Guest Editor: Masatsugu Hamaji (Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan)

A multidisciplinary team approach (MDT) is considered best practice in the treatment planning and care for patients in challenging clinical situation. It is an integrated team approach to health care in which medical and allied health care professionals consider all relevant treatment options and collaboratively develop an individual treatment and care plan for each patient.

Guest Editors: Roberto F. Casal and Bruce Sabath (Department of Pulmonary Medicine, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA)

Guest Editor: Michael T. Jaklitsch (Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA)

The "Meet the Professor" series features interviews with the global Key Opinion Leaders, providing a window into the new developments, breakthroughs, and achievements in the interviewees’ professional fields, both clinically and academically.