Editorial Board

Richard Van Praagh

Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Honorary Member of Editorial Board

Damian Czyżewski

Chair and Department of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

Stanisław Bartuś

Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Leo Bockeria

Bakulev Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, 121552 Moscow, Russia

Jan Borowiec

Department of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

Marek Deja

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

Frank Detterbeck

Thoracic Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Piotr Dylewicz

Department of Cardiac Rehabilitation of the Academy of Physical Education in Poznań, Poznań, Poland

Mariusz Gąsior

3rd Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

Tomasz Grodzki

Thoracic Surgery and Transplantation Department, Lung Diseases Institute, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Marek Gwoździewicz

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Henrik Hansen

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Copenhagen-Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

Marek Jasiński

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland

Marek Jemielity

Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland

Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland

Bogusław Kapelak

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantology, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland

Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Piotr Kasprzak

Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Mariusz Kasprzyk

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland

Wojciech Kądziołka

Podkarpackie Center of Lung Diseases in Rzeszów, Rzeszów, Poland

Shaf Keshavjee

Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Janusz Kowalewski

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Tumors, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 85-067, Torun, Poland

Józef Kozak

Clinic of Thoracic Surgery and Respiratory Rehabilitation, Medical University of Lodz, Regional Multi-Specialist Center for Oncology and Traumatology of the Nicolaus Copernicus Memorial Hospital in Lodz, Lodz, Poland

Michał Krejca,

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

Bartosz Kubisa

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Pomeranian Medical University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

Ewa Kucewicz-Czech

Medical University of Silesia in Katowice; Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice; Department and Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care

Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze, Poland

Lubomir Kulyk

Lviv Medical University, Lviv Centre of Cardiac Surgery, Lviv, Ukraine

Mariusz Kuśmierczyk

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland

Andrzej Kutarski

Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Jarosław Kużdżał

Thoracic Surgery Clinic, Institute of Physiotherapy, Faculty Of Health Sciences, Kraków, Poland

Jerzy Laudański

Medical University of Bialystok, Białystok, Poland

Katherine Lietz

Loyola University Medical Center Maywood, Maywood, IL, USA

Bohdan Maruszewski

Department of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children's Memorial Health Institute, 04-730 Warsaw, Poland

Hanna Misiołek

Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia, Zabrze, Poland

Jacek Moll

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital Research Institute, Lodz, Poland

Claudio Muneretto

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Spedali Civili di Brescia, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Tadeusz Orłowski

Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Warszawa, Poland

Alexander Patterson

St. Louis Children's Hospital, St. Louis, MO, USA

Rafał Pawlaczyk

Department of Cardiac & Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Univeristy of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Patrick Perier

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiovascular Center Bad Neustadt, Bad Neustadt, Germany

Cezary Piwkowski

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland

Piotr Przybyłowski

Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze, Zabrze, Poland; General Surgery, Jagiellonian University-Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Jan Rogowski

Department of Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Wojciech Rokicki

Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Zabrze, Poland

Jacek Różański

Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, National Institute of Cardiology, Warszawa, Poland

Witold Rzyman

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Jerzy Sadowski

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and Transplantology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland

Zeljko Sutlic

Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia

Piotr Suwalski

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warszawa, Poland

Matthias Thielmann

Environmentally-induced Cardiovascular Degeneration, Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics (N.A.-A., P,J., C.G., M.Z., J.R., N.D.-R., J.G., F.v.A., O.E., J.A., J.H.), University Hospital and Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West German Heart Center, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany (M.T., M.K.)

Yoshiya Toyoda

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Temple University School of Medicine, 3401 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19140, USA

Boris Tudorov

Heart Institute, Kiev, Ukraine

Paul Urbanski

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Clinic Bad Neustadt, Bad Neustadt, Germany

Dirk Van Raemdonck

Lung Transplantation Unit, Chrometa Department, BREATHE, Katholieke Universiteit.

Lung Transplantation Unit, Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium.

Federico Venuto

Centro Regionale Screening Neonatale Ospedale Pediatrico Giovanni XXIII Policlinico Bari, Italy

Jacek Wojarski

Department of Cardiac Surgery and Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

Janusz Wójcik

General Thoracic Surgery and Transplantation Department, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland

Michał Zakliczyński

Department of Cardiac, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and Transplantology in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze, Poland

Pier Paolo Zanetti

Division of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Policlinico di Monza, via Amati 111, 20052 Monza, Italy

Michał Zembala

Department of Cardiac, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and Transplantology in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze, Poland