89 Editors in 20 Countries/Regions
Honorary Editor-in-Chief
Michel Gagner 
[email protected] Department of Surgery, Westmount Square Surgical Center, Quebec, Canada.
Research Interests: bariatric surgery; laparoscopy; gastric surgery; foregut surgery; HPB surgery; pancreas; endoscopy; magnetic surgery
Editors-in-Chief
Giulio Belli
General and HepatoPancreatoBiliary Surgery, Loreto Nuovo Hospital, Naples, Italy.
Research Interests: liver surgery; gallbladder and biliary tract surgery; pancreatic surgery; large intestine surgery; laparoscopic surgery
Lianxin Liu
The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, larproscopic liver resection, immunotherapy, checkpoint inhibitor, gallbladder cancer
Section Editors
Ferdinando Agresta
Department of General Surgery, Vittorio Veneto Hospital, Vittorio Veneto, Italy.
Research Interests: laparoscopy surgery; colon surgery; endoscopic surgery; emergency surgery; thoracic surgery
Riccardo Autorino
Department of Surgery, VCU Health, Richmond, VA, USA.
Research Interests: robotic surgery; urologic oncology; prostate cancer; kidney cancer; urothelial cancer
Giuseppe Biondi Zoccai
Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy.
Research Interests: aortic stenosis; coronary artery disease; heart failure; machine learning; myocardial infarction
Xiang-Dong Cheng
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. & Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Zhejiang, China.
Research Interests: Gastric cancer, Artificial intelligence in diagnosis, Minimally invasive surgery, Laparoscopy, Cheng's "Three-Step" Lymph Node Dissection Technique
Simone Ferrero
Academic Unit of Obstetrics and Gynecology, San Martino University Hospital IRCCS, Genoa, Italy.
Research Interests: endometriosis; fibroids (uterine myoma); cervical cancer; endometrial cancer; hysteroscopy
Yuman C. Fong
Department of Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center, California, CA, USA.
Research Interests: bile duct cancer; gallbladder cancer; gastrointestinal cancers; hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery; liver cancer; pancreatic cancer; robotic surgery
Ho Seong Han
Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Research Interests: minimal invasive HBP surgery; HCC; pancreas cancer; biliary tract cancer
Ehab Hanna
Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Research Interests: skull base tumors; robotic surgery of the skull base; endoscopic surgery of skull base; sinonasal cancers
Roel Hompes
Department of Surgery, Amsterdam University Medical Centres - location AMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Research Interests: general and digestive; colorectal; transanal and proctological surgery
William Hope
Department of Surgery, New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington, NC, USA.
Research Interests: minimally invasive surgery; robotic surgery; hernia surgery
Yoshihisa Kotani
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kansai Medical University Medical Center, Osaka, Japan.
Research Interests: minimally invasive spine surgery; spinal deformity; computer-assisted spine surgery; robotic surgery; spinal reconstruction
Shanu Kothari
Department of Surgery, USC School of Medicine, Greenville, SC, USA.
Research Interests: gastric bypass; sleeve gastrectomy; surgical education; antireflux surgery
Marco. G Patti
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of North Carolina, North Carolina, NC, USA.
Research Interests: esophagus; gastroesophageal reflux; hiatal hernia; paraesophageal hernia; esophageal motility disorders; achalasia; esophageal cancer
Lee Swanström
Institute for Image Guided Surgery, Strasbourg, France; Gastrointestinal and Minimally Invasive Surgery, The Oregon Clinic, Portland, OR, USA.
Research Interests: surgical endoscopy; minimally invasive foregut surgery
Yogesh Vashist
Department of Surgery, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, Goslar, Germany.
Research Interests: surgical oncology; esophageal cancer; gastric cancer; HPB cancer; lung cancer; mediastinal tumors; peritoneal neoplasy; HIPEC
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