The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 134, Issue 1 , Pages 15-19, July 2007

The Editorial Board of The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

  • Andrew S. Wechsler, MD

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Andrew W. Wechsler, MD, Drexel University College of Medicine, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 230 North Broad Street, Mail Stop 111, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1192.

Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa.

Received 22 May 2007; accepted 22 May 2007.

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In 2006, our editorial board members reviewed more than 815 assignments (number includes multiple reviews of the same manuscript by each reviewer), an average of 23 assignments per person. Given the fact that most of our board members are busy clinicians who carve time from evenings and weekends to perform this vital function, it is clear that I owe a huge debt of gratitude to those individuals, highlighted on the following pages, who serve so ably on our editorial board.

Individuals nominated to the editorial board are selected by consultation between the editor and the section editors. The names of the nominees are submitted to the Council of the AATS for approval. Individuals who are asked to serve on the editorial board must have displayed competence and timeliness as peer reviewers, evidence of important contributions to our field, and good common sense. The total number of invitations to review accepted by Editorial Board reviewers in 2006 ranged from 2 to 60 (average: 25). I can only state, quite simply and sincerely, the Journal and their colleagues are very much in their debt.

This year we wish to note the departure from the editorial board of the following members: J. William Gaynor, Ivan Rebeyka, Robert Robbins, and David Sugarbaker. We would like to express special thanks to Valerie Rusch, who has broken all records by serving continuously since 1992.

We would like to welcome to the editorial board Emile Bacha, Edward Bove, Ralph Bueno, Christopher Caldarone, John Elefteriades, Donald Glower, Frank Pigula, Lars Svensson, Tom Treasure, Dirk van Raemdonck, and Federico Venuta.

Many of you, our readers, are asked from time to time to provide peer review as a service to your colleagues. In a previous editorial, I defined some of the responsibilities and benefits for such endeavors. The high impact factor of the Journal and its prestigious position in the top 3.4% of all published journals are the consequence of our rigorous peer review process. For those readers who have not been called upon to provide peer review but who have contributed to the literature and would like to participate in the process, we encourage you to log on to our Web site (http://jtcvs.editorialmanager.com), register as a reviewer, and self-classify your interests. I offer you my thanks in advance for any help you provide to us in the future.

Our editorial board is international in scope because we are truly a journal with international reach. One third of our submissions are from North America, roughly another third are from Asia, and another third from Europe, with a small number of papers emanating from South America. The Journal welcomes submissions from anyone who performs cardiothoracic surgery or is involved with investigational work of keen interest to cardiothoracic surgeons. The high quality of work submitted to the Journal has led the AATS council to contract for more published pages to the Journal in order to help accommodate additional excellent manuscripts. We also encourage the submission of accompanying videos that may help our readers to understand better the details of surgical procedures.

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Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 

Editorial Staff 

Editor 

Andrew S. Wechsler, MD

Stanley K. Brockman Professor

Chairman, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Drexel University College of Medicine

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Section Editor 

Ralph J. Damiano, Jr, MD

John M. Shoenberg Professor of Surgery

Chief of Cardiac Surgery

Washington University School of Medicine

St Louis, Missouri

Section Editor 

D. Craig Miller, MD

Thelma and Henry Doelger Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery

Stanford University Medical School

Stanford, California

Section Editor 

G. Alexander Patterson, MD

Joseph C. Bancroft Professor of Surgery

Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Washington University School of Medicine

St Louis, Missouri

Section Editor 

Thomas L. Spray, MD

Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery and Alice Langdon Warner Endowed Chair

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Professor of Surgery

The University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Section Editor 

Richard D. Weisel, MD, FRCSC

Professor and Chairman

Division of Cardiac Surgery

University of Toronto

Director, Toronto General Research Institute

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Statistics Editor 

Eugene H. Blackstone, MD

Section Head: Research

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Ethics Editor 

Martin F. McKneally, MD

Department of Surgery and Joint Centre for Bioethics

University of Toronto

Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Managing Editor 

Pamela Fried, MBA

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Editorial Board: 2007-2008 

Erle H. Austin III, MD

Professor of Surgery

University of Louisville

Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery

Kosair Children’s Hospital

Louisville, Kentucky

Emile A. Bacha, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Senior Associate in Cardiac Surgery

Children’s Hospital Boston

Boston, Massachusetts

Carl Lewis Backer, MD

A.C. Buehler Professor of Surgery

Children’s Memorial Hospital

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

Chicago, Illinois

Michael A. Borger, MD, PhD

Toronto General Hospital

Associate Professor of Surgery

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Edward Bove, MD

Helen and Marvin Kirsh Professor

Head, Section of Cardiac Surgery

Director, Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

University of Michigan School of Medicine

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ralph Bueno, MD

Associate Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery

Director, Thoracic Surgery Residency Program

Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Eric G. Butchart, FRCS

Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon

University Hospital of Wales

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Christopher A. Caldarone, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

University of Toronto

Division of Cardiovascular Surgery

The Hospital for Sick Children

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Thierry-Pierre Carrel, MD

Professor of Surgery

Chairman

Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery

Swiss Cardiovascular Center

University Hospital

Berne, Switzerland

George J. Despotis, MD

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Pathology and Immunology

Washington University School of Medicine

Attending Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist, Transfusion Medicine

Barnes-Jewish Hospital

St Louis, Missouri

John A. Elefteriades, MD

William W. L. Glenn Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Chief, Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Yale University School of Medicine

New Haven, Connecticut

A. Marc Gillinov, MD

Staff Surgeon

Surgical Director, The Center for Atrial Fibrillation

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Donald D. Glower, Jr, MD

Professor of Surgery

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina

Bartley P. Griffith, MD

Professor & Chief, Cardiac Surgery

University of Maryland Medicine

Baltimore, Maryland

John W. Hammon, MD

Professor of Surgery

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Alden H. Harken, MD

Professor and Chairman

Department of Surgery

University of California, San Francisco, East Bay

Oakland, California

David H. Harpole, Jr, MD

Professor of Surgery

Duke University Medical Center

Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina

Alan D. Hilgenberg, MD

Visiting Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital

Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Charles B. Huddleston, MD

Professor of Surgery

Washington University School of Medicine

Chief, Pediatric CT Surgery

St. Louis Children’s Hospital

St. Louis, Missouri

John S. Ikonomidis, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center

Charleston, South Carolina

Walter Klepetko, MD

Professor of Special Thoracic Surgery

Director Vienna Lung Transplant Program

University Hospital of Vienna

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Vienna, Austria

Harold L. Lazar, MD

Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Boston Medical Center

Director, Cardiothoracic Surgical Research, Boston University School of Medicine

Boston, Massachusetts

James D. Luketich, MD

Sampson Family Endowed Professor of Surgery

Chief, Heart, Lung and Esophageal Surgery Institute

Chief, Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Michael A. Maddaus, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

The Garamella Lynch Jensen Chair in Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery

Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Philippe Menasché, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery

Hôpital Europeen Georges Pompidou and University Paris 5

Paris, France

Bryan F. Meyers, MD

Attending Surgeon, Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Associate Professor of Surgery

Washington University School of Medicine

St Louis, Missouri

Marc R. Moon, MD

Associate Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery

Washington University School of Medicine

St Louis, Missouri

Ralph S. Mosca, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery

Director, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Children’s Hospital of New York

Columbia University Medical Center

New York City, New York

Frank A. Pigula, MD

Clinical Director, Cardiac Surgery

Boston Children’s Hospital

Assistant Professor

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Todd K. Rosengart, MD

Owen L. Coon Chair, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Evanston Northwestern Healthcare

Professor of Surgery

Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois

Frank W. Sellke, MD

Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Johnson & Johnson Professor of Surgery

Harvard Medical School

Boston, Massachusetts

Hans-Hinrich Sievers, MD

Professor of Cardiac Surgery

Head of the Department

University of Schleswig-Holstein

Campus Lübeck/Germany

Nicholas Smedira, MD

Surgical Director, Kaufman Center for Heart Failure

Director, Cardiac Transplantation and Ventricular Assist Device Therapy Program

Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Cleveland, Ohio

Francis G. Spinale, MD, PhD

Professor of Surgery

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Charleston, South Carolina

Lars G. Svensson, MD, PhD

Director, Aortic Surgery Center

Marfan Syndrome and Connective Tissue Disorder Clinic

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery F24

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, Ohio

Tom Treasure, MS, MD, FRCS

Professor, Thoracic Surgery

Cardiothoracic Unit

Guy’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Marko I. Turina, MD

Professor of Surgery

University Hospital

Zurich, Switzerland

James S. Tweddell, MD

Professor of Surgery (Cardiothoracic) and Pediatrics

The S. Bert Litwin Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin

Chair, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Medical College of Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Dirk Van Raemdonck, MD

Department of Thoracic Surgery

University Hospital Gasthuisberg

Herestraat 49

B-3000 Leuven

Belgium

Frederico Venuta, MD

Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery

University of Rome La Sapienza

Rome, Italy

Jakob Vinten-Johansen, PhD

Professor, Cardiothoracic Surgery

Director, Cardiothoracic Research Laboratory

Carlyle Fraser Heart Center

Atlanta, Georgia

PII: S0022-5223(07)00913-0

doi:10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.05.023

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 134, Issue 1 , Pages 15-19, July 2007

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