Editorial Board
59 Editors in 18 Countries/Region
Editor Emeritus
Brice Gayet
brice.gayet@imm.frInstitut Mutualiste Montsouris (IMM), University Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
Research Interests: Laparoscopic, Laparoscopic surgery, Minimally invasive surgery, Advance laparoscopic surgery, Laparo-endoscopic surgery, Hepatopancreatobiliary surgery, Esophageal diseases.
Editor-in-Chief
ANDREW GUMBS 
aagumbs@gmail.com Departement de Chirurgie Digestive, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Poissy-St-Germain-en-Laye, Poissy, France.
Research Interests: Robotic surgery, Visceral surgery, Hepatic-pancreatic and biliary surgery, Laparoscopic surgery, Minimally invasive surgery.
Searching for a better definition of robotic surgery: is it really different from laparoscopy?
Clostridium difficile infection secondary to ileostomy closure
White paper: definitions of artificial intelligence and autonomous actions in clinical surgery
Why Artificial Intelligence Surgery (AIS) is better than current Robotic-Assisted Surgery (RAS)
Computer Vision Editor
Adrian Park
Department of Surgery, the Earl Simulation to Advance Innovation and Learning Center, Anne Arundel Health System, Annapolis, MD, USA.
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Research Interests: Laparoscopic techniques, Complex hernia repair, Foregut and spleen surgery.
Robotic Tele-manipulation Editor
Sharona Ross
Southeastern Center for Digestive Disorders and Pancreatic Cancer, Florida Hospital Tampa, Tampa, FL, USA.
Digestive Health Institute, AdventHealth Tampa, Tampa, Fl, USA.
Research Interests: Surgery, Robotics, Artificial intelligence, HPB, Pancreas, Foregut, Innovation, Technology, Cancer.
Autonomous Actions Editor
Lee Swanström
IHU-Strasbourg, France.
Department of Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University Oregon, Portland, OR, USA.
Research Interests: Human factors, Technology assessment, Minimally invasive surgery, Interventional endoscopy.
Technology Development Editor
Luca Milone
Deaprtment of Surgery, Brooklyn Hospital Center, New York, NY, USA.
Research Interests: Robotic surgery, Endoscopic surgery.
Statistics Editor
Clarissa Ferrari
Unit of Statistics, IRCCS Istituto Centro San Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy.
Research Interests: Richly parameterized statistical models (mixed, multilevel, structural equation models), Multivariate model-based and data-based classification methods (cluster analysis, mixture models), AI and machine learning techniques (random forest, KNN algorithm, support vector machine, neural network).
Ethics Editor
Antonella Ficorilli
Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Research Interests: Research ethics, Bioethics, Applied ethics, Biobanking in biomedical and epidemiological research.
Honorary Regional Editors
Michel Gagner
Department of Surgery, Westmount Square Surgical Center, Quebec, Westmount, Canada.
Research Interests: Bariatric surgery, Colon & Rectal, Pancreas, Endoscopy.
Robotic surgery: is it really different from laparoscopy? a critical view from a robotic pioneer
White paper: definitions of artificial intelligence and autonomous actions in clinical surgery
Chinnusamy Palanivelu
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, GEM Hospital Coimbatore, Coimbatore, India.
Research Interests: Health care, Laparoscopic surgery, CIGES atlas of laparoscopic surgery.
Micaela Piccoli
Department of General, Emergency Surgery and New Technologies, Baggiovara General Hospital, Modena, Italy.
Research Interests: Endocrine, Cancer, Wall, Stomach and colorectal surgery, Laparoscopic and robotic techniques.
Associate Editors
Mohammed Abu Hilal
Department of Surgery, Poliambulanza Foundation Hospital, Brescia, Italy.
Research Interests: Liver surgery (liver cancer and benign liver conditions), Pancreatic surgery (pancreatic cancer and benign Pancreatic conditions), Biliary and laparoscopic (keyhole), Surgery (laparoscopic cholecystectomy, gallstone, bile duct cancer and bile duct benign conditions).
Elie Chouillard
Department of Digestive Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal, Poissy, France.
Research Interests: Liver surgery, Surgical oncology, Laparoscopic surgery, Colorectal surgery, Gastrointestinal diseases, General surgery, Abdominal surgery, Robotic surgery, Laparo-endoscopic surgery, Surgery.
Roland Croner
Department of General, Visceral, Vascular and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
Research Interests: Organ transplant surgery, Minimally invasive surgery, Robots assist in surgery.
Eyad Elyan
School of Computing Science and Digital Media, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK.
Research Interests: Machine learning, Machine vision, Image classification and class-imbalance problem, Video content analysis.
Isabella Frigerio
Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, Pederzoli Hospital, Peschiera del Garda, Verona, Italy.
Research Interests: Surgical oncology, Laparoscopic surgery.
W. Konrad Karcz
Department of General, Visceral, and Transplant Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany.
Research Interests: Diseases, Surgery, Minimally invasive surgery, Abdominal surgery, Gastrointestinal surgery.
Gaya Spolverato
Department of Surgery, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Research Interests: Surgery, General surgery, Surgical oncology, Abdominal surgery, Colorectal surgery, Gastrointestinal surgery, Cancer surgery, Minimally invasive surgery, Laparoscopic surgery, Oncology.
Director of Social Media and Strategy
S. Vincent Grasso
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Research Interests: Conversational AI, ML, Intelligent RPA, NLP, Edge high performance computing.
Editorial Board Members
Gudrun Aspelund
Centre for Health Security and Communicable Disease Control, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Research Interests: Pediatric surgery, Public health, Infectious disease epidemiology, Child health.
Fabio Ausania
HPB and Transplant Surgery, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Spain.
Research Interests: Robotic surgery, HPB surgery, Minimally invasive surgery, Liver transplant surgery, Risk prediction, Pancreatic cancer.
Elena Giovanna Bignami
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Research Interests: Anesthesia, ICU, Critical care, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Telemedicine, Perioperative medicine, Surgery.
Thomas Baptist Brunner
Department for Radiology, University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
Research Interests: Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), AI in radiation oncology, GI oncology, Radiobiology.
Giovanni Cacciamani
Department of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Surgical oncology, Patients safety, Predictive modeling, Evidence-based medicine, Systematic reviews.
Madison Cuffy
Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Research Interests: Transplant surgery, Hepatobiliary surgery, Kidney transplant, Liver transplant.
Rafael Dela de la Garza-Ramos
Department of Neurological Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Research Interests: Spine surgery, Spine tumor, Spinal deformity, Cancer disparities, Machine learning, Deep learning.
Michele Diana
IRCAD, Research Institute against Digestive Cancer, Strasbourg, France.
Research Interests: Image-guided surgery, Surgical robotics, Surgical applications of machine and deep learning.
Michael Friebe
Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
Research Interests: Diagnostic imaging, Image guided therapies, Exponential medicine, Healthtec innovation generation.
Arnar Geirsson
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Research Interests: Cardiac surgery, Heart failure, Heart transplant and left ventricular assist device, Robotic mitral valve repair, Surgery vascular biology and therapeutics.
Suzanne S. Gisbertz
Department of Surgery, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence in upper GI surgery, Lymph node metastases and extent of lymphadenectomy in Upper GI cancer surgery and minimally invasive and robotic surgical techniques.
Pedro F. Gouveia
CNC-Center for Neurosciences and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Research Interests: Breast cancer, Oncoplastic breast surgery, Breast reconstruction, 3D breast modeling, Surgical breast simulation, Augmented reality, Connected care and artificial intelligence.
Alfredo Illanes
INKA-Application Driven Research, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
Research Interests: Signal processing, Spectral analysis, Time-variant modelling, Image and video processing.
Takeaki Ishizawa
Department of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan.
Research Interests: Robot-assisted surgery, Intraoperative fluorescence imaging, Hepatobiliary surgery, Pancreatic surgery, Laparoscopic surgery.
Long R Jiao
Department of Oncology and Surgery, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK.
Research Interests: Robotic and laparoscopic hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, Early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.
Ulf Dietrich Kahlert
Department of General-, Visceral-, Vascular- and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
Research Interests: Stem cells, Experimental surgery, Nanomedicine, Oncometabolism, EMT, Biosensors.
Stephen Kavic
Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Research Interests: Surgical education, Natural language processing, Residency, ABSITE.
Michael Kreissl
Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
Research Interests: Thyroid, Theranostics, Radionuclide therapy, Neuroendocrine tumors, Computer aided diagnosis, Machine learning.
Abraham Lebenthal
Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Research Interests: Mediastinal tumors, Mesothelioma, Minimally invasive esophageal surgery, Minimally invasive thoracic surgery, Thoracic onolocgy, Thymic tumors.
Hengrui Liang
Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University/The National Center for Respiratory Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Research Interests: Minimal invasive thoracic surgery, Thoracic disease diagnosis AI, Thoracic surgery AI, Federated learning & medical application.
Marialuisa Lugaresi
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Research Interests: General surgery, Minimally invasive surgery, Laparoscopic surgery, Thoracoscopic surgery, Surgical oncology, Esophageal diseases, Artificial intelligence, Robotic surgery, Machine learning, Statistics.
Michele Masetti
Department of Specialist Surgery, Division of General and Emergency Surgery, Bologna University Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
Research Interests: Robotic surgery, Oncological surgery, Pancreatic cancer, Hepatobiliary surgery.
Beat Peter Müller-Stich
Clarunis - Academic Center for Gastrointestinal Diseases, St. Clara and University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Research Interests: Oncological upper GI, Laparoscopy, Gastric bypass, Bariatric surgery, Non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, Assisted surgery.
Zbigniew Nawrat
Fundacja Rozwoju Kardiochirurgii, Zabrze, Zabrze, Poland.
Research Interests: BioMEMS, Finite element analysis, Force sensors, Medical robotics, Microsensors, Piezoresistive devices, Surgery, Analogue-digital conversion, Biological tissues, Biomechanics, Biomedical electronics, Biomedical optical imaging, Calibration, Diseases.
Derek O'Reilly
Department of General Surgery, Beijing United Family Hospital and Clinics (BJU), Beijing, China.
Research Interests: Pancreatitis, Gallstones, Pancreas pseudocyst, Acute cholecystitis, Laparoscopic cholecystectomy, Gallbladder.
Mehmet Mahir Özmen
Istinye University, Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey.
Research Interests: Bariatric/Metabolic surgery, Oncological surgery, Gastric surgery, Colorectal surgery, Robotic surgery, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Surgical education.
Subroto Paul
Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
Research Interests: Robotic surgery, Lung cancer, Esophageal cancer, Mesothelioma, Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), Hiatal hernia.
Silvana Perretta
Department of Digestive and Endocrine Surgery, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
Research Interests: Foregut and bariatric surgery, Interventional endoscopy surgical education and simulation.
Carla Pugh
Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
Research Interests: Surgical education, Surgical simulation.
Francesca Ratti
IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Research Interests: Hepatobiliary surgery, Liver surgery, Oncology, Laparoscopy.
Bettina M. Rau
Department of General, Visceral, and Thoracic surgery, Hospital of Neumarkt, Neumarkt, Germany.
Research Interests: Surgical oncology, General surgery, Gastrointestinal surgery, Hepatopancreatobiliary surgery, Surgery, Infectious diseases, Acute pancreatitis, Oncology, Chronic pancreatitis, Pancreatic surgery.
Thomas Schnelldorfer
Division of Surgical Oncology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Research Interests: Computer vision, Image processing, Device development, Surgical oncology.
Stefanie Speidel
Division of Translational Surgical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Research Interests: Computer and robotic-assisted surgery, Surgical data science.
Vivian Strong
Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Research Interests: Minimally invasive expertise, Stomach cancer, Tumors of the adrenal gland, Splenectomy, Small intestine, Distal pancreas, Hernias.
Patricia Sylla
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
Research Interests: Colon and rectal surgery, Proctology surgery.
Amir Szold
Assuta Medical Center, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.
Research Interests: Minimally invasive surgery, Medical devices, OR of the future, Robotics.
Martin Teraa
Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Research Interests: Endovascular interventions, Innovations in vascular surgery, Aortic pathology, Aortic aneurysms, Acute aortic syndromes, Peripheral artery disease (PAD), Chronic limb-threatening Ischemia (CLTI).
Yogesh K. Vashist
Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Research Interests: Surgical oncology, HPB tumors, Peritoneal and pleural carcinomatosis, Thoracic oncology, Upper GI oncology (gastric and esophageus), Mediastinal tumors, Translational research, Biomarkers, Education.
Xin Wang
Department of Pancreatic Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Sichuan, China.
Research Interests: HPB surgery, Artificial intelligence, Pancreatic cancer, Minimally invasive surgery.
Steven Warmann
Department of Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Urology, University Children's Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
Research Interests: Surgery for pediatric solid tumors-lung metastases, Portal hypertension in children, Short bowel syndrome and chronical intestinal failure in children, Pediatric liver tumors.
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