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

Tevfik Tolga Sahin
Department of Surgery and Liver Transplant Institute, Inonu University Faculty of Medicine, Malatya, Turkey

Motonobu Saito, MD, PhD
Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan

Shoichi Saito, MD, Ph D
Department of Lower GI Medicine, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Hrishikesh Samant, MD, FACG
Ochsner Multiorgan Transplant Center, New Orleans, USA

Rosaria Scarpinata, MD, FRCSEd
Department of Surgery, Kings College University Hospital, London, UK

Daniel Schmitz, MD, PhD
Dept. of Gastroenterology, Oncology and Diabetology, Theresienkrankenhaus und St. Hedwigsklinik Mannheim, Teaching Hospital of University of Heidelberg, Germany

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

Rohit Sharma
Department of Surgery, Marshfield Clinic Health System, Marshfield, WI, USA

Vishal G Shelat, FRCS, FAMS, FEBS (HPB Surg)
Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore

Hideyuki Shiomi, MD, PhD
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

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

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

Luca Di Tommaso
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele (MI), Italy; Department of Pathology, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center - IRCCS, Rozzano (MI), Italy

Diamantis I. Tsilimigras, MD
Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

Hanlin L. Wang, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Liangliang Wang, PhD
Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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

Simcha Weissman, DO
Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center, New Jersey, USA

Marcin Wlodarczyk, MD, PhD
Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

Shao-Hua Xie, MD, PhD
Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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