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MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Editor-in-Chief (2020-01-01/2023-12-31)
Fatih Altintoprak, MD, Professor, Surgeon, (Email: fatihaltintoprak@yahoo.com) Department of General Surgery, Sakarya University Training And Research Hospital, Sakarya 34560, Türkiye
Sahin Coban, MD, Research Assistant Professor, (E-mail: scoban72@yahoo.com) Department of Gastroenterology, Mount Auburn Hospital, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Krish Ragunath, FRCP, MD, MRCP, Professor, (Email: krish.ragunath@curtin.edu.au) Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth WA6000, Australia
Associate Editor (2020-01-01/2023-12-31)
Mohamed El Kassas, BM BCh, MD, MSc, Full Professor, Endemic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Helawan University, Cairo 11448, Egypt
Xue-Liang Jiang, MD, Chief Doctor, Director, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Digestive Center, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan 250001, Shandong Province, China
Katsuya Kitamura, MD, PhD, Director, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University Hachioji Medical Center, Tokyo 193-0998, Japan
Editorial Board (2021-01-01/2024-12-31)
Uama M Abdelaal, MD, MSc, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Reader (Associate Professor), Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology Unit, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, Sohag 82524, Egypt
Thawatchai Akaraviputh, MD, PhD, Professor, Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand
Cihangir Akyol, FASCRS, FEBS, MD, Professor, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Ankara University, Ankara 06100, Türkiye
Syed Munawer Alam, FRCP, MBBS, Consultant Physician-Scientist, Doctor, Department of Gastroenterology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich NR46AY, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Venkata S Arikatla, BSc, MSc, PhD, Senior Researcher, Medical Computing Team, Kitware Inc., Carrboro, NC 27510, United States
Jason R Baker, PhD, Associate Professor, Director, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC 28204, United States
Chang Seok Bang, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Doctor, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon 24253, Gangwon-do, South Korea
Peter Bauerfeind, MD, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University hospital Zurich, Zurich 8091, Switzerland
Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, MD, MPhil, PhD, Occupational Physician, Reader (Associate Professor), Statistician, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto M3J 1P3, Canada
Erkan Caglar, MD, Chief Doctor, Full Professor, Professor, Gastroenterology Department, Balıkesir Üniversity, Medical Faculty, Balikesir 10100, Türkiye
Ming-Yan Cai, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Endoscopy Center, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Murat Cakir, MD, Professor, Department of General Surgery, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya 42080, Türkiye
Antonio Caycedo-Marulanda, FACS, FASCRS, FRCS (Gen Surg), MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of General Surgery, Queen's University, Kingston K7L 2V7, Ontario, Canada
Saurabh Chandan, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, CHI Health Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE 68124, United States
Saurabh Chawla, FACG, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States
Yung Ka Chin, MBChB, MRCP, Adjunct Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Singapore General Hospital, Singpore 169608, Singapore
Chong-Chi Chiu, MD, Professor, Surgeon, Surgical Oncologist, Department of General Surgery, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, E-Da Cancer Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung 82445, Taiwan
Fatih Ciftci, MD, Associate Professor, Surgeon, Healthy Science Institue, Gelisim University, Istanbul 34315, Türkiye
Mihai Ciocîrlan, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Chief Physician, Department of Gastroenterology, Agrippa Ionescu Hospital, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest 4192910, Romania
Nayantara Coelho-Prabhu, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Cong Dai, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, Liaoning Province, China
Kalpit Devani, MD, Academic Fellow, Doctor, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson, TN 37604, United States
Amaninder Dhaliwal, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mcleod Regional Medical Center, Florence, SC 29501, United States
Giovanni Di Nardo, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Unit - Pediatric Gastroenterology Section, NESMOS Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 00189, Italy
Christoph F Dietrich, MD, PhD, Professor, Department Allgemeine Innere Medizin, Kliniken Hirslanden Beau Site, Salem und Permanence, Bern 3626, Switzerland
Mohamed Amine Elghali, PhD, Professor, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse 4000, Tunisia
Mohammed Elhendawy, MD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Research Assistant Professor, Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tanta University, Tanta 31111, Egypt
Gianluca Esposito, MD, PhD, Research Fellow, Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Sant’ Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 00189, Lazio, Italy
Pedro N Figueiredo, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Coimbra, Faculty of Medicine, Coimbra 3000-059, Portugal
Tajana Filipec Kanizaj, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Merkur, Zagreb 10000, Croatia
Matheus C Franco, MD, MSc, Chief Doctor, Endoscopy Unit, Hospital Sírio-Libanês Brasília, Brasília 70200300, Brazil
Xiang-Sheng Fu, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical Colleg, Nanchong 637000, Jiangsu Province, China
Yusuke Fujiyoshi, MD, Assistant Professor, Digestive Diseases Center, Showa University Koto Toyosu Hospital, Tokyo 135-8577, Japan
Mary Raina Angeli Fujiyoshi, MD, Research Fellow, Digestive Diseases Center, Showa University Koto Toyosu Hospital, Tokyo 135-0061, Japan
Gaurav Gupta, FRCP (Hon), PhD, Assistant Professor, Yogananda School of AI Computers and Data Science, Shoolini University, Solan 173229, Himachal Pradesh, India
Ghassan M Hammoud, MD, Professor, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO 65212, United States
Yu-Hsi Hsieh, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicined, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi 62247, Taiwan
Volkan İnal, MD, Professor, Department of Critical Care, Internal Medicine, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne 22030, Türkiye
Sumant Inamdar, MBBS, MD, Associate Professor, Director, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, United States
Atsushi Irisawa, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Dokkyo Medical University School of Medicine, Mibu 3210293, Tochigi, Japan
Salmaan Jawaid, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL 32606, United States
Hyunseok Jee, PhD, Professor, School of Kinesiology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Gyeongbuk, South Korea
David Johnson, FACP, FASGE, MD, Doctor, Professor, Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology, Johnson, D (reprint author), Eastern Virginia Med Sch, Div Gastroenterol, 885 Kempsville Rd,Suite 114, Norfolk, VA 23502 USA, Norfolk, VA 23502, United States
Predrag Jovanovic, PhD, Associate Professor, Chief Doctor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Clinical Center Tuzla, Clinic for Internal Diseases, Tuzla 75000, Bosnia