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MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology Editorial Board Members are composed of 64 distinguished experts active in the relevant field, distributed in 22 countries/regions, include China (11), Italy (9), Japan (7), United States (7), South Korea (4), Taiwan (4), Romania (3), Brazil (2), Türkiye (2), United Arab Emirates (2), United Kingdom (2), Canada (1), Egypt (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Ireland (1), Lithuania (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Russia (1), Saudi Arabia (1), and Spain (1).
Editor-in-Chief (2022-01-01/2025-12-31)
Monjur Ahmed, MD, Associate Professor, (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, PhD, Professor, 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, Chairman, Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah 27272, United Arab Emirates
Andreia Albuquerque, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, NO. 150 Av. Fernando Pessoa, Porto 4420-096S, Portugal
Paolo Aurello, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Professor, Department of General Surgery, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 00162, Italy
Samy Azer, FACG, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medical Education, King Saud University College of Medicine, Riyadh, Riyadh 11461, Saudi Arabia
Asfar Sohail Azmi, PhD, Associate Professor, Director, Department of Oncology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI 48201, United States
Simona Maria Bataga, PhD, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology, GE Palade, Targu-Mures 540085, Romania
Rossana Berardi, MD, PhD, Director, Full Professor, 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, Jiangsu Province, 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, Department of Anesthesiology, Oncology and Radiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo 13083, Brazil
Claudio Casella, PhD, Assistant Professor, 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, PhD, MD, Professor, Professor, Gastric Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan Province, China; Ya'an Cancer Prevention and Control Center, Ya'an Key Laboratory for High Altitude Medicine, Ya'an People's Hospital - West China Ya'an Hospital, Sichuan University, Ya'an 625499, Sichuan Province, China
Hao Chi, MD, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine, Clinical Medical College, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou 646000, Sichuan Province, 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, 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, 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, RS 90480200, Brazil
Yao-Hui Gao, PhD, Additional Professor, Additional Professor, Department of Pathology, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200072, China
Travis Edward Grotz, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Tomohide Hori, FACS, MD, PhD, Director, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Nagai Hospital, Tsu, Mie 514-8508, Japan
Jun-Te Hsu, MD, Director, Professor, Department of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan
Keun-Yeong Jeong, PhD, Assistant Professor, Headquarters, PearlsInMires, Seoul 03690, 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, Professor, (E-mail: ros_j_r@hotmail.com) Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio, Unidad de Coloproctologia, Sevilla, Sevilla 41013, Spain
Freimut Dankwart Eberhard Juengling, MD, PhD, Full Professor, Department of Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, AB T6G 1Z2, 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, Professor, Department of Toxicology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, NO. 3 Rokietnicka Street, Poznan 60-806, 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
Li-Yan Liu, Academic Editor, Professor, PhD, Department of Nutrition and Food Hygienn, Key Laboratory of Precision Nutrition and Health of Ministry of Education, Harbin Medical University,No. 157 Baojian Road, Harbin 150086, HeilongjiangProvince, China
Maria Anatolyevna Livzan, MD, Professor, 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
Yun-Xia Lu, PhD, MSc, MD, Associate Professor, Associate Professor, 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, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Surgery, and Neurosciences, University of Siena, Siena 53100, Italy
Tamás Micsik, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, 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, Professor, 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, FACG, FRCP, MD, Full Professor, Health Sciences, RCPI, Dublin Dublin 18, Ireland
Gaetano Piccolo, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, San Paolo Hospital, Via Antonio di Rudinì 8, Milano 20142, Italy
Manmeet Rawat, Assistant Professor, PhD, Division of Gastroenterology and hepatology, Department of Medicine, The Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, United States
Sezer Saglam, MD, Full Professor, Medical Oncology, Demiroglu Istanbul Bilim University, Gayrettepe Florence Nigthingale Hospital, Istanbul, Besiktas 34349, Turkey
Shaji Sebastian, FRCP (C), MD, Professor, Hull York Medical School, Hull & East Yorkshire NHS Trust, Hull HU3 2JZ, United Kingdom
Andrada Seicean, MD, PhD, Professor, Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Cluj-Napoca, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Cluj Napoca, Romania, Cluj-Napoca 400192, Romania
Durairaj Sekar, PhD, Full Professor, Professor, Biomedical Research Unit, Saveetha University, chennai 600077, India