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
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
Roberto C.M. Bergamaschi, MD, PhD, FRCS (Engl), FASCRS, FACS
Department of Surgery, Jacobi Medical Center, NYC Health + Hospitals, New York, NY, USA
Justin T. Brady, MD
Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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
Manish Chand, MBBS, BSc, FRCS, FASCRS, MBA, PhD
Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, University College London, London, UK
Jan Colpaert
Department of Surgery, AZORG Hospitals, Aalst, Belgium
Jerry T. Dang, MD, PhD, FRCSC
Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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
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
William R. G. Perry, MBChB, MPH, FRACS, FACS, FASCRS
Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, 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
Masafumi Inomata, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterological and Pediatric Surgery, Oita University Faculty of Medicine, Oita, Japan
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
Timothy R. Koch, MD
Section of Gastroenterology, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Salem VA Medical Center, Salem, VA, USA
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
Georgios Antonios Margonis
Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA; Sloan School of Management and Operations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA
Jeffrey M. Marks, MD, FACS, FASGE
Department of Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
Dean J. Mikami, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, University of Hawaii John A. Burn School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI, USA
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
Eric M Pauli, MD, FACS, FASGE
Division of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA
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
Charles Sabbagh
Department of Digestive Surgery, CHU d'Amiens Picardie, Amiens, France
Takuya Saito, MD, PhD
Division of Gastroenterological Surgery, Department of Surgery, Aichi Medical University, Nagakute, Japan
Isaac Seow-En, MBBS, MMed (Surgery), FRCS (Edinburgh)
Department of Colorectal Surgery, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
Mitsugi Shimoda, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tokyo Medical University, Ibaraki Medical Center, Ibaraki, Japan
Keijiro Sugimura, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Kansai Rosai Hospital, Hyogo, Japan
Akira Umemura, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Iwate, Japan
Selman Uranues
Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Section for Surgical Research, Department of Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Takanobu Utsumi, MD, PhD
Department of Urology, Toho University Sakura Medical Center, Chiba, Japan
Steven D. Wexner, MD, PhD (Hon)
Department of Colorectal Surgery, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, FL, USA
Joshua S. Winder
Department of Minimally-Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA
Takeshi Yamada, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
Managing Editors
Grace S. Li
Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery, AME Publishing Company
Junjun Ma, MD
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Minimal Invasive Surgery Center, Shanghai, China
Senior Editors
Skylar F. Gao
Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery, AME Publishing Company
Anne X. Lu
Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery, AME Publishing Company
Silvia L. Zhou
Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery, AME Publishing Company
Corresponding Editor
Margo Y. Chen
Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery, AME Publishing Company
Science Editors
Kenney Hong
Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery, AME Publishing Company
Brad Li
Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery, AME Publishing Company
Amy Liu
Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery, AME Publishing Company
Mira Wu
Editorial Office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery, AME Publishing Company