The World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery Editorial Board Members are composed of 118 distinguished experts active in the relevant field, distributed in 29 countries/regions, include China (26), Italy (18), Japan (11), India (9), Türkiye (9), Greece (4), Germany (3), Romania (3), South Korea (3), Spain (3), Taiwan (3), Australia (2), Croatia (2), France (2), Lithuania (2), Saudi Arabia (2), Singapore (2), Switzerland (2), United States (2), Bahrain (1), Brazil (1), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), Israel (1), Malaysia (1), Poland (1), Russia (1), Slovenia (1), and United Kingdom (1).
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Raja Kalayarasan, Professor, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry 605006, India |
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Piotr Kalinowski, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw 02-097, Poland |
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Burhan Hakan Kanat, MD, Associate Professor, Doctor, Doctor, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Malatya Turgut Özal University, Malatya 44300, Türkiye |
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Bum-Soo Kim, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-702, South Korea |
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Boris Kirshtein, MD, Professor, Surgeon, Department of Surgery A, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva 84101, Israel |
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Katerina Kotzampassi, MD, PhD, Professor, 1st Propaedeutic Department of Surgery, AHEPA University Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54632, Greece |
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Kazuo Koyanagi, FACS, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara 259-1193, Japan |
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Ashok Kumar, MD, Professor, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014, Uttar Pradesh, India |
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Andrea LAUTERIO, Associate Professor, Director, MD, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy, Division of Liver Surgery & Liver and Kidney Transplantation; ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda Milano, Milan 20162, Italy |
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Suk-Hwan Lee, MD, Professor, Department of Surgery, Kyung Hee University, School of Medicine, Seoul 05278, South Korea |
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Jiang-Tao Li, MD, Doctor, Doctor, Professor, Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310009, Zhejiang Province, China |
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Hai-Lin Li, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Shandong University, Ji'nan 250033, Shandong Province, China |
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Qi Ling, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Professor, Department of Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou 310003, Zhejiang Province, China |
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Karl-Heinrich Link, MD, Emeritus Professor, Professor, Surgical Oncologist, Research Group Oncology of Gastrointestinal Tumors (FOGT), University of Ulm, Ulm 89081, Germany |
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Liang Liu, MD, Professor, Surgeon, Department of Pancreatic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai 200032, China |
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Ya-Hui Liu, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, General Surgery Center, The First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun 130021, Jilin Province, China |
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Manish Madnani, DNB, MBBS, MS, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Doctor, Surgeon, General Surgery/Gastrointestinal And Hepatobiliary Surgery, Bahrain Specialist Hospital, Manama NA, Bahrain |
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Benedetto Mangiavillano, MD, Adjunct Professor, Chief Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, Department of Gastroinestinal Endoscopy, Humanitas - Mater Domini, Castellanza (VA) 20153, Italy |
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Aleix Martínez-Pérez, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Attending Doctor, Senior Researcher, Surgeon, Faculty of Health Sciences, Valencian International University, Valencia 46002, Spain |
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Francesco Martini, MD, Surgeon, Digestive and Bariatric Surgery Department, Clinique des Cedres, Cornebarrieu 31705, Midi-Pyrenees, France |
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Zu-Bing Mei, MD, PhD, Academic Editor, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Doctor, Research Associate, Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, ShangHai 201203, China |
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Abdul-Wahed Nasir Meshikhes, Associate Professor, MD, Department of Surgery, Alzahra General Hospital, Qatif 31911, Saudi Arabia |
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Jeremy Meyer, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Surgeon, Division of Digestive Surgery, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva 1205, Switzerland |
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Danko Mikulic, FEBS, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Surgeon, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Merkur, Zagreb 10000, Croatia |
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Federico Mocchegiani, MD, Associate Professor, Unit of Hepato-pancreato-biliary and Transplant Surgery, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona 60126, Italy |
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Mario Musella, MD, Associate Professor, Professor, Surgeon, Advanced Biomedical Sciences Department, Univ Naples Federico II, Naples 80131, Italy |
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Ionut Negoi, Associate Professor, MD, PhD, Department of General Surgery, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Clinical Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, Bucharest 014461, Romania |
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Koichi Okamoto, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of General and Digestive Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, No. 1-1 Daigaku, Kahoku-gun 9200293, Ishikawa, Japan |
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Jing-Hua Pan, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, Guangdong Province, China |
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Theodoros E Pavlidis, MD, PhD, Professor, Second Department of Propedeutic Surgery, Hippocration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine, Thessaloniki 54642, Greece |
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Roberto Peltrini, MD, PhD, Academic Research, Research Fellow, Surgeon, Department of Public Health, University of Naples Federico II, Naples 80131, Italy |
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Niccolo Petrucciani, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Surgeon, Surgical Oncologist, Digestive Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Henri Mondor University Hospital, UPEC University, Creteil 94000, France |
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Renato Pietroletti, PhD, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of Applied Clinical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila 67100, AQ, Italy |
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Tomas Poskus, MD, PhD, Professor, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Clinic of Gastroenterology, Nephrourology and Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius 08661, Lithuania |
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Arun Prasad, FACS, FRCS (Ed), FRCS (Gen Surg), MBBS, Adjunct Professor, Doctor, Doctor, Professor, Surgeon, Department of Minimal Access, Thoracoscopic, Bariatric and Robotic Surgery, Apollo Hospital, New Delhi 110044, India |
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Ajaz Ahmad Rather, Professor, Department of Surgery, SKIMS Medical College, Srinagar 190012, Jammu and Kashmir, India |
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Arunachalam Rathnaswami, Professor, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Institute SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur,TN, India 603203, Chennai 603203, TamilNadu, India |
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Seth Alan Rosen, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States |
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Katsunori Sakamoto, FACS, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Hepatic-Biliary-Pancreatic and Breast Surgery, Ehime University Graduate School Medicine, Toon 791-0295, Ehime, Japan |
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Francis Seow-Choen, Professor, Department of Colorectal Surgery, Seow-Choen Colorectal Centre, Singapore 238859, Singapore |
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Omar J Shah, FRCS (Ed), MD, MS, Professor, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology/ Dean Medical Faculty SKIMS, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar 191121, JK, India |
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Junichi Shindoh, MD, PhD, Chief Physician, Division of Hepatobiliary-pancreatic Surgery, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo 105-8470, Japan |
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Leonardo Solaini, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Morgagni-Pierantoni Hospital, Forli 47121, Italy |
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Yu-Hu Song, MD, PhD, Doctor, Doctor, Full Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, HUST, Wuhan 430022, Hubei Province, China |
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Alper Sozutek, MD, PhD, Academic Research, Associate Professor, Chief Doctor, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Health Sciences University, Adana City Training and Research Hospital, Adana 06100, Türkiye |
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Yu-Ling Sun, PhD, Professor, Surgeon, Departments of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, Henan Province, China |
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Kazuhiro Takahashi, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Doctor, Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine,, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8575, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan |
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Nobuyuki Takemura, MD, PhD, Professor, Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery Division, Department of Surgery, National Center for Global Health and Medicine(NCGM), Tokyo 162-8655, Japan |
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Yan-Tao Tian, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Pancreatic and Gastric Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China |
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Blaž Trotovšek, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Abdominal Surgery, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana 1000, Slovenia |