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)

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

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

Sami A Chadi, MD

Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Surgical Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital and University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

Kenneth Chen, MD

Department of Urology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore

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

Giovanni Domenico De Palma, MD, FASGE

University of Naples Federico II, School of Medicine, Naples, Italy

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

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, MD

Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Daniel Guerron, FACS, FASMBS

Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC, 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

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

The 4th Department of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece; 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

Evangelos Messaris, MD, PhD

Division of Colorectal Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

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

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

Marlies P. Schijven, MD, PhD, MHSc

Surgery, Amsterdam UMC location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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

Masaki Shiota, MD, PhD

Department of Urology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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

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 (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

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

Corresponding Editor

Skylar F. Gao