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.

Editors-in-Chief

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Minhua Zheng, MD, PhD

Department of General Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Minimal Invasive Surgery Center, Shanghai, China
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Abe Fingerhut, MD, FACS (hon), FRCPS (g), FRCS (Ed) (hon), FASCRS (hon)

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

Editorial Board

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Karim Alavi, MD, MPH

Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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Maria S Altieri, MD

Department of Surgery, Eastern Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
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Kyrollis Attalla, MD

Department of Surgery, Urology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
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Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Sant'Eugenio Hospital, Rome, Italy
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Christian Beltzer, MD

Department of General, Abdominal and Thoracic Surgery, German Federal Armed Forces Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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Roberto C.M. Bergamaschi, MD, PhD, FRCS (Engl), FASCRS, FACS

New York Medical College, Westchester Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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Luigi Bonavina, MD, FACS

University of Milan, Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Division of General and Foregut Surgery, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy
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Justin T. Brady, MD

Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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Carl J. Brown, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS

Division of Colorectal Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Kenneth Chen, MD

Department of Urology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
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Ricardo V Cohen, MD

The Center for Obesity and Diabetes, Oswaldo Cruz German Hospital, São Paulo, Brazil
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Andrea Costanzi, MD

General and Emergency Surgery Unit, San Leopoldo Mandic Hospital, Merate, ASST Lecco, Italy
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Jerry T. Dang, MD, PhD, FRCSC

Digestive Disease & Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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Giovanni Dapri, MD, PhD

Department of Minimally Invasive General and Oncologic Surgery, Humanitas Gavazzeni University Hospital, Bergamo, Italy
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Eduardo Guimarães Hourneaux de Moura

Serviço de Endoscopia Gastrointestinal, Departamento de Gastroenterologia, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Chirag S. Desai, MD

Department of Surgery, Transplant, University of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Nicola de’Angelis, MD, PhD

Unit of Digestive Surgery, University of Paris Est, UPEC, Créteil, France
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Uri Dior, MD, MPH

Endometriosis Center, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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Elijah Dixon, MD, BSc, MSc (Epi), FRCSC, FACS

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Gianfranco Donatelli, MD

Unité d’Endoscopie Interventionnelle, Hôpital Privé des Peupliers, Ramsay Santé, Paris, France; Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy
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Michael A. Edwards, MD, FACS, FASMBS

Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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Enrique F Elli, MD, FACS, FASBMS

Division of General Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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E. Christopher Ellison, MD

The Ohio State University Department of Surgery, Columbus, OH, USA
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Jean-Luc Faucheron, MD, PhD

Grenoble Alps University Hospital (CHUGA), Grenoble, France
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George S. Ferzli, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery, NYU Langone, New York, NY, USA
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Alessandro Fichera, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Division Chief Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX. USA
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Wolfgang B. Gaertner

Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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Michel Gagner

Hôpital du Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Susan L Gearhart

Department of Medicine Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Center On Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Omar M. Ghanem

Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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Alfredo Daniel Guerrón, FACS, FASMBS

Department of General Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Brooke Gurland, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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Joo Ha Hwang, MD, PhD

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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Edward L. Jones, MD, MS, FACS, FASGE

Department of Surgery, The University of Colorado School of Medicine & The Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Aurora, CO, USA
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Terry L Jue, MD

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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Shahzeer Karmali, MD

Centre for the Advancement of Minimally Invasive Surgery (CAMIS), Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Radwan Kassir, MD, PhD

Department of Digestive Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Félix Guyon, St Denis de la Réunion, France
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Cuneyt Kayaalp, MD

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Airazat M. Kazaryan, MD, PhD

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Østfold Hospital Trust, Grålum, Norway
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Christos Kontovounisios, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCS

Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Campus and the Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK
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Nikhil A. Kumta, MD, MS

Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA
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Paul C. Kuo, MD, MS, MBA

Department of Surgery, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA
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Lawrence Lee, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Philipp Lingohr, MD, FEBS

Department of Surgery, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Davide Lomanto

National University Health System, Minimally Invasive Center, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore
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Panagis M. Lykoudis, MD, MSc, DIC, PhD, MRCS, FHEA

The 4th Department of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece; Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College London (UCL), London, UK
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Kamal K. Mahawar

Bariatric Unit, Department of General Surgery, Sunderland Royal Hospital, Sunderland, UK
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Dean J. Mikami, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery, University of Hawaii John A. Burn School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI, USA
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Emad Mikhail, MD, FACOG, FACS

Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA
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Marco Milone, MD, PhD, FACS, FEBS-MIS

University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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Shahin Mohseni, MD, PhD, FEBS (EmSurg), FACS

Division of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Department of Surgery, Orebro University Hospital, School of Medical Sciences, Orebro University, Örebro, Sweden
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Luca Morelli, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Division of General Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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David Parés, MD, PhD, FACS

Colorectal Surgery Unit, Department of General and Digestive Surgery, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, School of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
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Rodrigo Oliva Perez

Division of Colorectal Surgery, Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, São Paulo, Brazil
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Sjaak Pouwels, MD, PhD

Department of General, Abdominal and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Helios Klinikum Krefeld, NRW, Germany
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Philip H Pucher, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Portsmouth, England, UK
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Stefano Rausei, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, ASST Valle Olona, Gallarate, Varese, Italy
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Sharona B. Ross

Digestive Health Institute, AdventHealth Tampa, Tampa, FL, USA
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Mitsuru Sasako, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Yodogawa Christian Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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Marlies P. Schijven, MD, PhD, MHSc

Surgery, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Yosuke Seki, MD, PhD

Weight Loss and Metabolic Surgery Center, Yotsuya Medical Cube, Tokyo, Japan
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Nitin Sharma, MD

Department of Urology, University of Rochester of Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
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Vishal Shelat

Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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Masaki Shiota, MD, PhD

Department of Urology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Gianfranco Silecchia, MD, PhD, ASMBSF

Division of General Surgery & Bariatric Center of Excellence, Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy
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Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD

Division of General Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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Erik Stenberg, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
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Arnulf Stenzl, MD

Department of Urology, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
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Yutaka Tokairin, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Toshima Hospital Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Hospitals Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
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Selman Uranues

Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Section for Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Satish Kumar Warrier, MBBS, MS, FRACS

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

Center for Endoscopic Research and Therapeutics (CERT), The University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Sciences, Chicago, IL, USA
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Steven D. Wexner, MD, PhD (Hon)

Department of Colorectal Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA
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Patrick S. Yachimski, MD, MPH, FASGE, AGAF

Department of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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Christopher J. Young

Department of Surgery, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Abilene, KS, USA
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Ricardo Zorron, MD, PhD

Center for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann, Potsdam, Germany

International Advisory Board

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Muhammed Ashraf Memon

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

Managing Editors

Grace S. Li

Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery
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Junjun Ma, MD

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

Corresponding Editor

Skylar F. Gao

Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery

Science Editors

Kenney Hong

Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery

Brad Li

Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery

Amy Liu

Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery

Mira Wu

Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery