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
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
Science Editors
Skylar F. Gao
Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery
Brad Li
Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery
Mira Wu
Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery
Darren Yu
Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery