Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief

Yulong He, MD, PhD

President, the Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Associate Editors-in-Chief

Changhua Zhang, MD, PhD

Center for Gastrointestinal Diseases, the Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Chris Jones, MBBS, FRCA, MD(Res)

Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, UK

Editorial Board

Seiichiro Abe, MD, PhD

National Cancer Center Hospital, 5-1-1 Tsukiji, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan

Ludovico Abenavoli, PhD

Department of Health Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Medical College at Cornell University, New York, USA

Alberto Aiolfi, MD

Department of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Istituto Clinico Sant’Ambrogio, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Hendrik-Tobias Arkenau, MD, PhD

Sarah Cannon Research Institute United Kingdom and University College London, London, UK

Manuel Barberio, MD, PhD

Department of General and Digestive Surgery, Ospedale Cardinale G. Panico, Tricase (LE), Italy

Badr Al Bawardy, MD

Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

Elmar Aigner, MD

First Department of Medicine, University Hospital Salzburg, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria

Jaffer A. Ajani, MD

Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

Khaldoun Almhanna, MD, MPH

Department of Hematology/Oncology, Lifespan Cancer Institute, Providence, RI, USA.

Naim Alkhouri, MD

Director of the Texas Metabolic Center, Texas Liver Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA

Emad H Aly, MBBCh, MD, FRCS, FACS, FASCRS, MEd

Department of Surgery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, Scotland, AB25 2ZN, UK.

Priscila Rodrigues Armijo, MD

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska, USA

Niranjan Awasthi, PhD

Indiana University School of Medicine, South Bend, Indiana, USA

Institute of Medical Science and Nutrition “Salvador Zubiran”, Mexico City, Mexico; National University Autonomous of Mexico (UNAM) Gastroenterology, Subspeciality at Endoscopy, National Cancer Center Tokyo, Japan

Guillermo Bastida, MD

Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain

Giammauro Berardi, MD, PhD

Department of General and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Liver Transplantation Service, San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Rome. Italy

Fernando Oscar Bessone, MD

Department of the Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Rosario School of Medicine, Rosario, Argentina

Jan Best, MD

Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious diseases, University Hospital of Magdeburg, Germany

Rodica Birla, PhD

General and Esophageal Surgery Clinic, St Mary Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania

Luigi Bonavina, MD, FACS

Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Division of General Surgery, University of Milano Medical School, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Italy

Marilia Carabotti, MD, PhD

Medical-Surgical Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University Sapienza of Rome - Sant’Andrea Teaching Hospital, Rome, Italy

Fabio Carboni, MD, PhD

Department of Digestive Surgery, IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy

Elisa Cassinotti, MD, PhD

Department of General Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Dedrick Kok Hong Chan, MBBS, MMed(Surgery), MCI, FRCSEd, FAMS

Division of Colorectal Surgery, University Surgical Cluster, National University Health System, Singapore

Manish Chand, MBBS, BSc, MBA, FRCS, PhD, FASCRS

Associate Professor in Colorectal Surgery and Director of Advanced Minimally-Invasive Surgery Programme, University College London; Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, University College London Hospital, London, UK

Marcio F. Chedid

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Medical School of UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Yi-Jen Chen, MD, PhD

Department of Radiation Oncology, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA

Eddie C. Cheung, M.D., FACG

The Seventh Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University at Shenzhen, China; School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, USA

Hideyuki Chiba, MD, PhD

Department of Gastroenterology, Omori Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Sung IL Choi, MD, PhD

Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, Seoul, Korea

Michael D. Chuong, MD

Department of Radiation Oncology, Miami Cancer Institute, Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, FL, USA

Massimo Colombo

Department of Medicine, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Humanitas Hospital, Rozzano, Italy

Giovanni Dapri, MD, PhD

Digestive Clinic, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Jashodeep Datta, MD

Division of Surgical Oncology, The Dewitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami, FL, USA

Andrew Day, MB, ChB, MD, FRACP, AGAF

Department of Paediatrics, University of Otago (Christchurch), Christchurch, New Zealand

Michiel F. G. de Maat, MD, PhD

Department of Abdominal Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium

Madhav Desai, MD, MPH

Department of Gastroenterology, Kansas City VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO, USA

Matteo Donadon, MD, PhD

Department of Hepatobiliary and General Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center – IRCCS, Milan, Italy

Alexandre Doussot

Department of Digestive Surgical Oncology, Liver Transplantation Unit, University Hospital of Besancon, Besançon, France

Rami Eliakim,MD

Head, Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Chaim Sheba Medical Centre, Ramat-Gan, Professor of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Sackler Medical School, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Alaa El-Hussuna, MD

Department of Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark

Oliver S Eng, MD

Section of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Antonio Facciorusso

Gastroenterol Unit, Dept Med Sci, Univ Foggia, Italy

Marco Falasca, PhD

Metabolic Signalling Group, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia

Daniel L. Feingold, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Section of Colorectal Surgery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Emanuele Felli, MD

Department of General, Digestive, and Endocrine Surgery, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

Francesco Ferrara, MD

Consultant in General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Unit of General Surgery and Polytrauma, San Carlo Borromeo Hospital, Milan, Italy

Leonardo Frazzoni

Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Maria Gazouli, PhD

Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Francesco Giudici, MD, PhD

Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Simone Guadagni, MD

Division of General Surgery, University of Pisa, Italy

Alfredo Daniel Guerron, MD

Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Andrew A Gumbs, MD, FACS

Département de Chirurgie Digestive, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de POISSY/SAINT-GERMAIN-EN-LAYE 10, Rue du Champ Gaillard Poissy, France

Ho-Seong Han, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital,Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Taishi Hata, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Kansai Rosai Hospital, Japan Organization of Occupational Health and Safety, Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan

Sang-Uk Han, MD, PhD

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

Stefan Heinrich, MD

UEMS HPB Surgery, Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.

Andrew E. Hendifar, MD, MPH

Gastrointestinal and Neuroendocrine Malignancies, Samuel Oschin Cancer Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA

Yasumitsu Hirano, MD, PhD, FACS

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Hidaka, Saitama, Japan

Khek-Yu Ho, MD

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, National University Hospital, Singapore

Naoki Hosoe, MD, PhD

Center for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopy, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroaki Ikematsu, MD, PhD

Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan

Yoshihiro Ikura, MD

Department of Pathology, Takatsuki General Hospital, Takatsuki, Japan

Ilkka Ilonen, MD, Ph.D, FEBTS

General Thoracic and Oesophageal Surgery, Heart and Lung centre, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; Section of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

David Ilson, MD, PhD

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,New York, NY, USA

Kentaro Inamura, MD, PhD

Division of Pathology, The Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research

Riccardo Inchingolo, MD, EBIR

Radiologia Diagnostica ed Interventistica, Ospedale Madonna delle Grazie, Matera

Hajime Isomoto, MD

Division of Medicine and Clinical Science, Department of Multidisciplinary Internal Medicine, Professor of Medicine, Tottori University, Japan

Masaaki Ito, MD

Department of Colorectal Surgery and Surgical Technology, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Chiba, Japan

Ammar A. Javed, MD (Surgical Oncology – Pancreatic Surgery)

Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Benny Johnson, DO

Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

University of New South Wales (UNSW), School of Chemical Engineering, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia

Sivesh Kathir Kamarajah

Dept Hepatobiliary Pancreat & Transplant Surg, Acad Dept Surg, Freeman Rd Hosp, England

Enzo Masci, MD

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Endoscopic Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Pashtoon Murtaza Kasi, MD, MS

Division of Hematology, Oncology, University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City, IA, USA

David Kerr, CBE, MA, MD, DSc, FRCP (Glas, Edin & Lon), FRCGP (Hon), FMedSci

Nuffield Division of Clinical and Laboratory Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Moh’d Khushman, M.D.

Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Clinical Oncology; Interim Director, Medical Oncology Fellowship Program; The University of South Alabama, Mitchell Cancer Institute, 1660 Springhill Avenue, Mobile, Alabama 36604, USA

Nam Kyu Kim, MD, PhD

Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Young-Wan Kim, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju Severance Christian Hospital, Wonju, Korea

Anastasios Koulaouzidis, MD

Centre of Liver & Digestive Disorders, the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

Kazuo Koyanagi

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan

Geoffrey Ku, MD

Gastrointestinal Oncology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Teiji Kuzuya, MD, PhD

Department of Gastroenterology and Gastroenterological Oncology, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Sant'Eugenio Hospital, Rome, Italy

Tsan-Shiun Lin, MD

Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Associate Professor, Department of Surgery Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Romaric Loffroy, MD, PhD

Head, Department of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Center of Mini-Invasive Image-Guided Therapies, François-Mitterrand Teaching Hospital, University of Bourgogne/Franche-Comté, Dijon , France

Nikolaos Machairas

3nd Department of Surgery, University Hospital Attikon, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Greece

Bruno Märkl, MD

Institute of Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics, University Medical Center Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Yoko Matsuda, MD, PhD

Oncology Pathology, Department of Pathology and Host-Defense, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

Hamid Merchant, BPharm, MPharm, PhD

University of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Andrea Mingoli, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery P. Valdoni, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy

Masashi Misawa, MD, PhD

Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan

Federico Mocchegiani, MD

HPB and Transplant Unit, Department of Sperimental and Clinical Medicine, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

Luca Morelli, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Division of General Surgery, University of Pisa, Italy

Dimitrios Moris, MD, MSc, PhD, MACS

Research Fellow, Ohio State University, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Tatsuro Murano, MD, PhD

Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Chiba, Japan

Kenric M. Murayama, MD, MBA

Department of Surgery, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Giuseppe Musumeci BS, MS, PhD

Professor of Human Anatomy and Sports Sciences Director of the Research Center on Motor Activities (CRAM) Director of the Masters Program, School of Posturology and Physical Exercise Sciences Vice Dean of the Human Movement Sciences Faculty Head of the Movement Innovation PosturaLab Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences School of Medicine, University of Catania Italy

Arthur Sun Myint, F.R.C.P (Edin); F.R.C.P. (London); F.F.R.C.S. (Dublin): F.R.C.R; F.I.C.S. (Chicago)

Lead Clinician (Papillon), Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Liverpool, UK; Past President, International Contact Radiotherapy Society (ICONE), Nice; Chairman, GEC ESTRO rectal & anal brachytherapy sub group, Brussels; Expert (Brachytherapy), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna; Specialist advisor (rectal brachytherapy) NICE, UK; Hon. Professor, Gastroenterology Deptartment, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; Special Advisor in Oncology to Minister of Health & Sports in Myanmar.

Abdolrahman Shams Nateri, PhD

Professor (Associate) & Senior Group Leader of Cancer Genetics and Stem Cell Laboratory, Division of Cancer & Stem Cells, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD, MS

Brigham and Women's Hospital; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD

David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weil Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA

Koji Otsuka, MD, PhD

Department of Esophageal Surgery, Showa University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Matthias E. Paireder, MD

Department of Surgery, Upper GI Service, Comprehensive Cancer Center GET-Unit, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Ulrich-Frank Pape, MD

Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Asklepios Klinik St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany

Sungsoo Park, MD, PhD

Division of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Damiano Patrono, MD, PhD, FEBS

General Surgery 2U – Liver Transplant Unit, Department of Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliaro-Universitaria Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Turin, Italy

Anne-Laure Pelletier

Hepato-gastrenterology Department, Bichat University Hospita, l APHP (Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris), Paris, France

Antonio Pesce, MD, PhD

Unit of General Surgery, Ospedale del Delta, Lagosanto, University of Ferrara, Italy

Juan Putra, MD

Division of Pathology, Department of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Matteo Ravaioli

Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.

Feza H Remzi, MD

Department of Surgery, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Colorectal Surgery, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

Michele Reni, MD

IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Department of Medical Oncology, Milan, Italy

Ulysses Ribeiro Jr

Departamento de Gastroenterologia, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Coordenador Cirúrgico do Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo - ICESP-HCFMUSP, São Paulo, Brazil

Lorenzo Ridola, MD, PhD

Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Oliviero Riggio, MD

Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Aldo Rocca, MD

General and Emergency Surgery, Antonio Cardarelli Hospital, Campobasso, Italy

Edoardo Rosso

Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, Istituto Ospedaliero, Fondazione Poliambulanza, Brescia, Italy.

Sammy Saab, MD, MPH, AGAF, FACG, FAASLD

Medical Director, Pfleger Liver Institute at UCLA Medical Director, UCLA Adult Liver Transplant Program Chief, UCLA Transplant Hepatology Head, Outcomes Research in Hepatology at UCLA Professor of Medicine and Surgery, UCLA Adjunct Professor of Nursing, UCLA

Motonobu Saito, MD, PhD

Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Senthilkumar Sankararaman, MD, FAAP, PNS

UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospitals/Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, USA

Stefano Scabini, MD

Unit of Surgical Oncology, IRCSS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy

Eva Segelov, MBBS (Hons 1) PhD FRACP

Professor/Director of Oncology Monash Health and Monash University Board Member, Australasian Gastrointestinal Trials Group (AGITG) Co-Founder, Commonwealth Neuroendocrine Tumour Collaboration (CommNETS), Australia

Matteo Serenari, MD

General Surgery and Transplantation, Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy

Vishal G Shelat, FRCS, FAMS, FEBS (HPB Surg)

Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore

Shingo Shimada, MD, PhD

Hokkaido University Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan

Hideyuki Shiomi, MD, PhD

Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

Rachna T. Shroff, MD, MS

Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ, USA

Ashwani K. Singal MD, MS, FACG, FAASLD

Associate Professor of Medicine, University of SD Sanford School of Medicine, Transplant Hepatologist and Chief Clinical Research, Avera University Hospital and Transplant Institute

Heloisa Soares, MD, PhD

Co-Physician Leader of GI Clinical Trials Research Group, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, 2000 Circle of Hope, Suite 2100, Salt Lake City, UT 87102, USA

Shantanu Solanki

Department of Internal Medicine, Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, PA, USA

Silvia Sookoian, MD, PhD, FAASLD

Department of Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)-University of Buenos Aires, Institute of Medical Research (IDIM), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Cristiano Spada, MD, PhD

Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Fondazione Poliambulanza, Brescia, Italy

Carlo F.A. Sposito

Department of Oncology, University of Milan, Milan, Italy G.I. Surgery and Liver Transplantation Unit Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori di Milano, Milan, Italy

Frank Tacke, MD, PhD, MHBA

Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Mitsuhisa Takatsuki, MD, PhD

Department of Digestive and General Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan

Ker-Kan Tan, MD

Division of Colorectal Surgery, University Surgical Cluster, Singapore, Singapore

Giuliano Testa, MD, MBA, FACS

Division Chief of Abdominal Transplant for the Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, 3410 Worth Street, Suite 950, Dallas, TX 75246, USA

Yutaka Tokairin, MD, PhD

Toshima Hospital Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Hospitals Corporation, 33-1 Sakaecho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-0015, Japan

Diamantis I. Tsilimigras, MD

Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

Emmanuel A. Tsochatzis, MD, PhD (Hepatology)

UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, Royal Free Hospital and UCL, London, UK

Zsolt Tulassay, MD, DSc, FACG, AGAF, MHAS

Department of Medicine and Gastroenterology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Masashi Ueno, MD, PhD

Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Alessandro Vitale, MD, PhD

Hepatobiliary Surg & Liver Transplant Unit, Univ Padua, Italy

Ralf Weiskirchen

Institute of Molecular Pathobiochemistry, Experimental Gene Therapy and Clinical Chemistry at the RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Marcin Wlodarczyk, MD, PhD

Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

Yun Xia, MD, PhD

Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, N-411 Doan Hall, 410 West Tenth Avenue Columbus, OH 43210-1228, USA

Takuya Yamada, MD, PhD

Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka Rosai Hospital, Sakai, Osaka, Japan

Hiroharu Yamashita, MD, PhD

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

James Yoo, MD

Division of General and GI Surgery, Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Harry H. Yoon, MD

Department of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Alberto Zanetto, MD

Gastroenterology and Multivisceral Transplant Unit, Department of Surgery, Oncology, and Gastroenterology, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy

Bruno Zilberstein, MD, PhD, FACS

Department of Gastroenterology, University of São Paulo School of Medicine, São Paulo, Brazil

Maurizio Zizzo, MD

Surgical Oncology Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale - IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova di Reggio Emilia, Italy

Language Editors

Jeremy Dean Chapnick

Chief Language Editor, AME Hong Kong office; United States University Carthage College, Wisconsin, USA (Sept. 2012 to May 2016)

John Ayric Gray

Chief Language Editor, AME Hong Kong office; University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (Sept. 2004-June 2009)

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