricular assist surgery; surgical treatment of end-stage heart disease, heart transplantation; ventricular assist surgery; fibroblasts; signal transduction; myocardium; reperfusion injury; ischemia; myocardium; abdominal aortic aneurysm

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Interests: valvular heart disease; valve replacement or valvuloplasty; coronary artery disease; coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG); thoracic aortic aneurysm; aortic dissection and true aortic aneurysm; chronic atrial fibrillation; chronic pulmonary embolism; pulmonary endarterectomy; minimally invasive cardiac surgery

Department of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Interests: coronary artery bypass grafting; aortic valve implantation; minimally invasive thoracic surgery (VATS); total arterial revascularization; aortic valve surgery; coronary artery surgery; lung cancer; TAVI

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University, Jinan, Shandong, China
Interests: coronary heart disease; valvular heart disease; pulmonary arterial hypertension; early origins of cardiovascular disease, diabetes; hypertension

Department of Geriatrics, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei, China
Interests: heart failure; pathogenetic basis; clinical management of cardiovascular injury; heart failure; cardiovascular damage; hypertension; myocardial disease

Department of Cardiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital of the Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Interests: right ventricular diseases; pulmonary vascular disorders; pulmonary hypertension; vascular remodeling; low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; cardiovascular disease; lipid peroxidation; reactive oxygen species

Cardiac Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China
Interests: classic coronary artery bypass grafting; arterial bridge coronary artery bypass grafting; minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting; conventional and minimally invasive surgeries on various valves; surgical treatment of heart failure
