Editorial Team

Editorial Board

Heike Allgayer, MD, PhD

Dept. of Experimental Surgery, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg and Molecular Oncology of Solid Tumors Unit, DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center) Heidelberg, Germany

Shrikant Anant, PhD

University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Snigdha Banerjee, PhD

Cancer Research Unit, V.A. Medical Center, Research Division, Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Yung-Jue Bang, MD, PhD

Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Wanqing Chen

Deputy Director of National Office for Cancer Prevention and Control, National Central Cancer Registry of China

SeungHo Choi, MD, PhD

Professor, Chief, Division of UGI Surgery, Department of Surgery& Director of Cancer Hospital, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College ofMedicine, Seoul, Korea

Stephen Clarke, MD

Department of Medical Oncology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Pacific Highway, St Leonards, NSW 2065, Australia

Marcello Deraco, MD

Surgical Oncologist, Responsible for Peritoneal Malignancies, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori: via Venezian, 1 20133 Milano, Italy

Gianfranco Delle Fave, MD

Digestive and Liver Disease Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, S. Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Via di Grottarossa 1035, 00189 Rome, Italy

Professor, past Chief of GI Surgery, Department of Surgery, Centre Hospitaler Intercommunal Poissy, France, currently affiliated with the Section for Surgical Research (Prof Uranues) Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Austria

Gen-sheng Feng, PhD

Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0864, United States

Alvaro Antônio Bandeira Ferraz, MD, PhD, FACS

Federal University of Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Brazil

Heather L Bradley-Franci, PhD

Scott & White and Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, TX, United States

Shannon Glaser, PhD

Scott & White and Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, TX, United States

Ariel Halevy, MD, FACS

Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Sang-Uk Han, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea

Chun-Yi Hao, MD, PhD

Peking University of School of Oncology & Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China

Rachel Hargest, MD, FRCS

Senior Lecturer /Consultant Surgeon (Colorectal surgery) Cardiff University/ University Hospital of Wales, United Kingdom

Stephen Hiscox, PhD

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

Simon Ng MBChB (Hons) (CUHK), MD (CUHK), FRCS (Edin), FCSHK, FRCSEd (Gen), FHKAM (Surgery), FACS

Assistant Dean (Learning Experience), Faculty of Medicine, Professor, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Steven N. Hochwald, MD, FACS

Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States

Mikito Inokuchi, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan

Wen G. Jiang, MB, BCh, MD, FSB, FRSM

Cardiff University School of Medicine, Wales, United Kingdom

Michio Kaminishi, MD, PhD

President, The Japanese Foundation for Research and Promotion of Endoscopy; Director General, Showa General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Chang Moo Kang

Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 03722, Korea.

Hyung-Ho Kim

Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Korea

Song Cheol Kim, MD, PhD

Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Ulsan University College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center, 86 Asan Byeongwon-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea

Yuko Kitagawa

Keio University School of Medicine, Japan

Seigo Kitano, MD, PhD, FACS

President, Oita University, Japan

Yasuhiro Kodera, MD, PhD

Professor, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Simon YK Law, MBBChir (Cantab), MS (HK), MA, FRCSEd, FCSHK, FHKAM, FACS

Cheung Kung-Hai Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Chief, Division of Esophageal and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong

Kang Young Lee

Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 50-1 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-Gu, Seoul, 03722, Korea

Hyuk-Joon Lee, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Surgery & Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine,Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital,Gastric Cancer Center, Seoul National University Cancer Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Ziyu Li, MD, PhD

Peking University of School of Oncology & Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China

Paul F. Mansfield, MD, FACS

Vice President, Acute Care Services Professor, Department of Surgical Oncology The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas, United States

Daniele Marrelli, MD

University of Siena, Italy

Shigeo Masuda, MD, PhD

AssociateProfessor, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery(Sawa Lab), Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Muhammed Ashraf Memon, MBBS, MA, DCH, AFACS

General, Laparoscopic, Gastrointestinal and Bariatric Surgeon and Endoscopist South East Queensland Surgery (SEQS) and Sunnybank Obesity Centre, Sunnybank, Queensland, Australia

Fanyin Meng, PhD

Scott & White Hospital, Texas A&M HSC College of Medicine, Temple, TX, United States

Siddavaram Nagini

Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar-608 002, Tamil Nadu, India

Atsushi Nashimoto, MD

Department Surgery, Niigata Cancer Center Hospital, Niigata, Japan

Hiroshi Okabe, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan

Kai Pan, MD

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Shenzhen People's Hospital, Guandong Province, China

Do Joong Park, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Sungsoo Park, MD, PhD

Professor, Division of Upper GI Surgery, Department of Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine, MIS & Robotic Surgery Center, Korea University Medical Center, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Theodoros E Pavlidis, MD, PhD

Second Surgical Propedeutical Department, Hippocration Hospital, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Konstantinopoulos 49, 54642 Thessaloniki, Greece

Gilberto J. Paz-Filho, MD

The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Maikel P. Peppelenbosch, MD

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Mitchell C. Posner, MD, FACS

Thomas D. Jones Professor of Surgery and Vice-Chairman Chief, Section of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology Co-Director, Digestive Diseases Center Medical Director, Clinical Cancer Programs

Mohamad Amin Pourhoseingholi, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Health System Research, Gastroenterology and Liver diseases Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Meng Qiu, MD

Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Akira Sawaki, MD, PhD

Assistant professor, Department of Clinical Oncology, Kawasaki Medical School, Matsushima, Kurashiki City, Okayama, Japan

Atsushi Shiozaki, MD, PhD

Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan

Jimmy Bok-Yan So, MBChB, FRCS (Ed), FRCS (Glasg), FAMS, MPH

Associate Professor of Surgery, Senior Consultant, Department of Surgery, Director, Upper GI Surgery Service, Director, Centre for Obesity Management & Surgery, National University Hospital, Singapore

Rhonda F. Souza, MD, AGAF, FASGE

UT Southwestern Medical Center & VA North Texas Health Care System, Dallas, TX, United States

Yasuhiko Sugawara, MD, PhD

Department of Transplantation/Pediatric Surgery, Postgraduate School of Life Science, Kumamoto University, 1-1-1 Honjo, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 8603-8556, Japan

Steven Trocha, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery and Surgical Oncologist at Greenville Health System, Greenville, S.C.

Ioannis A. Voutsadakis, MD, PhD

Attending Oncologist, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Sault Area Hospital and Algoma District Cancer Program, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada

Go Wakabayashi

Department of Surgery, Ageo Central General Hospital, Saitama, Japan

Aiwen Wu, MD, PhD

Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China

Wei Wu, PhD

School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Justin Che-yuen Wu, MBChB, MD, FHKAM, FRCP (Lond, Edin), AGAF

Associate Dean (Development), Faculty of Medicine, Director, Centre for Digestive Health, Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Han-Kwang Yang, MD, PhD

Professor, Chief, Division of GI Surgery, Department of Surgery & Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea

Khay-Guan YEOH, MBBS, MMed.

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore; Senior Consultant in Gastroenterology, National University Hospital, Singapore

Takaki Yoshikawa, MD, PhD

Chief Director, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Kanagawa Cancer Center, Japan

Lu-Gang Yu, PhD

Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, UK.

Lianhai Zhang, MD

Peking University of School of Oncology & Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China

Bruno Zilberstein, MD, PhD, FACS, TCBCD, TCBC

Professor of Surgery, Digestive Surgery Division, Sao Paulo University - Faculty of Medicine, Brazil