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MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-Chief (2022-01-01/2025-12-31)
Peter Schemmer, FACS, MD, PhD, Chairman, Full Professor, Professor, Bern Visceral Surgery & Pancreas Clinic Switzerland & Liver Clinic Switzerland, Hirslanden Hospital Beau Site, Bern 8036, Styria, Switzerland
Associate Editor (2022-01-01/2025-12-31)
Marcio Chedid, MD, PhD, Professor, Surgeon, Liver Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery Unit, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre 90035-903, Brazil
Eva Lieto, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Traslazional Medicine, Vanvitelli University, Napoli 80132, NA, Italy
Vishal G Shelat, DNB, FEBS, FICS, FRCS (Gen Surg), MBBS, MNAMS, Associate Professor, Surgeon, Surgical Oncologist, Department of Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore 308433, Singapore
Zong-Ming Zhang, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Professor, Department of General Surgery, Beijing Electric Power Hospital, State Grid Corporation of China, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100073, China
Editorial Board (2022-01-01/2025-12-31)
Anil Kumar Agarwal, FACS, FRCS (Hon), MBBS, MCh, MS, Director, Professor, Surgeon, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Liver Transplant, GB Pant Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research and Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi University, New Delhi 110002, India
Sami Akbulut, MD, PhD, Full Professor, Department of Surgery and Liver Transplant Institute, Inonu University Faculty of Medicine, Malatya 44280, Türkiye
Ali Aktekin, MD, Doctor, Professor, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Medical Faculty, Giresun University, Giresun 28200, Türkiye
Ruslan Alikhanov, MD, PhD, Chairman, Doctor, Professor, Surgeon, Division of Liver and Pancreatic Surgery, Moscow Clinical Research Center, Moscow 111123, Russia
Michele Ammendola, MD, Research Associate, Surgical Oncologist, Science of Health Department, Digestive Surgery Unit, University of "Magna Graecia" Medical School, Catanzaro 88100, Italy
Raphael LC Araujo, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Surgical Oncologist, Department of Surgery, Digestive Surgery Discipline, Liver Surgery Service, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo 04024-002, São Paulo, Brazil
Fabio Ausania, FEBS, MD, PhD, Surgeon, Surgical Oncologist, Department of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Transplant Surgery, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Barcelona 08036, Spain
Sung Uk Bae, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital, Daegu 42601, South Korea
Ahmet Ziya Balta, MD, Associate Professor, Lecturer, Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Health Sciences University, Abdulhamid Han Teaching and Research Hospital, Istanbul 34668, Türkiye
Giedrius Barauskas, FEBS, MD, PhD, Professor, Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas LT-50009, Lithuania
Savio George Alberto Da Piedade Barreto, MBBS, MD, PhD, Doctor, Senior Lecturer, Department of Surgery, Flinders Medical Centre, Daw Park 5041, South Australia, Australia
Lapo Bencini, PhD, Doctor, Senior Researcher, Surgeon, Department of Surgical Oncology, Careggi University and District Hospital, Careggi University and District Hospital, Careggi Main Florence University and Regional Hospital, Florence 50134, Italy
Vasile Virgil Bintintan, MD, PhD, Doctor, Senior Lecturer, Senior Researcher, Surgeon, Department of Surgery, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj-Napoca,, Cluj Napoca 400006, Romania
Alberto Biondi, FACS, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome 00168, Italy
Giuseppe Brisinda, MD, Assistant Professor, Surgeon, Medical and Surgical Science, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome 00168, Italy
Dieter Clemens Broering, FACS, FEBS, MD, PhD, Director, Full Professor, Senior Lecturer, Senior Researcher, Surgeon, Organ Transplant Center of Excellence, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh 11211, Saudi Arabia
Ramón Cantero, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Surgeon, Department of Surgery, La Paz Universitary Hospital, Pozuelo de Alarcon 28223, Madrid, Spain
Damiano Caputo, FACS, MD, Associate Professor, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome 00128, Italy
Mustafa Cengiz, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Gulhane Training and Research Hospital- University of Health Sciences, Ankara 06010, Türkiye
Kun-Ming Chan, MD, Doctor, Professor, Senior Researcher, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery and Chang Gung Transplantation Institute, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyun 33305, Taiwan
Nikolaos Chatzizacharias, FACS, FRCS, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Surgeon, Department of HPB and liver transplantation, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TH, United Kingdom
Chong-Chi Chiu, MD, Attending Doctor, Professor, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, E-Da Cancer Hospital, Kaohsiung 82445, Taiwan
Ali Coskun, MD, Associate Professor, Doctor, Department of General Surgery, Izmir Bozyaka Training and Research Hospital, Izmir 35380, Türkiye
Osman Nuri Dilek, FACS, Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Hepatopancreatobiliary surgery, Izmir Katip Çelebi University School of Medicine, İzmir 35150, Türkiye
Lei Ding, PhD, Professor, Department of Colorectal Oncology, Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Department of Surgery, Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University Ninth School of Clinical Medicine, Peking University, Beijing 100038, China
Marcello Donati, FACS, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Surgery and Medical-Surgical specialties, University of Catania, Catania 95125, Italy
Alaa El-Hussuna, MBChB, MSc, PhD, Academic Research, Doctor, Department of Surgery, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg 9000, Denmark
Sameh Hany Emile, FACS, MBChB, MD, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Mansoura University, Mansoura University Hospitals, Mansoura 35516, Dakahlia, Egypt
Shunji Endo, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Digestive Surgery, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki 701-0192, Okayama, Japan
Ying Fan, PhD, Professor, Department of General Surgery, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110004, Liaoning Province, China
Marco Frascio, MD, N/A, Professor, Surgeon, Surgical Oncologist, Teacher, Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche e Diagnostiche Integrate, University of Genova (Italy) - School of Medicine, Genova 16131, Genova, Italy
Tao Fu, MD, Associate Professor, Chief Physician, Director, Surgeon, Surgical Oncologist, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery II, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430060, Hubei Province, China
Shiki Fujino, FACS, MD, PhD, Doctor, Research Scientist, Surgical Oncologist, Innovative Oncology Research and Regenerative Medicine, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka 541-8567, Japan
Naotake Funamizu, FACS, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of HBP Surgery, Ehime University, Toon 7910204, Ehime, Japan
Gaetano Gallo, FACS, FASCRS, MD, PhD, Academic Research, Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Rome, Rome 00161, Italy
Paschalis Gavriilidis, MD, MSc, PhD, Surgeon, Department of HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Queen Elizabeth University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham B15 2TH, United Kingdom
Brian KP Goh, FRCS (Ed), MBBS, MSc, Professor, Surgeon, Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore 169856, Singapore
Andrew Gumbs, FACS, MD, Full Professor, Professor, Surgical Oncologist, Department of Surgical Oncology, Centre Hopsitalier Intercommunal Poissy/Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Poissy 78300, France
Vishal Gupta, FACS, MBBS, MCh, MS, Additional Professor, Surgeon, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal 462020, India
Jia-Gang Han, MD, Professor, Department of General Surgery, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100020, China
Cong-Yun Huang, MD, Professor, Surgeon, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Affiliated Yuebei People’s Hospital of Shantou University School of Medicine, Shaoguan 512026, Guangdong Province, China
Eva Intagliata, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Catania, Augusta 96011, Italy
Orestis Ioannidis, FACS, FICS, MD, MSc, PhD, Academic Fellow, Academic Research, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Professor, Research Associate, Research Fellow, Surgeon, Fourth Surgical Department, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54640, Greece
Shridhar Ganpathi Iyer, FRCS (Ed), MBBS, MS, Associate Professor, Director, Surgeon, Surgical Oncologist, Liver Transplant Program, National University Hospital, Singapore 119228, Singapore
Martellucci Jacopo, MD, PhD, Doctor, Surgeon, Surgical Oncologist, Deparment of Surgery, Department of Emergency, Emergency and Minimally Invasive Surgery Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence 50145, Italy