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Senior Editor

Shari L. Meyerson, MD, MEd

Professor of Surgery

Chief, Section of Thoracic Surgery

Program Director, Thoracic Surgery

University of Kentucky

Associate Editors

Antoon E. LeRut, MD

Virginia R. Litle, MD

Arjun Pennathur, MD

Joseph B. Shrager, MD

Kazuhiro Yasufuku, MD

Mara B. Antonoff MD, FACS

Philip Linden, MD

Brian E. Louie, MD, MHA, MPH, FRCSC, FACS

Simon Turner, MD FRCSC

Elliot Wakeam, MD MPH

Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang, MD

Anne-Sophie Laliberté, MD, FRCSC

Hasan Batirel, MD, PhD

Laura Alder

Antonio Coppolino, MD

Kathryn Engelhardt, MD, MS

Melinda Eshelman

Jeffery Kanne

Jordan Miller, DO

Clinton Morgan, MD, PhD

Joe Phillips, MD

Carlos Puig, MD

Ravi Rajaram, MD, MSc

Betty Tong, MS, MD, MHS

Stephanie Worrell, MD

Chris Nevala-Plagemann

Acknowledgments

Previous Senior Editor:

Gail E. Darling, MD, FRCSC

Previous Associate Editors:

Marc dePerrot, MD

Elana Elimova

Konrad Höetzenecker, MD, PhD

Jay Isbell, MD, MSCI

Michael Kent, MD

Michael Lanuti, MD

Natasha Leighl

Daniela Molena, MD

Varun Puri, MD, MSCI

Janani Reisenauer, MD

Boris Sepesi, MD

Alan Sihoe, MBBChir, MA, FRCSEd(CTh), FCCP, FACS

Amit Singnurkar

Peter Slinger

Christopher Towe, MD

STS Education Staff

Scott Bradbury, MS, Vice President of Education

Karen Kostrinsky, Senior Manager, E-Learning

Amanda Wright, Manager, E-Learning

Melisa Puthenmadom, Senior Coordinator, E-Learning

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