Editorial Team

Editors-in-Chief

Minhua Zheng, MD, PhD

Department of General Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Minimal Invasive Surgery Center, Shanghai, China

Abe Fingerhut, MD, FACS (hon), FRCPS (g), FRCS (Ed) (hon), FASCRS (hon)

Section for Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Austria; Department of General Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, Shanghai, China

Editorial Board

Stavros A. Antoniou, MD, PhD, MPH, FEBS

Department of Surgery, Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK

Alberto Arezzo, MD

Department of Surgical Science, University of Torino, Corso Dogliotti, Turin, Italy

Roberto C.M. Bergamaschi, MD, PhD, FRCS (Engl), FASCRS, FACS

New York Medical College, Westchester Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

Luigi Bonavina, MD, FACS

Division of General and Foregut Surgery, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy

Luigi Boni, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery, IRCCS - Ca' Granda - Policlinico Hospital of Milan, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Michael Bouvet, MD

Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

Carl J. Brown, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS

Division of Colorectal Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Qiang Cai, MD, PhD

Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Andrea Costanzi, MD

General and Emergency Surgery Unit, San Leopoldo Mandic Hospital, Merate, ASST Lecco, Italy

Giovanni Dapri, MD, PhD

Digestive Clinic, Saint-Pierre University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium

Giovanni Domenico De Palma, MD, FASGE

University of Naples Federico II, School of Medicine, Naples, Italy

Aslam Ejaz, MD, MPH

Division of Surgical Oncology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

Robert D Fanelli, MD, MHA, FACS, FASGE

Department of Surgery, Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery and Surgical Endoscopy, The Guthrie Clinic, Sayre, PA, USA

Daniel L. Feingold, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Section of Colorectal Surgery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

George S. Ferzli, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery, NYU Langone, New York, NY, USA

James W. Fleshman, MD

Department of Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

David A. Geller, MD

Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Tamas Gonda, MD

Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Emre Gorgun, MD

Department of Colorectal Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Naoki Hiki, MD, PhD

Department of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Chih-Kun Huang, MD

Body Science and Metabolic Disorder International (BMI) Medical Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung City

Joo Ha Hwang, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Angelo Iossa

Division of General Surgery & Bariatric Center of Excellence, Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy

Masaaki Ito, MD

Department of Colorectal Surgery and Surgical Technology, National Cancer Center Hospital East, Chiba, Japan

Shahzeer Karmali, MD

Centre for the Advancement of Minimally Invasive Surgery (CAMIS), Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, Canada

Cuneyt Kayaalp, MD

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Yeditepoe University, Istanbul, Turkey

Airazat M. Kazaryan, MD, PhD

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Østfold Hospital Trust, Grålum, Norway

Nikhil A. Kumta, MD, MS

Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA

Lawrence Lee, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada

Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Sant'Eugenio Hospital, Rome, Italy

Philipp Lingohr, MD, FEBS

Department of Surgery, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Davide Lomanto, MD, PhD FAMS (Surg), FJSES (hon), FPCS (hon), FPALES (hon); FIAGES (hon); FISES (hon)

National University Health System, Minimally Invasive Center, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore

Kamal K. Mahawar

Bariatric Unit, Department of General Surgery, Sunderland Royal Hospital, Sunderland, UK

Marco Milone, MD, PhD, FACS

University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Toru Mizuguchi, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Surgical Oncology and Science, Sapporo Medical University Hospital, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Luca Morelli, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Division of General Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

M Mahir Ozmen, MD, MS, FACS, FRCS, FEBS

Istinye University, School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey

Stefano Rausei, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, ASST Valle Olona, Gallarate, Varese, Italy

Philippe Rouanet, MD, PhD

Department of Oncologic and reconstructive surgery, University of Montpellier, Montpellier cancer Institute, Montpellier, France

Gianfranco Silecchia, MD, PhD, ASMBSF

Division of General Surgery & Bariatric Center of Excellence, Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy

Leonardo Solaini

Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Morgagni-Pierantoni Hospital, Forlì, Italy

Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD

Division of General Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA

Andrea Vignali, MD

Associate Professor of Surgery, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, IRCCS San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

Satish Kumar Warrier, MBBS, MS, FRACS

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Epworth Healthcare and Alfred Hospitals, Melbourne, Australia

Irving Waxman, MD

Center for Endoscopic Research and Therapeutics (CERT), The University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences, Chicago, IL, USA

Steven D. Wexner, MD, PhD

Department of Colorectal Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA

Kenneth Wong, MD, PhD, FRCSEd

Department of Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

International Advisory Board

Muhammed Ashraf Ashraf Memon, MBBS, MA, DCH, FRACS, FACS, FRCSI, FRCSEd, FRCSEng

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

Mario Morino

Chirurgia Generale II e Centro di Chirurgia Mini Invasiva, Department of Surgery, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Corresponding Editor

Jane Huang

Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery

Managing Editor

Junjun Ma, MD

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Minimal Invasive Surgery Center, Shanghai, China