Editorial Board

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

[email protected]

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

[email protected]

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

Advisory Editor

Xiujun Cai

Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

Research Interests: Hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, Minimally invasive surgery, Liver cancer, Liver regeneration, Instrument and equipment for minimally invasive surgery

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

Igor F. Palacios

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Research Interests: interventional cardiology; percutaneous treatment of structural heart disease; coronary artery disease; valvular heart disease

Section Editors

Ferdinando Agresta

Emergency and Trauma Surgery

Department of General Surgery, Vittorio Veneto Hospital, Vittorio Veneto, Italy.

Research Interests: laparoscopy surgery; colon surgery; endoscopic surgery; emergency surgery; thoracic surgery

Davide Cavaliere

Colorectal Surgery

Department of General and Oncologic Surgery, Morgagni-Pierantoni Hospital, Forlì, Italy.

Research Interests: robotic surgery; minimally invasive surgery; general surgery; colorectum; colorectal surgery; rectal cancer; GIST; pancreatic surgery; pancreas; liver surgery; liver tumors

Xiang-Dong Cheng

Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

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

Gynecology

Academic Unit of Obstetrics and Gynecology, San Martino University Hospital IRCCS, Genoa, Italy.

Research Interests: endometriosis; fibroids (uterine myoma); cervical cancer; endometrial cancer; hysteroscopy

Ho Seong Han

Hepato-Biliary Surgery

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

Head and Neck Surgery

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

Fernando A. M. Herbella

Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Research Interests: physiology and surgery of the foregut

Roel Hompes

Colorectal Surgery

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

Abdominal Wall and Hernia Surgery

Department of Surgery, New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington, NC, USA.

Research Interests: minimally invasive surgery; robotic surgery; hernia surgery

Shanu Kothari

Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery

Department of Surgery, USC School of Medicine, Greenville, SC, USA.

Research Interests: gastric bypass; sleeve gastrectomy; surgical education; antireflux surgery

Zenichi Morise

Hepato-Biliary Surgery

Department of Surgery, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Toyoake, Japan.

Research Interests: gastroenterology; laparoscopic hepatectomy; hepatobiliary surgery; liver surgery; pancreatic surgery; hepatocellular carcinoma; surgical anatomy

Richard Naspro

Urology

Department of Urology, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy.

Research Interests: partial nephrectomy; laparoscopy; robotic surgery; minimally invasive treatment of BPH

Marco G. Patti

Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

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

Jean‐François Rey

Endoscopy

Department of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Institut Arnault Tzanck, St. Laurent du Var, France.

Research Interests: interventional endoscopy for bilio-pancreatic diseases; capsule endoscopy; enteroscopy

Lee Swanström

Endoscopy

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

Wah Yang

Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery

Department of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Research Interests: metabolic and bariatric surgery; obesity; metabolic disorders

Rasa Zarnegar

Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.

Research Interests: gastric cancer; GERD; achalasia; endoflip

Yong Zhang

Thoracic Surgery

Department of Thoracic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China.

Research Interests: application of magnetic surgery techniques in thoracic surgery; innovation in thoracic surgery; minimally invasive thoracic surgery; uniportal VATS lobectomy and segmentectomy; robotic assisted thoracic surgery

Editorial Board Member

Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

Alberto Aiolfi

Department of Biomedical Science for Health, Istituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.

Research Interests: laparoscopic surgery; gastrointestinal surgery; abdominal surgery; gastrointestinal oncology and gastroenterology

Davide Bona

Department of Biomedical Science for Health, Istitituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.

Research Interests: minimally invasive upper GI surgery; gastrointestinal endoscopy; paraesophageal hernia repair; gastroesophageal reflux; inguinal hernia

Mario Morino

Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy.

Research Interests: minimal invasive treatment of colorectal cancer; bariatric surgery; functional upper GI surgery

Itasu Ninomiya

Department of Surgery, Fukui Prefectural Hospital, Fukui, Japan.

Research Interests: esophageal endoscopic surgery; robotic surgery; malignancy diagnosis of esophageal cancer; inhibition of metastasis of gastrointestinal cancer

Francisco Schlottmann

Department of Surgery, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA.

Research Interests: minimally invasive surgery; esophagus; GERD; achalasia; obesity; esophageal cancer

Colorectal Surgery

Charles F. Bellows

Summit Medical Consultants, Greenwood Village, USA.

Research Interests: stem cells; tissue reconstruction; colon cancer

Alberto Biondi

General Surgery Department, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy.

Research Interests: surgical Incology; upper GI surgery; esophageal and gastric cancer; colorectal surgery; minimally Invasive surgery; robotic surgery

Simon Ng

Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Research Interests: minimally invasive and robotic surgery for colorectal diseases; advanced endoscopic therapy for colorectal diseases; multimodality treatment for colorectal cancer; colorectal cancer screening; molecular biomarkers for colorectal cancer; integrative medicine

Hepato-Biliary Surgery

Fernando A. Alvarez

General Surgery Service, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Research Interests: laparoscopic surgery; cancer diagnostics; surgical oncology; oncology; liver diseases; hepatocellular carcinoma; hepatobiliary surgery; pancreatic diseases

Tan To Cheung

Department of Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Research Interests: minimally invasive HBP surgery; liver cancer research; pancreas cancer research; biliary cancer research; liver transplant research

Chaoliu Dai

Department of General Surgery, China Medical University Shenyang, Shenyang, China

Research Interests: diagnosis and treatment of liver tumors, benign and malignant biliary tract diseases, pancreatic diseases, other difficult hepatobiliary diseases

Mariano Giménez

Department of Surgery, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire-Strasbourg (IHU-Strasbourg), Strasbourg, France.

Research Interests: percutaneous image guided surgery; minimally invasive hepato-pancreato-biliary (hpb) surgery

Andrew Gumbs

Department of Surgery, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.

Research Interests: hepatic-pancreatic-biliary surgery; robotic surgery

Zhao Li

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China.

Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, immune microenvironment, molecular imaging, robotic surgery

Roberto Montalti

Department of Surgery, Naples University Faculty of Medicine, Naples, Italy

Research Interests: laparoscopic/robotic liver surgery, immunosuppression, hepatocellular carcinoma in liver transplantation

Fabrizio Panaro

Department of Surgery, Montpellier University Hospital-School of Medicine, Montpellier, France.

Research Interests: liver; pancreas; bile duct; liver/pancreas transplantation; MIS; robotic surgery

Catherine Teh

Makati Medical Center, Makati, Philippines.

Research Interests: minimally invasive liver surgery, clinical human factors, innovation, patient safety, HPB, women in surgery, fluorescence guided surgery, global surgery

Go Wakabayashi

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

Research Interests: hepato-pancreatic biliary surgery; liver transplantation; laparoscopic surgery

Feng Xia

Department of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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

Pancreatic Surgery

Andrea Belli

Department of Abdominal Oncology-HPB Surgery Unit, National Cancer Institute-Fondazione G. Pascale IRCCS, Naples, Italy.

Research Interests: abdominal surgical oncology; laparoscopic and robotic colorectal surgery; laparoscopic and robotic HPB surgery

Liang Liu

Department of Pancreatic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Research Interests: pancreatic cancer, surgery, recurrence and metastasis, tumor microenvironment

Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery

Maria Altieri

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

Research Interests: bariatric and minimally invasive surgery

Jerry Dang

General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Main Campus, OH, USA.

Research Interests: bariatric surgery; Roux-en-Y gastric bypass; sleeve gastrectomy; microbiome; obesity; diabetes; glucagon-like-peptide-1

David Nocca

Digestive Surgery Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Research Interests: Bariatric and upper GI surgery, Nissen Sleeve Gastrectomy, general, digestive, endocrine, and laparoscopic surgery

Mehmet Mahir Özmen

MOC, Obesity and Cancer Clinic, Ankara, Turkey.

Research Interests: gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, robotic surgery, surgical oncology, bariatric metabolic surgery, surgical training, surgical technology, surgical education

Luis Poggi

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru.

Research Interests: GE junction physiology reflux disease, hiatal hernia repair, bariatric surgery, biliary tract, choledocolithiasis, bile duct exploratión, colon cancer, gastric cancer, hepatic resection, groin hernia, ventral hernia, adrenals and spleen pathology

Tomasz Rogula

Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland. Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, USA.

Research Interests: weight loss surgery, advanced laparoscopic and robotic surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, hernia repair

Jiangfan Zhu

Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, The 10th Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Research Interests: obesity, bariatric and metabolic surgery, gastroesophageal reflux disease after SG

Abdominal Wall and Hernia Surgery

Luca Gordini

Robotic and General Surgery - GVM Care & Research Rome, Italy

Research Interests: hernia and abdominal wall surgery; digestive surgery; mini-invasive surgery; endocrine surgery

Emergency and Trauma Surgery

Andy Petroianu

Department of Surgery, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Research Interests: spleen anatomy and functions; conservative surgeries on spleen; portal hypertension; acute appendicopathies; etiopathogeny; acute appendicitis; etiopathogeny; wound healing; digestive motility; peptic ulcer; oncologic surgeries; ethics in medicine

Thoracic Surgery

Ghulam Abbas

Division of Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University (WVU) Medicine, Morgantown, WV, USA.

Research Interests: robotic segmentectomy and lobectomy for lung tumors; CT guided radiofrequency ablation for lung tumors; robotic/laparoscopic surgery for reflux; hiatal hernias and achalasia; cyberknife/ stereotactic body radiosurgery for lung cancer; minimally invasive esophagectomy for cancer

Christopher Cao

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.

Research Interests: lung cancer; thoracic surgery; cardiac surgery; robotic surgery; minimally invasive surgery

Marcello Migliore

Department of General and Medical Specialties, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.

Research Interests: innovation; minimally invasiveness in thoracic surgery; uniportal VATS; mesothelioma; lung metastases; TNM staging sytem; surgery for stage IV lung cancer

Noriyoshi Sawabata

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Nara Medical University School of Medicine, Kashihara, Japan.

Research Interests: thoracic surgery; lung cancer; mediatinal tumor; isolated tumor cells; circulating tumor cell

Cardiac Surgery

Azeem Latib

Department of Cardiology, Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.

Research Interests: transcatheter aortic; mitral and tricuspid interventions

Tadahisa Sugiura

Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA.

Research Interests: Cardiac regenerative therapy, induced pluripotent stem cell, Structural heart disease, TAVR/TAVI, the treatment of end-stage heart failure, ECMO

Urology

Riccardo Autorino

Department of Surgery, VCU Health, Richmond, VA, USA.

Research Interests: robotic surgery; urologic oncology; prostate cancer; kidney cancer; urothelial cancer

Geert De Naeyer

Department of Urology, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Clinic, Aalst, Belgium.

Research Interests: robotic prostatectomy; robotic partial nephrectomy; holmium laser enucleation of the prostate; robotic reconstructive surgery

Juan Gómez Rivas

Department of Urology, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain.

Research Interests: prostate cancer; kidney transplant; minimally invasive surgery

Endoscopy

Alberto Arezzo

Minimally Invasive Therapy and Innovation Center (MITIC), Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Research Interests: robotics, artificial intelligence, automation in surgery, minimally invasive surgery, colorectal cancer surgery, new technologies for endoscopic surgery and flexible endoscopy, natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES)

Anastasios Koulaouzidis

Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Research Interests: Capsule endoscope, colonoscopy, microscopic colitis, colorectal cancer (CRC)

Matthew D. Kroh

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA. Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Research Interests: foregut surgery, bariatric surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, surgical endoscopy, laparoscopic surgery, and robotic surgery.

Zhuan Liao

Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: endoscopy; capsule endoscopy; chronic pancreatitis

Spinal Surgery

Weixin Li

Department of Neurosurgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shaanxi, China.

Research Interests: minimally invasive spinal technique, spinal endoscopy for spinal degenerative diseases, 3D printing