Former Editorial Board

Jaffer A Ajani, MD

Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Heike Allgayer, MD, PhD

Dept. of Experimental Surgery, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg and Molecular Oncology of Solid Tumors Unit, DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center) Heidelberg, Germany

Gianfranco Alpini, PhD

Scott & White and Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA

Shrikant Anant, PhD

University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA

Hideo Baba, MD, PhD, FACS

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Jae-Moon Bae, MD

Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Snigdha Banerjee, PhD

Cancer Research Unit, V.A. Medical Center, Research Division, Kansas City, KS, USA

Yung-Jue Bang, MD, PhD

Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Thomas Berg

Section of Hepatology, Clinic of Gastroenterology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Leipzig, Germany

Alex Boussioutas, MD, PhD, FRACP

Department of Medicine, The University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia; Cancer Genetics and Genomics Laboratory, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria, Australia

Heather L Bradley-Franci, PhD

Scott & White and Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA

Wanqing Chen

Deputy Director of National Office for Cancer Prevention and Control, National Central Cancer Registry of China

Jiezhong Chen, PhD

School of Biomedical Sciences and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia

Song Cheol Kim, MD, PhD

Division of HBP surgery, University of Ulsan College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea

Seung Ho Choi, MD, PhD

Division of UGI Surgery, Department of Surgery& Director of Cancer Hospital, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Terence Chua, MBBS, BScMed(Hons), PhD, MRCS(Ed), FRACS

Department of Surgery, Logan Hospital, Metro South Health, Brisbane, Australia and School of Medicine, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

Stephen Clarke, MD

Department of Medical Oncology, Royal North Shore Hospital, Pacific Highway, St Leonards, NSW, Australia

Marcello Deraco, MD

Peritoneal Surface Malignancies Unit, Colon and Rectal Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy

Wen-Xing Ding, PhD

Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, The University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

Alexander J. Eckardt, MD

DKD Helios Klinik Wiesbaden (German Diagnostic Clinic), Wiesbaden, Germany

Gianfranco Delle Fave, MD

Digestive and Liver Disease Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, S. Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Gen-sheng Feng, PhD

Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0864, USA

Francesco Feo, MD

Division of Experimental Pathology and Oncology, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Alvaro Antônio Bandeira Ferraz, MD, PhD, FACS

Federal University of Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Brazil

Shai Friedland, MD

Department of Gastroenterology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA; VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Leonidas G. Koniaris, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Shannon Glaser, PhD

Scott & White and Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA

Ariel Halevy, MD, FACS

Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Sang-Uk Han, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea

Chun-Yi Hao, MD, PhD

Peking University of School of Oncology & Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China

Rachel Hargest, MD, FRCS

Cardiff China Medical Research Collaborative, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK

Stephen Hiscox, PhD

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

Steven N. Hochwald, MD, FACS

Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA

Satoshi Ida, MD, PhD, FACS

Gastric Surgery, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Cancer Institute Hospital of JFCR, Nutritional Support Team at Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Mikito Inokuchi, MD, PhD

Department of Surgical Oncology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan

Ammar A. Javed, MD

Department of Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

Wen G Jiang, MB, BCh, MD, FSB, FRSM

Cardiff University School of Medicine, Wales, UK

Michio Kaminishi, MD, PhD

President, The Japanese Foundation for Research and Promotion of Endoscopy; Director General, Showa General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuo Kanda, MD, PhD

Sanjo General Hospital, Sanjo City, Niigata, Japan

Chang Moo Kang

Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Pancreaticobiliary Cancer Clinic, Yonsei Cancer Center, Severance Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Koo Jeong Kang, MD, PhD

Division of HBP Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keimyung University Dong-San Hospital, Daegu, Korea

David E. Kaplan, MD, MSc, FACP, FAASLD, AGAF

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Hyung-Ho Kim

Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Korea

Byung-Wook Kim, MD, PhD

Digestive Disease Center, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Yuko Kitagawa

Keio University School of Medicine, Japan

Yasuhiro Kodera, MD, PhD

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Somashekar Krishna, MD, MPH

Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

Simon YK LAW, MBBChir (Cantab), MS (HK), MA, FRCSEd, FCSHK, FHKAM, FACS

Division of Esophageal and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

Hyuk-Joon Lee, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Ziyu Li, MD, PhD

Peking University of School of Oncology & Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China

Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer; Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin, China

Gian Luca Baiocchi, MD

Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, and 3rd Division of General Surgery, University Hospital (Spedali Civili) of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Paul F. Mansfield, MD, FACS

Department of Surgical Oncology The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Tommaso Maria Manzia, MD

Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, Tor Vergata University, Liver Unit, Rome, Italy

Daniele Marrelli, MD

University of Siena, Italy

Shigeo Masuda, MD, PhD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery(Sawa Lab), Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Muhammed Ashraf Memon

South East Queensland Surgery (SEQS) and Sunnybank Obesity Centre, Sunnybank, Queensland, Australia

Fanyin Meng, PhD

Scott & White Hospital, Texas A&M HSC College of Medicine, Temple, TX, USA

Siddavaram Nagini

Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar, Tamil Nadu, India

Atsushi Nashimoto, MD

Department Surgery, Niigata Cancer Center Hospital, Niigata, Japan

Nalu Navarro Alvarez, MD, PhD

Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

John P. Neoptolemos, MD

Department of General Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Simon Ng MBChB (Hons) (CUHK), MD (CUHK), FRCS (Edin), FCSHK, FRCSEd (Gen), FHKAM (Surgery), FACS

Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Hiroshi Okabe, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan

Yukiyasu Okamura, MD, PhD

Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Shizuoka, Japan

Kai Pan, MD

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Shenzhen People's Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Do Joong Park, MD, PhD

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Sungsoo Park, MD, PhD

Division of Upper GI Surgery, Department of Surgery, Korea University College of Medicine, MIS & Robotic Surgery Center, Korea University Medical Center, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Young Kyu Park, MD, PhD

Gastric Cancer Center, Division of Gastroenterologic Surgery, Department of Surgery Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital, Jeollanam-do, South Korea

Theodoros E Pavlidis, MD, PhD

Second Surgical Propaedeutic Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Medical School, Hippocration Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

Gilberto J. Paz-Filho, MD

The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Maikel P. Peppelenbosch, MD

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Mitchell C. Posner, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medicine , Chicago, IL, USA

Mohamad Amin Pourhoseingholi, PhD

Department of Health System Research, Gastroenterology and Liver diseases Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Meng Qiu, MD

Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

Giandomenico Roviello, MD

Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Onco-Hematology, IRCCS-CROB, Referral Cancer Center of Basilicata, Rionero in Vulture, Potenza, Italy

Akira Sawaki, MD, PhD

Department of Clinical Oncology, Kawasaki Medical School, Matsushima, Kurashiki City, Okayama, Japan

Atsushi Shiozaki, MD, PhD

Division of Digestive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan

Ashwani K. Singal, MD

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Avera Transplant Institute, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD, USA

Jimmy Bok-Yan So, MBChB, FRCS (Ed), FRCS (Glasg), FAMS, MPH

Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Rhonda F. Souza, MD, AGAF, FASGE

UT Southwestern Medical Center & VA North Texas Health Care System, Dallas, TX, USA

Vivek Subbiah, MD

Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, The University of MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA

Yasuhiko Sugawara, MD, PhD

Liver Transplantation Division, Japanese Red Cross Hospital, University of Tokyo, Japan

Tiffany H Taft, PsyD, MIS

Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

Rolf Teschke, MD

Department of Internal Medicine II, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Klinikum Hanau, D-63450 Hanau, Germany

Steven Trocha, MD

Department of Surgery, Greenville Health System, Greenville, SC, USA

Alessandro Vitale, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Ioannis A. Voutsadakis, MD, PhD

Algoma District Cancer Program, Sault Area Hospital, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario; Division of Clinical Sciences, Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Philip Wai Yan Chiu, MD (CUHK), MBChB (CUHK), FRCSEd, FCSHK, FHKAM (Surgery)

Department of Surgery, Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Go Wakabayashi

Department of Surgery, Ageo Central General Hospital, Saitama, Japan

Lu Wang, MD, PhD

Department of Liver Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Jia Wei, MD, PhD

The Comprehensive Cancer Center, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital to Medical School of Nanjing University, Clinical Cancer Institute of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Joyce Wong, MD FACS

Department of Surgery, Northwell Health at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY, USA

Justin Che-yuen Wu, MBChB, MD, FHKAM, FRCP (Lond, Edin), AGAF

Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Institute of Digestive Disease, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Diseases, LKS Institute of Health Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Aiwen Wu, MD, PhD

Peking University of School of Oncology & Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China

Wei Wu, PhD

School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Shao-Hua Xie, MD, PhD

Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Ye Xu, MD

Department of Colorectal Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China

Hiroharu Yamashita, MD, PhD

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Han-Kwang Yang, MD, PhD

Division of GI Surgery, Department of Surgery & Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea

Chun-Nan Yeh, MD

Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, Taoyuan

Khay-Guan Yeoh, MBBS, MMed

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, National University Hospital, Singapore; Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore