Editorial Board
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Editor-in-Chief
Matthias Siepe, Freiburg, Germany
Past Editors
Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Freiburg, Germany
Hans G. Borst, Hannover, Germany
Ludwig K. von Segesser, Lausanne, Switzerland
Marko I. Turina, Zurich, Switzerland
Ethics Committee
Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Freiburg, Germany
Peter Licht, Odense, Denmark
Richard Prager, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Associate Editors
Luca Bertolaccini, Milan, Italy (Thoracic)
Nikolaos Bonaros, Innsbruck, Austria (Valves)
Julie Cleuziou, Munich, Germany (Congenital)
Georges Decker, Luxembourg (Thoracic non-oncology)
Pierre-Emmanuel Falcoz, Strasbourg, France (Thoracic General, ESTS)
Gloria Färber, Jena, Germany (Mechanical Circulatory Support, Cardiopulmonary Bypass)
Katrien Francois, Gent, Belgium (Cardiac General)
Mario F. L. Gaudino, New York, NY, USA (Meta-Analysis)
Can Gollmann-Tepeköylü, Innsbruck, Austria (Resident’s Corner)
Roman Gottardi, Lahr/Baden, Germany (Experimental)
Larry R. Kaiser, Philadelphia, PA, USA (Thoracic Oncology)
Ari Mennander, Tampere, Finland (Coronary)
Paula Moreno, Cordoba, Spain (Transplantation - lung)
Gabriele Piffaretti, Varese, Italy (Aorta, Endovascular Surgery)
David Reineke, Bern, Switzerland (Heart Failure/Transplant)
J. Rafael Sádaba, Pamplona, Spain (Valves)
Ulrik Sartipy, Stockholm, Sweden (Cardiac General, Translational Research)
Florian Schönhoff, Berne, Switzerland (Aorta, Open Surgery)
Editorial Board
Martin Czerny, Freiburg, Germany (Aorta and Vascular Surgery)
Hitendu H. Dave, Zurich, Switzerland
Michelle Demetres, New York, NY, USA
Enrico Ferrari, Lugano, Switzerland
Francesco Formica, Parma, Italy
Tomas Gudbjartsson, Reykjavik, Iceland
Krishna Khargi, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Maximilian Kreibich, Freiburg, Germany
Milan Milojevic, Erasmus MC, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Marco Moscarelli, Rome, Italy
Christian Munoz-Guijosa, Madrid, Spain
Yutaka Okita, Kobe, Japan
Patrick Myers, Lausanne, Switzerland
G. Alexander Patterson, St. Louis, MO, USA
Serban Stoica, Bristol, UK
Alper Toker, Morgantown, WV, USA
Gonzalo Varela, Salamanca, Spain
Assistant Editors
Frank A Baciewicz, Detroit, MA, USA
Tim Berger, Bad Krozingen, Germany
Monica Casiraghi, Milano, Italy
Luca Di Marco, Bologna, Italy
Christoph Haller, Toronto, Canada
Fabian A. Kari, Munich, Germany
Attila Kiss, Vienna, Austria
Miia Lehtinen, Helsinki, Finland
Mateo Marin-Cuartas, Leipzig, Germany
Anna Meyer, Heidelberg, Germany
Calvin Ng, Hong Kong, China
Noriyoshi Sawabata, Kawanishi City, Japan
Naomichi Uchida, Himeji, Japan
Statistical Consultants
Hans Ulrich Burger, Neuenburg, Germany
Manuel Carnero-Alcazar, Madrid, Spain
Matthew Carr, Manchester, UK
Hakim-Moulay Dehbi, London., UK
Nick Freemantle, London, UK
Klaus Kaier, Freiburg, Germany
David McNulty, Birmingham, UK