Editorial Board
89 Editors in 20 Countries/Regions



















Honorary Editor-in-Chief
Michel Gagner 
[email protected] Editors-in-Chief
Giulio Belli
[email protected]Lianxin Liu
[email protected]Section Editors
Ferdinando Agresta 
Emergency and Trauma Surgery
Riccardo Autorino 
Urology
Giuseppe Biondi Zoccai 
Cardiac Surgery
Xiang-Dong Cheng
Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery
Simone Ferrero 
Gynecology
Yuman C. Fong 
Pancreatic Surgery
Ho Seong Han 
Hepato-Biliary Surgery
Ehab Hanna 
Head and Neck Surgery
Roel Hompes
Colorectal Surgery
William Hope 
Abdominal Wall and Hernia Surgery
Yoshihisa Kotani
Spinal Surgery
Shanu Kothari
Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
Marco. G Patti 
Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery
Lee Swanström 
Endoscopy
Yogesh Vashist 
Thoracic Surgery
Editorial Board Member
Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery
Fernando A. M. Herbella 
How I teach it - a didactic approach to laparoscopic surgery at the esophagogastric junction
How I teach it – a didactic approach to laparoscopic surgery at the esophagogastric junction
Minimizing complications after minimally invasive surgery for thoracic diverticula of the esophagus
Fukunaga Tetsu 
Paolo Ubiali
Colorectal Surgery
Charles F. Bellows
John Camilleri-Brennan 
Davide Cavaliere 
Simon Ng
Hepato-Biliary Surgery
Fernando A. Alvarez 
Andrew Gumbs 
Pancreatic Surgery
Andrea Belli
Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
Luis Poggi
Abdominal Wall and Hernia Surgery
Emergency and Trauma Surgery
Belinda De Simone 
Andy Petroianu 
Thoracic Surgery
Ghulam Abbas 
Yong Zhang 
Cardiac Surgery
Azeem Latib
Igor F. Palacios 
Percutaneous Mitral Balloon Valvuloplasty - State of the Art
Urology
Riccardo Giuseppe Bertolo 
Endoscopy
Spinal Surgery
Hisashi Koga 
Preface of the special issue on "Percutaneous endoscopic system for spinal diseases"
Improved percutaneous endoscopic translaminar approach for lumbar foraminal stenosis at L5/S1
Minimal laminectomy using the interlaminar approach for percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy
Head and Neck Surgery
Felice Esposito 
Honorary Editor-in-Chief
Michel Gagner 
[email protected] Department of Surgery, Westmount Square Surgical Center, Quebec, Canada.
Research Interests: bariatric surgery; laparoscopy; gastric surgery; foregut surgery; HPB surgery; pancreas; endoscopy; magnetic surgery
Editors-in-Chief
Giulio Belli
General and HepatoPancreatoBiliary Surgery, Loreto Nuovo Hospital, Naples, Italy.
Research Interests: liver surgery; gallbladder and biliary tract surgery; pancreatic surgery; large intestine surgery; laparoscopic surgery
Lianxin Liu
The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
Research Interests: hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, larproscopic liver resection, immunotherapy, checkpoint inhibitor, gallbladder cancer
Section Editors
Ferdinando Agresta 
Department of General Surgery, Vittorio Veneto Hospital, Vittorio Veneto, Italy.
Research Interests: laparoscopy surgery; colon surgery; endoscopic surgery; emergency surgery; thoracic surgery
Riccardo Autorino 
Department of Surgery, VCU Health, Richmond, VA, USA.
Research Interests: robotic surgery; urologic oncology; prostate cancer; kidney cancer; urothelial cancer
Giuseppe Biondi Zoccai 
Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Latina, Italy.
Research Interests: aortic stenosis; coronary artery disease; heart failure; machine learning; myocardial infarction
Xiang-Dong Cheng
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. & Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, Zhejiang, China.
Research Interests: Gastric cancer, Artificial intelligence in diagnosis, Minimally invasive surgery, Laparoscopy, Cheng's "Three-Step" Lymph Node Dissection Technique
Simone Ferrero 
Academic Unit of Obstetrics and Gynecology, San Martino University Hospital IRCCS, Genoa, Italy.
Research Interests: endometriosis; fibroids (uterine myoma); cervical cancer; endometrial cancer; hysteroscopy
Yuman C. Fong 
Department of Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center, California, CA, USA.
Research Interests: bile duct cancer; gallbladder cancer; gastrointestinal cancers; hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery; liver cancer; pancreatic cancer; robotic surgery
Ho Seong Han 
Department of Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Research Interests: minimal invasive HBP surgery; HCC; pancreas cancer; biliary tract cancer
Ehab Hanna 
Department of Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Research Interests: skull base tumors; robotic surgery of the skull base; endoscopic surgery of skull base; sinonasal cancers
Roel Hompes
Department of Surgery, Amsterdam University Medical Centres - location AMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Research Interests: general and digestive; colorectal; transanal and proctological surgery
William Hope 
Department of Surgery, New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Wilmington, NC, USA.
Research Interests: minimally invasive surgery; robotic surgery; hernia surgery
Yoshihisa Kotani
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kansai Medical University Medical Center, Osaka, Japan.
Research Interests: minimally invasive spine surgery; spinal deformity; computer-assisted spine surgery; robotic surgery; spinal reconstruction
Shanu Kothari
Department of Surgery, USC School of Medicine, Greenville, SC, USA.
Research Interests: gastric bypass; sleeve gastrectomy; surgical education; antireflux surgery
Marco. G Patti 
Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of North Carolina, North Carolina, NC, USA.
Research Interests: esophagus; gastroesophageal reflux; hiatal hernia; paraesophageal hernia; esophageal motility disorders; achalasia; esophageal cancer
Lee Swanström 
Institute for Image Guided Surgery, Strasbourg, France; Gastrointestinal and Minimally Invasive Surgery, The Oregon Clinic, Portland, OR, USA.
Research Interests: surgical endoscopy; minimally invasive foregut surgery
Yogesh Vashist 
Department of Surgery, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, Goslar, Germany.
Research Interests: surgical oncology; esophageal cancer; gastric cancer; HPB cancer; lung cancer; mediastinal tumors; peritoneal neoplasy; HIPEC
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