Former Editorial Board

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Jaffer A. Ajani, MD

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

Director of the Texas Metabolic Center, Texas Liver Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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Khaldoun Almhanna, MD, MPH

Department of Hematology/Oncology, Lifespan Cancer Institute, Providence, RI, USA.
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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.
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Priscila Rodrigues Armijo, MD

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska, USA
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Manuel Barberio, MD, PhD

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

Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain
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Fernando Oscar Bessone, MD

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

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

General and Esophageal Surgery Clinic, St Mary Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
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Luigi Bonavina, MD, FACS

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

Associate Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Hvidovre Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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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
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Fabio Carboni, MD, PhD

Department of Digestive Surgery, IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy
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Elisa Cassinotti, MD, PhD

Department of General Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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Dedrick Kok Hong Chan, MBBS, MMed(Surgery), MCI, FRCSEd, FAMS

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

Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE (USA)
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Sung IL Choi, MD, PhD

Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, Seoul, Korea
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Federico Coccolini, MD

General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa University, Via Paradisia 1, Pisa, Italy

Massimo Colombo

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

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, San Raffaele Hospital, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano, Italy
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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
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Michiel F. G. de Maat, MD, PhD

Department of Abdominal Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium
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Matteo Donadon, MD, PhD

Department of Hepatobiliary and General Surgery, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center – IRCCS, Milan, Italy
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Alexandre Doussot, MD, PhD

Department of Digestive Surgical Oncology, Liver Transplantation Unit, University of Bourgogne-Franche Comté, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France
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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
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Antonio Facciorusso

Gastroenterol Unit, Dept Med Sci, Univ Foggia, Italy
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Emanuele Felli, MD

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

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

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

Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Francesco Giudici, MD, PhD

Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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Ho-Seong Han, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hosptial, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, Korea
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Sang-Uk Han, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea
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Stefan Heinrich, MD

UEMS HPB Surgery, Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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Khek-Yu Ho, MD

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, National University Hospital, Singapore
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Jun-Te Hsu, MD

Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Chang Gung Medicine University, Taoyuan City
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Chih-Kun Huang, MD

Body Science and Metabolic Disorder International (BMI) Medical Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung City
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Hiroaki Ikematsu, MD, PhD

Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
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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
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David Ilson, MD, PhD

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,New York, NY, USA
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Hajime Isomoto, MD

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

Department of Colorectal Surgery and Surgical Technology, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Chiba, Japan
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Ammar A. Javed, MD

Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Benny Johnson, DO

Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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Pashtoon Murtaza Kasi, MD, MS

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

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

Department of Social Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland
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Kazuo Koyanagi

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan
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Geoffrey Ku, MD

Gastrointestinal Oncology Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
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Teiji Kuzuya, MD, PhD

Department of Gastroenterology and Gastroenterological Oncology, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan
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Nam Kyu Kim, MD, PhD

Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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Georgios D. Lianos, MD, MSc, PhD

Department of Surgery, General Hospital of Preveza, Preveza, Greece
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Tsan-Shiun Lin, MD

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

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

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

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

Yoko Matsuda, MD, PhD

Oncology Pathology, Department of Pathology and Host-Defense, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan
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Andrea Mingoli, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery P. Valdoni, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy
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Masashi Misawa, MD, PhD

Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan
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Federico Mocchegiani, MD

HPB and Transplant Unit, Department of Sperimental and Clinical Medicine, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy
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Luca Morelli, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Division of General Surgery, University of Pisa, Italy
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Dimitrios Moris, MD, MSc, PhD, MACS

Research Fellow, Ohio State University, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Tatsuro Murano, MD, PhD

Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Chiba, Japan
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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
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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.
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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
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Matthias Ocker, MD, PhD

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

Department of Esophageal Surgery, Showa University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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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
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Matthias E. Paireder, MD

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

John E Pandolfino

Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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Ulrich-Frank Pape, MD

Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Asklepios Klinik St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany
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Marco G. Patti, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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Anne-Laure Pelletier

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

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA
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Antonio Pesce, MD, PhD

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

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

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

IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Department of Medical Oncology, Milan, Italy
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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
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Lorenzo Ridola, MD, PhD

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

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

General and Emergency Surgery, Antonio Cardarelli Hospital, Campobasso, Italy
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Shoichi Saito, MD, Ph D

Department of Lower GI Medicine, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan
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Motonobu Saito, MD, PhD

Department of Gastrointestinal Tract Surgery, Fukushima Medical University School of Medicine, Fukushima, Japan
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Senthilkumar Sankararaman, MD, FAAP, PNS

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

Unit of Surgical Oncology, IRCSS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova, Italy
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Rosaria Scarpinata, MD, FRCSEd

Department of Surgery, Kings College University Hospital, London, UK
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Matteo Serenari, MD

General Surgery and Transplantation, Sant’Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy
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Shingo Shimada, MD, PhD

Hokkaido University Hospital, Hokkaido, Japan
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Rachna T. Shroff, MD, MS

Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ, USA
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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
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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
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Ruchit Sood, MBChB, MD, MRCP(UK)

Leeds Gastroenterology Institute, St. James's University Hospital and Leeds institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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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
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Cristiano Spada, MD, PhD

Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Fondazione Poliambulanza, Brescia, Italy
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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
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Frank Tacke, MD, PhD, MHBA

Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Mitsuhisa Takatsuki, MD, PhD

Department of Digestive and General Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan
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Ker-Kan Tan, MD

Division of Colorectal Surgery, University Surgical Cluster, Singapore, Singapore
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Gianni Testino, MD

Unit of Addiction and Hepatology, Alcohological Regional Center, ASL3, San Martino Hospital, Genoa, Italy
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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
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Emmanuel A. Tsochatzis, MD, PhD

UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, Royal Free Hospital and UCL, London, UK
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Zsolt Tulassay, MD, DSc, FACG, AGAF, MHAS

Department of Medicine and Gastroenterology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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Masashi Ueno, MD, PhD

Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
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Alessandro Vitale, MD, PhD

Hepatobiliary Surg & Liver Transplant Unit, Univ Padua, Italy
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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
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Takuya Yamada, MD, PhD

Department of Gastroenterology, Osaka Rosai Hospital, Sakai, Osaka, Japan
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Hiroharu Yamashita, MD, PhD

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

Division of General and GI Surgery, Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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Harry H. Yoon, MD

Department of Medical Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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Alberto Zanetto, MD

Gastroenterology and Multivisceral Transplant Unit, Department of Surgery, Oncology, and Gastroenterology, Padua University Hospital, Padua, Italy
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Bruno Zilberstein, MD, PhD, FACS

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