Editorial Team

The management of our journal is a collaborative endeavor by the whole editorial team, featuring an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board. The editorial structure of the journal is listed as below and the roles and responsibilities of the editorial team are available at: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/journal-management#content-title.

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 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 General and Thoracic Surgery, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Hendrik-Tobias Arkenau, MD, PhD

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

Juan Armendariz-Borunda, PhD

University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, México; Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Luca Barresi, MD

IRCCS-ISMETT (Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Therapy) Hospital, Palermo, 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

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.

Niranjan Awasthi, PhD

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

Rafael Barreto-Zuñiga, MD

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

Giammauro Berardi, MD, PhD

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

Jan Best, MD

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

Marilia Carabotti, MD, PhD

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

Saurabh Chandan, MD

Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE (USA)

Stephen Chang Kin Yong

National University Singapore, Farrer Park Hospital and Mt Elizabeth Hospital.

Marcio F. Chedid

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

Yangchao Chen, PhD

School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Yi-Jen Chen, MD, PhD

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

Hideyuki Chiba, MD, PhD

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

Adrian Chiow, MBBS (Melb), FRCS (Edin), MMed(Gen Surg), FAMS

Hepatopancreatobiliary Unit, Department of Surgery, Changi General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

William Cho

Department of Clinical Oncology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Michael D. Chuong, MD

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

Giovanni Dapri, MD, PhD

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

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

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

Matteo De Pastena, MD, PhD

Department of General and Pancreatic Surgery, The Pancreas Institute, University of Verona Hospital Trust, Verona, Italy

Madhav Desai, MD, MPH

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

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

Hirayuki Enomoto

Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

Marco Falasca, PhD

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

Ronnie Fass, MD

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Esophageal and Swallowing Center, MetroHealth Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

Daniel L. Feingold, MD, FACS, FASCRS

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

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

Taishi Hata, MD, PhD

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

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

Naoki Hosoe, MD, PhD

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

Yoshihiro Ikura, MD

Department of Pathology, Takatsuki General Hospital, Takatsuki, Japan

Kentaro Inamura, MD, PhD

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

Riccardo Inchingolo, MD, EBIR

Division of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Madonna delle Grazie Hospital, Matera 75100, Italy

Shayan Irani, MD

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA

Toru Ishikawa, MD, PhD

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saiseikai Niigata Hospital, Niigata, Japan

Hajime Isomoto, MD

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

Ammar A. Javed, MD

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

Hideaki Kawabata

Department of Gastroenterology, Kyoto Okamoto Memorial Hospital, Kyoto 613-0034, Japan

Amit Khurana

the Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CBME), Indian Institute of technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi, India

Young-Wan Kim, MD, PhD

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

Wenjun Kou, PhD

Division of Gastroenterology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

Akira Kurita

Digestive Disease Center, The Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan

Raquel Franco Leal, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Colorectal Surgery Unit, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil IBD Research Laboratory, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil

Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri, MD, PhD

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

Georgios D. Lianos, MD, MSc, PhD

Department of Surgery, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece

Nikolaos Machairas, MD, PhD

2nd Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Giovanni Marasco, MD, PhD

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Marco Vito Marino, MD PhD FACS FEBS FICS

Department of General Surgery, Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain; Department of Emergency and General Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera, Ospedali Riuniti Villa-Sofia Cervello, Palermo, Italy

Paolo Mercantini, MD, PhD

Academical Staff Surgeon at Sant’Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Kenric M. Murayama, MD, MBA

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

Matthias Ocker, MD, PhD

Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany; Therapeutic Area Head Oncology Translational Medicine & Clinical Pharmacology, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH, Germany

Matthias E. Paireder, MD

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

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

Marco G. Patti, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

Eduardo A. Perez, MD

Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL, USA

Abhilash Perisetti, MBBS, MD

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA

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

Corresponding Editor

Silvia L. Zhou

Editorial Office, Digestive Medicine Research, China