Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Vipin Zamvar, MS, DNB(CTh), FRCS(CTh), Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK
Dr Vipin Zamvar is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He was born in 1965 and grew up in Mumbai, India. He graduated from Grant Medical College and finished his basic general surgical training at JJ Hospital, Mumbai.
In 1991, he came to the UK to pursue training in Cardiac Surgery. He trained in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Southampton, Manchester and Cardiff. After completing his specialist training in 1999, he worked as a Consultant surgeon from 1999 to 2002 at Cardiff. In 2002, he moved to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Dr Zamvar has a joint cardiac and thoracic surgical practice and his main areas of interest are Coronary Artery Surgery (off-pump surgery, arterial revascularization), Aortic Valve Surgery, Lung Cancer Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery and Robotic Assisted Thoracic Surgery. He takes a keen interest in teaching and education of junior surgeons.
He has given many lectures world-wide on cardiac and thoracic surgical topics. He is the author of more than a 100 papers published in peer-reviewed journals with a H index of 30 and i10 index of 51. (Total number of citations > 5000). He was the President of the World Society of CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgeons (WSCTS) from 2015 to 2016; and is currently the General-Secretary. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the “Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery” since 2006. He is an elected trustee of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland.
In 2017, he described the “Zamvar Pericardial Fold”. This is a fold of pericardium over the left superior and inferior pulmonary veins, which is an ideal spot to place a deep pericardial retraction suture during off-pump coronary surgery (the Zamvar Pericardial Stitch).
Dr Zamvar enjoys playing chess and his FIDE rating is just over 1750. 
You can follow him on Twitter: @VipinZamvar

 
Deputy Editors
Teresa M Kieser, MD, PhD, Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Canada
Marko Turina, MD, MDhc, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
 

Associate Editors
Marc Albert, MD, Robert Bosch Hospital, Germany
Khosro Barkhordari, MD, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Rouven Berndt, PhD, MD, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
David J Chambers, PhD, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Torsten Doenst, MD, PhD, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, University Hospital, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Germany
Jaspal Dua, MBBS, MRCPCH, MRCPE, DCH, MD, CCT, FRCPE, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Trust, United Kingdom
Lorenzo Gibello, MD, PhD, University of Turin, Italy
Mattia Glauber, MD, Istituto Clinico SantAmbrogio, Milano, Italy
Dominik Joskowiak, Priv.-Doz. Dr. med., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Ravish Katira, MBBS(Hons), MD, DM, FRCP, Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom
Harold Lazar, MD, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA, USA
Shuben Li, MD, PhD, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, China
Luca Mezzetto, FEBVS, MD, University Hospital and Trust of Verona, Italy
Moritz Mirna, MD, PhD, FESC, Paracelsus Medical University, Austria
Cleonice de Carvalho Coelho Mota, MD, MSc, PhD Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Matteo Pettinari, PhD, MD, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Belgium
Arun Pherwani, MBBS, MS, MPhil, DNB, FRCS (Eng), FRCSI, FRCS (Gen), Keele University, United Kingdom
Jaishankar Raman, MBBS, Mmed, FRACS, PhD, FCSANZ, University of Melbourne, Australia
Alessio Rungatscher, MD, PhD, FAHA, University of Verona, Italy
Paul Sergeant, MD, PhD, KU Leuven (emeritus), Belgium
Kazuyoshi Takagi, PhD, MD, Kurume University, Japan
Matthias Unterhuber, Dr. Med. Univ. MD, Azienda Sanitaria dell’Alto Adige, Italy

Statistical Advisor
Paul A. Kurlansky, MD, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Editorial Board
Lishan Aklog, MD, Mount Sinai Medical Center, USA
Gianni Angelini, MD, MCh, FRCS, FMedSci, Bristol Royal Infirmary, UK
Faisal G. Bakaeen, MD, FACS, Cleveland Clinic, USA
Guntug Batihan, MD, Kafkas University, Faculty of Medicine, Turkey
Jacob Bergsland, MD, PhD, BH Heart Center, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Antonio Maria Calafiore, MD, 1st Department of Cardiac Surgery, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece
Ciro Campanella, MD, FRCS, FRCP, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK
Fabrizio Ceresa, MD, Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Department, Papardo Hospital, Messina, Italy
Sertac Cicek, MD, Siyami Ersek Heart Center, Turkey
Stephen Clark, BMedSci, BM, BS, DM, FFST, MAMSE, FACS, RCPathME, FESC, FACC, DLM, FRCP, FRCS(C-Th), Newcastle Freeman Hospital, UK
Ignazio Condello, MD, Anthea Hospital, Italy
Joseph Coselli, MD, FACS, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Michael Crittenden, MD, VA Boston Healthcare System, USA
Anthony C de Souza, MD, Royal Brompton Hospital, UK
Mark Danton, Royal Children's Hospital Glasgow, UK
Luigi Di Tommaso, MD, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
Aabha Divya, MBBS, MS , DNB (CTh), M.Ch (CTVS), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
Giuseppe Fontana, MD, University Hospital, Italy
Bruce French, MD, Liverpool Hospital, Australia
Mario Gaudino, MD, PhD, MSCE, FEBCTS, FACC, FAHA, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA
Raffaele Giordano, MD PhD, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Bartley Griffith, MD, FACS, FRCS, University of Maryland, USA
Rune Haaverstad, MD PhD, Trondheim University Hospital, Norway
Mohammadreza Iranian, MD, Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Afksendiyos Kalangos, MD, DSc, Koç University Hospital, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Charanjit Khurana, MD, George Washington University, USA
Soichiro Kitamura, MD, National Cardiovascular Center, Japan
Sara Lopes, MD, Instituto Português de Oncologia of Porto, Portugal
Zile Meharwal, MS, MCh, MNAMS, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, India
Minoru Oro, MD, PhD, University of Tokyo, Japan
Sanjay A. Pai, MD, Manipal Hospital -Yeshwanthpur, Bangalore, India
Nirav Patel, MD, Lenox Hill Hospital, USA
Mate Petričević, MD, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Croatia
Jose Pomar, MD, PhD, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Spain
Shekhar Saha, MD PhD, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany
Tomas Salerno, MD, University of Miami, USA 
Sigrid Sandner, MS, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Siven Seevanayagam, MBBS, FRACS, University Hospital Geelong, Australia
Davorin Sef, MD, PhD, MEBCTS, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
Paul Sergeant, MD, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Belgium
Erez Sharoni, MD, Rabin Medical Centre, Israel
Hani Shennib, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, USA 
Heng Shi, MD, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China
Hüseyin Sicim, MD, Mayo Clinic, USA
Vivek Srivastava, MBBS, MS, MCh, FRCSEd (CTh), John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS FT, UK
Robert Tam, MBBS (QLD), FRACS, FRACS (CTS), The Prince Charles Hospital, Australia
Gianluca Torregrossa, MD, Lankenau Heart Institute, USA
Naresh Trehan, MD, Escorts Heart Institute, India
Mohd Yakub, MD, Institute Jantung Negara (National Heart Institute), Malaysia
Sai Yendamuri, MD, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, USA
Kanhua Yin, MD, MPH, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Afzal Zaidi, MA(Cantab), MB.BChir, FRCS (CTh), Swansea Bay University Health Board, United Kingdom