Associate Editor

Prof. Zhang is a surgeon in cardiothoracic. He serves in Senior thoracic surgeon, Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen since 2018. He was a cardiothoracic surgery residency in the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany (including 2-year residency in the heart and lung transplantation and LVAD program) during 2003-2011. He was a fellow in the Thoracic Surgery Service, Department of Surgery, The University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Science in 2014. A Senior thoracic surgeon at Chest Hospital Schillerhoehe, Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart, Germany in 2015-2018. And he was appointed as Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany in 2020. His practice areas include thoracic, chest wall, lung, mediastinum, pleura, trachea and bronchi, Cancer.

general thoracic surgery; VATS lobectomy and segmentectomy; robotic assisted thoracic surgery; risk assessment; treatment of advanced lung cancer