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MEMBERS OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The Artificial Intelligence in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Editorial Board Members are composed of 87 distinguished experts active in the relevant field, distributed in 30 countries/regions, include China (11), Japan (10), United States (10), Italy (8), Türkiye (8), Egypt (4), India (3), Poland (3), South Korea (3), Taiwan (3), Australia (2), Canada (2), Israel (2), Switzerland (2), Bosnia (1), Brazil (1), Croatia (1), France (1), Hungary (1), Mexico (1), Nepal (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
Senior Editorial Board (2025-02-01/2028-12-31)
Fatih Altintoprak, MD, Professor, Surgeon, (Email: fatihaltintoprak@yahoo.com) Department of General Surgery, Sakarya University Training And Research Hospital, Sakarya 34560, Türkiye
Associate Editor (2025-02-01/2028-12-31)
Mohamed El Kassas, MD, Professor, Endemic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Helawan University, Cairo 11448, Egypt
Katsuya Kitamura, MD, PhD, Director, 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), Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology Unit, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, Sohag 82524, Egypt
Cihangir Akyol, FASCRS, FEBS, MD, Professor, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Ankara University, Ankara 06100, Türkiye
Chang Seok Bang, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Doctor, Doctor, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon 24253, Gangwon-do, South Korea
Peter Bauerfeind, MD, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University hospital Zurich, Zurich 8091, Switzerland
Erkan Caglar, MD, Chief Doctor, Full Professor, Professor, Gastroenterology Department, Balıkesir Üniversity, Medical Faculty, Balikesir 10100, Türkiye
Ming-Yan Cai, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Endoscopy Center, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
Antonio Caycedo-Marulanda, FACS, FASCRS, FRCS (Gen Surg), MD, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of General Surgery, Queen's University, Kingston K7L 2V7, Ontario, Canada
Saurabh Chawla, FACG, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States
Yung Ka Chin, MBChB, MRCP, Adjunct Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Singapore General Hospital, Singpore 169608, Singapore
Chong-Chi Chiu, MD, Professor, Department of General Surgery, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, E-Da Cancer Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung 82445, Taiwan
Fatih Ciftci, MD, Associate Professor, Surgeon, Healthy Science Institue, Gelisim University, Istanbul 34315, Türkiye
Nayantara Coelho-Prabhu, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, United States
Cong Dai, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, Liaoning Province, China
Amaninder Dhaliwal, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mcleod Regional Medical Center, Florence, SC 29501, United States
Giovanni Di Nardo, Assistant Professor, MD, PhD, Pediatric Unit - Pediatric Gastroenterology Section, NESMOS Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 00189, Italy
Christoph F Dietrich, MD, PhD, Professor, Department Allgemeine Innere Medizin, Kliniken Hirslanden Beau Site, Salem und Permanence, Bern 3626, Switzerland
Mohamed Amine Elghali, PhD, Professor, Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Farhat Hached University Hospital, Sousse 4000, Tunisia
Mohammed Elhendawy, MD, Professor, Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tanta University, Tanta 31111, Egypt
Gianluca Esposito, MD, PhD, Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, Sant’ Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 00189, Lazio, Italy
Pedro N Figueiredo, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Coimbra, Faculty of Medicine, Coimbra 3000-059, Portugal
Tajana Filipec Kanizaj, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Merkur, Zagreb 10000, Croatia
Yusuke Fujiyoshi, MD, Assistant Professor, Digestive Diseases Center, Showa University Koto Toyosu Hospital, Tokyo 135-8577, Japan
Mary Raina Angeli Fujiyoshi, MD, Research Fellow, Digestive Diseases Center, Showa University Koto Toyosu Hospital, Tokyo 135-0061, Japan
Gaurav Gupta, FRCP (Hon), PhD, Assistant Professor, Yogananda School of AI Computers and Data Science, Shoolini University, Solan 173229, Himachal Pradesh, India
Ghassan M Hammoud, MD, Professor, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO 65212, United States
Yu-Hsi Hsieh, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicined, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi 62247, Taiwan
Sumant Inamdar, Associate Professor, MD, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, United States
Predrag Jovanovic, PhD, Associate Professor, Chief Doctor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Clinical Center Tuzla, Clinic for Internal Diseases, Tuzla 75000, Bosnia
Hiroshi Kashida, AGAF, FACG, MD, PhD, 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
Tawfik Khoury, MD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Doctor, Department of Gastroenterology, Galilee Medical Center, The faculty of medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Nahariya 91120, Israel, Israel
Katsuya Kitamura, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Tokyo Medical University Hachioji Medical Center, Tokyo 193-0998, Japan
Anastasios Koulaouzidis, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Department of Social Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin 70-204, Poland
Anand V Kulkarni, MD, Senior Researcher, Department of Hepatology and Liver Transplant, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad 110070, India
Rafael Latorre, PhD, Professor, Department of Anatomy and Comparative Pathology, University of Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, Murcia 30100, Spain
Seung Woo Lee, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Daejeon 34943, South Korea
Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri, Assistant Professor, MD, PhD, 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, Associate Professor, Chief Physician, MD, PhD, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, 510120, China
Bin Lu, PhD, Chief Physician, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou 310006, Zhejiang Province, China
Ricardo U Macías-Rodríguez, MD, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Doctor, Doctor, Department of Gastroenterology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City 14080, Mexico
Prasit Mahawongkajit, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Thammasat University (Rangsit Campus), Pathumthani 12120, Thailand
Marcello Maida, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine and Surgery, 'Kore' University of Enna, Enna 94100, Italy
Amir Mari, MA, MD, Chairman, Chief Doctor, Consultant Physician-Scientist, Doctor, Doctor, Gastroenterology and Endoscopy United, The Nazareth Hospital, EMMS, Qalansawa 464000, Israel
Kenichi Mochizuki, MD, Assistant Professor, Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama 2248503, Kanagawa, Japan
Anand Nayyar, PhD, Professor, Graduate School, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Viet Nam