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MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology Editorial Board Members are composed of 62 distinguished experts active in the relevant field, distributed in 22 countries/regions, include China (10), Italy (8), Japan (7), United States (6), South Korea (4), Taiwan (4), Romania (3), Brazil (2), Poland (2), Türkiye (2), United Arab Emirates (2), United Kingdom (2), Canada (1), Egypt (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Ireland (1), Lithuania (1), Portugal (1), Russia (1), Saudi Arabia (1), and Spain (1).
Editor-in-Chief (2022-01-01/2025-12-31)
Monjur Ahmed, MD, (E-mail: monjur.ahmed@jefferson.edu) Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States
Senior Editorial Board (2022-01-01/2025-12-31)
Florin Burada, MD, MSc, PhD, Doctor, Doctor, Professor, Research Scientist, (E-mail: buradaflorin@gmail.com) Department of Medical Genetics and Human Genomics Laboratory, Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Craiova 200349, Romania
Editorial Board (2022-01-01/2025-12-31)
Wael M Abdel-Rahman, MD, PhD, Full Professor, Professor, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences and Sharjah Institute for Medical Research, University of Sharjah, Sharjah 27272, United Arab Emirates
Andreia Albuquerque, Associate Professor, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Fernando Pessoa University, Porto 4420-096, Portugal
Paolo Aurello, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Professor, Surgeon, Teacher, Department of General Surgery, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 00162, Italy
Samy Azer, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medical Education, King Saud University College of Medicine, Riyadh 11461, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Asfar Sohail Azmi, BSc, MSc, PhD, Associate Professor, Director, Director, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI 48201, United States
Simona Maria Bataga, AGAF, PhD, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology, GE Palade, Targu-Mures 540085, Romania
Rossana Berardi, Director, Full Professor, MD, PhD, Medical Oncology, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona 60126, Italy
Zhi-Fei Cao, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215004, China
Gabriele Capurso, MD, PhD, Pancreato-Biliary Endoscopy and EUS Division, Pancreas Translational and Clinical Research Center, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano 20132, Italy
José Carvalheira, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas 13083, São Paulo, Brazil
Claudio Casella, PhD, Assistant Professor, Surgeon, Scientific Sector MED/18 (“General Surgery”), University of Brescia – School of Medicine, Brescia I-25123, Italy
Soo-Cheon Chae, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Wonkwang University, Chonbuk 54538, South Korea
Xin-Zu Chen, MD, PhD, Professor, Gastric Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan Province, China
Hao Chi, Assistant Professor, PhD, Department of Clinical Medicine, Clinical Medical College, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou 646000, China
Zilvinas Dambrauskas, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Surgery and Institute for Digestive System Research, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas 50161, Lithuania
Jing-Yu Deng, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Hospital, City Key Laboratory of Tianjin Cancer Center and National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin 300060, China
Hiroshi Doi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Lecturer, Department of Radiation Oncology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka 589-8511, Japan
Renato Borges Fagundes, MD, PhD, Full Professor, Gastroenterology Department of Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Porto Alegre 90480200, RS, Brazil
Yao-Hui Gao, PhD, Professor, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200072, China
Travis Edward Grotz, MD, Assistant Professor, Surgical Oncologist, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Tomohide Hori, Associate Professor, MD, PhD, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Nagai Hospital, Tsu 514-8508, Mie, Japan
Jun-Te Hsu, MD, Director, Director, Professor, Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan
Keun-Yeong Jeong, Assistant Professor, PhD, Headquaters, R&D center, PearlsInMires, Seoul 07292, South Korea
Lei Jiang, PhD, Professor, Central Lab, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325000, Zhejiang Province, China
Rosa M Jimenez Rodriguez, MD, PhD, Doctor, Doctor, Professor, Surgeon, (E-mail: ros_j_r@hotmail.com) Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio, Unidad de Coloproctologia, Sevilla 41013, Sevilla, Spain
Freimut Dankwart Eberhard Juengling, MD, PhD, Full Professor, Department of Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton T6G 1Z2, AB, Canada
Ki Mun Kang, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Gyeongsang National University College of Medicine, Jinju 52727, South Korea
Hiroshi Kishikawa, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Ichikawa General Hospital, Tokyo Dental College, Chiba 272-8513, Japan
Małgorzata Kujawska, DSc, MSc, PhD, Professor, Department of Toxicology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan 60631, Poland
Sung-Hsin Kuo, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Oncology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei 100, Taiwan
Wey-Ran Lin, AGAF, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan
Maria Anatolyevna Livzan, MD, Professor, Department of Faculty Therapy, Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education, Omsk State Medical University, Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, No. 12 Lenin Street, Omsk 644099, Russia, Omsk 644099, Russia
Yun-Xia Lu, Associate Professor, MD, PhD, Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention, Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health, Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, University of California,, Irvine, CA 92697, United States
Claudio Luchini, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, University and Hospital Trust of Verona, Verona 37134, Italy
Claudio Luchini, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, University and Hospital Trust Verona, Verona 37134, Italy
Luigi Marano, MD, PhD, Professor, Medical Department, Academy of Applied Medical and Social Sciences - AMiSNS - Akademia Medycznych i Społecznych Nauk Stosowanych, Elbląg 82-300, Poland
Tamás Micsik, Assistant Professor, MD, PhD, 1st Department of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research, Semmelweis University Budapest, Hungary, Budapest h-1085, Hungary
Salem Youssef Mohamed, MD, Professor, Internal Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44516, Egypt
Yoshifumi Nakayama, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Professor, Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Kitakyushu General Hospital, Kitakyushu 802-8517, Japan
Akihiko Oka, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine II, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo 693-8501, Japan
Colm A O'Morain, AGAF, DSc, FACG, FRCP, MBChB, MD, MSc, Full Professor, Health Sciences, RCPI, Dublin Dublin 18, Ireland
Gaetano Piccolo, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Surgery, Piccolo, G (reprint author), Univ Catania, Dept Surg, Via S Sofia 78, I-95037 Catania, Italy., University of Catania, CATANIA 95100, CATANIA, Italy
Sezer Saglam, MD, Professor, Medical Oncology, Demiroglu Istanbul Bilim University, Istanbul 34349, Türkiye
Shaji Sebastian, FEBG, FRCP (C), MD, Professor, Hull York Medical School, Hull & East Yorkshire NHS Trust, Hull HU3 2JZ, United Kingdom
Andrada Seicean, FASGE, MD, PhD, Professor, Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj- Napoca, Cluj-Napoca 400162, Romania
Durairaj Sekar, PhD, Professor, Biomedical Research Unit, Saveetha University, chennai 600077, India
Santosh Shenoy, Consultant, FACS, MD, Professor, Department of General and Colorectal Surgery, KCVA and University of Missouri at Kansas City, Missouri, MO 64128, United States
Jiaqi Shi, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States