Editorial Staff

Lawrence H. Cohn, MD, Hubbard Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Pedro J. del Nido, MD, William E. Ladd Professor of Child Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Chairman, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston

Thomas W. Rice, MD, Daniel & Karen Lee Chair in Thoracic Surgery, Head, Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Professor of Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University

Hartzell V. Schaff, MD, Stuart W. Harrington Professor of Surgery, Chair, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Frank W. Sellke, MD, Karl Karlson and Gloria Karlson Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Alpert Medical School, Brown University

Stanton K. Shernan, MD, FAHA, FASE, Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Chief, Division of Cardiac Anesthesia, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Craig R. Smith, MD, Johnson and Johnson Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Valentine Mott Professor of Surgery College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University, Chairman, Department of Surgery, Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital

Eugene H. Blackstone, MD, Director, Clinical Investigations, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic

Martin McKneally MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Surgery and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Senior Thoracic Surgeon, Toronto General Hospital

Bryan Meyers, MD, Professor of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Chief, Section of Thoracic Surgery, Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Ryan Walther, MA, Managing Editor, AATS Scientific Publications, American Assocation for Thoracic Surgery

President, Irving L. Kron, University of Virginia

President-Elect, Craig R. Smith, Columbia University

Vice President, Hartzell V. Schaff, Mayo Clinic

Secretary, Thoralf M. Sundt III, Mayo Clinic

Treasurer, David J. Sugarbaker, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Editor, Lawrence H. Cohn, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Councilor, R. Morton Bolman, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Councilor, Joseph S. Coselli, Baylor College of Medicine

Councilor, Hiroshi Date, Kyoto University

Councilor, Bartley P. Griffith, University of Maryland

Councilor, Shaf Keshavjee, Toronto General Hospital

Councilor, G. Alexander Patterson, Washington University

Councilor, John D. Puskas, Emory University

Councilor, Vaughn A. Starnes, University of Southern California