Editorial Team

The management of our journal is a collaborative endeavor by the whole editorial team, featuring an active, widely respected, diverse, and representative Editorial Board. The editorial structure of the journal is listed as below and the roles and responsibilities of the editorial team are available at: https://www.amegroups.com/pages/journal-management#content-title.

Editor-in-Chief

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Giovanni Battista Levi Sandri, MD, PhD

Digestive Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, IRCCS, Rome, Italy Email: gblevisandri@gmail.com.

Editorial Board

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Mohammad Abu Hilal, MD, PhD, FRCS, FACS, DocEur, EBSQ (HPB)

Department of Hepato‐Biliary and Pancreatic Surgery, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK
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Luca Aldrighetti

Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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Joseph F. Buell, MD, MBA, FACS

Department of Surgery, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; Department of Surgery, New Orleans Children's Hospital, LSU Medical Systems, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Kevin C. P. Conlon, MA, MCh, MBA, FRCSI, FACS, FRCSED, FRCSG, FTCD

Department of Surgery, University of Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Susumu Eguchi, MD, FACS, FEBS

Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
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Aslam Ejaz, MD, MPH

Division of Surgical Oncology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
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Yuman Fong, MD, ScD (Hon)

Department of Surgery, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, California, USA
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Michael Gerhards, MD, PhD, EBSQ

Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Sepideh Gholami, MD

Department of Surgery, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
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Brian K. P. Goh, MBBS, MMed, MSc, FRCSEd

Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
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Emre Gorgun, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Department of Colorectal Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Francesco Guerra, MD

Division of General, Oncological and Vascular Surgery, "Ospedali Riuniti Marche Nord" Hospital, Pesaro, Italy
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Yasushi Hasegawa, MD

Department of Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan , Japan
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Taizo Hibi, MD, PhD, FACS

Department of Transplantation and Pediatric Surgery, Kumamoto University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto, Japan
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Maurizio Iacobone, MD, FEBS

Endocrine Surgery Unit, Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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Benedetto Ielpo, MD, PhD, FACS

Division of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary surgery, Department of General Surgery, University Hospital of Leon, Spain
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Oh Jeong, MD, PhD, FACS

Division of Gastroenterologic Surgery, Chonnam National University Medical School, South Korea
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Koo Jeong Kang, MD, PhD

Division of HBP Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keimyung University Dong-San Hospital, Daegu, Korea
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Omar Yusef Kudsi, MD, MBA, FACS

Department of Surgery, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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Quirino Lai

Starzl Unit of Abdominal Transplantation, University Hospitals Saint Luc, Université catholique Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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Kwang-Woong Lee, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
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Jan Lerut, MD, PhD

Institute for Experimental and Clinical Research (IREC), Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Brussels, Belgium
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Raimundas Lunevicius, MD, PhD, DSc, FRCS (Engl.)

Department of General Surgery, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Aintree Hospital, Lower Lane, Liverpool, UK
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Ippei Matsumoto, MD, PhD

Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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Marco Milone, MD, PhD

Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples "Federico II”, Naples, Italy
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H. Leon Pachter, MD

Department of Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
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Ji Yeon Park, MD

Gastric Cancer Care Center / Bariatric & Metabolic Clinic, Department of Surgery, Kyungpook National University Chilgok Hospital, Daegu, Korea
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Francesca Ratti, MD

Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery, San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
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Jacob Rosenberg, MD, DSc, FACS

Department of Surgery, Herlev Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Edoardo Rosso

Department of Surgery, Istituto Fondazione Poliambulanza, Brescia, Italy
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Jaime Ruiz-Tovar, MD, PhD

Department of Surgery, University Hospital Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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Nadia Russolillo, MD, PhD

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Mauriziano Hospital, Turin, Italy
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Roberto Santambrogio, MD

Divisione of General Surgery, Unit of Hepato-bilio-pancreatic Surgery, Fatebenefratelli Hospital (ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco), Milan, Italy
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Beth Schrope, MD, PhD, FACS

Division of Gastrointestinal and Endocrine Surgery, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
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Oliver Strobel, MD, MBA

Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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Robert Sucher, MD, FEBS

Department of Visceral-, Transplant-, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Clinic Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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Robert Sutcliffe, MD, FRCS

Liver Unit, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
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Allan Tsung, MD

Division of Surgical Oncology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Giovanni Vennarecci

Division of General Surgery and Organ Transplantation, San Camillo Hospital, Rome, Italy
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Raymond S. Yeung, MD

Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Maurizio Zizzo, MD

Surgical Oncology Unit, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale - IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova di Reggio Emilia, Italy , Italy

Corresponding Editor

Amy Liu

Editorial Office, Laparoscopic Surgery

Science Editor

Winnie Liu

Editorial Office, Laparoscopic Surgery

Darren Yu

Editorial Office, Laparoscopic Surgery