Junior Editorial Board

Taiga Wakabayashi

Center for Advanced Treatment of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Diseases, Ageo Central General Hospital, Saitama, Japan.

Research Interests: Robotic and minimally invasive surgery, ICG fluorescence, Anatomic liver resection, Glissonean approach, 3D simulation.

Elisa Bannone

Department of Surgery, Hepatobiliopancreatic, Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery Unit, Fondazione Poliambulanza, Hospital Institute, Brescia, Italy.

Research Interests: Pancreatic surgery, Hepatobiliary surgery, Acute pancreatitis pancreas, Surgical oncology, Pancreatic diseases, Biliary tract diseases, Pancreatectomy.

Fidele Byiringiro

Department of Surgery, Rwanda Military Hospital & IRCAD Africa, Kigali, Rwanda.

Research Interests: Minimally invasive surgery, Surgical education, Surgical simulation.

Jasamine Coles-Black

Department of Surgery, Austin Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Research Interests: 3D printing, Simulation, Presurgical planning.

Toby Collins

IRCAD Institut de Recherche contre les Cancers de l'Appareil Digestif, Strasbourg, France.

Research Interests: Computer vision, Medical imaging, Computer assisted intervention, Augmented reality.

Francesco Enrico D'Amico

Department of Surgical, oncological and gastroenterological sciences (DiSCOG), University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Research Interests: Liver surgery, Oncologic surgery, Robotic surgery, Transplant oncology, Biliary surgery, Laparoscopic liver surgery, Complex HPB oncologic surgery.

Francesca Dal Mas

Department of Management – Venice School of Management, Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
Collegium Medicum, University of Social Sciences, Lodz, Poland.

Research Interests: New organizational models in healthcare, New technologies in surgery, Sustainability in surgery, Ethics, Clinical decision-making.

Despoina Daskalaki

Transplant and HPB surgeon, Tufts medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.

Research Interests: Transplant surgery, Liver surgery, Pancreatic surgery, Robotic surgery.

Marcello Di Martino

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation, A.O.R.N. Cardarelli, Napoli, Italy.

Research Interests: Liver cancer, Liver metastasis, Liver resection, Pancreatic cancer, Pancreatic resection, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning.

Simone Famularo

Division of hepatobiliary surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Research Interests: Hepatocellular carcinoma, Liver tumor, Data science, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Augmented imaging systems.

Tamara Gall

Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.

Research Interests: HPB Robotic Surgery Training and Credentialling, Intra-operative navigation.

Luca Gordini

Department of General Surgery, Gruppo San Donato, Milan, Italy.

Research Interests: Hernia and abdominal wall surgery, Visceral surgery, Mininvasive surgery, Digital surgery, Artificial intelligence surgery.

Meidai Kasai

Department of Surgery, Meiwa Hospital, Kobe, Japan.

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Augmented reality, Virtual reality, Intraoperative 3D navigation, Object tracking, ICG navigation, Laparoscopic liver surgery.

Marco Vito Marino

Department of General Surgery Dpt., F. Tappeneir Hosptial, Merano, Italy.

Research Interests: Robotic surgery, HPB surgery, Minimally invasive cardiac surgery.

Pietro Mascagni

Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Institute of Image-Guided Surgery, IHU-Strasbourg, France.

Research Interests: Robotic surgery, Computer assisted surgery, Artificial intelligence.

Nouredin Messaoudi

Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, University Hospital (UZ) Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.

Research Interests: AI, Robotics, Pancreatic cancer, Colorectal liver metastasis, Immuno-oncology.

Leila Mureebe

Division of Vascular Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, United States.

Research Interests: Vascular and endovascular surgery, Healthcare informatics.

Berk B. Ozmen

Cleveland Clinic Department of Plastic Surgery, Cleveland, OH, USA.

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence in surgery, development of AI decision support tools for surgery, robotic surgery innovations, computer vision, synthetic data and developing large language models for clinical use cases.

Nikdokht Rashidian

Department of HPB Surgery & Liver Transplantation, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.

Research Interests: Computer vision, Computational biomodelling, Machine learning and prediction models, Surgical education, Extended reality, Oncological surgery.

Karol Rawicz‑Pruszyński

Department of Surgical Oncology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.

Research Interests: Minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgery, Gastric cancer, Colorectal cancer, Pancreatic cancer, The impact of multimodal treatment on surgical outcomes.

Gianluca Rompianesi

HPB, Minimally Invasive, Robotic and Transplant Surgery Unit, Federico II University Hospital, Naples, Italy.

Research Interests: Liver surgery, Pancreatic surgery, Bile ducts surgery, Kidney transplantation, Liver transplantation, Living donor transplantation, Minimally invasive surgery, Robotic surgery, Minimally invasive surgery (robotic and laparoscopic), Artificial intelligence (AI) in surgery.

Heba Taher

Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kasr Alainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.

Research Interests: Pediatric surgery.

Tzu-Jung Tsai

Department of Surgery and Surgical Oncology, Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan.

Research Interests: Advanced laparoscopic surgery, Hepto-biliary surgery, Gastroenterology surgery, Breast surgery, General surgery.

Jaime Vilaca

Department of General Surgery, Hospital da Luz, Porto, Portugal.

Research Interests: Endocrine surgery, Minimally invasive surgery, 3D.

Feng Xia

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Southwest Hospital of Army Medical University (AMU), Chongqing, China.

Research Interests: Hepatocellular carcinoma, Liver disease, Immunotherapy, Hapatobiliary surgery, hepatectomy, Radio frequency ablation.