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
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
Marilia Carabotti, MD, PhD
Medical-Surgical Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University Sapienza of Rome - Sant’Andrea Teaching Hospital, Rome, Italy
Stephen Chang Kin Yong
National University Singapore, Farrer Park Hospital and Mt Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore
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
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, Tokyo, Japan
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
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
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
Nikolaos Machairas, MD, PhD
2nd Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
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
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
Eduardo A. Perez, MD
Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL, 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, Los Angeles, USA
Medical Director, UCLA Adult Liver Transplant Program
Chief, UCLA Transplant Hepatology, Los Angeles, USA
Head, Outcomes Research in Hepatology at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Professor of Medicine and Surgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Adjunct Professor of Nursing, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Tevfik Tolga Sahin
Department of Surgery and Liver Transplant Institute, Inonu University Faculty of Medicine, Malatya, Turkey
Hrishikesh Samant, MD, FACG
Ochsner Multiorgan Transplant Center, New Orleans, USA
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
Department of Surgery, Toshima Hospital Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Hospitals Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Diamantis I. Tsilimigras, MD
Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
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
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