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
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)
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
Karim Alavi, MD, MPH
Department of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
Maria S Altieri, MD
Department of Surgery, Eastern Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Kyrollis Attalla, MD
Department of Surgery, Urology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Sant'Eugenio Hospital, Rome, Italy
Christian Beltzer, MD
Department of General, Abdominal and Thoracic Surgery, German Federal Armed Forces Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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
University of Milan, Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Division of General and Foregut Surgery, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy
Justin T. Brady, MD
Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Carl J. Brown, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS
Division of Colorectal Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Ricardo V Cohen, MD
The Center for Obesity and Diabetes, Oswaldo Cruz German Hospital, São Paulo, Brazil
Andrea Costanzi, MD
General and Emergency Surgery Unit, San Leopoldo Mandic Hospital, Merate, ASST Lecco, Italy
Jerry T. Dang, MD, PhD, FRCSC
Digestive Disease & Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
Giovanni Dapri, MD, PhD
Department of Minimally Invasive General and Oncologic Surgery, Humanitas Gavazzeni University Hospital, Bergamo, Italy
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
Chirag S. Desai, MD
Department of Surgery, Transplant, University of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Nicola de’Angelis, MD, PhD
Unit of Digestive Surgery, University of Paris Est, UPEC, Créteil, France
Uri Dior, MD, MPH
Endometriosis Center, Hadassah Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
Elijah Dixon, MD, BSc, MSc (Epi), FRCSC, FACS
Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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
Michael A. Edwards, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Enrique F Elli, MD, FACS, FASBMS
Division of General Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
E. Christopher Ellison, MD
The Ohio State University Department of Surgery, Columbus, OH, USA
Jean-Luc Faucheron, MD, PhD
Grenoble Alps University Hospital (CHUGA), Grenoble, France
George S. Ferzli, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, NYU Langone, New York, NY, USA
Alessandro Fichera, MD, FACS, FASCRS
Division Chief Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX. USA
Wolfgang B. Gaertner
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Michel Gagner
Hôpital du Sacre Coeur, Montreal, QC, Canada
Susan L Gearhart
Department of Medicine Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Center On Aging and Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Omar M. Ghanem
Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Alfredo Daniel Guerrón, FACS, FASMBS
Department of General Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Brooke Gurland, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
Joo Ha Hwang, MD, PhD
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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
Terry L Jue, MD
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Shahzeer Karmali, MD
Centre for the Advancement of Minimally Invasive Surgery (CAMIS), Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Radwan Kassir, MD, PhD
Department of Digestive Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Félix Guyon, St Denis de la Réunion, France
Cuneyt Kayaalp, MD
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey
Airazat M. Kazaryan, MD, PhD
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Østfold Hospital Trust, Grålum, Norway
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
Nikhil A. Kumta, MD, MS
Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Paul C. Kuo, MD, MS, MBA
Department of Surgery, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA
Lawrence Lee, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
Philipp Lingohr, MD, FEBS
Department of Surgery, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Davide Lomanto
National University Health System, Minimally Invasive Center, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore
Panagis M. Lykoudis, MD, MSc, DIC, PhD, MRCS, FHEA
Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College London (UCL), London, UK
Kamal K. Mahawar
Bariatric Unit, Department of General Surgery, Sunderland Royal Hospital, Sunderland, UK
Dean J. Mikami, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, University of Hawaii John A. Burn School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI, USA
Emad Mikhail, MD, FACOG, FACS
Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, FL, USA
Marco Milone, MD, PhD, FACS, FEBS-MIS
University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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
Luca Morelli, MD, FACS, FASCRS
Division of General Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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
Rodrigo Oliva Perez
Division of Colorectal Surgery, Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, São Paulo, Brazil
Sjaak Pouwels, MD, PhD
Department of General, Abdominal and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Helios Klinikum Krefeld, NRW, Germany
Philip H Pucher, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Portsmouth, England, UK
Stefano Rausei, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, ASST Valle Olona, Gallarate, Varese, Italy
Sharona B. Ross
Digestive Health Institute, AdventHealth Tampa, Tampa, FL, USA
Mitsuru Sasako, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Yodogawa Christian Hospital, Osaka, Japan
Yosuke Seki, MD, PhD
Weight Loss and Metabolic Surgery Center, Yotsuya Medical Cube, Tokyo, Japan
Nitin Sharma, MD
Department of Urology, University of Rochester of Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
Vishal Shelat
Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
Gianfranco Silecchia, MD, PhD, ASMBSF
Division of General Surgery & Bariatric Center of Excellence, Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy
Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD
Division of General Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Erik Stenberg, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden
Arnulf Stenzl, MD
Department of Urology, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
Yutaka Tokairin, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Toshima Hospital Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Hospitals Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Selman Uranues
Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Section for Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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 (Hon)
Department of Colorectal Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA
Patrick S. Yachimski, MD, MPH, FASGE, AGAF
Department of Gastroenterology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Christopher J. Young
Department of Surgery, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Abilene, KS, USA
Ricardo Zorron, MD, PhD
Center for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann, Potsdam, Germany
International Advisory Board
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
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
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