Editorial Team
The management of our journal is a collaborative endeavor by the whole editorial team, featuring an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board. The editorial structure of the journal is listed as below and the roles and responsibilities of the editorial team are available at: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/journal-management#content-title.
Editor-in-Chief
Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri, MD, PhD
Digestive Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Editorial Board
Mohammad Abu Hilal, MD, PhD, FRCS, FACS, DocEur, EBSQ (HPB)
Department of Hepato‐Biliary and Pancreatic Surgery, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
Luca Aldrighetti
Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
Joseph F. Buell, MD, MBA, FACS
Department of Surgery, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Department of Surgery, New Orleans Children's Hospital, LSU Medical Systems, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Kevin C. P. Conlon, MA, MCh, MBA, FRCSI, FACS, FRCSED, FRCSG, FTCD
Department of Surgery, University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Susumu Eguchi, MD, FACS, FEBS
Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
Aslam Ejaz, MD, MPH
Division of Surgical Oncology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Yuman Fong, MD, ScD (Hon)
Department of Surgery, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA
Michael Gerhards, MD, PhD, EBSQ
Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sepideh Gholami, MD
Department of Surgery, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
Brian K. P. Goh, MBBS, MMed, MSc, FRCSEd
Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
Emre Gorgun, MD, FACS, FASCRS
Department of Colorectal Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Francesco Guerra, MD
Division of General, Oncological and Vascular Surgery, "Ospedali Riuniti Marche Nord" Hospital, Pesaro, Italy
Yasushi Hasegawa, MD
Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
, Japan
Taizo Hibi, MD, PhD, FACS
Department of Transplantation and Pediatric Surgery, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto, Japan
Maurizio Iacobone, MD, FEBS
Endocrine Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Benedetto Ielpo, MD, PhD, FACS
Division of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary surgery, Department of General Surgery, University Hospital of Leon, Spain
Oh Jeong, MD, PhD, FACS
Division of Gastroenterologic Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School, South Korea
Koo Jeong Kang, MD, PhD
Division of HBP Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keimyung University Dong-San Hospital, Daegu, Korea
Omar Yusef Kudsi, MD, MBA, FACS
Department of Surgery, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Quirino Lai
Starzl Unit of Abdominal Transplantation, University Hospitals Saint Luc, Université catholique Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
Kwang-Woong Lee, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
Jan Lerut, MD, PhD
Institute for Experimental and Clinical Research (IREC), Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Brussels, Belgium
Raimundas Lunevicius, MD, PhD, DSc, FRCS (Engl.)
Department of General Surgery, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Aintree Hospital, Lower Lane, Liverpool, UK
Ippei Matsumoto, MD, PhD
Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
Marco Milone, MD, PhD
Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples "Federico II”, Naples, Italy
H. Leon Pachter, MD
Department of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Ji Yeon Park, MD
Gastric Cancer Care Center / Bariatric & Metabolic Clinic, Department of Surgery, Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital, Daegu, Korea
Francesca Ratti, MD
Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
Jacob Rosenberg, MD, DSc, FACS
Department of Surgery, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Edoardo Rosso
Department of Surgery, Istituto Fondazione Poliambulanza, Brescia, Italy
Jaime Ruiz-Tovar, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, University Hospital Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Nadia Russolillo, MD, PhD
Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Mauriziano Hospital, Turin, Italy
Roberto Santambrogio, MD
Divisione of General Surgery, Unit of Hepato-bilio-pancreatic Surgery, Fatebenefratelli Hospital (ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco), Milan, Italy
Beth Schrope, MD, PhD, FACS
Division of Gastrointestinal and Endocrine Surgery, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
Oliver Strobel, MD, MBA
Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
Robert Sucher, MD, FEBS
Department of Visceral-, Transplant-, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Clinic Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Robert Sutcliffe, MD, FRCS
Liver Unit, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
Allan Tsung, MD
Division of Surgical Oncology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Giovanni Vennarecci
Division of General Surgery and Organ Transplantation, San Camillo Hospital, Rome, Italy
Raymond S. Yeung, MD
Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Maurizio Zizzo, MD
Surgical Oncology Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale - IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova di Reggio Emilia, Italy
, Italy
Science Editor
Winnie Liu
Editorial Office, Laparoscopic Surgery
Darren Yu
Editorial Office, Laparoscopic Surgery