Ke-Qin Hu, FAASLD, MD, Director, Professor, (E-mail: kqhu@uci.edu) Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA 92868, United States

Koo Jeong Kang, MD, PhD, Professor, (Email: kjkang@dsmc.or.kr) Division of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery, Department of surgery, Keimyung University Dong-San Medical Center, Daegu 41931, South Korea

Nikolaos T Pyrsopoulos, FACP, FRCP (C), MD, PhD, Director, Professor, Research Scientist, (Email: pyrsopni@njms.rutgers.edu) Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, United States

Pietro Invernizzi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Liver Unit and Center for Autoimmune Liver Diseases, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano 20089, Italy

Yeong Yeh Lee, FACG, FACP, FRCP (C), MD, PhD, Doctor, Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kota Bahru 16150, Kelantan, Malaysia

Calvin Pan, FACG, MD, Professor, New York University School of Medicine, Los Angeles, NY 10016, United States

Yong-Ping Yang, MD, Professor, Center of Therapeutic Research for Hepatocellular Carcinoma, the Fifth Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100039, China

Ahmed Abdel-Razik, PhD, Associate Professor, From the Tropical Medicine Department, Mansoura University-, Mansoura 35516, DK, Egypt

Eman AE Abushady, PhD, Full Professor, Microbiology, Microbiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Nasser City R695-11651, Cairo, Egypt

Juan G Acevedo, MD, PhD, Attending Doctor, Doctor, South West Liver Unit, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth PL68DH, Devon, United Kingdom

Shahinul Alam, FCPS, MD, Associate Professor, Doctor, Department of Hepatology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh

Noha G Bader El Din, PhD, Professor, Microbial Biotechnology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Division, National Research Center, Cairo 12622, Egypt

Lakshmi Bala, PhD, Professor, Professor and Head , Deptt of Biochemistry, BBDCODS, BBD University, Faizabad Road, www.bbdcods.edu.in, Lucknow 227105, UP, India

Bulent Baran, FEBG, MD, Academic Research, Doctor, Department of Gastroenterology, Koç University Hospital, Istanbul 34010, Turkey

Francesco Bellanti, MD, PhD, Doctor, Research Associate, Teaching Assistant, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia 71122, Italy

Fernando O Bessone, MD, Associate Professor, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, University of Rosario School of Medicine, Rosario 2000, Argentina

Dimitrios P Bogdanos, MD, PhD, Reader (Associate Professor), Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Thessaly Medical School, Larissa 41110, Greece

G Borgia, MD, Chief Doctor, Professor, Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Coll Med, Univ S Alabama, Mobiles, AL 36688, United States

Mauro Borzio, MD, Medical Assistant, Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Presidio Osped Cernusco Naviglio, Milano 20141, Italy

Nouhoum Bouare, DSc, PhD, Research Scientist, Diagnosis and Biomedical Research, National Institute of Research in Public Health, Bamako 200, Mali

Hüseyin Sancar Bozkurt, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Clinic of Gastroenterology, Maltepe University Medical Faculty Internal Medicine, Istanbul 34844, Turkey

Luis Cesar Bredt, FRCS (Gen Surg), FRCS (Hon), Chief Doctor, Professor, Surgical Oncologist, Abdominal and Hepatobilary Surgery, Cancer Hospital UOPECCAN, Cascavel 85000, Parana, Brazil

Rostyslav V Bubnov, LLB, MD, PhD, Academic Research, Doctor, Research Scientist, Staff Physician, Surgeon, Center of Ultrasound Diagnostics and Interventional Sonography, Clinical Hospital “Pheophania” of Administration of President of Ukraine, Kyiv 03157, Ukraine

Octavio Campollo, MD, MSc, PhD, Doctor, Full Professor, Professor, Center of Studies on Alcohol and Addictions, Antiguo Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, Department of Medical Clinics, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara 44280, Jalisco, Mexico

Ik Jae Lee, MD, PhD, Full Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul 06273, South Korea

Kenneth SH Chok, FACS, FRCS (Ed), MBBS, MD, Associate Professor, Surgeon, Departmen of Surgery, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong , China

María Jesus Citores, BSc, PhD, Research Scientist, Teaching Assistant, Laboratory of Internal Medicine, Fundacion para la Investigacion Biomedica del Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda, Majadahonda 28222, Madrid, Spain

Julio CU Coelho, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Surgery, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba 80240-110, Parana, Brazil

Yasar Colak, MD, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Istanbul Medeniyet University Medical Faculty, Goztepe Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul 34730, Turkey

Zhi Dai, PhD, Professor, Liver Cancer Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China

Samuele De Minicis, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Ancona, School of Medicine, Fermo 63061, Italy

Jose A Del Campo, PhD, Research Scientist, Senior Scientist, Department of Digestive Diseases, Valme University Hospital, Sevilla 41014, Spain

Mark Deneau, MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84113, United States

Melisa Dirchwolf, MD, Attending Doctor, Liver Unit, Hospital Privado de Rosario, Rosario , Argentina

Levent Doganay, MD, Associate Professor, Gastroenterology Department, Umraniye Teaching and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Istanbul 34760, Turkey

Hatem Elalfy, MD, Assistant Professor, Lecturer, Tropical Medicine and Hepatology department, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35111, Egypt

Ahmet Tarik Eminler, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Sakarya University School of Medicine, Sakarya 54040, Turkey

Fatemeh Farshadpour, PhD, Associate Professor, the Persian Gulf Tropical Medicine Research Center, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr 7514633341, Iran

Israel Fernandez-Pineda, MD, Surgeon, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Virgen del Rocio Children's Hospital, Sevilla 41013, Spain

Catherine T Frenette, MD, Doctor, Scripps Center for Organ Transplant, Scripps Green Hospital, La Jolla, CA 92037, United States

Rocio Gallego-Duran, PhD, Academic Research, Institute of Biomedicine of Sevilla (IBiS), UCM Digestive Diseases, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Biomedical Research Networking Center, Sevilla 41014, Spain

Dmitry Victorovich Garbuzenko, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Faculty Surgery, South Ural State Medical University, Chelyabinsk 454080, Russia

Rita Garcia-Martinez, PhD, Doctor, Liver Unit, Digestive Disease Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid 28007, Spain

Genco Gencdal, MD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Gastroenterology Hepatology Liver Transplantation, Istanbul Yeni Yuzyil Universitesi, School of Medicine, Istanbul 34100, Turkey

George S Gherlan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Department of Infectious Diseases, "Dr. Victor Babes" Center for Diagnostics and Treatment, Bucharest 030303, Romania

Antonio Giorgio, MD, Director, Internal Medicine, Interventional Ultrasound Unit , Tortorella Clinical Institute, Naples, Campania 80122, Italy

Mohit Girotra, FACP, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, United States

Angelique Gougelet, PhD, Research Scientist, INSERM U1016, Institut Cochin, Paris 75014, France

Alessandro Grasso, MD, Doctor, Department of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology Unit, San Paolo Hospital, Savona 17100, Italy

Ivica Grgurevic, FEBG, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Clinical Nutrition, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb 10000, Croatia