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MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The Artificial Intelligence in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Editorial Board Members are composed of 76 distinguished experts active in the relevant field, distributed in 30 countries/regions, include China (10), Japan (9), United States (9), Turkey (7), Italy (5), Egypt (4), India (3), South Korea (3), Australia (2), Canada (2), Switzerland (2), Taiwan (2), Albania (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Brazil (1), France (1), Hungary (1), Israel (1), Mexico (1), Nepal (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Serbia (1), Singapore (1), Spain (1), Thailand (1), Tunisia (1), United Kingdom (1), and Viet Nam (1).
Editor-in-Chief (2025-02-01/2028-12-31)
Krish Ragunath, MD, Professor, (Email: krish.ragunath@curtin.edu.au) Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth WA6000, Australia
Associate Editor (2025-02-01/2028-12-31)
Mohamed El Kassas, BM BCh, MD, MSc, Full Professor, Full Professor, Endemic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Helawan University, Cairo 11448, Egypt
Katsuya Kitamura, MD, PhD, Director, Professor, Director, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University Hachioji Medical Center, Tokyo 193-0998, Japan
Editorial Board (2025-02-01/2028-12-31)
Uama M Abdelaal, MD, MSc, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Reader (Associate Professor), Postdoctoral Fellow, Reader (Associate Professor), Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology Unit, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, Sohag 82524, Egypt
Cihangir Akyol, FASCRS, FEBS, MD, Professor, Surgeon, Professor, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Ankara University, Ankara 06100, Turkey
Chang Seok Bang, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Doctor, Associate Professor, Doctor, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do 24253, South Korea
Peter Bauerfeind, MD, Professor, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University hospital Zurich, Zurich 8091, Switzerland
Erkan Caglar, MD, Chief Doctor, Full Professor, Professor, Chief Doctor, Full Professor, Professor, Gastroenterology Department, Balıkesir Üniversity, Medical Faculty, Balikesir 10100, Turkey
Ming-Yan Cai, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Endoscopy Center, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Antonio Caycedo-Marulanda, FACS, FASCRS, FRCS (Gen Surg), MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of General Surgery, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 2V7, Canada
Yung Ka Chin, MBChB, MRCP, Adjunct Professor, Adjunct Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Singapore General Hospital, Singpore 169608, Singapore
Fatih Ciftci, MD, Associate Professor, Surgeon, Associate Professor, Surgeon, Healthy Science Institue, Gelisim University, Istanbul 34315, Turkey
Nayantara Coelho-Prabhu, MD, Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Cong Dai, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province 110001, China
Amaninder Dhaliwal, MD, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mcleod Regional Medical Center, Florence, SC 29501, United States
Christoph F Dietrich, MD, PhD, Professor, Professor, Department Allgemeine Innere Medizin, Kliniken Hirslanden Beau Site, Salem und Permanence, Bern 3626, Switzerland
Mohamed Amine Elghali, PhD, Professor, Surgeon, Professor, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse 4000, Tunisia
Mohammed Elhendawy, MD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Research Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Research Assistant Professor, Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tanta University, Tanta 31111, Egypt
Gianluca Esposito, MD, PhD, Research Fellow, Research Fellow, Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Sant’ Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Lazio 00189, Italy
Pedro N Figueiredo, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Professor, Chief Doctor, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Coimbra, Faculty of Medicine, Coimbra 3000-059, Portugal
Mary Raina Angeli Fujiyoshi, MD, Research Fellow, Research Fellow, Digestive Diseases Center, Showa University Koto Toyosu Hospital, Tokyo 135-0061, Japan
Yusuke Fujiyoshi, MD, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Digestive Diseases Center, Showa University Koto Toyosu Hospital, Tokyo 135-8577, Japan
Gaurav Gupta, FRCP (Hon), PhD, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Yogananda School of AI Computers and Data Science, Shoolini University, Solan, Himachal Pradesh 173229, India
Ghassan M Hammoud, MD, Professor, Professor, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO 65212, United States
Yu-Hsi Hsieh, MD, Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicined, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi 62247, Taiwan
Sumant Inamdar, MBBS, MD, Associate Professor, Director, Associate Professor, Director, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, United States
Predrag Jovanovic, PhD, Associate Professor, Chief Doctor, Associate Professor, Chief Doctor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Clinical Center Tuzla, Clinic for Internal Diseases, Tuzla 75000, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hiroshi Kashida, AGAF, FACG, MD, PhD, Professor, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-sayama 589-8511, Japan
Hideaki Kawabata, MD, Director, Director, Department of Internal medicine and Gastroenterology, Kawabata medical clinic, Kyoto 6060053, Japan
Fatjona Kraja, MD, PhD, Academic Research, Assistant Lecturer, Attending Doctor, Doctor, Postdoc, Academic Research, Assistant Lecturer, Attending Doctor, Doctor, Postdoc, Radiotherapy Unit, University Clinic of Oncology, Tirana 1057, Albania
Anand V Kulkarni, MBBS, MD, Consultant Physician-Scientist, Consultant Physician-Scientist, Department of Hepatology and Liver Transplant, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad 110070, India
Rafael Latorre, PhD, Professor, Professor, Department of Anatomy and Comparative Pathology, University of Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, Murcia 30100, Spain
Seung Woo Lee, MD, PhD, Professor, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Daejeon 34943, South Korea
Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Surgeon, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Surgeon, Department of Surgical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 00199, Italy
Kheng Tian Lim, MD, Department of Surgery, Gladstone Hospital, Gladstone 4680, Australia
Ying Lin, MD, PhD, Chief Physician, Associate Professor, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510120, Guangdong Province, China; Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510120, Guangdong Province, China
Bin Lu, PhD, Chief Physician, Professor, Chief Physician, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province 310006, China
Ricardo U Macías-Rodríguez, MD, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Department of Gastroenterology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City 14080, Mexico
Prasit Mahawongkajit, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Thammasat University (Rangsit Campus), Pathumthani 12120, Thailand
Amir Mari, MA, MD, Chairman, Chief Doctor, Consultant Physician-Scientist, Doctor, Chairman, Chief Doctor, Consultant Physician-Scientist, Doctor, Gastroenterology and Endoscopy United, The Nazareth Hospital, EMMS, Qalansawa 464000, Israel
Kenichi Mochizuki, MD, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Kanagawa 2248503, Japan
Anand Nayyar, PhD, Professor, Professor, Graduate School, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Viet Nam
Lucian Negreanu, MD, PhD, Professor, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology II, University Hospital, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest 050098, Romania
Hussein H Okasha, MD, Professor, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Cairo University Faculty of Medicine, Cairo 11441, Egypt
Omer Faruk Ozkan, FEBS, MD, PhD, Professor, Surgeon, Professor, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Universtiy of Health and Science Umraniye Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul 34760, Turkey
Nikola Panic, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Digestive Endoscopy Unit, University Clinic "Dr Dragisa Misovic-Dedinje", Belgrade 11000, Serbia
Wei-Guang Qiao, MD, Associate Chief Physician, Associate Chief Physician, Department of Gastroenterology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province 510515, China
Istvan Racz, PhD, Professor, Professor, Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology Department, Petz A Teaching Hospital Gyor, Győr H-9024, Hungary
Michel Rayar, MD, Doctor, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Associate, Statistical Worker, Surgeon, Surgical Oncologist, Doctor, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Associate, Statistical Worker, Surgeon, Surgical Oncologist, CHU Rennes, Service de chirurgie hépatobiliaire et digestive, Univ Rennes, rennes 35000, France
Igor Braga Ribeiro, Doctor, MD, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Attending Doctor, Doctor, Research Associate, Research Scientist, Surgeon, Associate Research Scientist, Attending Doctor, Doctor, Research Associate, Research Scientist, Surgeon, Departamento de Gastroenterologia, Serviço de Endoscopia Gastrointestinal do Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, São Paulo 05403-000, Brazil