The World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery Editorial Board Members are composed of 111 distinguished experts active in the relevant field, distributed in 28 countries/regions, include China (24), Italy (18), Japan (11), India (8), Türkiye (7), France (3), Greece (3), Romania (3), South Korea (3), Spain (3), Taiwan (3), Australia (2), Brazil (2), Croatia (2), Germany (2), Lithuania (2), Saudi Arabia (2), Singapore (2), Switzerland (2), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), Israel (1), Malaysia (1), Poland (1), Russia (1), Slovenia (1), United Kingdom (1), and United States (1).
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Raja Kalayarasan, Additional 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, Assistant 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, Department of General Surgery, Malatya Turgut Özal University, Malatya 44300, Turkey |
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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, 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, FACS, FASCRS, FRCS, FRCS (Ed), Professor, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226014, India |
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Andrea Lauterio, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milan-Bicocca, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo, 1 - 20126, Milano |
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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, 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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Qi Ling, MD, PhD, 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, Research Group Oncology of Gastrointestinal Tumors (FOGT), University of Ulm, Ulm 89081, Germany |
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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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Liang Liu, MD, Professor, Department of Pancreatic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai 200032, China |
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Benedetto Mangiavillano, MD, Adjunct Professor, Department of Gastroinestinal Endoscopy, Humanitas - Mater Domini, Castellanza (VA) 20153, Italy |
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Aleix Martínez-Pérez, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher, Faculty of Health Sciences, Valencian International University, Calle Pintor Sorolla 21, Valencia 46002, Spain |
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Francesco Martini, MD, Digestive and Bariatric Surgery Department, Clinique des Cedres, Cornebarrieu, Midi-Pyrenees 31705, France |
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Zu-Bing Mei, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, 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, FRCS (Gen Surg), Department of Surgery, Alzahra General Hospital, Qatif 31911, Saudi Arabia |
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Jeremy Meyer, MD, PhD, Division of Digestive Surgery, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva 1205, Switzerland |
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Danko Mikulic, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, 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, Advanced Biomedical Sciences Department, Univ Naples Federico II, Naples 80131, Italy |
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Ionut Negoi, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of General Surgery, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy Bucharest, Clinical Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, No.8 Floreasca Street, Sector 1, 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, Uchinadamachi, Kahoku, Ishikawa 920-0293, Japan |
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Jing-Hua Pan, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, No. 613 Huangpu Da Dao Xi, Tianhe District, Guangzhou 510632, Guangdong Province, China |
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Theodoros E Pavlidis, MD, PhD, Emeritus Professor, 2nd Surgical Proppedeutic Department, Hippocration Hospital, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54642, Greece |
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Roberto Peltrini, MD, PhD, Research Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Naples Federico II, NO.5 Via Pansini, Naples 80131, Italy |
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Niccolo Petrucciani, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, 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, AQ 67100, 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), Adjunct Professor, Professor, Department of Minimal Access, Thoracoscopic, Bariatric and Robotic Surgery, Apollo Hospital, New Delhi 110044, India |
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Ajaz Ahmad Rather, FACS, FRCS (Ed), Professor, Department of Surgery, SKIMS Medical College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir 190012, India |
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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, Ehime 791-0295, 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, Professor, Department of Surgical Gastroenterology/ Dean Medical Faculty SKIMS, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, JK 191121, 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, Full Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, HUST, Wuhan 430022, Hubei Province, China |
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Yu-Ling Sun, PhD, Professor, 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, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture 305-8575, Japan |
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Nobuyuki Takemura, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and Pediatric Surgery, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, 1981 Kamoda, Kawagoe-shi, Saitama 350-8550, 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 |
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Dirk Uhlmann, FACS, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Visceral, Transplant, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Leipzig, Leipzig 04103, Germany |
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Valeriu Marin Șurlin, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Craiova, Dolj 200391, Romania |
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Ketan Vagholkar, FACS, FRCS (Gen Surg), Full Professor, Department of Surgery, D.Y.Patil University School of Medicine, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra 400706, India |
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Daniel Reis Waisberg, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Abdominal Organs Transplantation Division, Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo (HC-FMUSP), Sao Paulo, SP 05403-000, Brazil |
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Qiang Wang, PhD, Professor, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Tumor Immune Microenvironment and Immunotherapy, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, Anhui Province, China |