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

Shahin Ayazi, MD, FACS

Department of Surgery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Foregut Division, Surgical Institute, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Chevalier Jackson Esophageal Research Center, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, 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

Department of Surgery, Jacobi Medical Center, NYC Health + Hospitals, 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

Sathyaprasad Burjonrappa, MD, FACS, FRCS(Ed), MBA

Department of Pediatric Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Antonio Caycedo-Marulanda, MD, MSc

Orlando Health Colon & Rectal Institute, Orlando, FL, USA

Jerry T. Dang, MD, PhD, FRCSC

Digestive Disease 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

Nicola de’Angelis, MD, PhD

Unit of Digestive Surgery, University of Paris Est, UPEC, Créteil, France

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

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

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

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

Cuneyt Kayaalp, MD

Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey

Timothy R. Koch, MD

Section of Gastroenterology, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Salem VA Medical Center, Salem, VA, USA

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

Philipp Lingohr, MD, FEBS

Department of Surgery, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

John C. Lipham, MD

Division of Upper GI and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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

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

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

David Renton, MD, MPH, FACS

Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA

Sharona B. Ross

Digestive Health Institute, AdventHealth Tampa, Tampa, FL, USA

Isaac Seow-En, MBBS, MMed (Surgery), FRCS (Edinburgh)

Department of Colorectal Surgery, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Vishal Shelat

Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD

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

Keijiro Sugimura, MD, PhD

Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Kansai Rosai Hospital, Hyogo, Japan

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

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

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

Corresponding Editor

Skylar F. Gao