^○Christian Benden (Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

^○Shaf Keshavjee (Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada)

^○Marc G Schecter (Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Florida, USA)

^○Hiroshi Date (Department of Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University, Japan)

^○Seiichiro Sugimoto, Shinji Otani, Kentaroh Miyoshi, Shin Tanaka, Yasuaki Tomioka, Ken Suzawa, Hiromasa Yamamoto, Mikio Okazaki, Masaomi Yamane, Shinichi Toyooka (General Thoracic Surgery and Organ Transplant Center, Okayama University Hospital, Japan)